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Book Synopsis Indiana Quakers Confront the Civil War by : Jacquelyn S. Nelson
Download or read book Indiana Quakers Confront the Civil War written by Jacquelyn S. Nelson and published by Indiana Historical Society. This book was released on 2015-10-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When members of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, first arrived in antebellum Indiana, they could not have envisioned the struggle which would engulf the nation when the American Civil War began in 1861. Juxtaposed with its stand against slavery a second tenet of the Society's creed--adherence to peace--also challenged the unity of Friends when the dreaded conflict erupted. Indiana Quakers Confront the Civil War chronicles for the first time the military activities of Indiana Quakers during America's bloodiest war and explores the motivation behind the abandonment, at least temporarily, of their long-standing testimony against war.
Book Synopsis A Conflict of Principles by : Carl Cohen
Download or read book A Conflict of Principles written by Carl Cohen and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No state . . . shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." So says the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution, a document held dear by Carl Cohen, a professor of philosophy and longtime champion of civil liberties who has devoted most of his adult life to the University of Michigan. So when Cohen discovered, after encountering some resistance, how his school, in its admirable wish to increase minority enrollment, was actually practicing a form of racial discrimination—calling it "affirmative action"—he found himself at odds with his longtime allies and colleagues in an effort to defend the equal treatment of the races at his university. In A Conflict of Principles Cohen tells the story of what happened at Michigan, how racial preferences were devised and implemented there, and what was at stake in the heated and divisive controversy that ensued. He gives voice to the judicious and seldom heard liberal argument against affirmative action in college admission policies. In the early 1970s, as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Civil Liberties Union, Cohen vigorously supported programs devised to encourage the recruitment of minorities in colleges, and in private employment. But some of these efforts gave deliberate preference to blacks and Hispanics seeking university admission, and this Cohen recognized as a form of racism, however well-meaning. In his book he recounts the fortunes of contested affirmative action programs as they made their way through the legal system to the Supreme Court, beginning with DeFunis v. Odegaard (1974) at the University of Washington Law School, then Bakke v. Regents of the University of California (1978) at the Medical School on the UC Davis campus, and culminating at the University of Michigan in the landmark cases of Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger (2003). He recounts his role in the initiation of the Michigan cases, explaining the many arguments against racial preferences in college admissions. He presents a principled case for the resultant amendment to the Michigan constitution, of which he was a prominent advocate, which prohibited preference by race in public employment and public contracting, as well as in public education. An eminently readable personal, consistently fair-minded account of the principles and politics that come into play in the struggles over affirmative action, A Conflict of Principles is a deeply thoughtful and thought-provoking contribution to our national conversation about race.
Book Synopsis Collected Papers of Lewis Fry Richardson: Quantitative psychology and studies of conflict by : Lewis Fry Richardson
Download or read book Collected Papers of Lewis Fry Richardson: Quantitative psychology and studies of conflict written by Lewis Fry Richardson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Strategy of Conflict by : Thomas C. Schelling
Download or read book The Strategy of Conflict written by Thomas C. Schelling and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1981-05-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of closely interrelated essays on game theory, this book deals with an area in which progress has been least satisfactory—the situations where there is a common interest as well as conflict between adversaries: negotiations, war and threats of war, criminal deterrence, extortion, tacit bargaining. It proposes enlightening similarities between, for instance, maneuvering in limited war and in a traffic jam; deterring the Russians and one’s own children; the modern strategy of terror and the ancient institution of hostages.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Peace and Conflict by : Michelle R. Garfinkel
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Peace and Conflict written by Michelle R. Garfinkel and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-04-20 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook brings together contributions from leading scholars who take an economic perspective to study peace and conflict. Some chapters are largely empirical, exploring the correlates and quantifying the costs of conflict. Others are more theoretical, examining the mechanisms that lead to war or are more conducive to peace.
