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Joint Force Quarterly 80 (1st Quarter, January 2016), National Defense University Press

Joint Force Quarterly ARCHIVES

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Soldier Enhancement: Ethical Risks And Opportunities, Matthew Beard, Jai Galliott, Sandra Lynch

Philosophy Papers and Journal Articles

Over the past decade, interest in human enhancement has waxed and waned. The initial surge of interest and funding, driven by the US Army’s desire for a ‘Future Force Warrior’ has partly given way to the challenges of meeting operational demands abroad. However the ethical opportunities provided by soldier enhancement demand that investigation of its possibilities continue. Benefits include enhanced decision-making, improved force capability, reduced force size and lower casualty rates.

These benefits — and enhancement itself — carry concomitant risks, including morale issues due to tension between enhanced and unenhanced soldiers, the issues of enhanced veterans and ownership of …

Human Rights And War Through Civilian Eyes., Thomas Smith

Faculty Books

International lawyers and ethicists have long judged wars from the perspective of the state and its actions, developing international humanitarian law by asking such questions as "Are the belligerents justified in entering the conflict?" and "How should they conduct themselves during the war's execution?" and "When civilian noncombatants are harmed, who is responsible for their suffering?" Human Rights and War Through Civilian Eyes reimagines the ethics of war from the standpoint of its collateral victims, focusing on the effects of war on individuals—on those who are terrorized, or killed, or whose lives are violently disrupted. Upholding a human rights analysis …

Terrorist Experts’ Perceptions Of How The Internet Has Shaped International Terrorism, Samuel F. Wilson Ii, Teresa M. Lao Ph.D., Ernesto Escobedo Dr.

Walden Faculty and Staff Publications

The use of the Internet by terrorists has greatly contributed to international terrorism. The Internet is a main strategic communication asset for terrorists who use online message boards and chat rooms to share information, coordinate attacks, spread propaganda, raise money, and recruit. The Internet gives terrorists a medium to legitimize, propagate, and intimidate citizens to their cause. Their strategies are based on careful analysis of human communications; thus, messages are adapted and carefully delivered to appeal to people who may need something to believe in. This study bridged the gap in knowledge by exploring, understanding, and explaining the perceptions of …

A Vital Resource For Understanding Lds Perspectives On War, Morgan Deane

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

Even Unto Bloodshed: An LDS Perspective of War by Duane Boyce is a thorough and engrossing philosophical discussion describing the failure of secular and spiritual pacifism. Boyce provides a detailed summary of secular views regarding just war and pacifism, and systematic rebuttals of almost every major pacifist thinker in LDS thought. The text is far more brief describing the LDS theory of just war, but remains an essential resource for creating that theory.

The “Fiery Darts Of The Adversary” In 1 Nephi 15:24, Stephen O. Smoot

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

After receiving a revelation (1 Nephi 11–14) that clarified the meaning of his father Lehi’s dream (1 Nephi 8), Nephi explained to his rebellious brothers the significance of the various symbols of that dream. Concerning the “rod of iron,” which led to the tree of life, Nephi recorded, And I said unto them that it was the word of God; and whoso would hearken unto the word of God, and would hold fast unto it, they would never perish; neither could the temptations and the fiery darts of the adversary overpower them unto blindness, to lead them away to destruction. …

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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

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The Ammonites Were Not Pacifists, Duane Boyce

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

Although it is common to believe that the Ammonites were pacifists, the report of their story demonstrates that this is a mistake. Appreciating the Ammonites’ non-pacifism helps us think more clearly about them, and it also explains several features of the text. These are textual elements that surprise us if we assume that the Ammonites were pacifists, but that make perfect sense once we understand that they were not. Moreover, in addition to telling us that the Ammonites were not pacifists, the text also gives us the actual reason the Ammonites came to eschew all conflict — and we learn …

Were We Foreordained To The Priesthood, Or Was The Standard Of Worthiness Foreordained? Alma 13 Reconsidered, A. Keith Thompson

