The end of the Cold War has been accompanied by the emergence of nationalist, ethnic, and religious conflict in Eurasia. However, the risks and intensity of these conflicts have varied from region to region: Ukrain­ ians and Russians are still getting along relatively well; Serbs and Slovenians had a short, sharp clash; Serbs, Croats, and Bosnian Muslims have waged open warfare; and Armenians a...

Although violent deaths due to the Northern Ireland civil strife receive wide publicity, up to three times as many people are killed in road accidents, and death-rate statistics reveal that natural causes predominate. Against this backdrop the study explores development of the death concept in Belfast children (n = 200). A disguised test technique was supplemented by more probing questions. Sub...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the cost of political violence in terms of human life and its influence on social, psychological and financial aspects of community. DESIGN Retrospective study conducted from 1987 to 1989. SETTING Department of Accident and Emergency, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi. SAMPLE SIZE Nine hundred and fifty four victims including two hundred and fifty seven dea...

PURPOSE This study examines risk factors for aggression among boys in Kingston, Jamaica. METHODS One hundred and one aggressive and 101 prosocial schoolboys in grades 5-6 (mean age 11.7, SD 0.6 years) were selected by peer and teacher ratings from 10 schools in the capital city, Kingston, during 1998. They were given in-depth questionnaires, arithmetic, reading and verbal intelligence tests a...

This article examines victims' purported complicity in the judicial failures of domestic violence law to protect them in Cambodia. It is based on 3 years (2012-2014) of research in Siem Reap and Pursat Provinces on the everyday politics of the 2005 "Law on the Prevention of Domestic Violence and the Protection of the Victims" (DV Law). The project questioned why investments in DV Law are falter...

This article aims to discusses Johan Galtung's perspective in analyzing the conflict that occurred between Madura and Malay ethnic groups Sambas through concept of violence. The has been seen as a natural process community life with cultural, religious, ideological elements involved. 1999 regency happened sporadically formed into is constructed negativity an unwanted event. Theorists see can be...

the main objective of this research is to understanding how and why some student are non-religiousness. for this purpose the life-world of these students is examined and the theories of burger and habermas are used as the theorical framework. the methodological approach of this investigation is qualitative; therefore, to collect data, the interview techniques of semi structure, the episodic and...

events of september the 11 and then us invasion of iraq resulted in wide formal and substantial alterations in political and security equilibriums of the middle east. by eliminating sadam hussein, us was trying to engineer a new government and power structure in iraq, within which the nature of a new constitution is considerably important. the author believes that the method of the approval of ...

Abstract This chapter reflects on the issues raised in volume. It examines specifically history of violence and ethno-religious purification nationalism. The deals with examples from Europe, Iran, India, China, showing some general patterns differences.