Traditional “realistic” theories of social action, whether based on the individual gain heuristics of capitalism or the collective class struggles of communism, cannot explain the massive volunteerism of online socio-technical collaborations like the Wikipedia project. Based on the idea that a social system is an environment within an environment, this paper argues that people in society are su...

814 When the Bush Administration was preparing to invade Iraq in March 2003, many archaeologists had a personal stake in trying to avert the conflict. They feared for the safety of their Iraqi colleagues and worried about the impact of modern warfare on the innumerable ancient sites that dot Mesopotamia’s landscape. The subsequent looting 1 year ago of cultural institutions such as the Iraq Mus...

In the study of farsighted coalitional behavior, a central role is played by the von Neumann-Morgenstern (1944) stable set and its modification that incorporates farsightedness. Such a modification was first proposed by Harsanyi (1974) and has recently been re-formulated by Ray and Vohra (2015). The farsighted stable set is based on a notion of indirect dominance in which an outcome can be domi...

This article argues that present day expansion of capital in Chile is based on the horrendous human rights violations took place particularly after 9/11/73 coup d’état. The demonstrates owners (national or international) have not and will hesitate to use extreme violence impose a model development designed meet needs: maximum profits. In same manner indifferent consequences physical psychologic...

of the advancing civil rights movement in the United States that, in November of 2008, citizens of this country elected a black man to the offi ce of President. Barack Obama is not personally descended from African slaves; still his ascension to the highest elective US offi ce, despite the lingering liability of his skin color, represents a true benchmark in a sordid history of abuse that is in...

Abstract More than 20 years on from the signing of Rome Statute, delivering victim-centred justice through reparations has been fraught with legal and practical challenges. The Court’s jurisprudence only began to emerge 2012 struggles find purchase implementation ground. In its first few cases Lubanga, Katanga, Al Mahdi eligibility forms have limited certain victims, subject litigation, faced d...