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

Alma 13:3–4 is often interpreted as Book of Mormon confirmation of the doctrine that all those who are ordained to the Priesthood on the earth were foreordained to receive that Priesthood in the pre-existence as a result of their exceeding faith and good works. That interpretation is inconsistent with the 1978 revelation on Priesthood. A contextual reading of the account of Alma2’s ministry to the people of Ammonihah also suggests that Alma2 was not telling the men of Ammonihah that they (or anyone else) had been foreordained to receive the Priesthood. Rather, Alma2 was teaching that what we now call …

Part 1: Life In The Slower Lane: The Hampton Roads Economy, Center For Economic Analysis And Policy, Old Dominion University

State of the Region Reports: Hampton Roads

Our regional economy is on track in 2016 to record a “real” (after inflation) economic growth rate of only 1.20 percent – well below our 2.60 percent average economic growth rate over the past 30 years. We have yet to recover all of the jobs we lost in the Great Recession. The outlook for 2017 is not much better.

Book Reviews, David Bundy, Moe Moe Nyunt, Brian Shockey, Michael Tavey, Zachariah S. Motts, Ryan K. Giffin, Bejamin D. Espinoza, Kevin Burr, Benson Gob, Shivraj K. Mahendra, Timothy J. Christian, Jeremy B. Griffin, Samuel Sidjabat, Rachel L. Coleman, Isaiah Allen, Babatunde Oladimeji

The Asbury Journal

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Lipidomic Identification Of Therapeutic Targets In A Mouse Model Of Gulf War Illness, Austin Seroka

Theses & ETDs

Gulf War Illness (GWI) is a debilitating condition affecting roughly 250,000 veterans of the 1991 Gulf War (GW). Patients with GWI experience cognitive decline, immune activation, physical discomfort and pain, along with limited mobility and decreased overall quality of life. Previous studies conducted at the Roskamp Institute and elsewhere have implicated mitochondrial dysfunction, altered lipid metabolism and peroxisomal dysfunction as the biological features of GWI most likely caused by exposure to cholinergic pesticides and nerve agents in the GW theater. This study aims to use innovative, mass spectrometry based-lipidomic analysis to identify the involvement of these factors in the pathology …

“He Asked If I Knew Anything About The Universe. And I Told Him No”: Alien Abductions In American Literature, Stephen James Fleming

Theses & ETDs

Stories about aliens saturate American culture, but few critics explore them as figures that span decades and genres and that reveal a great deal about the people who are drawn to alien imagery. This thesis examines aliens in two ways: as very real extraterrestrial beings sexually assaulting abductees and assimilating into humanity; and as fictional responses to our fears of the racial Other. I speak to cultural studies scholars, since the abduction masterplot takes on the issues of social anxieties, conspiracy, politics, and entertainment history, also found in canonical literature. The first chapter traces the evolution of nonfiction abduction narratives, …

Protecting The Rights Of War-Affected Children: The Convention On The Rights Of The Child And Transitional Justice For Child Soldiers In Sierra Leone And Rwanda, Carolina Shin

Theses & ETDs

In post-conflict societies whose legal capacity has been diminished by conflict, international legal intervention is essential to carrying out transitional justice. In internal conflicts that have involved a significant number of child soldiers and juvenile offenders of international crimes, adjudicating the ‘dual status’ of child soldiers remains an integral part of the transitional justice process. The international legal regime comprised of international human rights law, international humanitarian law, and international criminal law regarding child soldiers is principled in the ‘straight-18’ position; yet, international law grants domestic courts the legal authority to determine the minimum age of criminal responsibility, and by …

Some Of My Best Friends Are Black! Network Racial Heterogeneity And Its Effects On Individual Political Identity, Raina Senae Nelson

Theses & ETDs

My research focuses on how heterogeneity of race in political discussion networks (also called social networks) affects the individual political identities of Black and White voters. There is much research to refer to for social networks, but very little of it deals with race. My research hopes to close this gap. Using data from the General Social Survey 2010 I run a series of multiple regressions to test the way racial identity and racial diversity in social networks combine to influence party identification and political opinions on a wide variety of issues. I find that white respondents’ party affiliations seem …

Miyazaki Hayao’S Animated Explorations Of The Modern Human Condition, Nicole Kana Hummel

