• Conflict inhabitation: an emerging deleuzoguattarian inspired conflict studies reterritorialized assemblage 

  Opheim, David W. (2019-04-08)

  Utilizing the lexicon of the French experimental thinkers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, research is engaged which indicates that their insights are compatible with and augmentative to the field of Conflict Studies. ...
• Restorative justice and sexual assault: Canadian practitioner experiences 

  Burgar, Taryn (2018-12-13)

  This thesis examines the use of restorative justice with cases of sexual assault in Canada through the perspective of practitioner experience. It concludes that restorative justice for sexual assault is an innovative and ...
• The effect of restorative justice on women’s experiences of personal power and safety 

  Clow, Holly (2015-04-30)

  Feminist critiques have been instrumental in cautioning the use of restorative justice in cases of domestic violence. However a smaller body of feminist literature examining the issues from the perspective of victim-survivors, ...
• Participatory Governance of the 900 Pandora Block and the Street Community 

  Cross, Geoff (2015-02-24)

  In response to the continuing challenges of homelessness in Victoria, BC, a variety of homeless-serving agencies are active in the region. Community concerns about these services have given rise to the practice of developing ...
• Exploring dissonance with strengths-based family group conferencing in child protection 

  Montgomery, Wendy Teresa (2014-12-22)

  This study uses selected data from a qualitative study by Ney, Stoltz and Maloney (2013) who explored family experiences of voice and participation in child protection family group conferences in British Columbia, Canada. ...
• Experiences of Social Connection and Sense of Community Amongst Participants of Housing First Programming 

  Stevenson, Jynene (2014-05-05)

  In a recent report on the state of homelessness in Canada, it is estimated that at least 200,000 Canadians access homeless emergency services or sleep outside per year, with approximately 30, 000 homeless on any given night ...
• The Duty to Consult First Nations within the Environmental Assessment Process: A Resource Industry Perspective 

  Chadwick, Megan (2014-01-07)

  The legal doctrine, ‘Duty to Consult’, was set through a number of landmark court cases between 1997 and 2004. It is this duty that has helped First Nations receive official stakeholder status in the negotiation of land ...
• Ghosts of another world: voices from the non-Indigenous descendents of former Canadian residential school staff 

  Haiste, Kimberly (2013-04-04)

  Based on Prime Minister Harper’s 2008 Apology for the Indian Residential School (IRS) system, this thesis addresses the need to confront the intergenerational legacy of this system on non-Indigenous Canadians in order to ...
• Engaging with workplace incivility through valuable actions: a conflict transformation and care-focused perspective 

  Donald, Kelly (2013-04-03)

  This thesis examines the role of management with regard to reducing and preventing workplace incivility through a care-focused and conflict transformation theory lens. The discussion on workplace incivility is expanded ...
• Regenerating Indigenous health and food systems: assessing conflict transformation models and sustainable approaches to Indigenous food sovereignty 

  McMullen, Jennifer (2012-12-13)

  Through exploring nine Indigenous young adults’ perceptions of their roles in building health and wellness through traditional food sovereignty, I assessed the effectiveness of using John Paul Lederach’s (1997) framework ...
• Community engagement as conflict prevention: understanding the social license to operate 

  Knih, Dejana (2012-12-06)

  This thesis examines community engagement as a form of conflict prevention in order to obtain the social license to operate (SLO) in Alberta’s oil and gas industry. It does this by answering the question: what are the key ...
• Elian Gonzalez’s case: conflict dynamics, interests, and positions 

  Simoes, Elton (2012-09-11)

  Elian Gonzalez’s case is an intriguing example of how a small-scale dispute over the custody of a boy escalated to the point at which it became an important element in a much larger conflict involving the U.S. and Cuban ...
• Collaborating beyond the boundaries of citizenship: a transcultural perspective on public participation in the development of Swiss immigrant policy. 

  Fritze, Christine Elena (2012-07-30)

  This thesis examines Switzerland’s conflict around the integration of non-citizens in the context of the Swiss system of direct democracy. Through a case study on three recent referendum initiatives on immigrant policy, ...
• When worldviews collide: applying worldview conflict analysis in a conventional dispute resolution process. 

  Smith, Nicole (2012-04-10)

  This thesis uses worldview conflict theory to examine an unsuccessful lobbying campaign of the Coalition for Change for Caregivers and Temporary Foreign Workers. Using Nudler (1990, 1993), Blechman, Crocker, Docherty, and ...
• Poverty is a lifestyle choice and other neo-Liberal discursive tactics 

  Wolanski, Kari (2009-12-09)

  This thesis examines how neo-liberal discourse asserts its significant influence over welfare policy. It is premised on a Foucauldian understanding of power as a productive force that operates through discourse. Using the ...
• Rural women and everyday resistance to structural adjustment in Melanesia 

  Sparks, Catherine (2009-12-09)

  The context for this thesis is conflict between indigenous peoples and foreign aid agencies over land `mobilisation' in Melanesia. The thesis considers whether or not the everyday activities of rural women can be shown to ...
• Working through conflict: two examples of agreement in community forests 

  Corrigan, Joselin (2009-10-26)

  Developing a community forest in British Columbia involves multiple stakeholder agreements; negotiating agreement within diverse communities can be especially complicated. In this study I use the constant comparative ...
• To what extent does the Alberta Energy Resource Conservation Board’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Program affect the capacity, opportunity and volition of landowners and the oil and gas industry to resolve conflict? 

  Cartwright, Vanessa (2009-08-28)

  This research examines the capacity, opportunity and volition of participants of a landowner- oil and gas industry conflict in Alberta and the effect of the Alberta Energy Resource Conservation Board (ERCB) Alternative ...
• Local government alternative dispute resolution: a British Columbian case study 

  Sharkey, Emma Louise (2009-04-29)

  This research undertook a case study of the intergovernmental Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) process administered by the Ministry of Community Development (MCD) in the province of British Columbia (BC), Canada. This ...
• A serpentine path: the impact of legal decisions on aboriginal rights and title on the conduct of treaty negotiations in British Columbia 

  Richmond, Patrick André (2008-10-28)

  Legal decisions on Aboriginal rights and title and treaty negotiations with First Nations in British Columbia (BC) are inextricably linked. While much has been written on the impacts of a small number of such legal decisions, ...

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