Book Synopsis Conflict-Controlled Processes by : A. Chikrii
Download or read book Conflict-Controlled Processes written by A. Chikrii and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997-04-30 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph covers one of the divisions of mathematical theory of control which examines moving objects functionating under conflict and uncertainty conditions. To identify this range of problems we use the term "conflict con trolled processes", coined in recent years. As the name itself does not imply the type of dynamics (difference, ordinary differential, difference-differential, integral, or partial differential equations) the differential games falI within its realms. The problems of search and tracking moving objects are also referred to the field of conflict controlled process. The contents of the monograph is confined to studying classical pursuit-evasion problems which are central to the theory of conflict controlled processes. These problems underlie the theory and are of considerable interest to researchers up to now. It should be noted that the methods of "Line of Sight", "Parallel Pursuit", "Proportional N avigation" ,"Modified Pursuit" and others have been long and well known among engineers engaged in design of rocket and space technology. An abstract theory of dynamic game problems, in its turn, is based on the methods originated by R. Isaacs, L. S. Pontryagin, and N. N. Krasovskii, and on the approaches developed around these methods. At the heart of the book is the Method of Resolving Functions which was realized within the class of quasistrategies for pursuers and then applied to the solution of the problems of "hand-to-hand", group, and succesive pursuit.
Book Synopsis Conflict Coverage Promotion: High Quality Or High Concept? A Multimodal Analysis of Claims-making in Conflict Coverage Promotional Spots of Al Jazeera English and CNN International by : Chris Veits
Download or read book Conflict Coverage Promotion: High Quality Or High Concept? A Multimodal Analysis of Claims-making in Conflict Coverage Promotional Spots of Al Jazeera English and CNN International written by Chris Veits and published by Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag). This book was released on 2014 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today even the war and conflict coverage of 24-hour news networks is subject to heavy promotion and part of the networks’ advertising and branding campaigns. These commercial aspects of news production, however, seem to oppose concepts of journalistic quality. This study analyses claims of journalistic quality and ‘high concept’ in conflict coverage promotion spots and how they are linked to better understand the ideological complexes of CNN International and Al Jazeera English. The findings show an equal number of quality and ‘high concept’ claims with differences in the nature of the claims between the two networks. Strong patterns are found in quality and ‘high concept’ claims of both 24-hour television news networks. The largest number appears in the visual mode. The research also shows that analysing this kind of media text needs to be multimodal and that a social semiotic approach is appropriate for analysing claims-making and linking in conflict coverage promotional spots.
Book Synopsis The Climate-Conflict-Displacement Nexus from a Human Security Perspective by : Mohamed Behnassi
Download or read book The Climate-Conflict-Displacement Nexus from a Human Security Perspective written by Mohamed Behnassi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change is reshaping the planet, its ecosystems, and the evolution of human societies. Related impacts and disasters are triggering significant shifts in the inextricably interconnected human and ecological systems with unprecedented potential implications. These shifts not only threaten survival at species and community levels, but are also emerging drivers of conflicts, human insecurity, and displacement both within and across national borders. Taking these shifting dynamics into account, particularly in the Anthropocene era, this book provides an analysis of the climate-conflict-migration nexus from human security and resilience perspectives. The core approach of the volume consists of unpacking the key dynamics of the nexus between climate change, conflict, and displacement and exploring the various local and global response mechanisms to address the nexus, assess their effectiveness, and identify their implications for the nexus itself. It includes both conceptual research and empirical studies reporting lessons learned from many geographical, environmental, social, and policy settings.
Book Synopsis Principles of Conflict Economics by : Charles H. Anderton
Download or read book Principles of Conflict Economics written by Charles H. Anderton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of the key themes and principles of conflict economics.
Book Synopsis Computational Conflict Research by : Emanuel Deutschmann
Download or read book Computational Conflict Research written by Emanuel Deutschmann and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book brings together a set of original studies that use cutting-edge computational methods to investigate conflict at various geographic scales and degrees of intensity and violence. Methodologically, this book covers a variety of computational approaches from text mining and machine learning to agent-based modelling and social network analysis. Empirical cases range from migration policy framing in North America and street protests in Iran to violence against civilians in Congo and food riots world-wide. Supplementary materials in the book include a comprehensive list of the datasets on conflict and dissent, as well as resources to online repositories where the annotated code and data of individual chapters can be found and where (agent-based) models can be re-produced and altered. These materials are a valuable resource for those wishing to retrace and learn from the analyses described in this volume and adapt and apply them to their own research interests. By bringing together novel research through an international team of scholars from a range of disciplines, Computational Conflict Research pioneers and maps this emerging field. The book will appeal to students, scholars, and anyone interested in the prospects of using computational social sciences to advance our understanding of conflict dynamics.
