Peace-Making, Adat and Tama Bulan Wang

Making PEACE a Dynamic Alterable System

The Peace distributed operating system makes massively parallel systems work. This duty could not be fulllled ingeniously if at the outset many hundreds to thousands of autonomous cooperating nodes had to be supplied with a complete operating system. Therefore, starting from a minimal subset of system functions, exibility referring to dynamic alterations is required. This exibility is supported...

EHPnet: Making Peace with the Environment

Garcinia kola tree, known as "bitter kola," to treat infectious diseases. This treatment has no apparent side effects. In vitro tests of the plant identified 46 biochemical principles that appear to kill bacteria and viruses, including the deadly Ebola virus, the cause of fatal hemorrhagic fever. "The same forest that yields the dreaded Ebola virus could be a source of the cure," said Maurice I...

Why is there no peace in Israel? - The Effect of Ambiguity on Peace-making

Motivated by the peace process in Israel I define a peace-making game by positive aggregate externalities and strategic complements and provide a characterization of equilibria without uncertainty. I argue that under the realistic scenario two pure equilibria exists involving either full peace-making efforts or no at all by both parties. I show that under Knightian uncertainty, that is uncertai...

Violence , Peace , and Peace Research

International Peace-Making—Creating Post-Conflict Structures of Government

The means by which ethno-religious conflicts are resolved must themselves be “peace-ful”. So arbitration must be neutral, i.e., international. And discussions must involve not just the combatants but also representatives of those in civil society who are not involved in the conflict. After much shuttle diplomacy perhaps, they must all come together to reach a settlement. In other words, they sh...