Downsizing The Army Profession, 2013 Strategic Studies Institute
Downsizing The Army Profession, Leonard Wong
Articles & Editorials
No abstract provided.
A False Start: The Role Of Ballistic Missile Defense In Us-Russian Relations, 2013 University of Tennessee - Knoxville
A False Start: The Role Of Ballistic Missile Defense In Us-Russian Relations, Matthew Elisha Dillon
Senior Thesis Projects, 2013
In response to Iranian nuclear ambition the US and NATO have enacted a collective security initiative that will install Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) technology throughout Europe. However, during an otherwise cooperative period in US-Russian relations (e.g., the Obama administration’s “Reset” and the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty or START), NATO’s posture in Eastern Europe has compelled Russia to likewise reinforce its defenses and develop measures to incapacitate opposing BMD systems. This research analyzes the political impacts of BMD on US-Russian relations, focusing particularly on NATO’s European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA) program--described above.
Post-Conflict Development In Northern Uganda: The Importance Of Holistically Addressing Sexual And Gender-Based Violence, 2013 University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Post-Conflict Development In Northern Uganda: The Importance Of Holistically Addressing Sexual And Gender-Based Violence, Hannah E. Durick
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.
On Success In Peace Processes: Readiness Theory And The Aceh Peace Process, 2013 Bar Ilan University
On Success In Peace Processes: Readiness Theory And The Aceh Peace Process, Amira Schiff
Peace and Conflict Studies
The study presents an analysis of the conflict resolution process in the Aceh conflict between the government of Indonesia (GoI) and the Free Aceh Movement (“Gerekan Aceh Merdeka” or GAM). Starting with unofficial efforts by the Indonesian side from mid-2003, which eventually led the parties to the negotiation table and to the signing of the Helsinki Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in August 2005, the peace process put an end to the 30-year conflict over the independence of Aceh. The peaceful resolution of the Aceh conflict will be examined using readiness theory, which posits the factors that lead parties to negotiate …
Volume 20, Number 1 (Spring 2013), 2013 Nova Southeastern University
Volume 20, Number 1 (Spring 2013), Peace And Conflict Studies
Peace and Conflict Studies
No abstract provided.
Grassroots Peacebuilding In Northern Ireland And The Border Counties: Elements Of An Effective Model, 2013 University of Manitoba
Grassroots Peacebuilding In Northern Ireland And The Border Counties: Elements Of An Effective Model, Olga Skarlato, Sean Byrne, Kawser Ahmed, Julie Marie Hyde, Peter Karari
Peace and Conflict Studies
Following the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement many community-based organizations became involved in localized peace-building activities in Northern Ireland and the Border Counties. Drawing financial support from the EU Programme for Peace and Reconciliation and the International Fund for Ireland, these organizations adopted various strategic mechanisms to implement their projects –synchronizing bottom-up development initiatives with top-level government policies. Their effectiveness has already been felt in Northern Ireland as reduced political violence and improved socioeconomic conditions. However, the long-term sustainability of this work is questionable, affected as it is by continued intercommunity segregation, low macro-level political support, and global economic instability. This …
Book Review: Occupying New Levels: A Comparative Review Of Occupy Nation And Networks Of Outrage And Hope, 2013 Binghamton University
Book Review: Occupying New Levels: A Comparative Review Of Occupy Nation And Networks Of Outrage And Hope, Kevin Revier
Peace and Conflict Studies
No abstract provided.
Relational Identities: Reclaiming Ourselves Through Recreating Each Other In Collaborative Conversations In Group Therapy Work, 2013 Taos Institute
Relational Identities: Reclaiming Ourselves Through Recreating Each Other In Collaborative Conversations In Group Therapy Work, Celia Quintas, Christopher F. Burnett
Peace and Conflict Studies
This project took place at an outpatient mental health setting, and offers new understandings in our pursuit for communal well-being. It documents the unique participation of group members in the co-creaction of new knowledge and better understanding of human relationships using a participatory action research methodology. The article explores how improvements can take place in the lives of people diagnosed as chronically mentally ill. It demonstrates how a postmodern, collaborative approach to group therapy impacted the ways in which persons diagnosed with serious and chronic mental illness recreated their identities, thereby affecting their ways of relating to others and to …
Front Matter, 2013 Nova Southeastern University
Front Matter, Peace And Conflict Studies
Peace and Conflict Studies
No abstract provided.
Massacre In Central Burma: Muslim Students Terrorized And Killed In Meiktila, 2013 Physicians for Human Rights
Massacre In Central Burma: Muslim Students Terrorized And Killed In Meiktila, Richard Sollom, Holly G. Atkinson
Publications and Research
This report details the results of a Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) investigation into the March 20 and 21, 2013, attacks on Muslim students, teachers, and residents in the Mingalar Zayyone quarter of Meiktila, a small town in central Burma.