Theses & ETDs

This thesis explores Miyazaki Hayao’s developments in formulating and expressing his ideological stance on the modern human condition. Miyazaki provides critical commentary on the social, cultural, and environmental conditions of the modernized world while simultaneously reassuring his audience of the potential to change negative aspects of modern developments through his inspiring films for Studio Ghibli. All of Miyazaki’s films draw inspiration from the animator’s own life experiences growing up during the Pacific War from 1941 and the succeeding decades with support from a variety of cultural sentiments prevalent in modern Japanese society. He effectively visualizes his opinions on anxieties arising …

Living Office In A Living Communtiy: A Proposal For A Tribal Historical Preservation Office Based Archaeology, Garrett R. Murto

Theses & ETDs

In the last two decades there have been simultaneous calls in the field of archaeology for increased interaction and collaboration with indigenous communities as well as for new, pragmatic methodological approaches. By reviewing the history and literature of Indigenous archaeology theory and through ethnographic participant observations and interviews of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Historical Preservation Office (THPO) both of these calls can be answered. By synthesizing Indigenous theory and ethnography, the pragmatic model of THPO-Based archaeology emerges as the most effective approach to the archaeology of the ancestral sites of federally recognized tribes in the United States.

They The People: Capital Punishment, Public Opinion, And The Modern Role Of America’S Judicial Branch., Elizabeth Klos

Theses & ETDs

The thesis studies on the modern usage of the death penalty in the United States and how it relates to public opinion. In doing so, it analyzes the various institutions that have handled death penalty cases in the U.S., and how their applications may be related. It is found that the judicial branch (alongside state governments) carries the most jurisdiction of the death penalty, and, regardless of this fact, death penalty legislation has been largely influenced by public opinion (determined by public opinion polls and the action of states). Overall, it was found that the Supreme Court may have a …

Making Space For Queer Narratives: Feminist Art, And Animation, Davin Aberle

Theses & ETDs

Popular art and media is too often focused on cisgender, white, straight people’s experiences, pushing people of color and LGBTQ people to the sidelines. In marginalizing these people in the media, TV shows are only helping to perpetuate the social marginalization and injustices faced by both the LGBTQ community and people of color in the US; and in these representations there are few positive traits for marginalized youth to look to. Looking to my own life as a trans person I try to bring a realistic depiction through my animations. Guided by contemporary intersectional feminist theories, this project works to …

“Our Future Need Is As Great As The Past”: The Florida Division, United Daughters Of The Confederacy And The New Right, 1948–1970, Bo Buford

Theses & ETDs

By addressing the activity of the Florida Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) throughout the height of the civil rights movement, this thesis contributes toward filling a gap in historical study on the formation of the new conservatism. Existing scholarship recognizes that the UDC’s many activities and agendas (historical, memorial, benevolent, educational, and social) served to legitimize the enforcement of Jim Crow legislation by reinforcing an historical narrative of white supremacy in the South. However, historians have neglected to seriously consider the UDC’s work after 1920 or through the Cold War-era civil rights movement. In addition to scholarship on …

“It Looks Like You Who Are Behind A Fence:” Exceptional Landscapes Of American Incarceration From Deer Island To Topaz, Michael Dorney

Theses & ETDs

This senior thesis attempts to tell a spatial history of Japanese American Internment (1942-46), a historical episode that saw the United States federal government expropriate, incarcerate, and forcefully migrate 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. My first chapter situates the “Internment Camps” (as they are referred to in the majority of Internment historiography), within a longer history of expropriation, incarceration and forced migration, reaching as far back as British colonial Massachusetts and the Deer Island “Internment Camp” (1675-76). This chapter is designed to give the reader a deeper appreciation for the historical breadth of this distinct chapter in the …

1894 Convention Report, Cleveland, Christian Endeavor Society

Books

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Seafarer People And Their Textiles From Erub Arts, Torres Strait, Australia, Louise Hamby, Valerie Kirk

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

A quote from Florence Gutchen, an artist from Erub (Darnley Island) in the Torres Strait, 180 kms NE of mainland Australia, sets the scene for this document. “We hear the wind…We are seafarer people. Our livelihood depends on the sea. We are saltwater people and we are the seafarers.” The geographic location of her current home is crucial to the understanding of not only the textiles artists produce but to all of their work. Their island in the eastern part of Torres Strait plays a major part in how their identity as Erubians is expressed through textiles. This paper primarily …

