I was disappointed and saddened by the carelessness of the title ‘Going to war does not have to hurt’ in the June issue of the Journal (Hacker Hughes et al, 2005). One does not even have to mention the considerable number of British casualties in Iraq to realise that this headline is completely ill thought out and a particularly misplaced euphemism that fails to appreciate that war in modern ti...

Substantive progress has been achieved in advancing emergency response interventions during disasters including assistance of internally displaced persons (IDPs). Explicit operational technical guidelines and management strategies have been successfully applied through the "cluster approach". In 2008-09 armed conflict in several districts of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province and the Federall...

This study explores the dynamics of multiculturalism in Singkawang, most tolerant city Indonesia. It surprises every scholar studying conflicts as can adequately manage conflicts. was evidenced by cessation deadly conflict, Sambas 1999 city, and establishment ethnocultural groups inherited since Dutch colonialism that generated pseudo-multiculturalism, which all ethnic religious communities hav...

The conflict over water and agricultural resources within the Sahel of Africa has led to destruction lives, property nature for decades. extant practice is label these conflicts with multiple names conceptualise them as single-issue events. This article illustrates this further highlights some issues associated such approaches. Existing terms in Africa’s region are primarily linked people’s occ...

Africa’s ethnic conflicts and crises have embedded in them catastrophic consequences effects, especially with particular regard to the loss of lives properties disruptions governmental political arrangements. The discourse which are is further enveloped all kinds proposals such as outright dismemberment some existing administrative units, implementation reforms, fundamental restructuring entire...

The extent and nature of sexual violence throughout the war vary. Sexual is pervasive in some conflicts, such as ethnic but it relatively rare other conflicts. slavery one form inevitable while detention torture another. ICTY has carried out in-depth prosecutions investigations cases committed during times war, leading to filing several indictments for crimes perpetrated Bosnia - Herzegovina ea...

We introduce a new Bayesian nonparametric method for estimating the size of a closed population from multiple-recapture data. Our method, based on Dirichlet process mixtures, can accommodate complex patterns of heterogeneity of capture, and can transparently modulate its complexity without a separate model selection step. Additionally, it can handle the massively sparse contingency tables gener...

Stressful life events experienced by pregnant women may lead to adverse obstetric outcomes. This study in Benghazi compared the rates of preterm, low-birth-weight and caesarean-section births at Al-Jamhouria hospital in the months before and during the armed conflict in Libya in 2011. Data were collected on all women admitted to the delivery ward during February to May 2011 (the months of the m...