What Does Sustained Desistance from Violent Extremism Entail: A Proposed Theory of Change and Policy Implications

Qualitative research synthesis for health policy analysis: what does it entail and what does it offer?

This set of articles has its roots in the 2008 special edition of Health Policy and Planning, titled ‘Future directions for health policy analysis: a tribute to the work of Professor Gill Walt’, which among other things called for ‘better use of the existing but often descriptive body of policy analysis through synthesis of existing case study material’ (Gilson et al. 2008, p. 292). Picking up ...

What Does a Conditional Knowledge Base Entail?

This paper presents a logical approach to nonmonotonic reasoning based on the notion of a nonmonotonic consequence relation A condi tional knowledge base consisting of a set of conditional assertions of the type if then represents the explicit defeasible knowledge an agent has about the way the world generally behaves We look for a plausible de nition of the set of all conditional assertions en...

Women against Violent Extremism

Women have continued to experience the worst consequences of all types of conflicts. It is in no doubt going by results from numerous past research efforts. For Example the case of the Kenya woman is no different and stark reality of the circumstances has brought into sharp focus in the PEV 2007/2008 triggered where 1300 people lost their lives, thousands injured, more than 500,000 displaced an...

Egypt’s Policy on Islamism and Islamic Extremism The punctuated equilibrium theory perspective on Egyptian policy change

skopos theory and translating strategies of csis in translaed literary texts from english into persian

abstract translation has become a cultural act which plays a significant role in human life. with the emergence of functional translation theories, and skopos theory in particular, translation has been considered as a purposeful, interpersonal and intercultural activity which is produced for particular recipients and directed by a specific purpose. this purpose determines the translatio...