This issue brief provides a brief overview of the legal, political, and operational frameworks protecting children from the effects of armed conflict, notably from violations by nonstate armed groups. It explores some of the limitations of these frameworks and their mechanisms, and then discusses ways to maximize the comparative advantages of different actors when engaging nonstate armed groups...

BACKGROUND: Certain features of peace-building distinguish it from peacekeeping, and make it an appropriate strategy in dealing with vertical conflict and low intensity conflict. However, some theorists suggest that attempts, through peace-building, to impose liberal values upon non-democratic cultures are misguided and lack an ethical basis. DISCUSSION: We have been investigating the peace-bui...

We develop an extension to differential equation models of dynamical systems to allow us to analyze probabilistic threshold dynamics that fundamentally and globally change system behavior. We apply our novel modeling approach to two cases of interest: a model of infectious disease modified for malware where a detection event drastically changes dynamics by introducing a new class in competition...

The quest of every nation in the world upon attaining status a state is to attain sustainable national development aimed at improving socio-economic well-being its citizenry. National multi-faceted transformation sector vis-a-vis economy, politics, religion, science and technology, medicine among others. This will improve citizens’ standard living, reduce mortality rate life expectancy rate. go...

one of the oldest and controversial issues that first springs to philosophersand theologians mind was relationship between reason and religion, and oneof the consequences of this controversies were division of philosophers andtheologians to fideism or inclusive and moderate critical rationalist.according to martyr motahhari, reason in itself does not contradict religion;and when reason conflict...

BACKGROUND The pharmacist's role in dispensing emergency contraception (EC) has become controversial due to the intersection of personal and professional ethics. Therefore, to examine the issue of EC availability, we surveyed a sample of West Texas pharmacists. West Texas is a religiously and politically conservative region where no methods of EC have been made available. OBJECTIVE to survey ...

Conflict resolution is a process of analysis and problem solving that considers individual group needs such as identity recognition the institutional changes needed to meet world. The application local wisdom values ​​as cultural approach in resolving conflicts best most effective without resorting repressive measures. Researchers argue religious harmony an obligation for regions with heterogen...

The focus of this research is finding the construction religious harmony in former conflict areas Indonesia. aim to photograph process resolving conflicts Kampung Rano Mamasa West Sulawesi Province. This uses a qualitative method using phenomenological approach by collecting socio-religious data and interviews from researchers with objects. study empirically shows that finds importance understa...