Book Synopsis Oil Wealth and Federal Conflict in American Petrofederations by : Beni Trojbicz
Download or read book Oil Wealth and Federal Conflict in American Petrofederations written by Beni Trojbicz and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2021-11-24 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oil wealth and Federal Conflict in American Petrofederations documents the critical relationship between oil rents and federal conflicts by illustrating key concepts with six representative cross-regional case studies. Each case study discusses encompasses qualitative, quantitative and comparative elements under a common structure. With each petrofederation ranging in conflict types and modalities, the work as a whole identifies key differences including oil rent decentralization (in terms of resource property, sector management and distribution of revenues), sectoral importance (considered at national and subnational levels), and federation redistribution policy (in terms of fiscal federal imbalance, fiscal equalization, and oil rent use for regional equity). Collectively, the book generalizes a consistent theory of causality between oil rents and federal conflicts that take into account systemic variables. The book's conclusions will serve as a guide for researchers and policymakers seeking pathways to translate oil rents into development and stability. - Reviews the intimate relationship between the oil sector and its governance in the political system - Provides comparative analysis of the regulation, political institutions, rent decentralization, sectoral importance, and rent redistributive policies in the oil sector - Generalizes approaches to the causality between oil rents and federal conflicts, including implications for policymakers
Book Synopsis Reconstructing our Understanding of State Legitimacy in Post-conflict States by : Ruby Dagher
Download or read book Reconstructing our Understanding of State Legitimacy in Post-conflict States written by Ruby Dagher and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-20 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reassesses performance legitimacy in the context of statebuilding and identifies the paradox between state institution building and state legitimacy by looking at the interplay between state legitimacy and leaders’ legitimacy The author reviews the significant weaknesses associated with the current measures of state legitimacy and uses this to demonstrate the incompatibility of these measurements with the reality faced by conflict and post-conflict countries. The author uses the Performance Legitimacy Theory of Transition framework to demonstrate the potential legitimacy paths that post-conflict countries can embark on and proposes a new approach for building state legitimacy in post-conflict countries. The author also introduces new indicators to measure performance legitimacy that also reflect its non-exclusive nature. Essential reading for students and researchers of Peace and Conflict Studies and especially of post-conflict development, peacebuilding, statebuilding, intervention, and democracy promotion. Also accessible to policy makers.
Book Synopsis Conflict and Fragility Resource Flows to Fragile and Conflict-Affected States by : OECD
Download or read book Conflict and Fragility Resource Flows to Fragile and Conflict-Affected States written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report serves as a tool to better monitor the levels, timing and composition of resource flows to fragile states, and presents salient facts on aid flows to fragile states, the impact on fragile states of the three crises and the need for a whole-of-government response.
Book Synopsis The Future of Global Conflict by : Volker Bornschier
Download or read book The Future of Global Conflict written by Volker Bornschier and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-05-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical analysis of long-term trends and recent developments in world systems examines such questions as: Will the cycles of boom and bust, peace and war of the past 500 years continue? Or have either long-term trends or recent changes so profoundly altered the structure of world systems that these cycles will end or take on a less destructive form? The noted international contributors to this volume examine the question of future dominance of the core global systems and include comprehensive discussions of the economic, political and military role of the Pacific Rim, Japan and the former Soviet Union.
Book Synopsis Arms Control and Local Conflict: Anticipating conflict-control policies : the "CONEX" games as a planning tool by :
Download or read book Arms Control and Local Conflict: Anticipating conflict-control policies : the "CONEX" games as a planning tool written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Industrial Conflict in Britain by : S.W. Creigh
Download or read book Industrial Conflict in Britain written by S.W. Creigh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-09 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1977. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis Potentials and Obstacles in the Arena of Conflict and Natural Resource Management by : Maria Brockhaus
Download or read book Potentials and Obstacles in the Arena of Conflict and Natural Resource Management written by Maria Brockhaus and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2005 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
