ICC’s Involvement in Darfur Conflict: Possibility and Prospect

Patterns of mortality rates in Darfur conflict.

BACKGROUND Several mortality estimates for the Darfur conflict have been reported since 2004, but few accounted for conflict dynamics such as changing displacement and causes of deaths. We analyse changes over time for crude and cause-specific mortality rates, and assess the effect of displacement on mortality rates. METHODS Retrospective mortality surveys were gathered from an online databas...

Researching Attitudes Towards Peace and Conflict in Darfur

In support of African Union endeavours to secure a lasting peace in Darfur, the Stanhope Centre for Communication Policy Research, in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication will undertake a ten-month consultancy to analyse attitudes and public opinion towards the conflict and the peace process in Darfur. The purpose of the research is to enable th...

Conflict Analysis and Merging Operators Selection in Possibility Theory

In possibility theory, the degree of inconsistency is commonly used to measure the level of conflict in information from multiple sources after merging, especially conjunctive merging. However, as shown in [HL05,Liu06b], this measure alone is not enough when pairs of uncertain information have the same degree of inconsistency, since it is not possible to tell which pair contains information tha...

Antecedents of Work-Family Conflict: Review and Prospect

With the increase in the proportion of dual-earner families and work stress, there are increasing emphases placed on the study of work-family conflict (WFC). The paper reviews that antecedents of WFC from aspects of individual, work and family. Findings and implications include the effects of individual factors like demographic and personality variables, the influences of work variables like wo...

The Responsibility To Protect and the Conflict in Darfur: The Big Let-Down