In support of African Union endeavours to secure a lasting peace in Darfur, the Stanhope Centre for Communication Policy Research, in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication will undertake a ten-month consultancy to analyse attitudes and public opinion towards the conflict and the peace process in Darfur. The purpose of the research is to enable th...

The importance of hope in promoting conciliatory attitudes has been asserted in the field of conflict resolution. However, little is known about conditions inducing hope, especially in intractable conflicts, where reference to the outgroup may backfire. In the current research, five studies yielded convergent support for the hypothesis that hope for peace stems from a general perception of the ...

Industry has to comply with non-proliferation regulations by all means. Our corporate responsibility however, goes far beyond pure legal compliance: The essence of our endeavours is selftriggered caution and restraint towards questionable business while maintaining a trusting partnership with governmental authorities and international institutions. The only pragmatic solution to prevent WMD and...

This paper brings mechanism design to conflict resolution. We determine when and how unmediated communication and mediation reduce the ex ante probability of conflict in a game of conflict with asymmetric information. Mediation improves upon unmediated communication when the intensity of conflict is high, or when asymmetric information is significant. The mediator improves upon unmediated commu...

Little is known in the scholarly literature about the effect of war and peace on happiness; but they have a large number of direct and indirect effects on happiness, difficult or impossible to capture due mainly to issues of causality and attribution. The paper concentrates on three fundamental claims regarding the effect of war and peace on happiness: ‘War brings happiness’; ‘People adjust to ...

PEACE, our proposed tool, integrates complex event processing and web extraction into a unified framework to handle web event advertisements and to run a notification service atop. Its bitemporal schemata distinguish occurrence and detection time, enabling PEACE to deal with updates and delayed announcements, as often occurring on the web. To consolidate the arising event streams, PEACE combine...

The right to peace and global security are considered as critical rights and necessities for human life, the realization of which requires support of the global society. Initially, the establishment of the United Nations made people believe that they are achieving this significant matter, and a major part of problems caused by disagreements and growing wars are being solved. Unfortunately, this...

was to consider the Mental Health Bill in 1959. This author thought that Pe?A had a conflict about the penal system and mistrusted their experts whom imagined were more concerned for the criminal than for his victims. He there!'' became interested and tried to examine the penal system and its principles in Brjta' today by his own values, judgment and common-sense. He felt there was a in communi...