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Author : Robert D. Lamb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (138 download)
Download or read book DUAL-SYSTEM PROBLEM IN COMPLEX CONFLICTS. written by Robert D. Lamb and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Melissa Gregg
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781727835229
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (352 download)
Download or read book The Dual-System Problem in Complex Conflicts written by Melissa Gregg and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite decades of research and experience in for-eign conflicts and fragile environments, institutions in the United States and beyond are often unable to position themselves for success when called upon to intervene. This monograph contributes to the growing recognition that today's conflicts are best understood as complex systems, characterized by greater levels of fragility, uncertainty, and intractability than conflicts of previous decades. However, it does something even more important along the way. It encourages us to acknowledge that policy processes and institutions designed to address foreign conflicts are themselves complex systems. As a consequence, it is not just volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environments that are unpredictable; how our own policy decisions end up being implemented are also unpredictable. Decisions about policy and strategy are far from simple. They are inputs into a complex web of institutions, processes, incentives, and bureaucratic cultures that shape and reshape those decisions in ways that often end up quite different from their original intent. The Army is only one component of this complex system. The rest of the U.S. Government is likewise embedded in this complex system that includes other services, departments, agencies, and contractors. These, in turn, are part of a global system of alliances whose inner workings are complex as well. The authors describe this phenomenon as the "dual-system problem." A decision about how to inter-vene is fed into a complex policy system that turns the decision into a set of actions on the ground, which in turn are fed into a complex conflict system that turns those decisions into a set of outcomes. If the effects of a policy often seem disconnected from the motivations of the decision, it is because the recommended actions had to make their way through two complex systems-not exactly a recipe for success.No wonder lessons are not always institutionalized. Research on best practices and doctrine generally focus on the actions that took place on the ground, and many of the lessons discovered and recommended to decisionmakers end up getting rediscovered and recommended over and over, in some cases over decades. The authors encourage broadening the research and policy agenda to focus specifically on why our own institutions have so often failed to institutionalize lessons; in other words, to study our own systems as complex systems to find the sources of resistance. This is a bold, innovative, and important piece that needs to be taken seriously at all levels.
Author : Alex Kong
Publisher : DEStech Publications, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1605951749
Total Pages : 1908 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (59 download)
Download or read book International Conference on Management and Engineering(CME 2014) written by Alex Kong and published by DEStech Publications, Inc. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 1908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim objective of CME 2014 is to provide a platform for researchers, engineers, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development activities in Information Management, Innovation Management, Project Management and Engineering. This conference provides opportunities for the delegates to exchange new ideas and application experiences face to face, to establish business or research relations and to find global partners for future collaboration. Submitted conference papers will be reviewed by technical committees of the Conference.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264302077
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (643 download)
Download or read book States of Fragility 2018 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three years into the 2030 Agenda it is already apparent that those living in fragile contexts are the furthest behind. Not all forms of fragility make it to the public’s eye: fragility is an intricate beast, sometimes exposed, often lurking underneath, but always holding progress back. Conflict ...
Author : Renwei Zhao
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000754030
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)
Download or read book China Economic Transition Research written by Renwei Zhao and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China has experienced radical economic and societal change since the initiation of the reform process in 1978. These changes have greatly affected various aspects of people’s livelihoods and inspired scholars to reconsider the relationship between planning and the market in China. This book is a collection of fourteen papers by Zhao Renwei, the former director of the Institute of Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. First, the author discusses his views on the relationship between planning and the market in Chinese society before subsequently going on to examine the changes in economic systems of the intervening decades, using examples and economic models, and then drawing conclusions for policy. The book will appeal to students and scholars interested in China’s social and economic reform.
Author : Juraj Nemec
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030749665
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Public Administration in Conflict Affected Countries written by Juraj Nemec and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-08 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the main factors determining the quality of public administration in conflict affected countries; and assesses to what extent the conflict determines and impacts on the performance of public administration in affected countries. The main value added by this book is confirming the general expectation that there is no direct and universal link between the conflict and public administration performance (and vice-versa). One may need to argue that each country situation differs and specific factors of internal and external environments determine the trends of public administration performance in conflict affected countries. To achieve the overarching goal of the book, sixteen country studies were developed from all relevant continents - America, Africa, Asia and Europe: Bangladesh, Colombia, Croatia, Egypt, Georgia, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Palestine, Paraguay, Philippines, Serbia, South Africa, Uganda, Ukraine, and Venezuela.
