Soumita Basu, Paul Kirby und Laura J. Shepherd (Hg.): New Directions in Women, Peace and Security

Peace without Security Violence against Women and Girls in Liberia

Liberia's civil wars are often mis­ taken ly perceived as marking the beginning of widespread violence against women and girls (VAWG) in the country. This may derive from a commonly held view that sexual vio­ lence 1 —more than any other single factor—epitomizes the atrocities committed throughout the 14 years of civil conflict, during which rape was widely used as a 'weapon of war' (Omanyondo,...

nEW dIrECTIonS In DemOgrAPhiC SeCurity

Climate change is expected to alter the availability of freshwater, the productive capacity of soils, and patterns of human settlement. But we do not know the extent and geographical distribution of these changes, nor can we know how climate-related environmental change may influence human societies and political systems. The most dire predictions warn that climate change may greatly increase t...

New Directions in RFID Security

Current research in RFID security focuses on basic authentication protocols between a tag and a reader. In this paper, we claim that, in future, different new RFID-based scenarios will play an increasing role. In particular, we propose two new research directions: 1. Multi-Tag Security, and 2. RFID-based Payment. In multi-tag security, multiple tags try to jointly compute an information while u...

Peace and Security

This article addresses the topics of peace and security in the context of human development and explores their various meanings and manifestations at the national and international levels. First, it defines the concept of peace, suggesting that peace is not simply the absence of violence (negative peace) but includes the structural conditions that create positive peace in a society. Next, the a...

Tolstoy ’ s Mathematics in War and Peace PAUL