PWSC Events at ASA 2007

 

Pictures from PWSC section events at the 2007 ASA meeting in New York City.
Thanks to Lee Smithey for taking pictures!

Engaging in Scholarship -- Panels....

PWSC Section members took part in Section panels and other sessions at ASA...

   

Is a Nonviolent World Possible? (PWSC Section Session)

  • Session Organizer and Presider: Daniel Egan (University of Massachusetts-Lowell)
  • Lester R. Kurtz (University of Texas) ~ Gandhian Dialectics: Constructing a Nonviolent World?
  • Daniel P. Ritter (University of Texas at Austin) ~ Towards a Theory of Nonviolent Revolutions: The Case of Iran 1977-79
  • Kristen Maria Lavelle (Texas A&M University) ~ “I Don’t Eat Ketchup to This Day”: Race, Memory-making, and the Potential for Reconciliation
  • Christopher Andrew Morrissey (University of Notre Dame) ~ The Friends’ Peace Testimony, Changing Understandings and Strategies of Action
     

   

Peace and Conflict (Regular Session)

  • Session Organizer, Presider, and Discussant: David E. Rohall (Western Illinois University)
  • Jackie Smith (University of Notre Dame) ~ Economic Globalization and Multilateral Peacekeeping: Competing Agendas?
  • Lee A. Smithey (Swarthmore College) ~ Ethnopolitical Conflict Transformation: Cultural Innovation and Loyalist Identity in Northern Ireland
  • Melanie M. Hughes (The Ohio State University) ~ Understanding the Positive Effects of Armed Conflict on Women's Parliamentary Representation
  • Ghyasuddin Ahmed (Virginia State University) ~ Beyond the Baker-Hamilton Recipe for Honorable and Peaceful End of Iraq War and Other Related Conflicts ­ Sociological Theories of Peace and Endless Conflicts
  • Amy Colleen Finnegan (Boston College) ~ A Memorable Process: A Theoretical Exploration of Forgiveness

 

   

Military (Regular Session)

  • Session Organizer and Presider: Juanita M. Firestone (University of Texas)

  • Amy Kate Bailey (University of Washington) ~ Is There a Relationship between Veteran Status, Spatial Mobility, and Social Mobility in the All Volunteer Force Era?

  • Morten G. Ender (United States Military Academy) ~  McSoldiers in Iraq?: Innovative Professionals or Human Tools

  • Michael E. Wallace (University of Connecticut) , Casey A. Borch (University of Connecticut)  ~ Military Keynesianism in the Post-Vietnam War Era

  • Aaron Major (New York University) ~ Which Revolution in Military Affairs?

  • Discussant: Richard J. Harris (University of Texas-San Antonio)