Th e rapid economic rise of China, India, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) could have several eff ects on regional peace and global security. Th e power transition perspective overstates the risk of confl ict that results from convergence between dominant and challenger states. Rapid changes in economic and military capabilities can, however, have negative consequences for...

There has been considerable academic debate about the Southern African Development Community’s (SADC) peace and security architecture. Nevertheless, this article aspires to augment current literature on improving peace and security in Southern Africa, as well as to provide new insights into the study of conflict management and peace-building. Primarily, this essay identifies the raison d'être b...

INTRODUCTION A considerable segment of the elderly population in Iran is illiterate, and it seems the existing neuropsychological screening tests are not very useful for detecting dementia in illiterate participants. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a tool called Persian test of Elderly for Assessment of Cognition and Executive function (PEACE) for detecting dementia in bot...

Capitalism has emerged as a force for peace in studies of interstate conflict. Is capitalism also a force for peace within nations? This article shows how a market-capitalist economy—one where most citizens normally obtain their livelihoods contracting in the market—creates citizen-wide preferences for universal freedom, peace, and the democratic rule of law. Prior research has corroborated the...

At the end of the day, ain't nobody else gonna walk in your shoes, quite the way that you do. So be at peace with yourself. " Bill Fay, lyrics from 'Be At Peace With Yourself'

Our tempestuous times are in desperate need of Peace. We live on a small planet; threatened by common enemies such as global warming, AIDS, super-bugs, environmentally-rooted diseases, crime, suicides, school-shootings, road-rage, hate, and above all else – indifference. We are all in the same "sinking boat". No longer can we afford to antagonize one another. We need all our global human resour...

the purpose of this research is to understand the position of conflict resolution in international system. it can be said that, conflict resolution has formed after the second world war in three stages: foundations, constructions, reconstructions. conflict resolution has effective role in recognition of the routs and causes of formation of military conflicts and establishing peace in national, ...

In this paper, we provide an explanation of the democratic peace hypothesis, i.e., the observation that democracies rarely fight one another. We show that in the presence of information asymmetries and strategic complements, the strategic interaction between two democracies differs from any other dyad. In our model, two democracies induce the highest probability of peaceful resolution of confli...