Locked in a state of perpetual transition since the end of a decade-long civil con ict in 2006 that claimed over 13,000 lives and internally displaced around 200,000 people,1 Nepal is still plagued by political, economic, and physical insecurities. One in four Nepalis lives below the poverty line (CBS, 2011a, p. 18) and, together with poverty, unemployment is frequently seen as the greatest pro...

We revisit a framework of con‡ict in a canonic open economy model to examine appropriate policy responses. We derive further implications of the framework, we link them to other results in the literature, and we explore the scope and limits of the analogy between policy analysis in a con‡ict economy and the policy analysis under distortions o¤ered by the traditional trade literature. We rank al...

The existence of discrimination against America's gay and lesbian citizens is widely supported in the research literature of many disciplines. This article provides a specific analysis of this discrimination and demonstrates the stark contrast between the discrimination of gays and lesbians in American society and the social justice concepts of equality and fairness. The works of Rawls, and lat...

Non-conviction-based (NCB) asset forfeiture is a relatively recent addition to law enforcement's armoury in the fight against organised crime in the UK. It allows for criminal assets to be forfeited to the State even in the absence of criminal conviction, the stated objective being to undermine the profit incentive of criminal activity. Until now, NCB asset forfeiture has principally been criti...

According to the Enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu, "as freedom advances, the severity of the penal law decreases."' Montesquieu's notion is in the United States Constitution's Eighth Amendment, a provision that reflects a Montesquieuan faith that punishments acceptable today will become cruel and unusual tomorrow. Yet the United States in the year 2000 presents a serious challenge to Monte...

Netwar is an emerging mode of conflict in which the protagonists ranging from terrorist and criminal organizations on the dark side, to militant social activists on the bright side use network forms of organization, doctrine, strategy, and technology attuned to the information age. The practice of netwar is well ahead of theory, as both civil and uncivil society actors are increasingly engaging...

Dentistry has much to offer law enforcement in the detection and solution of crime or in civil proceedings. Forensic dental fieldwork requires an interdisciplinary knowledge of dental science. Most often the role of the forensic odontologist is to establish a person's identity. Teeth, with their physiologic variations, pathoses and effects of therapy, record information that remains throughout ...

This paper addresses two related topics: 1) the circular link between food insecurity and conflict, and 2) the potential role of food security interventions in reducing the risk of violent conflicts. As the 2011 World Development Report notes, conflict comes in many forms. While the traditional security paradigm has focused attention on interstate and major civil wars, other forms of political ...

“CSI” – CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION! The very words conjure up a picture of murder, mystery, police officers, and poison analysis. Few would normally associate such activities—and all else that is part of modern forensic science—with contemporary veterinary practice. Nothing, however, could be further from the truth. Forensic veterinary medicine is here to stay! So what is exactly is “forensic ve...

In this paper I will discuss computer evidence. The law enforcement agencies are at the cross road of the new technology. These days, some crimes are committed by using computer and often the offender is located miles away from the victim. That kind of crime (fraud, threat, DoS and other) is very hard to resolve. Investigators have to perform searches on computer. To make sure that the searches...