Jeremy Rinker

Jeremy Rinker
Assistant Professor, Peace and Conflict Studies, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Ph.D., Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George mason University, 2009
M.A, Asian Religion, University of Hawaii, 2001
B.A., Political Science, University of Pittsburgh, 1995

Biography

Jeremy Rinker, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at UNCG’s Department of Peace and Conflict Studies where he researches the intersections between narrative, violent conflict, and nonviolent conflict transformation. His work on the Ambedkar-Buddhist social movement in Maharashtra, India is a provocative approach to the connections between justice, narrative and identity. While much of Jeremy’s research has focused on the centrality of justice discourse in religiously based social change movements, Jeremy also has interest in restorative justice, political violence, and conflict intervention practices, as well as, trauma, memory, and reconciliation.

 Having previously taught at DePauw University and Guilford College, Jeremy brings a passion for liberal arts education and critical thinking to his teaching and research. Jeremy was a 2013 Fulbright Fellow at the Malaviya Center for Peace Research at Banaras Hindu University in Banaras, India. He also has experience in non-governmental organizations working in international development, humanitarian aid, and restorative justice. Jeremy has served as the Director of a conflict resolution practice clinic on Guilford College’s campus and has extensive training experience in mediation and community conferencing and community dialogue models. Jeremy first began teaching as a Peace Corps volunteer (’95-’97) in Kyzl-orda, Kazakhstan and remains committed to exploring the complex pedagogies and erasures associated with social conflicts over issues of cultural and justice.  

 



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Covers conflict at macro level, introducing theories of international and global violence and conflict, drawing from...
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March 01, 2017
This paper looks at how marginalized communities utilize discursive practices to contest against an unresponsive state malfeasance and hegemonic bureaucracy to ensure basic rights and state services for the marginalized. Focusing on the People’s Vigilance...
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March 31, 2014
Restorative justice (RJ) is both a methodology for dealing with conflict and a process for modeling more positive human relations after social harm. As both method and process, the benefits of developing restorative practices on college campuses go well beyond...
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April, 2013
Despite the common assumption that conflicts over value commitments are intractable, research on the narratives of activists associated with the Triratna Bauddha Mahasangha Sahayaka Gana (TBMSG) challenges such assumptions in many significant ways. For Dalit (...
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August 2009
While there has been open debate among dalit social reformers on the Indian subcontinent over the use of religious conversion as a form of rights expression, many dalit leaders in North America remain uneasy with frames of social justice aligned with religion in...
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July 02, 2009
This dissertation is an attempt to understand the meta-narratives of justice operating within the Trailokya Bauddha Mahasangha, Sahayak Gana (TBMSG), a dalit Buddhist social movement active in Maharashtra, India. The movement, a vestige of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’...
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Ensuring his revolutionary legacy requires more than memorialization through the thousands of statues erected in low-
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February 2017
Almost one year ago, I co-authored a position paper for the Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA) titled
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April 19, 2016
Dr. Jeremy Rinker (Peace and Conflict Studies) gave a talk commemorating the 125 birth anniversary of Indian social
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March 16, 2016
The Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA), in keeping with its longstanding concern for just and peaceable
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April 02, 2013
VARANASI: The UNESCO Chair for Peace and Intercultural Understanding, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), in collaboration
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This dissertation attempts to understand the meta-narratives of justice operating within the Trailokya Bauddha Mahasangha, Sahayak Gana (TBMSG), a Dalit Buddhist social movement active in Maharashtra, India.  The movement, a vestige of Dr. B.R.
April 10, 2009
The one-day conference was aimed at critically analyzing the implications of the globalization discourse in India. The conference brought about a conversation among scholars who are working within the framework of identity formations and globalization in India.
February 26, 2009
As India’s economy has become one of the fastest growing in the world, great attention has been paid to the “new” India and its development, progress and economic achievement. But little attention has been focused on the changing Indian identity that has accompanied this growth
February 24, 2009
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