scholarly journals Social determinants of conflict management – theoretical analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 201 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-433
Author(s):  
Donata Borowska
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Management ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Effective Solution ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
The Military ◽  
Climate Disasters

Conflict management is a situation of contradictory interests, where one party wants to subordinate the opposite side. People are social beings because they create diverse human relations and are lost by the idea of being safe and the belief it will always be this way. War is a socio-political phenomenon that involves a decision about fight. Lack of water supply, selective pandemics, environmental and climate disasters are the result of poverty and government’s faulty security management. Lack of security creates a constant necessity for conducting research on the development of science that deals with conflict management. In contemporary society, conflict management means to keep control over it by its policy makers, which, as a result, guarantees the effective solution. “Recognition, strategy and attack” (i.e. effective actions that can ensure security) is the motto of politicians and the military. It should be kept in mind that conflict management is connected with the implementation of the intended goals, where, for example, war is a social phenomenon and a political tool. Excessive exploitation of the arms industry may be called by some a strategy for peace. The idolatry of politicians, including advanced technology, causes individuals to trust in material things. Pope Francis warns that one should not blindly follow the image advisers who sell death.

STRUCTURAL AND LOGIC DIAGRAM OF RESEARCH ON THE MILITARY-ECONOMIC SUBSTANTIATION OF THE RATIONAL NUMBER OF ARMED FORCES OF UKRAINE IN THE PROCESS OF FORMING THE PROGRAM OF THEIR DEVELOPMENT

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (12) ◽  
pp. 102-110
Author(s):  
V. Nazarkin ◽  
O. Semenenko ◽  
A. Efimenko ◽  
V. Ivanov
Keyword(s):  
Rational Number ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
The State ◽  
Limiting Factors ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Scientific Substantiation ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Excess Number ◽  
The Military

The task of choosing the rational number of power structures is always one of the main priorities of any political leadership of the state. An insufficient number of armed forces is a threat to the national security of the state; an excess number creates pressures on the development of the country's national economy. Today, when the development programs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are being formed in the context of the practical application of their units and subunits to carry out combat missions, questions of choosing a priority approach to the formation (justification) of the rational size of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is an urgent issue. The article proposes a structure for conducting research on the development and implementation of the methodology of military-economic substantiation of the rational strength of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the system of defense planning of Ukraine in the formation of programs for their development for the medium and long term. The main objectives of this methodology are: scientific substantiation of the range of the necessary strength of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the period of the program of their development; the choice of the indicator of the rational size of the Armed Forces of Ukraine according to the years of the program from a certain range of its changes; military-economic substantiation of this number under the influence of various limiting factors. The development and implementation of such a methodology will increase the efficiency of the formation and implementation of development programs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as the efficiency of using public funds for the development of power structures.

Reluctant Cold Warriors

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Kontorovich
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
National Security ◽  
Soviet Economy ◽  
Accurate Analysis ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The Us ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The Military

The academic study of the Soviet economy in the US was created to help fight the Cold War, part of a broader mobilization of the social sciences for national security needs. The Soviet strategic challenge rested on the ability of its economy to produce large numbers of sophisticated weapons. The military sector was the dominant part of the economy, and the most successful one. However, a comprehensive survey of scholarship on the Soviet economy from 1948-1991 shows that it paid little attention to the military sector, compared to other less important parts of the economy. Soviet secrecy does not explain this pattern of neglect. Western scholars developed strained civilian interpretations for several aspects of the economy which the Soviets themselves acknowledged to have military significance. A close reading of the economic literature, combined with insights from other disciplines, suggest three complementary explanations for civilianization of the Soviet economy. Soviet studies was a peripheral field in economics, and its practitioners sought recognition by pursuing the agenda of the mainstream discipline, however ill-fitting their subject. The Soviet economy was supposed to be about socialism, and the military sector appeared to be unrelated to that. By stressing the militarization, one risked being viewed as a Cold War monger. The conflict identified in this book between the incentives of academia and the demands of policy makers (to say nothing of accurate analysis) has broad relevance for national security uses of social science.