Author : Thomas Matyók
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739149628
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Critical Issues in Peace and Conflict Studies written by Thomas Matyók and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-05-19 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Issues in Peace and Conflict Studies: Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy, edited by Thomas Maty-k, Jessica Senehi, and Sean Byrne, discusses critical issues in the emerging field of Peace and Conflict Studies, and suggests a framework for the future development of the field and the education of its practitioners and academics. Contributors to the book are recognized scholars and practitioners in their respective fields. The authors take an holistic approach to the study, analysis, and resolution of conflict at the micro, meso, macro, and mega levels.
Author : Heather S. Gregg
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1597976024
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (979 download)
Download or read book The Three Circles of War written by Heather S. Gregg and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conflict in Iraq is characterized by three faces of war: interstate conflict, civil war, and insurgency. The Coalition's invasion of Iraq in March 2003 began as an interstate war. No sooner had Saddam Hussein been successfully deposed, however, than U.S.-led forces faced a lethal insurgency. After Sunni al Qaeda in Iraq bombed the Shia al-Askari Shrine in 2006, the burgeoning conflict took on the additional element of civil war with sectarian violence between the Sunni and the Shia. The most effective strategies in a war as complicated as the three-level conflict in Iraq are intertwined and complementary, according to the editors of this volume. For example, the "surge" in U.S. troops in 2007 went beyond an increase in manpower; the mission had changed, giving priority to public security. This new direction also simultaneously addressed the insurgency as well as the civil war by forging new, trusting relationships between Americans and Iraqis and between Sunni and Shia. This book has broad implications for future decisions about war and peace in the twenty-first century.
Author : Yacov Y. Haimes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119173701
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (191 download)
Download or read book Modeling and Managing Interdependent Complex Systems of Systems written by Yacov Y. Haimes and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to the theory, methodology, and development for modeling systems of systems Modeling and Managing Interdependent Complex Systems of Systems examines the complexity of, and the risk to, emergent interconnected and interdependent complex systems of systems in the natural and the constructed environment, and in its critical infrastructures. For systems modelers, this book focuses on what constitutes complexity and how to understand, model and manage it.Previous modeling methods for complex systems of systems were aimed at developing theory and methodologies for uncoupling the interdependencies and interconnections that characterize them. In this book, the author extends the above by utilizing public- and private- sector case studies; identifies, explores, and exploits the core of interdependencies; and seeks to understand their essence via the states of the system, and their dominant contributions to the complexity of systems of systems. The book proposes a reevaluation of fundamental and practical systems engineering and risk analysis concepts on complex systems of systems developed over the past 40 years. This important resource: Updates and streamlines systems engineering theory, methodology, and practice as applied to complex systems of systems Introduces modeling methodology inspired by philosophical and conceptual thinking from the arts and sciences Models the complexity of emergent interdependent and interconnected complex systems of systems by analyzing their shared states, decisions, resources, and decisionmakers Written for systems engineers, industrial engineers, managers, planners, academics and other professionals in engineering systems and the environment,this text is the resource for understanding the fundamental principles of modeling and managing complex systems of systems, and the risk thereto.
Author : Jeffrey Z. Rubin
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Social Conflict written by Jeffrey Z. Rubin and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1994 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A standard text on social conflict, which covers key research in the field. This edition has been updated and rewritten, with new co-author Sung Hee Kim, and now emphasizes cross-cultural conflict and includes recent research in conflict escalation, stalemate, negotiation and settlement.
Author : Tamra Pearson Pearson d’Estrée
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003838022
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Shifting Protracted Conflict Systems Through Local Interactions written by Tamra Pearson Pearson d’Estrée and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the evolution of theoretical and practical approaches to intervening in protracted conflicts, following the work of Herb Kelman. Interactive problem solving, as developed by Kelman and others, sought to increase understanding about the microprocesses of international relations. Kelman early on emphasised the centrality of an interactive approach for constructing new identities, new narratives, and new ways forward. Transforming conflict systems requires strategic attention to the interactions between agents of change that provide stability or induce shift. This volume on interactive conflict approaches includes both critical reflections and new ideas from scholar-practitioners who have developed, revised, and expanded these approaches. Contributors take up important issues, from the shape and likelihood of solutions in intractable conflicts to how individuals can exist in realities with seemingly irresolvable inner and outer conflicts. The volume represents the best of current thinking about how the mechanisms, theoretical framework, and application of interactive problem solving should be moved into the twenty-first century context of increasing complexity, increasing uncertainty, and increasing polarisation. This book will be of interest to students of peace studies, conflict resolution, and international relations.
