MASTER IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND MEDITERRANEAN SECURITY ACADEMIC YEAR 2010 – 2011 LIST OF DISSERTATIONS MICHAEL JAMES SHEPPARD – Citadel Malta – Affects of EU Integration on Veiled Perceptions of Refugee and Asylum Seekers in Malta. SUZAN D. TUGBERG – Walled: Divided Societies and Impact on Identity. SUSAN MERCIECA – Blame It on History. An Analysis of Racist Attitudes amongst Maltese University Students. JESSICA S. LOHMANN – The Cosmopolitan Warrior? Views of Patriotism and Citizenship from Private Military Company Contractors with Implications for Nationality. BARDIA BASTIN – Gender Issues, Structural and Cultural Violence (Malta) YLENIA CARUANA – Politics 2.0: Is ‘open government’ the way forward in modern democracies? BRIAN J. FARRELL – An Exploration of Lonergan’s Method with Case Study of the Conflict in Western Sahara. STEPHEN N. PINKSTAFF – Structural Violence and the United Nations: How the Society Council Shifts Attitudes, Expectations and Presuppositions in the International Community about the Persian Gulf, 1990 – 2003. NATALIE C. ZARB – Protracted Conflict and Food Insecurity in Africa: Case Studies of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Somalia. ANDRE` VELLA - From National Security to Environmental Security: A Historical Overview. Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies (MEDAC), University of Malta, Msida, MSD 2080, MALTA Tel: +356 23402821 Fax: +356 21483091 E-mail: simon.bajada@um.edu.mt