The international women’s movement has always focused on discrimination against women, but only in the past few decades have activists paid special attention to domestic violence. In post-communist Europe, it took even longer but the Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, and Slovene governments eventually reacted to domestic and global pressure and established new definitions and norms dealing with...

Acknowledgements – we wish to thank the following institutions for assistance: National Science Foundation, the National University of Rwanda in Butare – in particular, the Centre for Conflict Management, the University of Maryland, in particular, the Center for International Development and Conflict Management, Dartmouth College, and the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda. We would also...

The workshop started with Doris Buss introducing the issues surrounding “the measurement of violence against women,” and its significance for public services, feminist organizations and scholars. The importance and the limits of measuring violence against women are varied; in some contexts, requirements to measure can impose burdens on overworked activists and service providers, and the product...

Concepts of terrorism, political turmoil, and war appear unrelated to tourism. Closer examination of their points of convergence and impacts on tourism reveals otherwise. This paper examines literature focusing on the relationships between these phenomena. Research themes which emerge from available studies include impacts of terrorism and political instability on tourist demand, motives of ter...

BACKGROUND Over one billion children are exposed worldwide to political violence and armed conflict. Currently, conclusions about bases for adjustment problems are qualified by limited longitudinal research from a process-oriented, social-ecological perspective. In this study, we examined a theoretically-based model for the impact of multiple levels of the social ecology (family, community) on ...

We show that the proliferation of armed groups increases amount organized political violence. The natural death a tribal leader provides quasi-experimental variation in number across districts Pakistan. Employing event study designs and IV-regressions allows us to isolate effect on violence from locational fundamentals conflict, e.g., local financing recruiting opportunities or government capac...