Recent studies show that the democratic peace correlation is not significant once the potentially confounding variable that can cause both democracy and peace, contract-intensive economy, is considered; this pattern holds in analyses of wars, fatal militarized interstate conflicts (Mousseau 2009), and interstate crises (Mousseau et al. 2013). These studies rescind the primary evidence for democ...

A friendship 3-hypergraph is a 3-hypergraph in which any 3 vertices, u, v and w, occur in pairs with a unique fourth vertex x; i.e., uvx, uwx, vwx are 3-hyperedges. S os found friendship 3-hypergraphs coming from Steiner Triple Systems. Hartke and Vandenbussche showed that any friendship 3-hypergraph can be decomposed into sets of K 4 's. We think of this as a set of 4-tuples and call it a frie...

This article addresses the topics of peace and security in the context of human development and explores their various meanings and manifestations at the national and international levels. First, it defines the concept of peace, suggesting that peace is not simply the absence of violence (negative peace) but includes the structural conditions that create positive peace in a society. Next, the a...

article looks at definitions of peace from a cultural studies perspective, suggesting that binary oppositions governing such fields as peace and war, individual and society, tradition and modernity offer few grounds for progress towards peace. The article suggests instead that the utopian principle of hope can be recruited for a culture of peace based on the surrender to difference, at a subjec...

Background: There is still a question of whether online friendship predicts changes in face-to-face friendship (Reduction Hypothesis) or face-to-face friendship predicts changes in online friendship (Compensation Hypothesis) during adolescence. Objective: The purpose of this study was to compare these two hypotheses to determine which comes first: online friendship or offline friendship. Method...

ON GRAPHS SATISFYING A STRONG ADJACENCY PROPERTY Y. Ananchuen and L. Caccetta School of Mathematics and Statistics Curtin University of Technology GPO Box U1987 Perth 6001 Western Australia. Dedicated to the memory of Alan Rahilly, 1947 1992 Let m and n be nonnegative integers and k be a positive integer. A graph G is said to have property P*(m,n,k) if for any set of m + n distinct vertices of ...