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The Impact of Reconstruction Policies on Iraq\u27s Regional Relations Post-ISIS
Get PDFPurpose: The aim of the study was to analyze the impact of reconstruction policies on Iraq\u27s regional relations post-ISIS.
Methodology: This study adopted a desk methodology. A desk study research design is commonly known as secondary data collection. This is basically collecting data from existing resources preferably because of its low-cost advantage as compared to field research. Our current study looked into already published studies and reports as the data was easily accessed through online journals and libraries.
Findings: Iraq’s reconstruction policies post-ISIS have shaped regional relations through reliance on international aid, resource disputes, economic dependencies, and sectarian divisions. Inefficient aid utilization and governance challenges have strained donor trust and regional diplomacy. Resource conflicts with Iran and Turkey, alongside border tensions and economic reliance on Gulf states, highlight Iraq’s need for cohesive policies to foster stability and regional collaboration.
Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: Neorealism (Structural Realism) Theory, Dependency Theory and Constructivism Theory in International Relations maybe used to anchor future studies on the impact of reconstruction policies on Iraq\u27s regional relations post-ISIS. Iraq should adopt practices that bridge sectarian divides, ensuring equitable resource distribution and fostering national unity. Iraq must also develop policies that reduce dependency on oil revenues and international loans. Strengthening non-oil sectors, particularly through partnerships beyond the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), will enhance economic resilience and autonomy.
 
Effectiveness of Mediation and Arbitration as Alternative Dispute Resolution Methods in Mexico
Get PDFPurpose: To aim of the study was to analyze effectiveness of mediation and arbitration as alternative dispute resolution methods
Methodology: This study adopted a desk methodology. A desk study research design is commonly known as secondary data collection. This is basically collecting data from existing resources preferably because of its low cost advantage as compared to a field research. Our current study looked into already published studies and reports as the data was easily accessed through online journals and libraries.
Findings: Mediation and arbitration offer efficient, cost-effective alternatives to litigation. Mediation involves facilitated negotiation sessions with a neutral mediator, fostering open communication and tailored solutions. Arbitration entails submitting disputes to a neutral arbitrator for a binding decision. Both methods ensure confidentiality, expertise, and enforceability, making them highly effective in resolving disputes outside of court.
Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: Theory of social exchange, justice theory & game theory may be used to anchor future studies on effectiveness of mediation and arbitration as alternative dispute resolution methods. Practitioners in the field of alternative dispute resolution should prioritize enhancing their skills and competencies to effectively facilitate mediation and arbitration processes. Policymakers should prioritize the promotion of mediation and arbitration as viable alternatives to traditional litigation within legal frameworks and regulatory environments
Role of Mediation in Territorial Disputes in East Asia
Get PDFPurpose: The aim of the study was to analyze the role of mediation in territorial disputes in East Asia.
Methodology: This study adopted a desk methodology. A desk study research design is commonly known as secondary data collection. This is basically collecting data from existing resources preferably because of its low cost advantage as compared to a field research. Our current study looked into already published studies and reports as the data was easily accessed through online journals and libraries.
Findings: In East Asia, mediation plays a pivotal role in addressing territorial disputes by fostering diplomatic dialogue and negotiation. It aims to de-escalate tensions and find mutually acceptable solutions, preventing conflicts from worsening. Despite challenges like historical animosities and power imbalances, mediation remains a crucial tool for managing territorial disputes in the region.
Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: Structural realism, constructivism & regional institutionalist theory may be used to anchor future studies on mediation in territorial disputes in East Asia. Mediation offers a constructive mechanism for de-escalating tensions and facilitating dialogue between disputing parties. Promoting mediation as a preferred method for resolving territorial disputes in East Asia can enhance regional peacebuilding efforts and promote a rules-based international order
Grounded Immoral and Irrational Features of Armed Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Get PDFPurpose: This study aims to construct a moral and rational understanding of the Congolese armed conflict by anatomically decomposing its war violations and stupors. The intensification of armed violence in DR Congo between 1993 and 2003 gave the country an awful notoriety for the systematic crimes against humanity committed. The Congolese armed conflict perfectly manifested war’s immorality and irrationality through numerous and recurrent violent incidents. This study’s approach goes beyond their typical legal and political descriptions, which explicatively attenuate the wrongfulness and harmfulness of these incidents. From moral and rational lenses, it seeks to feature, understand, and explain violent actions against non-liable civilians in the conflict, their contexts, and perpetrators. This novel approach resorts to moral and rational cognitive assumptions to clarify emerging features and provides a different perspective on the Congolese armed conflict.
Methodology: The study used the grounded theory methodology to comprehend the complexity of the Congolese armed conflict\u27s moral and rational considerations directly from the data on violent incidents registered from 1993 to 2003. The study utilized different international, regional, and local reports, mainly the UN Mapping Report on human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1993 to 2003, as its secondary data source. The study applied memoing, coding, and constant comparison to retrieving properties from the reported incidents and their contexts from which it identified, formulated, and developed conceptual subcategories and categories. The study used content and cross-analysis to interpret and discuss the conceptualized data categories, definitions, and background, ensuring a thorough and rigorous research process. The study resorted to armed conflict and cognitive theories to validate findings and enrich the discussion.
