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Success and Shortcomings: Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration in Eastern and Central Africa
Get PDFIn post-conflict transitions, disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration have played a crucial role in the treatment of former combatants and the advancement of peacebuilding. This peacebuilding process, known as DDR, has experienced successes and failures throughout its implementation across the globe. Specifically, as conflict erupted across many nations in Central and Eastern Africa, the disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration programs that were implemented during different nations’ peacebuilding transition towards at the turn of the twenty first century experienced variations among their success at reducing or halting conflict. This investigation analyzes the factors that contribute to the ability for disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration programs to successfully reduce conflict by examining the implementation of these systems in Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo from 1997 to 2012. The factors analyzed in this study include the time it takes to implement disarmament, the amount of parties that commit to the peace agreement, the robustness of reintegration and vocational training curriculum, and the amount of funding that each program receives. Throughout this comparative analysis, these factors demonstrate to influence the success of disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration programs, however, some of these variables are more influential to the success than others
A Numerical Approach to Modeling Submoons and Investigating Stability Regions
Get PDFThe recent discovery of the Neptune-sized exomoon candidate Kepler-1625bi (Teachey et al. 2018) has prompted a wave of research into the possibility of such a large satellite hosting its own moons, or submoons. These submoons have a lot in common with moons, and lessons from moon stability calculations can help to understand submoon behavior and stability. Past submoon research has focused on determining stability regions for these submoons using simplified models of the body’s tidal evolution (Reid 1973, Conrad 1985, Kollmeier and Raymond 2019). In order to provide a more detailed understanding of submoon behavior, a Fortran N-Body code was used to calculate all gravitational interactions in the system and track the resulting motion of each body. This code has in the past been used to model planet formation, moon formation, and planet migration and was modified to include submoon behavior. It was found to provide a detailed picture of submoon behavior, and it lays the groundwork for future submoon research. Preliminary results show that stability depends highly on the initial location of the submoon as well as showing a general lack of submoon stability around the Earth’s moon or Kepler-1625bi. Future research searching the parameter space for stable submoon orbits and investigating other factors including the effects of other bodies and formation methods is highly encouraged
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No full textThe Cornell Fine Arts Museum in collaboration with the Department of Art and Art History at Rollins College is pleased to present Frame of Reference, an exhibition debuting the work of five senior Studio Art majors from the class of 2020.
In this piece, artist Danie Forero explores her Columbian-Mexican heritage and connects the two through landscape and pattern.
Information about the art works featured in this one-time exhibition can be found at: https://www.frameofreference2020seniorstudentexhibition.com/.https://scholarship.rollins.edu/studioart_all/1007/thumbnail.jp
Resurgence of Caregiver and Therapist Responses: The Recurrence of Unwanted Responses Under a Negative Reinforcement Context
Get PDFThe purpose of this study was to assess the resurgence of caregiver and therapist behavior using three-phase and four-phase resurgence procedures. Two experiments were conducted to determine if caregiver and therapist behavior resurges, and if so, which procedure resulted in less resurgence. In Experiment 1, three undergraduates participated, sessions took place in a research suite, and participants were supposed to complete the three and four-phase procedures. However, only one of the three participants contacted the contingency, and a resurgence of caregiving occurred following the three-phase procedure. In Experiment 2, three registered behavior technicians (RBTs) participated, sessions took place in classrooms, and participants completed both three and four-phase procedures. Resurgence was observed for all participants in this study
