This article provides a qualitative analysis of the social interactions between Chinese and Tanzanian participants within joint Chinese-Tanzanian educational initiative in Confucius Institute programming at University Dar es Salaam. The addresses issue how people involved understand their those governments context increased presence sub-Saharan Africa. shows that friendships are motivated by bo...

The Friendship theorem states that if any two people in a party have exactly one common friend, then there exists a politician who is a friend of everybody. In this paper, we generalize the Friendship Theorem. Let λ be any nonnegative integer and μ be any positive integer. Suppose each pair of friends have exactly λ common friends and each pair of strangers have exactly μ common friends in a pa...

This research aimed to implement a Peace Education Project (PEP) in first-grade classroom of primary school located San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. The intervention promoted set prosocial competencies students, teachers and families; for this universal focused strategies were developed. A mixed approach was used, with evaluations before after. Information collected through particip...

this article, after explaining the concept of peace building in the framework of united nations peace operations, considers the challenges facing it. peace operations are a complex and inter-related set of activities which lack clear legal status in the united nations charter, but are accessible instruments for the maintenance of international peace and security. despite the fact that peace bui...

Acknowledgements First, I must thank Blair Orr for his time, dedication, perseverance and hard work which make Michigan Tech's Forestry Master International Program possible. His support as an advisor gave me the strength and confidence to achieve what I feared at times impossible, writing this thesis. I also would like to thank the members of my committee, understanding and support during my P...

This paper attempts to trace the development of the concept of peace in peace studies, by an examination of studies on the peace concept and definitions of peace by peace researchers, from two perspectives of peace value and peace sphere. It shows that the concept of peace employed in peace studies has been expanded both in peace value and peace sphere to include more than one peace value and p...

The friendship paradox refers to the sociological observation that, while the people’s assessment of their own popularity is typically self-aggrandizing, in reality they are less popular than their friends. The generalized friendship paradox is the average alter superiority observed empirically in social settings, scientific collaboration networks, as well as online social media. We posit a qua...