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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Peace and War"”.
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Imagining Peace and War: Plymouth 1918-1939
After the trench warfare of the Great War the development of aerial warfare and widespread urbanisation meant that military doctrine in any future conflict would likely bring unprecedented death and destruction to non-combatants. Therefore, war prevention became the most important foreign policy …
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Partners in Peace and War: Theories of Alliance Formation and the Prospects of a Russia-China Alliance Explored
… a theoretical overview of balance-of-power and balance-of-threat theories, the thesis looks at their application for two major powers that have a checkered history with each other, Russia and China, and determines the reasons for a potential alliance between them. Additionally, since this …
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An Army of One... With Dependents: A History of the Army Family
… thesis outlines the formation of the army family and its continuation through times of peace and war. It establishes the army family as a community based on the existence of three elements: geographic location, social interaction, and common ties. The results of the research for this paper …
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The Tale of the Southern Tour
… is commissioned by The Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Shaoguan City in Guangdong province in 2019. The piece received its world premiere in December 2019 at the Guangzhou Opera House. The work is a musical sketch depicting ancient Chinese story of Emperor Shun’s southern tour which took …
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DETECTING DECEPTION IN THE WILDERNESS: A PROPOSAL OF WARFARE INTEGRATED LIE DETECTION SYSTEM (WILDS)
Currently, the Marine Corps and the Department of Defense do not leverage human-machine team pairing during the collection of human intelligence. Consequently, they may miss or not exploit key information gained from human sources during times of both peace and war. This research aims to examine …
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A veteran's voice: diaspora and fractured identity of the returning warrior, a cultural studies critical analysis of the returning vet using autoethnography and interviews
… States has been engaged in two of the longest wars in its history, one located in Afghanistan and the other in Iraq. In the tenth year of conflict, as the Iraq war scales down and the previously ignored Afghanistan war heats up, the United States is ever increasingly being inundated by active …
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George Catlin and the Pipestone Quarry: paradise of the red gods
… talents. He made five difficult journeys westward from 1830-1836 to paint the Native Americans and their way of life. His artistic work comprised the first pictorial record of western Native Peoples. In Catlin's view, a visit to the sacred Pipestone Quarry, located in southwestern Minnesota, …
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O conceito de Jus Post Bellum e o caso da MINUSTAH: reflexões sobrea responsabilidade brasileira na operação de paz
… is the classic dichotomy amongst the concepts of Peace and War. Under this spectrum, the United Nation (UN) aims to show juridical/legal mechanisms so that it maintains the peace on a lasting way. The organization proposes a series of measures that regulate the use of force in the international …
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Leeds and the amateur military tradition: the Leeds Rifles and their antecedents, c. 1859-1918
… the Territorial Force, created in 1908, in its peacetime and wartime existence. It is a pioneering work of social history, since it concentrates on describing the social and organisational characteristics of a Regiment in both peace and war. Though the Leeds Rifles cannot be claimed to be a …
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The Discursive Construction of Terrorism: The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and other Kurdish political movements in Turkish official discourse, and the approach of the Turkish authorities regarding the Kurdish question
… critically challenges the conventional understanding of terrorism, which is influenced by the views of states that label certain non-state actors as terrorists and their action as terrorism. The research demonstrates that there is a need to critically study the characteristics of every armed …
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MEDIA AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT IN NIGERIA: ANALYSIS OF WAR AND PEACE FRAMES IN THE BOKO HARAM CRISIS COVERAGE
While the media are known as information and entertainment source, some scholars (e.g. Galtung, 2002; Lynch, 2014) have also proposed peace advocacy as one of the concerns of journalism. This study provides an insightful account of a complex conflict- the Boko Haram conflict, in northern Nigeria. …
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A Survey History of Islamic Da'wah and the Egyptian-Nigerian Connections
… on those of Loma Linda University, California, and of the University of Washington, Seattle, and on those in the Arab Republic of Egypt, particularly at Al-Azhar University, the American University at Cairo, and the British Consulate in Cairo. Further, I have had personal interviews with …