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Value of Expertise For Forecasting Decisions in Conflicts [PDF]
In important conflicts, people typically rely on experts' judgments to predict the decisions that adversaries will make. We compared the accuracy of 106 expert and 169 novice forecasts for eight real conflicts.
J. Scott Armstrong, Kesten C. Green
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Solving water conflicts in Mount Kenya area
, 2002 The documentary illustrates the problems of limited water resources, their use and conflicts, and the contribution of research towards finding sustainable ...
Liniger, Hanspeter, Moll, Martin
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Towards a Systematic Repository of Knowledge About Managing Collaborative Design Conflicts [PDF]
Increasingly, complex artifacts such as cars, planes and even software are designed using large-scale and often highly distributed collaborative processes.
Mark Klein, PhD
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Land conflicts in Formosa, Argentina (1884-1958) [PDF]
, 2014 Formosa is located in Northeast Argentina and gained state status in 1884 with a weak political identity. There are few studies in Argentine historiography that have studied social actions and public policies in the region.
Girbal, Noemi Maria
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Gender Conflicts in critical spaces: the banality of sexism in Athens’ public spaces
, 2015 As the study and research of gender and sexuality studies in in relation to space have shrunk in recent years in Greece, the article attempts to contribute to the debate by highlighting the gendered nature of current crisis.
Vasiliki Makrygianni
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This chapter explores the links between climate change, environmental degradation, and protracted armed conflicts, focusing on how international law can facilitate effective environmental interventions. It examines how international law, particularly the
Sjöstedt, Britta +2 more
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Socio-Economic and Cultural Rights and Wrongs After Armed Conflicts: Using the State Reporting Procedure before the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights More Effectively [PDF]
, 2013 Commentators and practitioners increasingly emphasise that redressing violations of economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR) and improving the living conditions of individuals and communities is key in countries emerging from armed conflicts and ...
Schmid, Evelyne
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Resolving Conflicts by a Random Device [PDF]
We examine conflict resolution via a random device. We model conflict as a two-agent rent-seeking contest for a fixed prize. Before conflict arises, both agents may agree to allocate the prize by coin flip to avoid the costs of conflict.
Roman M. Sheremeta +2 more
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GIS layers on Human-Elephant conflicts in Laikipia District
, 2004 GIS layers on Human-Elephant conflicts in Laikipia District: aerial counts, wildlife distribution, land-use, Human-Elephant conflicts hotspots and temporal patterns, and conflict deterrence ...
Gerber, Kurt
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Incremental cash flows, information sets and conflicts of interest. [PDF]
This paper attempts to make of the standard incremental cash flow model (SICFM) a functional vehicle for coping with conflicts of interest. After outlining the model, residual rights to cash flows are linked to residual risks.
Rodolfo Apreda
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