Peace Witness

Violence , Peace , and Peace Research

Witness Sets

Given a set C of binary n-tuples and c ∈ C, how many bits of c suffice to distinguish it from the other elements in C ? We shed new light on this old combinatorial problem and improve on previously known bounds.

The Peace

From the eminent point of view which the happy consummation of peace has led us to, we may survey at our leisure the condition of the European powers. Warned by the past, we look upon the present state of the world with a cautious, as well as a critical eye. According to our conception, the study of Mind, in its broad physiognomy of nations and dynasties, of religion and civilization, is the hi...

Peace Negotiations and Peace Talks: the Peace Process in the Public Sphere

The article develops an understanding of public deliberations during a peace process, focusing on the interaction between the elite level negotiations and the “public peace process.” It does so by examining the dialogical mechanisms that are set to work in the public sphere once the elite consider the possibility of identifying the former enemies as allies or friends. These dialogical mechanism...

Delegateable Signature Using Witness Indistinguishable and Witness Hiding Proofs

A delegateable signature scheme is a signature scheme where the owner of the signing key(Alice) can securely delegate to another party(Bob) the ability to sign on Alice’s behalf on a restricted subset S of the message space. Barak first defined and constructed this signature scheme using non-interactive zero-knowledge proof of knowledge(NIZKPK)[1]. In his delegateable signature scheme, the func...