By CHARLES SULLIVAN WASHINGTON—Federal employees should stick to their jobs. Don't get excited about the approaching peace in Europe!. Your joB will last a long time—probably as long as you want to stay. Despite all the talk you hear, your chances of remaining with the Federal government Aren't at all bad I ' ^This message comes f rom gove rnment officials who know. Here's how they reason. Betw...

This article surveys the history of Cyprus’s conflict and partition to derive historical, tactical, and strategic lessons about how the Cyprus problem should be resolved and about the value of partitions more generally. Cyprus is complex. Tensions between North and South are very low, in part because the partition has been a cause of peace. However, both sides remain pervaded by antagonistic an...

vances ever closer to the post-war horizon. With Victory will come the day when the scientific instruments and processes of war will turn abruptly to peace. Machines and tools, as well as industrial and economic thinking, will be converted quickly from the demands of war to the needs of peace. Industry will be called upon to relieve the strains of war with utmiost speed by ministering anew to h...

The idea that democratic states have not fought and are not likely to fight interstate wars against each other runs counter to the realist and neorealist theoretical traditions that have dominated the field of international politics. Since the mid-1970s, the generation of new data and the development of superior analytical techniques have enabled evaluators of the idea to generate impressive em...

An inconsistency is pointed out between formidable and thus discouraging hurdles facing peace education in the context of intractable conflicts and actual, encouraging research findings of such programs. It is suggested that the hurdles pertain to the most deep-seated and thus unchangeable convictions constituting the backbone of a group’s collective narrative. On the other hand, the change-obj...

Since their inception in August 1947, India and Pakistan have been witnessing a perpetual state of hatred and animosity. Although both states have made several efforts for peace-building, and as a result, have signed several peace agreements, which have not only proved short-lived, but also failed to establish longlasting and durable peace in the region. The paper argues that since India and Pa...

A cross-national study, 49 samples in 38 nations (n = 4,344), investigates whether national peace and conflict reflect ambivalent warmth and competence stereotypes: High-conflict societies (Pakistan) may need clearcut, unambivalent group images distinguishing friends from foes. Highly peaceful countries (Denmark) also may need less ambivalence because most groups occupy the shared national iden...

Hovering over the peace negotiations in progress in former Yugoslavia is the international community's determination to bring to trial as war criminals those political and military leaders responsible for atrocities in Bosnia. The question clearly presented is that, however desirable the idea of war crimes accountability might appear in the abstract, pursuing the goal of a war crimes tribunal m...

An inconsistency is pointed out between formidable and thus discouraging hurdles facing peace education in the context of intractable conflicts and actual, encouraging research findings of such programs. It is suggested that the hurdles pertain to the most deep-seated, and thus unchangeable convictions constituting the backbone of a group's collective narrative. On the other hand, the change-ob...

2 One of the fundamental questions that preoccupies students of conflict resolution as well as practitioners of the international community is how to overcome the psychological barriers that are a major obstacle to peace making and building in societies involved in serious and violent conflicts. These conflicts are over real goods such as territories, natural resources, self-determination, and/...