A Perturbed Peace: Applying Complexity Theory to UN Peacekeeping

applying transitivity theory to gender analysis of efl textbook: : a comparative study.

efl/esl textbooks have been regarded as essential language teaching materials with which the learners spend about 70 up to 90 percent of their class time. the important role they play and their vast use make them not only influential in learning the language but also in shaping values and attitudes. put it another way, textbooks socialize learners using their contents (i.e. texts, illustrations...

Redefining Control: Applying Complexity Theory to Corporate Governance

A series of reports though the 1990’s developed a set of principles for boards of directors of UK listed companies to apply, primarily based on information that should be disclosed in the annual report. While some recognition was given to the role of directors within their organisations, little in either these reports or the contemporary literature suggests how this can be done. This paper show...

978 - 0 - 521 - 88138 - 8 - UN Peacekeeping in Civil Wars

Civil war is the most important and troubling problem in international life today. Aside from the tragic killing and injury of innocent civilians, violent civil conflicts inspire lingering, seemingly intractable ills such as state collapse, corruption, dire poverty, rampant injustice, dislocation, environmental degradation, and disease, all of which may in turn instigate renewed and spreading c...

An assessment of the effectiveness of UN peacekeeping operations

Applying KT Network Complexity to a Highly-Partnered Knowledge Transfer Effort; Comment on “Using Complexity and Network Concepts to Inform Healthcare Knowledge Translation”

The re-conceptualization of knowledge translation (KT) in Kitson and colleagues’ manuscript “Using Complexity and Network Concepts to Inform Healthcare Knowledge Translation” is an advancement in how one can incorporate implementation into the KT process. Kitson notes that “the challenge is to explain how it might help in the healthcare policy, practice, and research communities.” We propose th...