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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Community conflict."”.
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Does Deliberation Make Better Citizens? Examining the Case of Community Conflict Mediation
… through interviews and observation at two community mediation organizations in Toronto. Theorists have long claimed that participation in deliberation can change the skills and dispositions of participants in ways that make them better citizens. Despite the normative work such claims …
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Fitzgerald, Lewis, Wharton, Anderson, and individual-community conflict in the 1920 American novel.
… of significant American novels portraying conflicts between individuals and community norms. These tensions between individuals and their families, churches, social classes, and towns, for example, conveyed the Progressive-era antagonisms toward civil society. In their constructivist …
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The Ageing of the Archives: Community, Conflict, and Queer Potential at the Lesbian Herstory Archives
… dissertation project examines the role of this community archive in</p> <p>building, defining, redefining, and sustaining community over time. More</p> <p>specifically, this dissertation seeks to explore the relationship between queer</p> <p>archives and community through the following research …
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The C-Street Conflict: Identifying Conflict Perceptions and Strategies in Multi-Party, Intractable Community Conflict
This case study examines how conflict and conflict management are perceived by stakeholders and explores best practices that emerge for intractable, multi-party community conflict. A coordinated management of meaning framework situates the study in social constructionism. Observations and in-depth …
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The Sweetness of Suffering: Community, Conflict, and the Cult of Saint Radegund in Medieval Poitiers
… a model for female authority and a symbol of the community. The abbesses drew on the charisma of the saint and on the network of supporters Radegund had established to protect the abbey. When abbatial authority was contested, these ecclesiastical and secular officials became reliable defenders of …
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Construction of personhood within Xhosa ethnicity: critical perspectives mediating state and community conflict over natural resources
… limitations and conservation policies by the community of Hobeni Village in the practice of traditional rituals within the context of nature conservation. It considers how ceremonies such as uKuqatywa komntwana, Intonjane, Ulwaluko, ukunikezelwa ko-Mkhontho, and Umcimbi/ Umgidi play a vital …
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A sociological analysis of four police consultative committees in Birmingham
Consultation between the police and the community was a recommendation of Lord Scarman in his report into the Brixton riots in 1981. By 1982 the West Midlands Police Authority had established local consultative committees on each police sub-division. This thesis is a study of four Police …
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To pave or not to pave: A social landscape analysis of land use decision-making in the Lamprey River watershed
… landscape of land use decision-making concerning community, conflict and temporo-spatial scaling. Challenges and opportunities are also identified in moving towards watershed based land use decision-making. Conclusions represent a mix of optimistic and pessimistic themes regarding current land use …
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The geography of the clinic: spatial form, meaning and practice at a Western Cape community health centre
… primary health care facility, the Hanover Park Community Health Centre, in terms of the space it occupies, transforms and utilises. The study aims to demonstrate that space as an object of inquiry may provide valuable insights into the structuring and interpreting of clinical activity and …
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The intersection of community and domestic conflict
Domestic violence and community violence are pervasive issues in society with some evidence of overlap; yet, they have been, historically, examined in isolation from one another. While there is limited emerging evidence that these forms of violence may intersect, there has not been any empirical …
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Elemental trauma: A case study of living with contaminated water near sites of Marcellus Shale gas extraction
… violence of the fracking process, such as community conflict, social strife, and personal and collective grief. Finally, the role of technology as it mediates survivability of the participants is examined. Industrial technology, in relation to the expansion of fracking in …
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Successful streets : performance measures, community engagement, and urban street design
… projects at the same time as they engage in community-focused design processes. Research in transportation policy defines performance-based planning as a framework for agencies to use performance goals and measurement to guide decision-making. Existing research largely neglects the use of …
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Factors related to continuation and non-continuation of superintendents in Region Study Group VI of the Commonwealth of Virginia
… competency factors, social, political, personal, community and system demographic factors were examined. A model was designed to check these factors against perceptions of job satisfaction. Data which could be quantified were key-punched for analysis. The chi square test was applied. Factors which …
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Land conflict resolution mechanisms in Kalikiliki Settlement,Lusaka
… is an informal settlement, has created land use conflicts. The prevalence of these unresolved land use conflicts presents a challenge for settlement upgrading. Without resolving land use conflicts, settlement upgrading will be a challenge. The first objective of the study was to identify the …
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Land conflict resolution mechanisms in Kalikiliki Settlement,Lusaka
… is an informal settlement, has created land use conflicts. The prevalence of these unresolved land use conflicts presents a challenge for settlement upgrading. Without resolving land use conflicts, settlement upgrading will be a challenge. The first objective of the study was to identify the …
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Evaluating the Design and Management of Community-Based Ecotourism Projects in Guatemala
Community-based ecotourism (CBE) has become the newest buzzword in development circles for its purported ability to provide alternative income generation for families and incentives to protect natural resources. Organizations such as the World Bank, World Wildlife Federation and USAID have …
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Evaluating the Design and Management of Community-Based Ecotourism Projects in Guatemala
Community-based ecotourism (CBE) has become the newest buzzword in development circles for its purported ability to provide alternative income generation for families and incentives to protect natural resources. Organizations such as the World Bank, World Wildlife Federation and USAID have …
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Understanding how consumers navigate relationships within communities: Two essays
… a belonging process within an established brand community. I investigate how individuals navigate this process, and how people deliberately control what and how they consume to belong. In so doing, I specifically demarcate belonging-laden constructs, and describe their interrelationships. In my …