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Global Insecurity,Transparency and Sustainable Development:African Challenges
NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
conflicts as well as effort s to establish international systems that would foster global peace and prosperity. Yet, insecurity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112282
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Crime and conflicts in Africa: consequences of corruption?
Simplice A, Asongu; Oasis, Kodila-Tedika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
in the birth and propagation of conflicts within and across Africa. Policy implications are discussed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112828
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Power games and organizational learning
Levy-Tadjine, Thierry - HAL - 1997
The paper uses the work of CROSS ( 1969) about negotiation to show that Time of conflict and power games in the organizations are not so inefficient for the organization as it first would seem. The article shows especially that the more individuals in conflict use time for negotiation, the more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011026188
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The Integration of Energy Conservation into the Political Goal of Renewable Energy Self-Sufficiency—A German Case Study Based on a Longitudinal Reconstruction
Stablo, Järmo; Ruppert-Winkel, Chantal - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 5, pp. 888-916
Many local governments in Germany aim to reach Renewable Energy Self-Sufficiency (RESS) in their municipalities. In this context, ambitious time horizons for reaching this goal make it necessary to address the question of how less absolute energy can be consumed. The topic of energy conservation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011029991
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Does trade promote peace? squared: a gravity equation in a rectangular panel world
Parlow, Anton - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The purpose of this paper is to revisit the question if trade promotes peace or not? I account for heterogeneity of trade dyads over time in using panel estimation techniques. The world is modeled as a rectangle. I present models focusing on how conflict affects trade, and in another set of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647248
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Does climate change drive land-use conflicts in the Sahel?
Benjaminsen, Tor A; Alinon, Koffi; Buhaug, Halvard; … - In: Journal of Peace Research 49 (2012) 1, pp. 97-111
progressively be drier conditions with more erratic rainfall. According to some, an increase in violent conflicts over scarce … approaches are applied. The first consists of collection and analysis of court data on land-use conflicts, 1992–2009, from the … gives little substance to claims that climate variability is an important driver of these conflicts. Second, we carried out …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009654051
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Endogenous formation of alliances in conflicts
Bloch, Francis - HAL - 2009
This paper studies the endogenous formation of alliance in conflicts offering a survey of the recent literature and … determination of sharing rules inside the alliance and dynamic alliance formation in nested conflicts. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793858
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Enfants et commissions vérité
UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre - 2011
L’obligation de poursuivre et de punir les crimes graves stipulée dans le droit international et la volonté d’apporter réparation aux victimes ont conduit à l’élaboration d’approches de justice transitionnelle destinées à sanctionner la violence de masse ou les abus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008800285
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Dynamics of two-actor cooperation–competition conflict models
Liebovitch, Larry S.; Naudot, Vincent; Vallacher, Robin; … - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 387 (2008) 25, pp. 6360-6378
integrations and analytical proofs. Some results of the model are consistent with previously observed characteristics of conflicts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010589559
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Non-Linear Geographics and the Economics of Transition and Democratization
Brezis, Elise S.; Verdier, Thierry - Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University - 2012
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of geography on the transition process in authoritarian political regimes, and to investigate the nature of the links between political change, economic reforms and geographic location. A simple model of transition and democratization is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010597131