Findings: This study is comprehensive research that conveyed a consistent and objective picture of the Congolese armed conflict\u27s immoral and irrational features. Using substantially moral inquiry based on unduly harmfulness to others and rational inquiry centered on favoring common ends, the study found that violent incidents bore four types of harmful actions: subjective, objective, proactive, and extreme, committed by political and military agents from different belligerents. The conflict experienced three harm-prone contexts that cultivated and amplified these harmful actions and conditioned harming agents affiliated with two main categories of belligerents, aspirational and non-aspirational, according to political ends. The political aspirations with moral grounds did not prevent harming agents from committing various harmful actions.
Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice, and Policy: The study articulated a new explanatory approach to African armed conflict studies by exploring human rights and international law violations as manifestations of war’s immorality and irrationality. While many studies substantially explain violent conflict incidents in legal, social, and political terms, this approach emphasizes their comprehension as wrongfulness and harmfulness related to moral and rational cognition linked to contextual conditions. The reflection offered practitioners, politicians, and militaries a blueprint of conceptual dispensation that morally and rationally featured armed conflict’s violent actions, contexts, and perpetrators
Advancement of Statistical Theory and Methods for Survival Analysis, Longitudinal Data Analysis, and Missing Data Problems in United Kingdom
Get PDFPurpose: The aim of the study was to investigate advancement of statistical theory and methods for survival analysis, longitudinal data analysis, and missing data problems
Methodology: This study adopted a desk methodology. A desk study research design is commonly known as secondary data collection. This is basically collecting data from existing resources preferably because of its low cost advantage as compared to a field research. Our current study looked into already published studies and reports as the data was easily accessed through online journals and libraries.
Findings: In the United Kingdom, statistical advancements in survival analysis, longitudinal data analysis, and missing data solutions have improved predictions, enhanced the understanding of individual-level changes over time, and increased research reliability, particularly in healthcare and epidemiology. These developments have global significance, benefiting evidence-based decision-making and policy formulation.
Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: Cox proportional-hazards model, mixed-effects models, multiple imputation may be used to anchor future studies on advancement of statistical theory and methods for survival analysis, longitudinal data analysis, and missing data problems. Create user-friendly software tools and packages for implementing advanced survival models, making them accessible to researchers and practitioners. By identifying trends and disparities over time, policymakers can design interventions and allocate resources more effectively
Impact of Compensation Strategies on Employees Satisfaction Case Study in the A. S. XYZ Organization
Get PDFPurpose: The objective of this study is to investigate the impact of compensation on employee loyalty and performance, through job satisfaction as mediator at A. S. XYZ.
Methodology: The research population comprised all the employees of A. S. XYZ. Simple random sampling, which is a probability sampling method, was adopted to include members of the population at random, leading to a total sample size of 327 people. Data analysis derived from the results of questionnaire responses in Google Forms and data extracted from A. S. XYZ was conducted. The questions were tested using Cronbach\u27s alpha and face validity tests in order to assess the reliability and validity of the research instrument.
Findings: The findings indicated that compensation and job satisfaction had a positive and direct effect on employee loyalty and performance. Also, the study revealed that job satisfaction serves as a partial mediator between compensation and employee loyalty and performance, implying that compensation can influence employee loyalty and performance directly or indirectly through the mediating capacity of job satisfaction.
Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: This research adds to the body of literature by affirming the theoretical implications of prior research and providing recommendations for A. S. XYZ to improve its compensation methods and meet employees\u27 needs. The findings stress on the fact that the payment systems should be constantly monitored and adjusted in the context of other factors influencing employee satisfaction like career development and work environment as well. This research highlights the importance of open communication between supervisors and workers that help in recognizing and resolving the problems quickly. Further, the research suggests that organizations should apply a holistic method of employee satisfaction rather than depending only on compensation matters. The outcomes of this research are relevant for theory, practice, and policy. Theoretically, the research supports and develops the current frameworks on the link between compensation, job satisfaction, employee loyalty, and performance. In practical terms, the research gives implementable recommendations for A. S. XYZ and other organizations to align their compensation policies and create a content, loyal and productive workforce. Policy wise, the study emphasizes the importance of organizations developing holistic employee satisfaction policies that extend beyond financial rewards to encompass additional aspects such as career development and work environment. Additional research could study other variables that contribute to employee satisfaction and recommend techniques on how to sustain high levels of satisfaction for extended periods using a mixed method approach. An alternative methodology entails both qualitative and quantitative methods
Antisemitism in the Muslim World: An Analytical Review of Middle Eastern Dimensions of Antisemitism and Political Impact on the West
Get PDFPurpose: This study aimed to increase the understanding of antisemitism in the Muslim world by conducting an analytical review of Middle Eastern dimensions of antisemitism and its political impact on the West.
