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Working with the Impasse in Couple Relationship while working towards World Peace
No full textAn `impasse’ is a common human experience. The usual and accompanying feeling of being stuck is experienced by people in a variety of contexts. This thesis comprises personal reflections and is a professional person’s exploration of `impasse’ emerging from the writer’s experience of working with people in a therapeutic context. The beguiling and compulsive nature of impasses is attributed to a mix of mistrust, distorted perceptions, defensiveness against vulnerability and incongruence all of which are described as reactions by the protagonists as they seek to assuage the anxiety of disconnection or the threat of disconnection from the attachment figure. Models from Transactional Analysis are used to provide an analysis of levels of impasse and to describe the dynamics generated by `interlocking’ actions and reactions of the people involved. These models are also applied to the inter-community relationship on Cyprus. Some suggestions are made as to how someone with a counselling perspective may `add value’ to the work of non-governmental facilitators in a peace-making process
Hydro-development and Conflict: The Mekong Basin
No full textHydro-development of the Mekong Basin is proceeding at an increasing pace. The relatively small-scale hydro-development projects that have taken place to date provide some insight into the expanding environmental and social impacts that can be expected as hydro-development projects increase in number and scale. This thesis explores how these environmental and social consequences of hydro-development might generate violent conflict, both between, and within, Mekong nations.
This study adopts a value-added model – based on that of Homer-Dixon – to consider the causal relationship between hydro-development and violent conflict. In doing so, it explores how hydro-development interacts with the unique environmental, social, economic, and political conditions of the Mekong Basin. Two intervening variables between hydro-development and violent conflict are identified as particularly significant: environmental scarcity and social effects.
This study reaches two main conclusions. The first is that, despite increasing interstate tensions, violent conflict between Mekong States is unlikely. As well as strategic and historical arguments, this is because regional hydro-development advances economic growth and regional integration, in line with the economic imperative of Mekong nations. The second main conclusion of this study is that, while violent interstate conflict is unlikely, violent intrastate conflict is likely to increase. Hydro-development is predicted to decimate the supply of crucial natural resources, upon which the largely rural Mekong Basin populations depend for their livelihoods. Furthermore, the costs and benefits of hydro-development are not equitably shared, which in combination with the increasing scarcity of key renewable resources, can sharpen existing social divisions. Violent conflict within society is therefore predicted to increase. Protests and civil unrest are also likely to increase, although such movements are unlikely to generate serious attempts at insurgency
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Working with the Impasse in Couple Relationship while working towards World Peace
Full text linkAn `impasse’ is a common human experience. The usual and accompanying feeling of being stuck is experienced by people in a variety of contexts. This thesis comprises personal reflections and is a professional person’s exploration of `impasse’ emerging from the writer’s experience of working with people in a therapeutic context. The beguiling and compulsive nature of impasses is attributed to a mix of mistrust, distorted perceptions, defensiveness against vulnerability and incongruence all of which are described as reactions by the protagonists as they seek to assuage the anxiety of disconnection or the threat of disconnection from the attachment figure. Models from Transactional Analysis are used to provide an analysis of levels of impasse and to describe the dynamics generated by `interlocking’ actions and reactions of the people involved. These models are also applied to the inter-community relationship on Cyprus. Some suggestions are made as to how someone with a counselling perspective may `add value’ to the work of non-governmental facilitators in a peace-making process
Hydro-development and Conflict: The Mekong Basin
No full textHydro-development of the Mekong Basin is proceeding at an increasing pace. The relatively small-scale hydro-development projects that have taken place to date provide some insight into the expanding environmental and social impacts that can be expected as hydro-development projects increase in number and scale. This thesis explores how these environmental and social consequences of hydro-development might generate violent conflict, both between, and within, Mekong nations.
This study adopts a value-added model – based on that of Homer-Dixon – to consider the causal relationship between hydro-development and violent conflict. In doing so, it explores how hydro-development interacts with the unique environmental, social, economic, and political conditions of the Mekong Basin. Two intervening variables between hydro-development and violent conflict are identified as particularly significant: environmental scarcity and social effects.
This study reaches two main conclusions. The first is that, despite increasing interstate tensions, violent conflict between Mekong States is unlikely. As well as strategic and historical arguments, this is because regional hydro-development advances economic growth and regional integration, in line with the economic imperative of Mekong nations. The second main conclusion of this study is that, while violent interstate conflict is unlikely, violent intrastate conflict is likely to increase. Hydro-development is predicted to decimate the supply of crucial natural resources, upon which the largely rural Mekong Basin populations depend for their livelihoods. Furthermore, the costs and benefits of hydro-development are not equitably shared, which in combination with the increasing scarcity of key renewable resources, can sharpen existing social divisions. Violent conflict within society is therefore predicted to increase. Protests and civil unrest are also likely to increase, although such movements are unlikely to generate serious attempts at insurgency
Talk to Open the History Exhibition on 350 Years of Quakerism Commissariat, Brisbane, 18/05/04
Full text linkIn this talk the author discusses the place of Quakerism in modern society and its relevance to peace and conflict studies
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Arts, Peacebuilding and Decolonization: A Comparative Study of Parihaka, Mindanao and Nairobi
No full textIn the last two decades, research on the ‘power of the arts’ in building peace has increased to a level where one can legitimately make the claim that there now exists an emerging, or perhaps even a resurgent, academic field of arts-based peacebuilding. However, very few studies examine the ‘power of the arts’ in resolving conflicts with emphasis on the particularities of ‘post-colonial’ environments. Specifically, there is a dearth of literature that examines the differences and continuities between historical and arts-based contemporary practices for peace, considering how such factors as colonialism and neo-colonialism have influenced and continue to impact upon practices.
Deploying a decolonizing lens, this study seeks to contribute to filling this gap in literature by exploring how arts-based initiatives, while composing works and processes of meaning, beauty, and imagination, simultaneously work towards breaking the apparent cycles of violence in ‘post-colonial’ contexts. The study focuses on arts-practices and approaches in three ‘post-colonial’ sites: Parihaka/Taranaki in Aotearoa/New Zealand; Mindanao region in Philippines; and urban Nairobi in Kenya.
It is my thesis that the nature of Indigenous arts practices provides a platform and resource both for a (re)discovery of Indigenous wisdom from colonial legacy (particularly of artistic and cultural destruction) and creative decolonizing responses to conflicts in ‘post-colonial’ environments. To operate at full potential and contribute to epistemic diversity and plurality of arts-based practice, the process of decolonization needs be an integral part of building JustPeace through context-specific initiatives that focus on rediscovery, resistance, conscientization, healing and dialogue. In addition, this manuscript provides valuable insights into peace and nonviolence cultures that predated and have survived colonialism, and continue to constructively explore creative responses within a pervasive colonial matrix of power.
As the findings from three case studies show, these Indigenous cultures of peace and nonviolence were, and continue to be, encoded in orature and other hybridized arts. In this spirit, this thesis also reexamines dominant assumptions on the ‘power of the arts’ in building peace and establishes the need to validate, elevate and amplify Indigenous Peacebuilding. The thesis also provides practical suggestions and recommendations to scholars and practitioners engaged in arts-based peacebuilding in ‘post-colonial’ contexts
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