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The Causes, Dynamics, and Implications of Child Soldiering
Title
The Causes, Dynamics, and Implications of Child Soldiering.
Creator
Faulkner, Christopher, Tezcur, Gunes Murat, Powell, Jonathan, Dolan, Thomas, Whitaker, Beth, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
Child soldiers continue to be regular participants in modern conflicts in many different parts of the world. This dissertation addresses several interrelated questions about child soldiering employing large-N statistical analyses, process-tracing, and in-depth interviews. First, it asks how foreign state support and the characteristics of these donors influence rebels' recruitment of child soldiers. An important finding is that rebels supported by democratic states are less likely to employ...
Show moreChild soldiers continue to be regular participants in modern conflicts in many different parts of the world. This dissertation addresses several interrelated questions about child soldiering employing large-N statistical analyses, process-tracing, and in-depth interviews. First, it asks how foreign state support and the characteristics of these donors influence rebels' recruitment of child soldiers. An important finding is that rebels supported by democratic states are less likely to employ child soldiers. It then investigates the factors and conditions that lead some groups to diversify their demographics in the types of recruits and others to not. Specifically, it considers why a rebel group would recruit children, but refrain from recruiting women. It examines theoretical arguments that contend group ideology, desires for patriarchal preservation, societal gender inequalities, and the location/type of rebellion (rural vs. urban) can each significantly contribute to groups' recruitment behavior. Third, it considers a question that speaks directly to the first two questions. What factors lead to the initial recruitment of children and how conflict conditions may impact the dynamics of rebel recruitment over time? An in-depth analysis of the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) and the employment of a unique dataset on deceased Kurdish militants allows for an exploration of the temporal variation in the group's recruitment patterns over four decades. It illustrates that inter-rebel rivalries, conflict intensity, and the evolution of human rights norms shape rebels' recruitment behavior. The final section reorients the focus of the dissertation from rebel child soldiering to government child soldiering. It surveys the conditions under which the United States holds foreign governments accountable for their child soldiering practices through the restriction of certain forms of security assistance. In depth analyses of four norm-violating states and interviews with policy experts show that the strategic importance of a state and the systemic nature of child recruitment are strong predictors of when security assistance waivers will be granted. Together, this dissertation advances scholarly understanding of the causes, dynamics, and implications of child soldiering.
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Date Issued
2019
Identifier
CFE0007629, ucf:52541
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0007629
To The CORE: The Congress of Racial Equality, the Seattle Civil Rights Movement, and the Shift to Black Militancy
Title
To The CORE: The Congress of Racial Equality, the Seattle Civil Rights Movement, and the Shift to Black Militancy.
Creator
Jimenez, Michael, Lester, Connie, Walters, Lori, Walker, Ezekiel, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
This thesis compares the history of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to that of its Seattle chapter. The study traces the entire history of CORE from 1942-1968 as well as the history of Seattle CORE from 1961-1968. The goal of this examination is to identify why Seattle CORE successfully fended off the movement for black militancy and consequently why national CORE failed to do so. Juxtaposing the two radically different histories shows an integrated organization, bureaucratic...
Show moreThis thesis compares the history of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to that of its Seattle chapter. The study traces the entire history of CORE from 1942-1968 as well as the history of Seattle CORE from 1961-1968. The goal of this examination is to identify why Seattle CORE successfully fended off the movement for black militancy and consequently why national CORE failed to do so. Juxtaposing the two radically different histories shows an integrated organization, bureaucratic leadership, a plan of action based on nonviolent actions, and a strong attachment to the black community were the central reasons for the success of Seattle CORE, and conversely, these areas were why national CORE struggled. Moreover, this study shows the events and failures over the first two decades created a susceptible environment for the organization to abandon CORE's nonviolent ideology and the subsequent disintegration of the Congress of Racial Equality as the walls of Jim Crow broke down.
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Date Issued
2012
Identifier
CFE0004327, ucf:49411
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0004327
autobiography of an ex-coloured man
Title
The autobiography of an ex-coloured man.
Creator
Johnson, James Weldon, PALMM (Project)
Abstract / Description
Fictional autobiography of a fair-skinned African American and his observations on race problems in America. Written by the first African American leader of the NAACP and native of Jacksonville, Fla.
Date Issued
1927
Identifier
AAC3709QF00001/23/200704/17/200719161BnamI D0QF, FHP C CF 2007-1-23, FCLA url 20070405xOCLC, 123187352, CF00001739, 2702961, ucf:21601
Format
E-book
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/CF00001739.jpg
In defense of Negro rights
Title
In defense of Negro rights.
