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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"conflict situations"”.
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UN Peacebuilding Efforts in Post-Conflict Situations
… and developing countries during post-conflict situations. This work defines and examines peacebuilding and development using data from the PBC, PBF, Polity IV, the Human Development Index Report, and other sources, including UN documents. Three case studies where chosen to evaluate the …
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The ethics of humanitarian aid in conflict situations
… suffering from the violence and deprivation of conflict attracts a great deal of aid. Such aid is often inspired by the thought that we have some responsibility to protect or assist innocent victims of war. However, this humanitarian response is vulnerable to abuse. Combatants can manipulate the …
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Preschool children's information processing and emotional behavior in social conflict situations
… N=31). The children’s teachers were given conflict situations and asked to state what strategies the Type A and Type B children would adopt in each conflict situation. The first conflict situation was about the child who was being accidentally pushed by a peer. The second conflict situation …
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The historical re-evaluation of cultural heritage in modern post conflict situations
The loss of cultural heritage is familiar to us all in both current times with the looting of the Iraqi Museum in Baghdad and in the past as seen in the bombing of many cities during World War Two. The reasons for destruction are often complex and difficult to determine despite much speculation in …
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An examination of children's strategy responses to two types of conflict situations
… of children's responses to interpersonal conflict. A distinction was made between two types of peer conflict situations: equal legitimacy conflict situations and rights infraction conflict situations. Equal legitimacy conflict situations involve disputes in which two children get into a …
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Deciding to Fight: A Cross-Cultural Comparative Study on Decision-Making in Conflict Situations
… a feeling of familiarity with the setting of the conflict situation tends to produce more cooperative decisions. The quasi-experimental survey is carried over into a third sample of Ghanaian peace professionals from a peacekeeping training center. While Ghanaian students demonstrate a more …
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Goals and strategies in peer conflict situations: An investigation of the linkages in three relational contexts
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Effects of Masculine Gender Role Stress and Pre-arousal on Men's Cognitive, Affective, and Physiological Responses to Intimate Conflict Situations
… men who are susceptible to appraising threat in situations that challenge their masculine gender roles. Furthermore, Zillmann's excitation-transfer theory has proposed that elevated levels of physiological reactivity may interfere with men's appraisal processes and ability to control their …
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Conflict Resolution: Preparing Preservice Special Educators to Work in Collaborative Settings
… changing practice in schools, the potential for conflict also exists when team members do not share similar jargon, ideas, goals, or perspectives. Preservice special educators will be expected to face and resolve conflict situations in practice. In this study an investigation was conducted on the …
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Indigenous Sovereignty in State-Native Conflicts: A Comparative Study of Process and Outcomes
… groups assert their sovereign rights in conflict situations, and how they can be most successful in doing so.</p> <p>Two instances of indigenous-state conflict were analyzed and compared both to each other and to a baseline of what sovereignty in conflict is, based on the United Nations …
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Conflict Resolution in the 21St Century
… a comprehensive look at various methods of conflict resolution and assess their relative usefulness in resolving specific conflict situations in Latin America, the Middle East, Eurasia, and the East-Pacific. Case studies analyzed represent the type of human conflict that may be more …
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Beliefs and Conflict in a Church: Individual Differences and Narrative Assessment
… is an extremely important component of conflict situations, and appears to determine whether the conflict will escalate or de-escalate. The connection of these findings to theoretical approaches is noted. In addition, theoretical as well as practical implications are discussed. Several …
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Effects of long-term viewing of television violence on cognitive, physiological, and behavioral responses to real life violence
… expectations of others physical aggression in conflict situations. Four hundred thirty one children, fourth and fifth graders, completed a television frequency survey and a conflict situations hierarchy. It was found that children who normally view a relatively large amount of television …
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The Effects of Noise and Aggressive Cues on Preschoolers' Encoding and Interpretation of Social Information
… boys' social information processing in situations of arousal. It was hypothesized that, under conditions designed to increase arousal, boys would respond more aggressively than those in neutral conditions. Procedure: A total of 60 four year old boys participated in each of two studies. …
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Much to be done: towards an effective transitional justice model for dealing with conflict-related crimes of sexual and gender-based violence
Many countries in Africa have experienced conflicts characterized by gross human rights violations, including widespread and systematic sexual and gender-based violence. Several of these are currently grappling with the difficult issue of addressing the wrongs of the past while at the same time …
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A Narrative Approach to Investigating the Contextual Nature of Adolescent Self-Regulation
… that adds “as enacted in relationships and situations with culturally-relevant media.” The need for such an expansion urgently accounts for the fact that young people are living in high-risk settings, where trauma, violence and economic difficulty are implicated not only in psycho-physical …
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Vehicle-pedestrian interaction using naturalistic driving video through tractography of relative positions and pedestrian pose estimation
… This research focuses on the potential-conflict situations where a collision may happen if no avoidance action is taken from driver or pedestrian. We have used 1000 such 15 seconds videos to find vehicle-pedestrian relative dynamic trajectories and pose of pedestrians. Adaptive …
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Examining the impediments to conflict management in West Africa: a study of the ECOWAS interventions in Liberia (1990) and Cote d'Ivoire (2010)
… security organization concerned with terminating conflicts in the sub-region. Accordingly, ECOWAS has militarily intervened in the numerous conflicts in the sub-region including the Liberian and Ivorian civil wars. The study notes that the fundamental causes of conflicts in the sub-region have not …
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Game Theory and Its Business Applications
… limited applications of Game Theory to business situations today, perhaps its greatest contribution so far has been an intangible one: the general orientation given to businessmen who are faced with overcomplex problems. Even though these problems are not strictly solvable in the game theory …
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