Author : Jennifer Brown
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136626751
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Handbook on Sexual Violence written by Jennifer Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book situates the complexity of violence within its broader context and covers a wide span of sexual violence including sexual harassment, bullying and murder as well as domestic violence.
Author : Christine Fielder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 141165532X
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Sexual Paradox: Complementarity, Reproductive Conflict and Human Emergence written by Christine Fielder and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlocks the keys to the paradox of how sexual selection fertilized the explosion of culture, and the resulting fallout, in sexual dominion of man over woman and nature. How sexuality generates the universe, through symmetry-broken complementarity. The implicit conflict of interests of sexual intrigue, in the prisoners' dilemma, and its ecstatic resolution in the cosmology of love. Sexual dominance as a koan for planetary crises. 560 pages containing 270 illustrations.
Author : Helmut P. Aust
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800373163
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Research Handbook on International Law and Domestic Legal Systems written by Helmut P. Aust and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-10-03 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Research Handbook examines the complex relationship between international law and domestic legal systems. An interdisciplinary range of experts analyse the topic from historical, conceptual, critical and doctrinal perspectives, setting the tone for future reflections on the development of the international legal order.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264194789
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (641 download)
Download or read book The DAC Guidelines Helping Prevent Violent Conflict Part I: Helping Prevent Violent Conflict: Orientations for External Partners - Part II: Conflict, Peace and Development Co-operation on the Threshold of the 21st Century written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2001-11-16 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These Guidelines provide ways for donor governments to honour their commitment to conflict prevention as an integral part of the quest to reduce poverty.
Author : Karl S. Zimmerer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226983447
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Globalization and New Geographies of Conservation written by Karl S. Zimmerer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-09-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the geographical dimensions of environmental management and conservation activities implemented on landscapes worldwide, Globalization and New Geographies of Conservation creates a new framework and collects original case studies to explore recent developments in the interaction of humans and their environment. Globalization and New Geographies of Conservation makes four important arguments about the recent coupling of conservation and globalization that is reshaping the place of nature in human-environmental change. First, it has led to an unprecedented number of spatial arrangements whose environmental management goals and prescribed activities vary along a spectrum from strict biodiversity protection to sustainable utilization involving agriculture, food production, and extractive activities. Conservation and globalization are also leading, by necessity, to new scales of management in these activities that rely on environmental science, thus shifting the spatial patterning of humans and the environment. This interaction results, as well, in the unprecedented importance of boundaries and borders; transnational border issues pose both opportunities and threats to global conservation proposed by organizations and institutions that are themselves international. Lastly, Globalization and New Geographies of Conservation argues that the local level has been integral to globalization, while the regional level is often eclipsed at the peril of the successful implementation of conservation and management programs. Bridging the gap between geography and life science, Globalization and New Geographies of Conservation will appeal to a broad range of students of the environment, conservation planning; biodiversity management, and development and globalization studies.
Author : Martin Kleppmann
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1491903104
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (919 download)
Download or read book Designing Data-Intensive Applications written by Martin Kleppmann and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need to be figured out, such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability. In addition, we have an overwhelming variety of tools, including relational databases, NoSQL datastores, stream or batch processors, and message brokers. What are the right choices for your application? How do you make sense of all these buzzwords? In this practical and comprehensive guide, author Martin Kleppmann helps you navigate this diverse landscape by examining the pros and cons of various technologies for processing and storing data. Software keeps changing, but the fundamental principles remain the same. With this book, software engineers and architects will learn how to apply those ideas in practice, and how to make full use of data in modern applications. Peer under the hood of the systems you already use, and learn how to use and operate them more effectively Make informed decisions by identifying the strengths and weaknesses of different tools Navigate the trade-offs around consistency, scalability, fault tolerance, and complexity Understand the distributed systems research upon which modern databases are built Peek behind the scenes of major online services, and learn from their architectures
