Difficult deterrence decisions

Deterrence: a Difficult Challenge for the International Criminal Court

This paper addresses the question of whether the international criminal court can deter future violations of human rights. The author argues that this endeavor, while promising, is still in an incipient stage and that the general expectation that human rights violations will be deterred through the mere establishment of the court is ill founded. Neutralization—that is, depriving perpetrators of...

Evaluating Evidence When Making Difficult Decisions

This paper presents the case for using the Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence and a derivative of it, to model the reasoning process in debates on difficult philosophical, theological and scientific questions. This gives a useful formal framework within which to enhance the debating process. A well-known theological debate and two scientific exemplars are given for illustration of the working a...

Difficult Intraoperative Decisions during Colic Surgery

One of the first major surgeries many equine surgical residents will log as a primary surgeon will be an emergency colic surgery. Being adequately prepared for this challenge and able to make correct intraoperative decisions is imperative for successful case outcome. Arguably the two greatest challenges faced during colic surgery are assessing bowel viability, and overall patient survivability ...

Choice processing in emotionally difficult decisions.

Choice conflicts between one's important values may cause negative emotion. This article extends the standard effort-accuracy approach to explaining task influences on decision processing by arguing that coping goals will interact with effort minimization and accuracy maximization goals for negatively emotion-laden decision tasks. These coping goals may involve both a desire to process in a tho...

Difficult decisions for long-term tube-feeding.