33 When I was still young, my parents used to tell us how our family had been deported by the government from Ruhengeri to Nyamata in 1959, when massacres based on ethnic conflicts happened for the first time in Rwanda. My father also told us that the whole region of Bugesera had been a forest and that there were many animals there. Most of my relatives who had been forced into the forest by th...

CAN VACCINATIONS HELP TO RESOLVE CONFLICTS AND NURTURE DIPLOMACY? LATER THIS MONTH, Indonesia, the world’s most populous Islamic country, will host U.S. President Obama, a visit that could establish important scientifi c ties between the United States and Indonesia and implement a potentially powerful piece of vaccine diplomacy. The oral polio vaccine is a substantive example of how vaccination...

Statistical mechanics has proven to be able to capture the fundamental rules underlying phenomena of social aggregation and opinion dynamics, well studied in disciplines like sociology and psychology. This approach is based on the underlying paradigm that the interesting dynamics of multi-agent systems emerge from the correct definition of few parameters governing the evolution of each individu...

In this paper we present a model of war between two rational and completely informed players. We show that in the absence of binding agreements war can be avoided in many cases by one player transferring money to the other player. In most cases, the "rich" country transfers part of her money to the "poor" country. Only when the military pro…ciency of the "rich" country is su¢ ciently large, the...

Recently I completed teaching a 12-week course on Peace through Health for Canadian undergraduate students. During the course they had been moved by the lives of children in Gulu, Northern Uganda, had considered medicine and peace actions in Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Croatia, El Salvador, and more. Their final examination was intended to bring them right back home to the invisible conflict under ...

This is an excellent book which addresses an interesting, important, and understudied issue. Peacekeeping has been used in an increasing number of internal conflicts since the end of the Cold War, but we really know quite little about how effective a strategy of conflict management it is. General media descriptions of peacekeeping often focus on dramatic failures and listening to scholars and p...

Krampe, F. 2016. Building Sustainable Peace. Understanding the Linkages between Social, Political, and Ecological Processes in Post-War Countries. Report / Department of Peace and Conflict Research 110. 45 pp. Uppsala: Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University. ISBN 978-91-506-2584-4. Post-war countries are among the most difficult policy arenas for international and domesti...

This chapter explains the process how PeaCE generates the software/hardware codes for a specific prototyping board. PeaCE automatically generates target C and VHDL codes with interface codes including device drivers. In the current release, we target the ARM versatile prototyping system and Linux 2.4.x and 2.6.x for device driver generation. To use another prototyping board and OS, you need to ...

Continued from page 1 nationwide protest called by the Vietnam Moratorium Committe, the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, and the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. Sponsoring the protest in Albany will be Albany SANE (Citizens' Organization for a Sane World), the Capital Area Peace Center, War Resisters' League, Women's International League for Peace ...

Initiating a community eye health programme in an unfamiliar culture and language can be a daunting task. This report focuses on an underutilised resource for community eye health: American Peace Corps volunteers. The Peace Corps is a governmentsponsored service organisation. At present, there are 7,876 Peace Corps volunteers serving in 76 lowand middle-income countries around the world. Of tho...