Creator
Davis, Benjamin J. (Benjamin Jefferson), U. S. District Court. New York (Southern District)
Date Issued
1950
Identifier
1927464, CFDT1927464, ucf:4847
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/1927464
THE TRANSFORMATION OF OUR WORKPLACES: HOW GENDER HAS SHAPED WORKPLACE SEXUAL HARASSMENT LAW AND AWARD AMOUNTS
Title
THE TRANSFORMATION OF OUR WORKPLACES: HOW GENDER HAS SHAPED WORKPLACE SEXUAL HARASSMENT LAW AND AWARD AMOUNTS.
Creator
Waldick, Ian, Cronon, Chad, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
Equal Employment Opportunity laws are a relatively new construct within the framework of American legal history. This area of law, however, has experienced significant development within a relatively short span of time. Over the last half-century, the Supreme Court of the United States has handed down several landmark decisions, clarifying the law as to what constitutes sexual harassment, and in which circumstances employers can be held liable for the harassing actions of employees. The...
Show moreEqual Employment Opportunity laws are a relatively new construct within the framework of American legal history. This area of law, however, has experienced significant development within a relatively short span of time. Over the last half-century, the Supreme Court of the United States has handed down several landmark decisions, clarifying the law as to what constitutes sexual harassment, and in which circumstances employers can be held liable for the harassing actions of employees. The purpose of this thesis is to examine this development, and to assess the question of whether the awards given to male victims of workplace sexual harassment are comparable to the awards given to female victims.
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Date Issued
2013
Identifier
CFH0004438, ucf:45086
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0004438
The Legacy of Civil Rights Protest Music: Sweet Honey in the Rock's "The Ballad of Harry T. Moore"
Title
The Legacy of Civil Rights Protest Music: Sweet Honey in the Rock's "The Ballad of Harry T. Moore".
Creator
Hyder, Thomas, Warfield, Scott, Koons, Keith, Hunt, Jeremy, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
This study investigates the role music played in the Civil Rights Movement as a form of political protest. The first part of the studies analyzed how political protest music was used in the early part of the twentieth-century leading up to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. An analysis of the role of music in African-American culture also provides a historical background to the music-making of the Civil Rights Movement. Specific musical forms such as topical ballads, freedom songs, and...
Show moreThis study investigates the role music played in the Civil Rights Movement as a form of political protest. The first part of the studies analyzed how political protest music was used in the early part of the twentieth-century leading up to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. An analysis of the role of music in African-American culture also provides a historical background to the music-making of the Civil Rights Movement. Specific musical forms such as topical ballads, freedom songs, and spirituals are examined. In addition, musical influences of African culture as well as religious influences on music-making during the Civil Rights Movement are also examined.The second section of the paper investigates the life and murder of NAACP organizer Harry T. Moore of Mims, Florida. Moore's life and death became the subject of a topical ballad, (")The Ballad of Harry T. Moore("), composed in 2001 by musical group Sweet Honey In The Rock. An analysis of the song's, literary, political, and musical connections to the ideology and music of the Civil Rights Movement, as well as subject matter, gives evidence that places the song within the tradition of the musical protest activities of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Date Issued
2012
Identifier
CFE0004550, ucf:49226
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0004550
The Tragic City: Black Rebellion and the Struggle for Freedom in Miami, 1945-1990
Title
The Tragic City: Black Rebellion and the Struggle for Freedom in Miami, 1945-1990.
Creator
Dossie, Porsha, Lester, Connie, French, Scot, Walker, Ezekiel, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
This thesis examines the creation of South Florida's tri-ethnic racial hierarchy during the postwar period, from 1945-1990. This racial hierarchy, coupled with discriminatory housing practices and police violence, created the necessary conditions for Dade County's first deadly uprising in 1968. Following the acquittal of several officers charged in the killing of an unarmed black businessman, a second uprising in 1980 culminated in three days and three nights of violent street warfare between...
Show moreThis thesis examines the creation of South Florida's tri-ethnic racial hierarchy during the postwar period, from 1945-1990. This racial hierarchy, coupled with discriminatory housing practices and police violence, created the necessary conditions for Dade County's first deadly uprising in 1968. Following the acquittal of several officers charged in the killing of an unarmed black businessman, a second uprising in 1980 culminated in three days and three nights of violent street warfare between law enforcement and black residents in Miami's northwest Liberty City neighborhood. The presence of state sanctioned violence at the hands of police in Liberty City set the stage for the city's second uprising. Further, the oftentimes murky and ambiguous racial divide that made people of color both comrades and rivals within Miami's larger power structure resulted in an Anglo-Cuban alliance by the late 1960s and early 1970s that only worsened racial tensions, especially among the city's ethnically diverse, English speaking black population. This thesis project uses a socio-historical framework to investigate how race and immigration, police brutality, and federal housing policy created a climate in which one of Miami's most vulnerable populations resorted to collective violence.
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Date Issued
2018
Identifier
CFE0007173, ucf:52269
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0007173

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