Ph.D. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution
The Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution
Notice of Oral Defense of Doctoral Dissertation
Mery Rodriguez
B.S., Communications, Pontificia Universidad, Javeriana, 1995
M.S., Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 2006
"Colombia: From Experiences to Laboratories: Positioning Peace in the Middle of War From 1998 to 2006"
Friday, May 8th, 2009
4:00 pm
Truland Building, Room 555
George Mason University, Arlington Campus
Abstract:
This study captures how within the context of the Colombian armed conflict, specific governmental policies have affected the way in which three Local Peace Building Initiatives present themselves publicly (public discourse) and try to become sustainable overtime. The research captures how three Local Peace Building Initiatives: Magdalena Medio, Oriente Antioqueño and Montes de Maria; get affected by governmental public policies, especially in the light of their conceptualization of peace and development, obligating a shift in their public discourse. The governmental public policies studied are the ones referring to security, peace, development, and international cooperation during the administration of Presidents Andres Pastrana (1998 – 2002) and Alvaro Uribe (2002 – 2006). The various discourses were studied using Positioning Theory as a general framework of analysis, and allowing the placement of the peace building initiatives in the middle out level of John Paul Lederach’s Sustainable Peace Model.
Dissertation Committee:
Wallace Warfield, Ph.D., ICAR (Chair)
Christopher Mitchell, Ph.D., ICAR
Dan Rothbart, Ph.D., ICAR
A copy of this doctoral dissertation is on reserve at the Johnson center library. Another copy is also available for examination in the ICAR resource room. All members of the George Mason Community are invited to attend.
