Where ethnic violence divides groups by both religious and tribal affiliation, how does the ‘ethnic’ characterization of conflict affect perceptions crises? From a survey experiment in Jos, Nigeria, we find that priming respondents with versus frames leads to differently interpret causes violence, issues viewed as most salient cause religion important solution. The findings emphasize where more...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of and associations among displayed risk behavior information that suggests sexual behavior, substance use, and violence in a random sample of the self-reported 18-year-old adolescents' publicly accessible MySpace Web profiles. DESIGN Cross-sectional study using content analysis of Web profiles between July 15 and September 30, 2007. SETTING www.MySpace...

Public view of domestic violence has been undergoing a paradigm shift from previously considered private problem to a public issue. Thus, government interventions in this area are badly needed. This study aimed to (1) describe the expectations of women victims of domestic violence to public organizations; (2) Supports and barriers of prevention and management of domestic violence, and (3) deter...

This paper examines the role of Jam'iyyatul Islamiyah (JmI) organization in strengthening four religious moderation indicators that government has formulated through Ministry Religious Affairs, namely: national commitment, tolerance, anti-violence, and adaptive to local customs or culture. Through a System Theory Approach, our study indicates JmI offered several factors such as pillar commitmen...

Background and Objectives: Nowadays adolescents as the human capital of every society, in addition to the pressures of transition from adolescence period, are affected by environmental pressures, such as poverty, violence, and substance abuse. Given these factors, resilience plays an important role in this period. The present study aimed to investigate the role of happiness, attachment styles, ...

As the sexual abuse crisis continues to plague Catholic Church across world, focus on men as both perpetrators of violence, and victims child has been at forefront media academic analysis. However, evidence from public inquiries, criminal investigations, research survivor testaments identifies women religious physical violence against children clerical violence. This indicates that religious, c...

OBJECTIVE To describe the methods of coping adopted by women who have been subject to physical domestic violence. METHODS A cross-sectional study designed to investigate domestic violence was carried out on the baseline data of a cohort study of 1,120 pregnant women in Recife, Northeastern Brazil. A total of 283 women aged 18 to 49, who reported physical violence by their current or most rece...

The post-9/11 war against terrorism has increased international attention to illicit drug business as a source of terrorist financing. For politicians and the media, the contentious term narcoterrorism has become fashionable. While the term implies a full merger between terrorism and drug business, the interrelationship between them is more accurately described in terms of linkages. As terroris...

Ethno-religious conflict in multi-cultural societies has been one of the major causes of loss of life and property in recent history. In this paper, we present and analyze a multi-agent game theoretic model for computational study of ethno-religious conflicts in multi-cultural societies. Empirical factbased research in sociology and conflict resolution literature have identified (a) ethno-relig...