Introducing the new CPOST dataset on suicide attacks

2021 ◽  
pp. 002234332097826
Author(s):  
Robert A Pape ◽  
Alejandro Albanez Rivas ◽  
Alexandra C Chinchilla
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Suicide Attacks ◽  
Data Program ◽  
The University ◽  
Program Data

The University of Chicago Project on Security and Threats presents the updated and expanded Database on Suicide Attacks (DSAT), which now links to Uppsala Conflict Data Program data on armed conflicts and includes a new dataset measuring the alliance and rivalry relationships among militant groups with connections to suicide attack groups. We assess global trends in suicide attacks over four decades, and demonstrate the value of the expanded DSAT with special attention to the growing diffusion of suicide attacks in armed conflicts and the large role of networks established by Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State through 2019 in this diffusion. Overall, the expanded DSAT demonstrates the advantages of integration across datasets of political violence for expanding research on important outcomes, generating new knowledge about the spread of particularly deadly forms of political violence, and raising important new questions about the efficacy of current policies to curb their spread.

scholarly journals Features of the Innovative Model of Economic Development and the Growing Role of Education Therein

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (512) ◽  
pp. 56-64
Author(s):  
I. H. Khanin ◽  
◽  
V. S. Bilozubenko ◽  
S. Y. Shablii ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Modern Economy ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Innovative Model ◽  
Chain Character ◽  
Innovation Model

The growing importance of innovations in the economy has turned them into a more important factor in production and consumption, structural changes, economic dynamics, competitiveness, and social development. This has gained a paradigm importance and has led to the emergence of an innovative model of economic development, the peculiarities of which being the topic that the article is concerned with. Taking into account the dependence of innovations on the generation and dissemination of new knowledge, the article emphasizes the critical importance of the productivity of science and the quality of education. This is confirmed by global trends and finds a manifestation in the development strategies of the countries and companies. In this context, a modern understanding of innovations and the basis of their emergence, which is connected with knowledge and creativity, has been closer defined. The authors characterize the main features of innovation, in particular: cumulativeness, chain character, integration of practical and theoretical knowledge, duration of «maturation» and emergence of innovation, uncertainty, collectivity, uneven appearance in time and concentration in space, propensity towards conflict. A vision of the process of developing innovations by stages covered by system management is proposed. The main models of emergence of innovation together with the model of innovation process (the model of extraction through demand (market); the model of «needs seekers»; the model of «readers of market information»; the model of technological nudging; the cyclical model of innovations; the model of open innovations; the chain and interactive model of innovation process; the innovative model of «funnel»; the network model of innovation) are described. A number of features of the innovative model of economic development are allocated: recognition of innovation as the most important factor of economic growth; constant interaction of production, science and market, focused on the development of innovations; defining role of human capital; structural changes in the system of social production; domination of the innovative nature of competition in the modern economy; development of innovative entrepreneurship. On the basis of the formation of an innovative model of development, the growing role of science and education, the modern economy is characterized as an economy of knowledge; the main points of its concept are considered. An increase in the influence of education in the innovation model of the economy in terms of generating and disseminating new knowledge in order to intensify innovation is substantiated.

scholarly journals Conference Report: The Legacy of Armed Conflicts: Southern African and Comparative Perspectives

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 123-134
Author(s):  
Giulia Piccolino
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
International Workshop ◽  
Conference Report ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Peace Processes ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
University Of Pretoria ◽  
The University

This report deals with the international workshop “The Legacy of Armed Conflicts: Southern African and Comparative Perspectives,” held on 28–29 July 2016 at the University of Pretoria. The workshop facilitated discussions and exchanges between regional and comparative experts and focused on three themes: the relationship between peace processes and long-term peacebuilding, the role of former armed actors in post-conflict societies, and the persistence of violence after conflict. The importance of legitimacy for peacebuilding was often evoked as was the necessity to consider the continuity between armed conflict and other forms of violent and non-violent social action.

scholarly journals Urban Humanities Pedagogy

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 120-128
Author(s):  
Jonathan Banfill ◽  
Todd Presner ◽  
Maite Zubiaurre
Keyword(s):  
Racial Differences ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Deep Roots ◽  
The Core ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

Founded in 1919, UCLA is nearing its first centenary, but the university builds on humanistic and liberal arts traditions that are many centuries long and globally diffused. The core disciplines that we recognize today as comprising the Humanities have deep roots in these institutional, cultural, and technological histories. But yet, for all its grand ambitions for reckoning with the world, the university has remained by and large an isolated institution, walled in and often walled off from its surrounding community, accessible to a chosen few, stratified by economic, social, and racial differences, and perhaps too invested in the security of its storied past. The Urban Humanities initiative is an attempt both to apply conventional tools in unconventional ways and to invent new tools by respecting the fundamental virtue of bricks, namely their porous nature. Is it possible to decolonize knowledge? If so, the studio courses it develops will have profound implications for the role of the classroom, syllabus, and for rethinking and developing new knowledge and practices.

