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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"confrontational"”.
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Leadership: Collaborative not Confrontational - Understanding Leadership from the Perspectives of Angami Women Leaders
… of the respondents stated, “collaborative not confrontational,” as a result of which they were able to gather allies to support their cause. Since the strategies chosen by the women were culturally appropriate and contextually expedient, they were able to make their leadership acceptable and …
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Aggressive, Assertive and Non-confrontational Forms of Defending: Differentiation of Forms and Consequences of Defending
… aggressive, relationally aggressive, and two non-confrontational strategies of defending, telling an adult and comforting the victim. Aggressive forms of defending could be differentiated; whether the defending strategy was enacted in response to overt or relational victimization could not be …
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Transformative non-confrontational multicultural education: an implicitly emancipatory elementary school contemporary Native American artists program
Much of current literature on multicultural art education condemns Human Relations oriented approaches for their propensity to essentialize the art of the groups they attempt to represent, and their implicit reinscription of a hegemonic imperialist discourse regarding non-Western arts. In place of …
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North Korea's Policy Toward the United States: Rappochement to Confrontational Diplomacy in the 1970s and the 1990s
… matrix was modified significantly when the confrontational approach began to displace the rapprochement approach in the 1990s, if the nuclear program-related developments of the early 1990s are taken out of context and made the critical starting point for analysis, the continuity in the core …
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Conversational Agent: Developing a Model for Intelligent Agents with Transient Emotional States
… to a communication style that is not as directly confrontational as the style seen in the former generation of Army leaders. This may be due to the heavy use of technology-oriented communication channels (e.g., texting, social media), which often occur in the place of face to face styles of …
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An Identification of Hope Level and Frequency of Coping Response Among Hospitalized Post-myocardial Infarction Patients
… methods utilized by this group were Optimistic, Confrontational, Evasive and Self-reliant coping methods. When correlating hope level and coping method among all subjects, there was a positive correlation between hope level and the Optimistic, Confrontational and Supportive coping methods. There …
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Winning And Sustaining Space For Civil Society In Semi-authoritarian Settings: What Works And What Doesn’t Work - the Case Of Uganda
… society engaged through less collaborative and confrontational strategies, they did not achieve results. It follows from the analysis therefore that in semi-authoritarian political settings, where civil society is relatively powerless, change cannot be achieved in ways that are contradictory and …
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The hidden activism : media practices and the media opportunity in Chinese politics of resistance
… one has to look beyond the striking physical confrontational aspect of resistance. I approach the topic of hidden resistance by examining the social and cultural implications of media artifacts appropriated by movement participants and their strategic interactions with different stakeholders …
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DIRECT ENFORCEMENT ON THE HIGH SEAS: THE STRATEGY OF THE SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY
… being relatively small and resource poor, this confrontational marine conservation organization has been successful in frustrating Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean through the use of what it describes as ‘aggressive non-violent direct action.’ Adopting an inductive approach, the study uses …
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The Political Economy of CDM Market in China: Business Actors in the Governance of Carbon Offset
… their goals and strategic preferences due to the confrontational interests among business actors. In general, it contributes insights of the reform era political economy in China’s environmental and climate governance.
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Cross-strait economic ties, Taiwan's domestic politics, and China-Taiwan relations, 1990 - 2008
… a role in the emergence of significantly less confrontational China-Taiwan relations in 2008. By taking into account the interaction between international and domestic political economy, it finds that (1) the relationship between economic interdependence and peace does exist in the case of …
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Mexican identity in Clark County, Nevada: A visual ethnohistory, 1829-1960
… behavior as being complementary, competitive, confrontational, or colonial with each defined each in terms of power, exploitation of environment, and ingroup/outgroup ascriptions. Rural Mexicans experienced colonial ethnicity (as the subordinate group) more consistently and for a longer period …
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The Effective Use of Confrontation in Family Therapy: A Process Study
… contemporary practitioners have rejected the confrontational style and perceived aggressiveness of earlier family therapists in favor of a more "collaborative" stance, confrontation, as a technique, is still widely used in almost all forms of psychotherapy, including family therapy. The …
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Communities for liberation.
… lower class, hispanic people in Alinsky style confrontational tactics and utilizes the literature of Latin American liberation theologians as a basis for its ideology. This work uses a videotape documentary as a critical analysis of the political motivations of COPS and an outline of the …
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Opening German Minds: Drug Users, Social Tolerance, and the Making of West Germany, 1967--1983
… West German society, tracking the shift from confrontational to therapeutic modes of engagement. In the early seventies, West German drug users, alongside student activists and terrorists, appeared as profound threats to social order in postwar Germany. Less than two decades later, however, …
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Public sector unions and the privatization of municipal services
… is a public sanitation union present which has confrontational relations with city management. Further, results indicate that the higher the probability of a municipality considering contracting out, the less effective the sanitation union is at increasing sanitation workers' wages.
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An examination of perceptions of ethnoviolence among urban middle and high school students
… that majority of students would utilize confrontational means in responding to ethnoviolent incidents.
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Theatre and Public Spaces in Singapore In-betweenness as Power in a Soft Authoritarian State
… or circumvent governmental boundaries in a non-confrontational way. Alongside these concrete strategies, theatre practitioners have found means to open up the theatre as a public space for society by transcending state multiculturalism without violating governmental boundaries. In this sense, …
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The conflict resolution resources of female dating violence victims: a comparison of women who use mutual violence and women who remain nonviolent
… mutually violent victims used more direct and confrontational resources when resolving conflict with their partners than did women in nonviolent dating relationships. However, there were no differences between the mutually violent victims and the unilateral victims, nor between unilateral …
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