A decolonial analysis of peace education in India and Pakistan

Includes bibliographical references.2023 Spring.This dissertation investigates the current state of peace pedagogy in formal and informal educational platforms in India and Pakistan. The overarching goal is to amass pedagogical strategies for peace teaching by understanding the aspirations of peace as understood by the local wisdom in the spirit of decolonial educational approaches. The socio-political postcolonial conflict scene is understood through the theories of Structural Violence (Galtung, 1969) and Cascades of Violence (Braithwaite and D'Costa. 2018). It was important as India and Pakistan were colonized for a century and the postcolonial conflict climate has its distinctive nature. There is considerable research done to explain the postcolonial repercussions on a society entailing violence, conflicts, and nationalism and how such negative impacts trickle down into the education system in India and Pakistan. Additionally, The Theory of Positive Psychology (Seligman, 1998) defines the parameters of decolonized peace pedagogy for analyzing educational documents and the work of self-motivated peace practitioners working with non-governmental organizations (NGOs). After this foundational understanding is developed for this research study in Chapter 1, Chapters 2-4 explore the possible implementation of peace pedagogy in education in India and Pakistan through three interrelated articles. The first article is a systematic review of the peace pedagogy literature in postcolonial lands around the world. These regions mainly are located in the Global South which includes Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. The second article takes a closer look at the place of peace pedagogy in existing formal/informal educational platforms through document analysis of policy papers, college programs, and a few non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Pakistan and India. The third article focuses on the efforts of NGOs at the grassroots level through phenomenological interviews with peace practitioners in Pakistan and India; this study focuses on how these practitioners engage with local communities to make meaning of peace at the local level and devise a suitable peace pedagogy to continue their mission of peace education. Chapter 5 addresses implications of this research study by contributing to the decolonial ways of building knowledge for implementing peace pedagogy in postcolonial lands specifically India and Pakistan. In doing so, Chapter 5 summarizes comparative knowledge through a literature review of peace pedagogy in postcolonial lands around the world and India and Pakistan. This helped identifying gaps which prevent linear implementation of peace pedagogy from early education up to graduate level in India and Pakistan, thus, compromising the objectives of establishing peace. Recommendations for the education system mainly through the lessons learned by the self-motivated peace educators and activists are put forward for considerations

Synthesis and discovery of mixed-anion nitride materials

2023 Spring.Includes bibliographical references.The ability to synthesize heteroanionic (or mixed-anion) materials is an important area in solid-state chemistry research. Mixed-anion compounds offer the potential to provide more desirable functionality compared to single-anion systems. However, mixed-anion systems are underexplored compared to single-anions. This is especially true for nitride materials when compared to oxides, because nitrides are difficult to make. The ease of making most oxides is due to the reactivity of oxygen and the thermodynamic stability of metal oxides, whereas the strong triple bond of N2 leads to its low reactivity and therefore difficulty in making nitrides and oxynitrides. Therefore, improved synthetic routes to produce these mixed-anion compounds are needed to unlock the potential of this underexplored phase space. This thesis describes the use of solid-state metathesis reactions to produce heteroanionic ZrNCl through reaction between AyNCl (A = Zn, Mg, or Li) precursors and ZrCl4. This thesis also highlights the use of flux reactions in attempts to synthesize new oxynitride materials based on the hypothesis that alkali halide salts have the ability to solublize nitrogen and raise its chemical potential relative to the chemical potential of nitrogen in traditional solid-state reactions to produce nitrides and oxynitrides, allowing for incorporation into products to form an oxynitride material. Here, a eutectic flux mix, LiCl-KCl, was used in the reaction between V2O3 and Li3N to synthesize vanadium containing compounds along with preliminary experiments to ascertain their stiochiometry

Nicole Hines: capstone

2023 Spring.Colorado State University Art and Art History Department capstone project.Capstone contains the artist's statement, a list of works, and images of works.The artist's statement: In my designs, I strive to create visual imagery and use typography to inform and describe the world around us in an imaginative and creative way. I strive to create designs that can be used as a universal language that is accessible and comprehensible for all while still using an innovative touch. My grandmother was an artist from Argentina, who showed me how to create imagery that can reflect a visual language that people from all walks of life can understand and be inspired by. Creating art with my grandmother taught me the invaluable meaning of creation as an expression of the self and understanding the world around me. Drawing and painting with her brought me to see that my passion for creative outlet would be fundamental for myself to view life in a completely creative way. This vision allows me to create unique work for anybody who requires an original and insightful message through the impact of my design. My work in graphic design aims to convey messages about the environment around us through creative visual imagery that includes bold colors and unique compositions that are inclusive for anybody to understand. My process for creating design starts where art began for me, through pencil and paper. I find my most valuable insights for design come by exploring all possibilities for an idea by drawing. Then I take my best ideas from my sketches and transform them through digital programs. Digitally my work can be accessible for clients to spread their message through my designs. Through the process of creating digital work, my designs can be made for anyone with any necessity for visual imagery and language to excite and inspire innovation

Principles of Macroeconomics 2e support material for OpenStax textbook: week 1, introduction - OER project materials

Missing weeks are exam review weeks. There is a discussion prompt but no recitation material for week 4 (exam review).ECON 204.Week 1 discussion: Introductions. The material included here was developed to support the use of the OpenStax textbook Principles of Macroeconomics 2e. The material includes two components: (1) weekly discussion prompts that were developed for use on online discussion boards; and (2) weekly recitation worksheets and answer keys.Please see online textbook: https://openstax.org/details/books/principles-macroeconomics-2e.The materials were collected for the OER project funded by the Colorado OER Council Grant (AY 2021)

Composing place: digital rhetorics for a mobile world

Includes bibliographical references and index.Composing Place proposes an innovative approach to engaging with the compositional affordances of mobile technologies. Jacob Greene utilizes a rhetorical framework through which writers can leverage the affordances of new technologies and develops this framework by drawing on theoretical approaches within rhetorical studies, multimodal composition, and spatial theory.--Provided by publisher

Manzanar mosaic: essays and oral histories on America's first World War II Japanese American concentration camp

Includes bibliographical references and index.Providing a new mosaic-style view of Manzanar's complex history through unedited interviews and published scholarship, Arthur A. Hansen presents a deep, longitudinal portrait of the politics and social formation of the Japanese American community before, during, and after World War II. To begin, Hansen presents two essays, the first centering on his work with Ronald Larson in the mid-1970s on the history of Doho, a Japanese and English dual-language newspaper, and the second an article with David Hacker on revisionist ethnic perspectives of the Manzanar "riot." A second section is composed of five oral history interviews of selected camp personalities-a female Nisei journalist; a male Nisei historical documentarian; a male Kibei Communist block manager; the Caucasian wife and comrade of the block manager; and the male Kibei who was the central figure in the Manzanar Riot/Revolt-that offer powerful insight into the controversial content of the two essays that precede them. Manzanar can be understood only by being considered within the much wider context of Japanese American community formation and contestation before, during, and after World War II. A varied collection of scholarly articles and interviews, Manzanar Mosaic engages diverse voices and considers multiple perspectives to illuminate aspects of the Japanese American community, the ethnic press, the Manzanar concentration camp, and the movement for redress and reparations.--Provided by publisher.Doho: the Japanese American "Communist" press, 1937-1942 / Ronald C. Larson and Arthur A. Hansen -- The Manzanar "riot": an ethnic perspective / Arthur A. Hansen and David A. Hacker -- Oral histories: Sue Kunitomi Embrey, Togo Tanaka, Karl Yoneda, Elaine Black Yoneda, Harry Y. Ueno