Where Lie the Similarities and Differences?: A Comparison of University and Industry Partners in Collaboration

2020 ◽  
Vol 02 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynne Siemens
Keyword(s):  
Success Factors ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Study Case ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The University ◽  
University Industry ◽  
Successful Collaboration

University–industry partnerships are common on the science side of campus where ways to work together are well understood. This is less so in the humanities even as these types of collaborations are being funded by granting agencies and governments. For these partnerships to build a foundation for success, common understandings around issues of the nature of collaboration, benefits, challenges, measures of success and outcomes need to exist. Using Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) as a study case, this research examines a humanities-based partnership to understand similarities and differences in partners’ perspectives around these factors. Overall, the university and industry partners have common understandings of the nature of collaboration, the potential challenges facing the collaboration, and desired outcomes and success factors. However, there are some differences that must be navigated to ensure collaboration success. These focus on the benefits, the role of industry partners, need for tenure and promotion for researchers, and the type of resources that each can provide. While the partnership is in early stages of research, it has had the opportunity to learn about each other and differing perspectives by working and meeting together for over five years. This is the first step to creating a foundation of trust upon which a successful collaboration can be built.

Industry—Higher Education Interaction: The Challenge of the 1990s

1994 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.P. Hardiman
Keyword(s):  
Basic Research ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Commercial Application ◽  
Application Research ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

The classical role of the university may relate to the pursuit of knowledge by the individual but in recent times the scientific and technological prowess of the university is increasingly called on by industry in the pursuit of economic objectives. Science, technology and industry have been interdependent since the enlightenment, but this inter-dependence has never been so immediate and so obvious as it is today. From basic research through application research, from development to prototype, through to commercial application and marketing, the link between the generation of new knowledge and the translation of that knowledge into products and services depends on close interaction between those who undertake the research and those for whom the outcome of the research is the raw material for product development and commercialization.

scholarly journals A Profile of the University for the Next Millenium

1999 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Vidal Sunción Infante
Keyword(s):  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
New Professionals ◽  
Knowing How ◽  
Know How ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
New Models ◽  
Training Professionals ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The University

In this article, I analyze the role of the university in meeting the demands for new knowledge (scientific, artistic and technological) presented by an era of globalization of knowledge that is destroying old paradigms and creating new models of management and behavior. These demands include the need to train new professionals, who are highly skilled both in knowing "how to produce" as well as "why to produce." My recent research indicates that the university is not embarked on the path that leads to training professionals who know "how to produce." Nevertheless, I believe that it is possible to restructure the university to meet these goals. Activities and strategies are being devised to increase the university's ability to generate the basic knowledge that will increase the employability of the new professional with a university diploma.

Intellectual Property in a Knowledge Society

1997 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 341-348
Author(s):  
Vincent McBrierty ◽  
Raymond P. Kinsella
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Innovation Culture ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The Usa ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The University

Ireland is currently experiencing burgeoning inward investment and economic growth. The ability to attract inward investment is largely due to a well-educated and trained workforce and a rapidly developing innovation culture in the universities and elsewhere. Accordingly, the role of the university has changed radically in the new innovation age because of the heightened strategic importance of education in a society which is now truly knowledge-driven. The ability to exploit new knowledge is intimately linked to the protection of new ideas. Ireland, like most of Europe, lags behind the USA in the area of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). The authors discuss the importance of redressing this problem as a matter of urgency.

scholarly journals University Strategic Planning in Cameroon

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Terfot Augustine Ngwana
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Central Government ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Production Capacity ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
The University

This article argues that the global, regional, and local realities can complement rather than contradict each other in the process of strategic planning for universities in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using the case of the University of Buea in Cameroon, it attempts to use the global trends of polarisation in knowledge production capacity as an input or tool for identifying strategic choice in the process of strategic planning in institutions. The national policy background is used to highlight the context and inherent role of the central government in the process of institutional strategic planning.

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