To the Resolution of Intractable Conflicts: Nagorno-Karabakh and Kosovo

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 427-441
Author(s):  
Tigran Torosyan
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
International Negotiations ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
New Strategy ◽  
Informative Role

Self-determination conflicts remain among the most complicated issues of the international negotiations, and they require long-term efforts. They often transform into intractable conflicts, the theory of which plays more informative role rather than contributes to their solution. The solution is difficult not only because it is a complex inter-disciplinary task, but also because very often it is necessary to involve mediation. The mediators, carrying out often their direct mission, create also new problems due to the interests of related countries. In order to reveal the reasons behind the current problems comparative analysis of Nagorno-Karabakh and Kosovo conflicts has been done. A new paradigm and based on it a new strategy of international negotiations over conflict resolution are proposed, which will allow to significantly increase the efficiency of negotiations, to find solutions for intractable conflicts and prevent the emergence of new ones.

МЕЖДИСЦИПЛИНАРНОСТЬ В ПОДГОТОВКЕ КОНФЛИКТОЛОГОВ: СОСТОЯНИЕ И ПЕРСПЕКТИВЫ

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
А. И. Стребков ◽  
А. И. Мусаев
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Academic Program ◽  
Academic Programs ◽  
Full Time ◽  
The Us ◽  
Promotional Materials ◽  
Russian Universities ◽  
Educational Methodology

The present article concerns with the modern state of things of the conflict resolution specialists’ training in the US universities. The analysis is based on the informational and promotional materials which were picked up from the 11 American universities’ websites. The aim of the analysis was the examination of the four sections, which are: the orientation of the academic program, the content of the program or the scope of the skills, the main methodology of the academic program and the educational technologies. Together with the analysis of the US universities’ academic programs the article provides the comparative analysis of these programs with the Russian academic programs. On the back of this comparative analysis the authors come to the comprehensive conclusion according to which the specialists’ training in the field of the conflict resolution and peacebuilding in the US does not have significant differences from Russian ones and is carried out within one international academic trend in regard to its main features which are: the orientation, content, educational methodology and technologies. The key distinction of the Russian training from the American one is that the Russian academic tradition does have the core subject matter around which the whole academic program is being developed and which is the conflict. This subject matter is being taken in its entirety and the conflict resolution is considered as the closing stage of the conflict studies specialists’ training whereas the academic programs of the US universities embrace the conflict resolution as the subject matter of the academic training and therefores leaves beyond the scope of the training both the theory of the conflict and the forms practice of its manifestation in a number of the programs. The letter is peculiar to both short-term academic programs and the full-time two-year academic programs as it is accepted in the educational space of the Russian Federation. Furthermore, the authors of the article make up the conclusion of the coinciding major educational methodology which guides the academic programs of the American and Russian universities and which is developed on the principles of the interdisciplinarity.

Redefining ‘Industry’: Young People and Cultural Policy in Australia

1999 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Ann Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Culture Industry ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Statistical Framework ◽  
Leisure Industry

This article considers the place of youth arts and cultures in the cultural industries approach to cultural policy. It argues that the ‘covert economic overlay’ (Brokensha, 1996: 101) of the Australian National Culture–Leisure Industry Statistical Framework privileges certain processes in a ‘government convenient’ model of industry inputs and outcomes, and that the assumptions of this model are challenged by youth-specific and community-based modes of production. Furthermore, it argues that the philosophies and practices of contemporary youth-specific arts organisations have the potential to redefine ‘culture industry’ and contribute to a ‘coherent new paradigm’ of cultural policy (UNESCO, 1995: 232). This paper makes these arguments by examining the place of youth arts and cultures in the existing environment of cultural industrialisation, by considering recent government policy responses to young people's cultural activity and by addressing long-term policy issues for the support of young people and cultural development.

scholarly journals The Effects of CSR Activities on Business According to Employee Perception

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Anđelka Stojanović ◽  
Natalija Sofranova ◽  
Sanela Arsić ◽  
Isidora Milošević ◽  
Ivan Mihajlović
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Vital Element

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become a vital element for building a long-term relationship with a company’s stakeholders. Different dimensions of a company’s social initiatives in terms of internal and external CSR activities influence the satisfaction of employees with the purpose of improving the CSR application. The aim of this research is to examine the level of employees’ awareness of the implementation of CSR in Serbian and Russian companies. A comparative analysis between these two countries was carried out in order to perceive the differences in attitudes of employees, their job satisfaction, and consequently the implementation of CSR. The hypotheses of the developed model were tested by using the Multi-group Confirmatory Factor Analysis. The obtained results offered several implications for scholars and practitioners that should be considered when formulating and implementing CSR actions.