Fireworks For The Emperor. A New Hand-Colored Impression Of Sebald Beham’S “Military Display In Honor Of The Visit Of Emperor Charles V To Munich”, Alison Stewart, Nicole Roberts

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Faculty Publications and Creative Activity

A little studied Einblattdruck, or single-sheet woodcut, from the sixteenth century shows early incendiary devices used to honor the entry of the Holy Roman Emperor in 1530. The large woodcut displays the military honors given to the emperor: cannons firing on a castle constructed for the occasion and fireworks. Harnessing the potential of powders for both pyrotechnics and color added by hand to prints was among the many cultural developments of the sixteenth century. This article makes known a recently rediscovered impression of the print, unique with hand coloring, which serves as the focus of discussion for several aspects …

Tried And Blue: The Unionist Origins Of Alabama’S Blue Spot, David Henslee

Vulcan Historical Review

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“Strong Women Make Strong Nations”: Women, Literature, And Sovereignty In Paula Gunn Allen And Virginia Woolf, Kristin Czarnecki

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

This essay places Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas alongside Paula Gunn Allen’s The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions. Reading these landmark texts together helps establish a transnational dialogue essential to twenty-first-century literary and feminist studies. A Room of One’s Own and The Sacred Hoop resonate with each other in striving to recuperate women’s history and literature, long denied or suppressed by patriarchal tenets and texts. A fruitful dialogic also emerges between Three Guineas and The Sacred Hoop, both of which argue for the eradication of patriarchy in favor of female-centric social …

The 2016 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

BACKGROUND

Riesland and Amestonia are neighboring States with a common language and similar ethnic composition. They enjoy healthy cross-border economic, cultural, and security ties. Riesland is the top importer of Amestonian agricultural products, which has contributed to Amestonia’s rapid GDP growth. The States have concluded a number of bilateral treaties on subjects such as tourism, extradition, and intelligence-sharing.

Getting The Hologenome Concept Right: An Eco-Evolutionary Framework For Hosts And Their Microbiomes, K. R. Theis, N. M. Dheilly, J. L. Klassen, R. M. Brucker, J. F. Baines, T. C. G. Bosch, J. F. Cryan, Scott F. Gilbert, C. J. Goodnight, E. A. Lloyd, J. Sapp, P. Vandenkoornhuyse, I. Zilber-Rosenberg, E. Rosenberg, S. R. Bordenstein

Biology Faculty Works

Given the complexity of host-microbiota symbioses, scientists and philosophers are asking questions at new biological levels of hierarchical organization—what is a holobiont and hologenome? When should this vocabulary be applied? Are these concepts a null hypothesis for host-microbe systems or limited to a certain spectrum of symbiotic interactions such as host-microbial coevolution? Critical discourse is necessary in this nascent area, but productive discourse requires that skeptics and proponents use the same lexicon. For instance, critiquing the hologenome concept is not synonymous with critiquing coevolution, and arguing that an entity is not a primary unit of selection dismisses the fact that …

On Climate Change And Cyber Attacks: Leveraging Polycentric Governance To Mitigate Global Collective Action Problems, Scott J. Shackelford

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

Although cyberspace and the atmosphere are distinct arenas, they share similar problems of overuse, difficulties of enforcement, and challenges of collective inaction and free riders. With weather patterns changing, global sea levels rising, and temperatures set to exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2100, climate change is a problem that affects the entire world. Yet its benefits are dispersed, and its harms are often concentrated. Similarly, much of the cost of cyber attacks is focused in a few nations even as others are becoming havens for cybercriminals. Yet it is also true that actions taken by a multiplicity of actors on …

The Transformation And Demise Of Terrorist Organizations: Causes And Categories, Devyani M. Mehta

Honors Undergraduate Theses

In the recent years, the world has experienced devastating losses due to terrorist attacks. Research in the fields of causes of terrorism is abundant, but the amount of research on the end of terrorism does not equally measure up. This paper aims to add to the research focused on analyzing the factors which cause terrorist groups to transition away from violence.

This paper introduces an original categorization of the factors which generate this transition. Factors belong to two categories: internal --decisions made by the terrorist organization, and external--actions or features pertaining to organization outside of non-terrorist organizations. These factors will …