Methodology: The analytical review applied a literature review approach, including primary documents (the Koran and Hadiths), books, and peer-reviewed literature. Data was extracted from the sources and subjected to content analysis, which generated relevant sections that depict antisemitism from different perspectives.
Findings: Findings from the review revealed antisemitism is becoming politically controversial due to different authors’ varied interpretations of what it constitutes. Fundamentally, antisemitism is depicted as a type of prejudice emerging from the history Muslim hatred to the Jews. Hadith were also found to influence antisemitism especially when they pronounce negative words about Jews. The study further revealed that antisemitism manifests itself in the world today through racial antisemitism and religious antisemitism. The historical Jewish persecution and genocides or pogroms in the Muslim world indicate deep-rooted antisemitism. The dangers associated with antisemitism have motivated many nations to respond to antisemitism through policies and actions intended to create a discrimination-free world. The lack of evidence of success is disputed based on the observation that while negative stereotypes and hostility persist in some areas, there are also significant efforts towards reconciliation and mutual respect.
Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: The study contributes to the understanding of the foundations of the persistent antisemitism in the Muslim world. Moreover, the study suggests that scholars may consider intensifying research in comparison with other forms of hatred or racism to develop new concepts, paradigms, and practices under which antisemitism may be studied
Legal and Policy Implications in the Age of Social Media in South Africa
Get PDFPurpose: The aim of the study was to examine the legal and policy implications in the age of social media in South Africa
Methodology: This study adopted a desk methodology. A desk study research design is commonly known as secondary data collection. This is basically collecting data from existing resources preferably because of its low cost advantage as compared to a field research. Our current study looked into already published studies and reports as the data was easily accessed through online journals and libraries.
Findings: The study revealed that privacy concerns, copyright infringement, cyberbullying, data protection regulations, content moderation, online political advertising, employer surveillance, and emerging technologies like deepfake, researchers have shed light on the evolving legal frameworks governing social media platforms. The study emphasized the critical need for enhanced privacy protection measures, transparent content moderation policies, comprehensive cyberbullying laws, and stricter regulation of online activities to safeguard users\u27 rights and mitigate potential harms.
Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: Social Contract Theory, Diffusion of Innovations Theory & Network Society Theory may be used to anchor future studies on legal and policy implications in the age of social media in South Africa. Formulate policies that strike a balance between freedom of expression and the need to curb harmful content such as hate speech, misinformation, and online harassment. Legal frameworks should provide guidance on content moderation practices while safeguarding fundamental rights. Encourage social media companies to adopt ethical principles and practices that prioritize user well-being and societal good over profit maximization. This includes measures to combat online addiction, promote digital well-being, and mitigate the negative impacts of their platforms on mental health and democracy. This contributes to both legal theory and practice by emphasizing the role of corporations in upholding broader societal values
Ethical Implications of Emerging Technologies and Scientific Discoveries for Human Dignity and Rights in Rwanda
Get PDFPurpose: The aim of the study was to investigate ethical implications of emerging technologies and scientific discoveries for human dignity and rights in Rwanda
Methodology: This study adopted a desk methodology. A desk study research design is commonly known as secondary data collection. This is basically collecting data from existing resources preferably because of its low cost advantage as compared to a field research. Our current study looked into already published studies and reports as the data was easily accessed through online journals and libraries.
Findings: The ethical implications of emerging technologies in Rwanda raise concerns regarding privacy, autonomy, and equitable access. While these advancements offer potential benefits, careful consideration is needed to ensure they uphold human dignity and rights for all citizens.
Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: Ethical framework of utilitarianism, deontological ethics of immanuel kant & ethical theory of virtue ethics may be used to anchor future studies ethical implications of emerging technologies and scientific discoveries for human dignity and rights in Rwanda. Integrate ethical considerations into the design phase of emerging technologies to proactively address potential ethical challenges. Implement regulatory mechanisms that govern the ethical development and use of emerging technologies, taking into account principles such as privacy, autonomy, fairness, and non-discrimination
Evaluation of Climate Change Mitigation Policies in Developed Vs Developing Countries
Get PDFPurpose: The aim of the study was to analyzing the evaluation of climate change mitigation policies in developed vs developing countries.
Methodology: This study adopted a desk methodology. A desk study research design is commonly known as secondary data collection. This is basically collecting data from existing resources preferably because of its low cost advantage as compared to a field research. Our current study looked into already published studies and reports as the data was easily accessed through online journals and libraries.
Findings: The evaluation of climate change mitigation policies reveals distinct findings between developed and developing countries. Developed nations typically show higher levels of policy implementation and technological adoption aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, resulting in measurable declines in carbon intensity across sectors.
Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: Environmental kuznets curve (EKC) theory, diffusion of innovations theory & dependency theory may be used to anchor future studies on evaluation of climate change mitigation policies in developed vs developing countries. Prioritizing capacity building initiatives and technology transfer programs in developing countries supports practical implementation of climate mitigation strategies. Advocating for equitable climate finance mechanisms ensures adequate funding and financial incentives for developing countries to implement climate mitigation actions