scholarly journals Performing for Peace and Social Change in Africa's Great Lakes Region

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-38
Author(s):  
MAËLINE LE LAY
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
Ethnic Conflict ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
International Aid ◽  
Great Lakes Region ◽  
Political Awareness ◽  
Mass Violence

International aid has influenced and, in part, shaped the artistic sector in Africa's Great Lakes region (DRC, Rwanda, Burundi) since the 1990s, a period marked by numerous conflicts and mass violence. Due to NGOs’ programmatic foci, artists performing for social change are increasingly compelled to focus on reconciliation and conflict resolution, generating political awareness and bringing about social change, healing and peacemaking. Through a comparative analysis of European and local productions on the genocide this article asks, how and why does an ‘NGO-style theatre’ develop a specific audience in the region? How have themes such as mass violence, inter-ethnic conflict and social cohesion become the main concerns of the territory's theatre? How do performances made and/or sponsored by NGOs challenge not only theatre's form, its social stakes and functions, but also the conception of its audience and the relationships between actors and spectators?

scholarly journals Is the use of intra-operative blood salvage autotransfusion in hepatocellular carcinoma liver transplantation safe? A comparative analysis of long-term outcomes

HPB ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. S366
Author(s):  
Kah Wai Lai ◽  
Jarrod Tan ◽  
Glenn Bonney ◽  
Iyer Shridhar ◽  
Krishnakumar Madhavan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hepatocellular Carcinoma ◽  
Liver Transplantation ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Long Term Outcomes ◽  
Blood Salvage

Wind Speed Forecasting Using a Combined Method Based on Auto Regression and Wavelet Transform

2012 ◽  
Vol 512-515 ◽  
pp. 803-808
Author(s):  
Ji Long Tong ◽  
Zeng Bao Zhao ◽  
Wen Yu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Wind Speed ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Ar Model ◽  
Wind Speed Forecasting ◽  
Wind Speed Prediction ◽  
Prediction Time ◽  
New Strategy ◽  
Speed Prediction ◽  
Auto Regression

This paper presents a new strategy in wind speed prediction based on AR model and wavelet transform.The model uses the adjacent data for short-term wind speed forecasting and the data of the same moment in earlier days for long-term wind speed prediction at that moment,taking the similarity of wind speed at the same moment every day into account.Using the new model to analyze the wind speed of An-xi,China in April,2010,this paper concludes that the model is effective for that the correlation coefficient between the predicted value and the original data is larger than 0.8 when the prediction is less than 48 hours;while the prediction time is long ahead (48-120h),the error is acceptable (within 40%),which demonstrates that the new method is a novel and good idea for prediction on wind speed.

scholarly journals Comparative analysis of the long-term effect of two families of high-flux polysulfone dialysers on platelet count: a retrospective cross-sectional study

2017 ◽  
Vol Volume 13 ◽  
pp. 1415-1422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosaria Del Giorno ◽  
Lorenzo Berwert ◽  
Silvio Pianca ◽  
Giorgia Bianchi ◽  
Olivier Giannini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Platelet Count ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Term Effect ◽  
High Flux ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Long Term Effect

scholarly journals Organization, operations, and success of environmental organized crime in Italy and India: A comparative analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aunshul Rege ◽  
Anita Lavorgna
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Organized Crime ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Sand Mining ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Operational Practices ◽  
Organized Crime Groups ◽  
Organizational Mechanisms ◽  
Environmental Crimes

Despite the devastating short- and long-term consequences of resource-related environmental crimes, rampant illegal soil and sand mining continues worldwide. In countries such as India and Italy, organized crime groups have emerged as prominent illegal suppliers of soil and sand. The proposed study focuses on an understudied research area at the intersection between organized crime and environmental crimes, and offers a trans-comparative study of illegal soil and sand mining conducted by Indian and Italian organized crime groups with two main objectives. First, a comparative analysis of the organizational mechanisms, operational practices, threat management, and supporting cultural, regulatory, and policing factors is conducted. Second, a discussion of how these groups reflect mainstream models and theories of organized crime is offered.

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