İbn Haldun Üniversitesi Kurumsal Akademik Arşivi
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Exploring covert diplomacy in peace negotiations
(Cogitatio Press, 2025) Kaya Uyar, Sümeyye; İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi, Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü
Armed groups seeking political or territorial change frequently challenge governments, leading to protracted armed conflicts. However, not all conflicts are resolved through decisive military victories. As a result, states have increasingly turned to secret negotiations as an alternative means of engagement. While secrecy can facilitate diplomatic flexibility, its effectiveness depends on the credibility of the government’s commitment to cooperation. This study examines how the selection of government representatives in secret negotiations influences rebel group behavior and the likelihood of cooperation. Drawing on costly signaling theory and research on secrecy in diplomacy, this study argues that the level of government representation in secret negotiations serves as a key mechanism for signaling credibility. Specifically, high‐level representatives function as costly signals, reassuring rebels of the government’s seriousness and increasing the likelihood of cooperation. By contrast, low‐level representatives provide strategic deniability but fail to generate trust, making negotiations less effective. This dynamic is particularly relevant in democratic settings, where governments face domestic audience costs if secret negotiations are exposed. To test these claims, the study employs a large‐𝑁 quantitative analysis of secret negotiations between democratic governments and rebel groups. The findings indicate that secret negotiations led by high‐level representatives significantly reduce rebel violence. In contrast, those conducted by low‐level representatives fail to establish credibility and do not contribute to de‐escalation. These results highlight the importance of credibility, the choice of representatives, and secrecy in conflict resolution, with implications for backchannel diplomacy and long‐term cooperation outcomes.
“In search of truth?” Integrating religious consultation into CBT to address ambivalence: A case study
(SAGE, 2025) Özçelik, Hanne Nur; Toprak, Taha Burak; İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi, Psikoloji Bölümü
Ambivalence-defined as the simultaneous experience of conflicting emotions, attitudes, or beliefs toward a specific person, object, or situation—is a complex construct that plays a critical role in psychological processes such as decision-making, emotional regulation, and interpersonal relationships. While Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) combined with Motivational Interviewing (MI) has been shown to be effective in addressing ambivalence, there is limited research on religiously sensitive interventions for individuals with strong faith-based values. This case study introduces an integrative approach that incorporates consultation with a Muslim religious leader into the therapeutic process to address ambivalence regarding family responsibilities. The client, a young Muslim woman, experienced psychological distress due to uncertainty about her religious obligations to maintain her relationship with her father. Initial CBT sessions targeted anxiety and interpersonal difficulties. However, the inclusion of religious consultation played a crucial role in helping the client clarify her values and resolve her inner conflict. This intervention provided a faith-based framework for interpreting her obligations, reduced ruminative thinking, and fostered a more future-oriented perspective. Post-treatment assessments indicated notable reductions in anxiety and depression levels, and the client’s feedback highlighted the value of the religious consultation. These findings suggest that integrating religious consultation into psychotherapy may improve treatment outcomes for clients with strong religious commitments.
Hedonic vs. eudaimonic ways of living on the path to well-being and psychological distress: Turkish validation of HEMA-R
(Turkish Psychological Counseling and Guidance Association, 2025) Subaşı, Mustafa; Huta, Veronika; Osin, Evgeny N.
The Hedonic and Eudaimonic Motives for Activities-Revised (HEMA-R) measures eudaimonic, hedonic, hedonic pleasure, and hedonic comfort motivations. We tested the psychometric properties of the HEMA-R among Turkish-speaking university students (N = 255) and adults (N = 460). Confirmatory factor analyses among university students demonstrated both two-factor and three-factor solutions of the HEMA-R, while confirmatory factor analyses among adults identified a three-factor solution. Internal consistencies of the HEMA-R were largely good. In both samples, eudaimonic motivation always had at least slightly more positive associations with well-being indicators compared to hedonic motivation, hedonic pleasure motivation, and hedonic comfort motivation, while having negative weak relationships in half of the analyses with ill-being indicators. Hedonic motivation mostly had weak positive associations with the majority of well-being outcomes, while having weak positive associations with several indices of ill-being. Hedonic pleasure motivation had weak positive associations with the majority of well-being indicators, and hedonic comfort motivation did not have any association with some of the well-being indicators. They predominantly had no associations with ill-being indicators. Eudaimonic and hedonic indicators of motivation both related to need satisfaction and meaning in life indicators. Implications are discussed for future research.
“Worship is not merely about form”: Religiously integrated cognitive behavioral therapy in a case of scrupulosity
(Springer Nature, 2025) Işık, Yakup; Toprak, Taha Burak; İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi, Psikoloji Bölümü
Treating clients with scrupulosity (religious obsessive–compulsive disorder) requires clinicians to be prepared for various forms of resistance and ambivalence. These individuals may experience hesitation not only during therapy but also when initially seeking help. In particular, concerns about not being fully understood, being misinterpreted, or unintentionally misrepresenting their faith may contribute to hesitation in seeking professional support, especially among individuals with strong religious sensitivity. This case study presents the therapy process and outcomes of a client with scrupulosity, using a cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) approach integrated with religious interventions. In previous attempts to receive treatment, the client had avoided fully disclosing his symptoms due to feeling inadequately understood, perceiving that his concerns were normalized without sufficient exploration, and experiencing discomfort due to concerns about misrepresenting his religiosity. The client was assessed using the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), and Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) scales before treatment, after treatment, and at follow-up stages. The results showed significant improvement: his obsessive–compulsive disorder symptoms remained below the clinical threshold at the 9-month follow-up, and his overall functioning increased considerably. To better understand which aspects of the treatment contributed to the observed outcomes, qualitative data were obtained from the client’s responses to an open-ended therapy evaluation form. These responses emphasized the importance of the therapist’s sensitivity to the client’s religious values and the effective use of religious references throughout the therapy process. The case illustrates how a therapeutic approach that respects the client’s faith-based concerns can foster trust, improve treatment engagement, and contribute to both clinical and spiritual well-being.
Drinking secularism: A critique of Shahab Ahmed’s what is Islam?
(Berghahn, 2024) Ahmad, Irfan; İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi, Sosyoloji Bölümü
In this 2023 Roy Rappaport lecture, I take up Shahab Ahmed’s What is Islam? as a point of entry to inquire into larger themes and questions—salient, hidden, to-be-pursued—in the study of religion and Islam. While Ahmed’s book has been hailed as “a new way of looking at Islam,” I demonstrate how his definitional enterprise is unoriginal because the problématique of Islamic orthodoxy it is tied to belongs to the long-standing Orientalist objectification of Islam. The first section summarizes Ahmed’s thesis. Taking the question of alcohol and Islam—one among six questions his book is organized around—as paradigmatic of his larger thesis, I argue that this question is markedly Christian and one already broached. Here I show how Ahmed disregards rich, diverse debate on alcohol to sustain his question as an “outright contradiction” between Islam as sharī‘a or principle and Islam as historical phenomena. In the third section, I comparatively outline an interim “pre-text,” a term central to his definition of Islam, of Ahmed’s own text. In the conclusion, I iterate why my critique of Ahmed is foundational. I end by suggesting how anthropological-sociological study of Islam can become richer when analyzed not in terms of being Islamic, as Ahmed adjectively does, but in terms of becoming Muslim, as a verb.
