What’s So Peaceful about Asian Peace?

Peace psychology for a peaceful world.

Although the literature in peace psychology has been growing rapidly, many American psychologists are unaware of how conflict is resolved and peace is conceptualized and achieved. This article reviews the long history and broadening scope of peace psychology and introduces a model of peace that is useful for organizing the literature. The model suggests that peace can be facilitated at four dif...

Peace of mind about pesticides.

In August President Clinton continued his campaign of using federal action to protect food safety when he signed into law an overhaul of the legislation that sets permissible levels for pesticide residues in foods. The legislation (P.L. 104-170), known as the Food Quality Protection Act, supplants sections of both the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Federal F...

The Complexity of Peace: A Case Study of the Peaceful Islamic-Christian Coexistence in Senegal

So what ’ s so special about spatial ?

Geospatial information can act as a thread that can be used to integrate information from heterogeneous sources. It does so by exploiting common location information components that often exist across different domains. As such it has the potential to be a valuable resource in the implementation of the Semantic Web. This paper examines the challenges of adding a geospatial component to the Web,...

Rapid Survey of Wasting and Stunting in Children: Whats New, Whats Old and Whats the Buzz?

Nationwide Rapid Survey on Children (RSoC), conducted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development and UNICEF in 2013-14 showed a marked improvement in the status of the child malnutrition over the third National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) that was conducted in 2005-06. Despite some impressive gains in the anthropometric indicators of malnutrition, the absolute levels remain high, and of c...