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Book review: Congo [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
"Congo." Thomas Turner. Polity. April 2013. --- The Democratic Republic of Congo has become one of the world’s bloodiest hot spots, and despite recent peace agreements and democratic elections, the country is still plagued by army and militia violence ...
Krupa, Joel
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Prisoners' Perceptions and Their Agency on Sustainability Transformation in Finland

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability transformation is essential for our time, requiring the involvement of all citizens. Several prisons worldwide have developed various sustainable development (SD) programs for prisoners. However, it remains unclear how prisoners perceive SD, which can be a significant obstacle to their agency. This study explores the perceptions
Sirpa M. Manninen, Teija Makkonen
wiley   +1 more source

Pedagogy of Peace and Philosophy of War: the Search for Truth [PDF]

open access: yesFuture Human Image, 2017
Peace pedagogy (German: Friedenspedagogik) and the Peace education are identified as relevant educational paradigm and set of educational projects aimed at solving problems of teaching non-violence and the capacity for peace in the context of the ...
Serhiy Klepko
doaj  

It takes two : an explanation of the democratic peace. [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper, we provide an explanation of the democratic peace hypothesis, i.e., the observation that democracies rarely fight one another. We show that in the presence of information asymmetries and strategic complements, the strategic interaction ...
Levy, Gilat, Razin, Ronny
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The limits of hybridity and the crisis of liberal peace [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Hybridity has emerged recently as a key response in International Relations and peace studies to the crisis of liberal peace. Attributing the failures of liberal peacebuilding to a lack of legitimacy deriving from uncompromising efforts to impose a rigid
Nadarajah, Suthaharan, Rampton, David
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Digital Futures, Sustainable Outcomes: Mapping the Impact of Digital Transformation on EU SDG Progress

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores how digital transformation, measured by the Global Digitalisation Index (GDI), relates to progress on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) across EU member states. Using partial correlation, regression analysis with interaction terms and cluster analysis, the research examines the moderating effects of governance and
Luis Fonseca   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Empowerment as a part of the peace and stability in the European North: a case of Lapland

open access: yesNordia Geographical Publications, 2011
In the article I see the social, political and economical exclusion of the North as a part of the state and superpower-centric international system lasting until the end of the Cold War.
Jari Koivumaa
doaj  

Challenges that Global Governance Currently Confronts to Ensure More Secure, Prosperous and Democratic World

open access: yesPolitikon, 2014
The study intends to explore what those emerging challenges are that global governance presently deals with on its attempts to guarantee more secure, prosperous and democratic world.
Mikheil Shavtvaladze
doaj   +1 more source

India and Pakistan: Trading for Peace [PDF]

open access: yes
Are shared democratic values the most important factors in promoting peace between countries, or common economic interests? New econometric research shows that, in the case of India and Pakistan, trade with other countries increases the chance of peace ...
Mamoon, Dawood, S. Murshed, Mansoob
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Dilemmas of a ‘democratic peace’:World War One, the Zimmerwald Manifesto and the Russian Revolution [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article looks at the influence of the Zimmerwald Conference of 1915 on the peace policies of the Petrograd Soviet, the Socialist-Revolutionaries, the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks after February 1917.
King, Francis
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