Beyond the “Conflict” Paradigm

A way forward in protecting health services in conflict: moving beyond the humanitarian paradigm

Leonard S. Rubenstein* Leonard S. Rubenstein, JD, is Senior Scholar and Director of the Program on Human Rights, Health and Conflict at the Center for Human Rights and Public Health of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is also Chair of the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition. Before joining Johns Hopkins, Mr. Rubenstein served as President of Physicians for Human Rig...

Psychiatry beyond the current paradigm.

A series of editorials in this Journal have argued that psychiatry is in the midst of a crisis. The various solutions proposed would all involve a strengthening of psychiatry's identity as essentially 'applied neuroscience'. Although not discounting the importance of the brain sciences and psychopharmacology, we argue that psychiatry needs to move beyond the dominance of the current, technologi...

Evolution of the interpersonal conflict paradigm

Using Brunswik’s (1952) lens model framework, Hammond (1965) proposed interpersonal conflict theory to explain the nature, source, and resolution of disagreement or “cognitive conflict” between parties performing judgment tasks. An early review by Brehmer (1976) highlighted the potential of this approach in, for example, understanding the structure of cognitive conflicts, and the effect of task...

Conflict Resolution Mechanisms in a Cognitive Conflict Paradigm

Situated Adaptive Software: beyond the Object Paradigm

This paper reviews our progress towards a new software paradigm extending the object paradigm, based on hidden order sorted algebra. Our goal is to produce software that is much more adaptable to context, and is also highly reliable and predictable. We nd the logic of algebra, which is equational logic, especially convenient because of its simple and eecient mech-anisation of reasoning. We show...