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Looking Back: How Jane Addams Challenged the Frontiers of Public Administration, Sociology, Social Work, Peace Studies and Philosophy - and why it matters today
(2017-06)This paper examines Jane Addams pioneering contributions to five fields. The late 19th and early 20th Century was a time when many academic and professional fields were becoming self-aware. Chicago transitioned from a ... -
Positive Peace: Exploring the Roots and Potential for Public Administration
(2016)This symposium on peace examines the Judeo-Christian roots of the ideas of peace. This article introduces the symposium, further explores the notion of positive peace through the ideas of John Paul Lederach, applies the ... -
Hiding in Plain Sight: Positive Peace – A Missing, Critical Immeasurable in PA Theory
(2016-05-22)This paper explores the notion of positive peace as applied to many aspects of public administration. The easily measured concept of “negative peace” or the absence of war dominates research in the study of peace. Positive ... -
Building the Fabric of Peace: Jane Addams and Peaceweaving
(2016)Jane Addams (1860- 1935) is noted for her leadership in the social settlement movement and her peace activism. Addams drew upon lessons from Christ and the early Christians to develop her ideas of peace. This article ... -
Ambidextrous Civil Military Relations: Integrating the Two Hands of Peace
(2016-01-27)In January of 2016, Patricia M. Shields, the editor of Armed Forces & Society, addressed the Association of Civil Military Studies of Israel at their bi-annual conference at Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee. The ... -
Jane Addams: Democratic Theorist and PeaceWeaver
(2015-03-30)This presentation examines Jane Addams ideas of peace and summarizes the key facets of her ideas using the term "peaceweaving." Addams ideas are placed in historic context. Events and academic works that led to her Nobel ... -
The Contested Idea of Peace: A Path for Public Administration through Jane Addams
(2015-03-18)Beginning with the odd finding that “peace research is just the study of war” this paper explores “positive peace” as an important yet neglected notion in public administration. It does this by examining the ideas of Nobel ... -
ASPA PhD Summit: Getting Published and Finding Coherence
(2014-03-14)The American Society for Public Administration has a PhD Summit every year at its annual Conference. This Power Point Presentation is part of the Summit. It addresses issues surrounding the challenges of academic publication. ... -
Tools for Writing Excellent Papers: ASPA Student Summit 2014
(2014-03-14)The American Society for Public Administration sponsors a graduate student summit during its annual conference. This document introduces two tools for writing research papers that are developed in The Playbook for Research ... -
Extending the Legacy of Morris Janowitz
(2013-05-29)This paper extends the ideas of sociologist Morris Janowitz to Peacekeeping. There is a case study of peace keeping in the Congo. -
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