A two-person team, the authors of the report, from PHR conducted 33 interviews about the attacks, which resulted in the deaths of at least 20 children and four teachers. The report details the attacks by the Buddhist mobs, provides evidence that local police officers were complicit in the crimes, and lists policy recommendations for the Burmese government and the international …
From Positionality To Relationality: A Buddhist-Oriented Relational View Of Conflict Escalation And Its Transformation, 2013 Creighton University School of Law
From Positionality To Relationality: A Buddhist-Oriented Relational View Of Conflict Escalation And Its Transformation, Ran Kuttner
Peace and Conflict Studies
Through a theoretical analysis, this paper suggests that the Buddhist philosophy and psychology offer a unique contribution to our understanding of conflict escalation and the potential for its transformation from a relational point of view. In particular, it presents an in-depth analysis of conflict escalation, applying the Buddhist Four Noble Truths and Twelve Links models. With the help of these models, it analyzes the psychological process that invokes the escalation of conflict, resulting in what is considered “suffering” (Duhkha) in Buddhist thought, seen also as lack of relational awareness. The paper demonstrates how a Buddhist-oriented view of conflict adds value …
Facilitating Collaboration Among Health Care Professionals, 2013 Nova Southeastern University
Facilitating Collaboration Among Health Care Professionals, Robin Cooper
Peace and Conflict Studies
This paper explores how principles and practices of mediation and facilitation can be applied to facilitate collaboration among health care professionals. Certain techniques of mediation and facilitation are uniquely suited to address issues of values, roles, communication, and teamwork—four core competency domains of interprofessional collaborative practice—within the organizational context in order to transform workplace conflict into constructive collaboration. This paper discusses how one might draw upon those mediation and facilitation skills and techniques in order to address profession-centrism, professional prejudice, and us vs. them thinking, which hinder interprofessional collaboration. Those trained in the theories and practices associated with conflict analysis …
Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 38-Bb, No. 5, 2013 University of New Mexico
Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 38-Bb, No. 5, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights
Coalition for Prisoners' Rights Newsletters
Solidarity and Solitary
Eugene V. Debs During World War I
Tras el Maratón de Boston
Voices From Inside
Making War And Securing Peace: The Viability Of Peace Enforcement As A Mechanism For Promoting And Securing Civil War Termination, 2013 Macalester College
Making War And Securing Peace: The Viability Of Peace Enforcement As A Mechanism For Promoting And Securing Civil War Termination, Shawn H. Greene
Political Science Honors Projects
Peace enforcement—the threat or use of military force to compel belligerent adherence to a civil war settlement—has become increasingly salient in the past decade. Using a hazards analysis of all civil wars and associated third party interventions between 1945 and 2013 in addition to three structured, focused case studies, I argue that peace enforcement operations that 1) utilize the appropriate typological spoiler management strategy and 2) maintain legitimacy and impartiality through close cooperation with UN peacekeepers, are the most successful at catalyzing civil war termination and securing durable peace. I also provide a theoretical framework through which to study peace …
The Principle And Reality Of Legislative Oversight In Defence Matters In Liberal Democracies: An Empirical Case, 2013 Kennesaw State University
The Principle And Reality Of Legislative Oversight In Defence Matters In Liberal Democracies: An Empirical Case, Emmanuel Wekem Kotia
Emmanuel Wekem Kotia
Legislatures worldwide are an important arm of government in any political system that has an active oversight over defence. As elected representatives of the people legislators are at the heart of the democratic system. They represent the electorate from whom the armed forces of any state are drawn and whose taxes pay for their upkeep. The functions that legislatures play with regards to defence are many and vary greatly among most democratic states. Legislatures exercise their traditional legislative function by carrying out defence legislations on a number subjects. The legislature is an indispensable organ of state in modern democracies and …
Peer Mediation In United States High Schools, 2013 College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University
Peer Mediation In United States High Schools, Alexander Celeste, Patrick Buller
Peace Studies Student Work
This paper will first discuss the start of peer mediation programs in high schools. It will go on to discuss Avalon School as an example of an existing peer mediation program in a high school. From there it will discuss some details of certain elements of Avalon’s peer mediation program, including looking at the alternative options. It will conclude with comments on what this information tells us about future generations’ ability to positively resolve conflicts and where the reader can go from here.
The European Union In The Quartet: Acceptance And Influence In The Middle East Peace Process, 2013 Temple University
The European Union In The Quartet: Acceptance And Influence In The Middle East Peace Process, Cassandra V. Emmons
Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union
No abstract provided.
U.S. State Department International Law Internship And Employment Presentation And Discussion, 2013 U.S. State Dept. Senior Foreign Service
U.S. State Department International Law Internship And Employment Presentation And Discussion, Andrew A. Passen Famu Diplomat-In Residence
Environmental and Animal Law
The Center for International Law & Justice presents a discussion and presentation by Andrew A. Passen, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, who is currently serving as Diplomat-in-Residence covering the southeast U.S. and is based at Florida A & M University in Tallahassee.
Geneva Call Launches First Ansa Database, 2013 Center for International Stabilization and Recovery at JMU (CISR)
Geneva Call Launches First Ansa Database, News Brief
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
In November 2012 Geneva Call launched "Their Words,” an information database. The database provides published commitments and internal rules and regulations of armed non-state actors.
Catholic Relief Services Develops Mre Materials, 2013 Catholic Relief Services
Catholic Relief Services Develops Mre Materials, Ta Thi Hai Yen
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
This article presents state-of-the-art unexploded ordnance detection and classification, including examples from recent field-demonstration studies. After reviewing sensor technologies, with a focus on magnetic and electromagnetic systems, the authors discuss advanced processing techniques that allow for reliable discrimination between hazardous ordnance and harmless metallic clutter. Finally, the article shows results from a large-scale field demonstration conducted in 2011. In this case study, electromagnetic data acquired with an advanced sensor is used to identify ordnance at the site, reducing the number of excavations required with conventional metal detectors by 85%.