Managing to Avoid Innovation

1999 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. Vaux ◽  
M. P. S. F. Gomes ◽  
R. J. Grieve ◽  
S. W. Woolgar
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Small Companies ◽  
Small Company ◽  
The West ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Technology And Innovation ◽  
Company Culture ◽  
The One

This paper addresses differences in the way that the problems of small UK firms are construed by policy makers on the one hand, and by the executives of small companies on the other. The authors employ a discursively-based analysis of interviews carried out with managers of small manufacturing companies in the West London area. They suggest that SME executives construe their attitudes to advanced technology and innovation within the terms of some clear, but implicit management values which tend to lead to the perception of innovation as a risk to be managed, rather than an opportunity to be exploited. It is suggested this has significant implications for attempts to change small company culture.

UNIVERSITIES AND DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Iañez Domínguez ◽  
Raúl Alvarez Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Training And Education ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Research Promotion ◽  
Organisational Structures ◽  
Spanish Universities ◽  
Just Society ◽  
Conducting Research

When it comes to human development, justice, and sustainability, universities should play a driving role, given their specific assigned task of providing specialist education and conducting research. They should also educate and promote the values of solidarity and commitment towards a more egalitarian and just society. This involves making a firm commitment to social change, which many Spanish universities have done by cooperating to foster the development of more impoverished countries. To this end, they have developed structures through which they can undertake different actions. The research presented in this paper was conducted as a direct result of the authors’ interest in finding out more about the specific actions carried out by Andalusian universities. The research conducted was qualitative, using in-depth semi-structured interviews with key informants (development cooperation officers and senior policy-makers within each institution) from Andalusia’s ten public universities. All universities incorporate an area for development cooperation within their organisational structures, and they have staffing and funding for the organisation and development of actions, although the panorama is diverse and heterogeneous. The actions carried out encompass academic training and education, research, promotion and awareness, university volunteering schemes, and cooperation out in the field.

Personality and Genetic Associations With Military Service

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 637-658 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew R. Miles ◽  
Donald P. Haider-Markel
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Genetic Correlation ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Genetic Associations ◽  
Political Ambition ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Significant Heritability ◽  
The Military

Existing literature connects military service to regional characteristics and family traditions, creating real distinctions between those who serve and those who do not. We engage this discussion by examining military service as a function of personality. In the second portion, we examine military service as predisposed by genetics. Our findings indicate there is a significant heritability component of serving in the military. We find a significant genetic correlation between personality traits associated with progressive political ambition and military service, suggesting that military service represents a different form of political participation to which individuals are genetically predisposed. We discuss the long-term implications of our findings for policy makers and recruiters.

Children's History: Implications of Childhood Beliefs for Teachers of Aboroginal Students

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Leonard
Keyword(s):  
Race Relations ◽  
Liberal Education ◽  
Aboriginal Education ◽  
Scholarly Book ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Australian History ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Indigenous Teachers

While conducting research intended to explore the underlying thoughts and assumptions held by non-Indigenous teachers and policy makers involved in Aboriginal education I dug out my first book on Australian history which had been given when I was about seven years old. Titled Australia From the Beginning (Pownall, 1980), the book was written for children and was not a scholarly book. It surprised me, then, to find so many of my own understandings and assumptions about Aboriginal affairs and race relations in this book despite four years of what had seemed quite liberal education in Australian history.

scholarly journals TECHNICAL PROPERTIES AND RESEARCH CAPABILITIES OF THE TRUCK SIMULATOR OWNED BY THE MILITARY INSTITUTE OF AVIATION MEDICINE – A NEW PERSPECTIVE IN RESEARCH ON TRUCK DRIVERS

