Media coverage of third party peace initiatives [1] a case of peace journalism? Inhalt 1. Media and conflict escalation 1 2. Media coverage of alternative ways to settle the Gulf War 2 2.1 Method 2 2.2 Empirical results 5 3. Limitations of quantitative analysis 7 4. Media coverage of third party peace initiatives 8 4.1 Method 8 Though the coverage of alternatives to violence can be regarded as ...

My lightening visit to the Wilton Park conference on "Women Targeted by Armed Conflict: What Role for Military Peacekeepers?" last Wednesday was a real eye-opener. Since this trip was sandwiched between International Peacekeeping Day [1] on Thursday and Tuesday's release of a new report by Save the Children UK [2] showing that girls and boys in conflict-affected countries such as Sudan, the Ivo...

Conflicts in cyberspace are a reality: elements of any political, economic and military conflict now take place in and around the internet. Not surprisingly cyberwar has become a buzzword in the media and in the political debate. The term has come to refer to any phenomenon involving a deliberate disruptive or destructive use of computers. There also is a widespread tendency to hype the issue w...

During a period of military conflict towards the end of the 1990s, Eritrea experienced a remarkable decline in fertility. This decline has been a concern to many Eritreans. An important issue of concern has been whether the decline is driven primarily by the recent border conflict with Ethiopia or by changes in other factors including delay in age at marriage, improvements in child survival and...

We present the results of our work on applying genetic algorithms combined with a discrete event simulation to the problem of convoy scheduling. We show that this approach can automatically remove conflicts from a convoy schedule thereby providing to the human operator the ability to search for better solutions after an initial conflict free schedule is obtained. We demonstrate that it is feasi...

I critically review recent studies that estimate those costs of violence and conflict that can emerge among organized political groupings, from states, religious and ethnic organizations to guerillas and paramilitaries. The review includes studies that estimate direct and indirect costs due to internal conflicts (civil wars and other lowerlevel conflicts), terrorism, and external conflicts, inc...

Humanitarian aid in settings of conflict has always been fraught with challenges. In the absence of political engagement, however, manipulation by state authorities, however, have the potential to pervert aid intervention to inflict harm. South Sudan exemplifies how states may abuse the humanitarian response to retreat from public responsibility, divert funds to further violence and conflict an...

In this paper we present an application where we put together two methods for clustering and classification into a force aggregation method. Both methods are based on conflicts between elements. These methods work with different type of elements (intelligence reports, vehicles, military units) on different hierarchical levels using specific conflict assessment methods on each level. We use Demp...

This paper addresses the endogeneity of ethnic settlement patterns and conflict, that is, how settlement patterns affect conflict, and how conflict in turn changes the ethnic map. I argue that the application of violence during conflict is driven by the territorial aspirations of ethnic groups. Locations where territorial claims clash should see more violence as groups struggle for control of a...

Does public debate about the pros and cons of the UK's involvement in Iraq undermine the chances of military success? Radha Iyengar examines the incentives of Iraqi insurgent groups to commit acts of violence, their responses to public opinion in the West, and the lessons for both communications policy and counter-insurgency strategy. T he Chilcot inquiry into the UK's involvement in Iraq betwe...