Strategists have noted substantial changes in warfare since the end of Cold War. They proposed several concepts and theories to account for fact that practice war has largely departed from a Clausewitzian understanding centrality physical violence it. Emerging modes conflict are less focused on instrumental use force achieve political objectives more centered notions perception management, narr...

Human-wildlife conflict (HWC) is a continuous problem in the world and has significant impact on both human wildlife populations. This study was conducted to investigate HWC around Belo-Bira Forest, Dawro zone, southwestern Ethiopia. We collected data from October 2019 March 2020 through semistructured questionnaires, focus group discussion, direct observation, key informant interviews. Our res...

The fighting in some civil wars primarily takes place in a few stable locations, while the fighting in others moves substantially. We posit that rebel groups that do not primarily fight for a specific ethnic group, that receive outside military assistance, or that have relatively weak fighting capacity tend to fight in inconsistent locations. We develop new measures of conflict zone movement to...

The use of rare earth elements in various technologies continues to grow despite some alternatives being found for particular uses. Given a history of ecological concerns about pollution from rare earth mines, particularly in China, there are growing social and environmental concerns about the growth of the mining and mineral processing in this sector. This is best exemplified by the recent soc...