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 26-31
Author(s):  
PAULINA BARAN ◽  
◽  
MARIUSZ KREJ ◽  
MARCIN PIOTROWSKI ◽  
ŁUKASZ DZIUDA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Driving Simulator ◽  
Truck Drivers ◽  
Aviation Medicine ◽  
Motion System ◽  
Technical Properties ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Military Institute ◽  
The Military

Abstract: This paper is aimed at presenting basic technical properties and possibilities of using the truck simulator owned by the Military Institute of Aviation Medicine (MIAM). The truck driving simulator is a stationary device, equipped with a six degrees of freedom (6 DoF|) motion system and reproducing the functionality of a truck on the basis of the Mercedes Benz Actros cabin. It is intended for conducting research as well as training truck drivers in simulated traffic conditions.

The Irony of Protest: Vietnam and The Path to Permanent War

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Preston
Keyword(s):  
Vietnam War ◽  
Direct Action ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
American Military ◽  
Us Government ◽  
Vietnam Syndrome ◽  
Aerial Warfare ◽  
Revolution In Military Affairs ◽  
The Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was one of the most controversial issues in 1968. The intense and polarised debate between anti-war demonstrators and defenders of the Vietnam War cast a shadow on US foreign policy, engendering what came to be termed the “Vietnam Syndrome” amongst policy-makers and the public. This chapter assesses the legacies of pro- and anti-war activism, arguing that the debates that took place during the late 1960s remained relevant long after US troops had left Indochina. Yet the possibility that direct action could prevent or divert American military intervention diminished over time due to two fundamental adjustments made in the wake of the turmoil of Vietnam: the end of the draft and the shift to an all-volunteer military; and a revolution in military affairs that used advanced technology to wage aerial warfare in place of the mass deployment of ground troops. Resistance to the Vietnam War thus had an ironic long-term effect: the US government found a way both to intervene militarily and blunt the effectiveness of popular antiwar protest.

ID Scanners and Überveillance in the Night-Time Economy

2015 ◽  
pp. 1546-1563
Author(s):  
Darren Palmer ◽  
Ian Warren ◽  
Peter Miller
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Technological Determinism ◽  
Effective Solution ◽  
Night Time ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Key Informants ◽  
Legal Remedy

ID scanners are promoted as an effective solution to the problems of anti-social behavior and violence in many urban nighttime economies. However, the acceptance of this and other forms of computerized surveillance to prevent crime and anti-social behavior is based on several unproven assumptions. After outlining what ID scanners are and how they are becoming a normalized precondition of entry into one Australian nighttime economy, this chapter demonstrates how technology is commonly viewed as the key to preventing crime despite recognition of various problems associated with its adoption. The implications of technological determinism amongst policy makers, police, and crime prevention theories are then critically assessed in light of several issues that key informants talking about the value of ID scanners fail to mention when applauding their success. Notably, the broad, ill-defined, and confused notion of “privacy” is analyzed as a questionable legal remedy for the growing problems of überveillance.

Historic-Phenomenological Evaluation of the Christian Experience in the Threshold of Human Development in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
pp. 132-152
Author(s):  
Victor Bassey Edet
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Spiritual Transformation ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Christian Missions ◽  
The People ◽  
Role Of Religion

Evolving discourses within the sphere of Christian experience and social development reveals that social transformation in the society cannot be separated from spiritual transformation. Religion as a social phenomenon has therefore become an acknowledged and strategic dimension in the development thinking and practice in contemporary society. But despite apparent contributions of religion to the development of many societies such as Nigeria, the role of religion, especially Christianity, has not been given due recognition in the history and development of a number of societies such as Ibesikpo Asutan of Akwa Ibom State. This study therefore examines the religious experience of the people towards development between 1912 when Christianity arrived and 2019. The method adopted for this work is the phenomenological and descriptive designs. Findings reveal that besides the consciousness of the transcendent and the question of God's existence, Christian missions in Ibesikpo Asutan have contributed immensely toward the development of the area.

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