Capturing group alignments: Introducing the Government and Armed Actors Relations Dataset (GAARD)

Sexual violence in armed conflict: Introducing the SVAC dataset, 1989–2009

Which armed groups have perpetrated sexual violence in recent conflicts? This article presents patterns from the new Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict (SVAC) dataset. The dataset, coded from the three most widely used sources in the quantitative human rights literature, covers 129 active conflicts, and the 625 armed actors involved in these conflicts, during the period 1989–2009. The unit of ob...

The Representation of Social Actors in the Graduate Employability Issue: Online News and the Government Document

This paper presents the first part of a larger study on the issue of graduate employability in Malaysia as construed in public discourse in English, a language of power in Malaysia. The term employability itself has many definitions depending on the requirements of government and industry, and in the case of Malaysia, the English-language ability of graduates is inseparable from graduate employ...

A Knowledge Management System for E-government Projects and Actors

The paper presents a knowledge management system designed for the Italian Department of Technology and Innovation (Dipartimento per l’Innovazione e le Tecnologie, www.mininnovazione.it)1. The Department need is to promote the realization of e-government projects on a local basis, supporting all actors involved in the design and implementation of egovernment projects in Italy. In the pursue of t...

The Role of Government and Local Actors in the Tourism Industry Development in Iran: An Unsuccessful Intervention Model

This study designed to give us a better understanding of the experiences and mechanism of the Government intervention in tourism industry development in Iran. This study is mainly focused on the government relations With local community According to their acceptance or disagreement with tourism development project in their region. Having used Phenomenology Strategy in order to understand the ex...

Forgotten Actors: Exploring the Use of Pro-Government Militias