This series focuses on the interface between indigenous culture and conflict resolution and peacebuilding. African culture, viewed as knowledge, practices and institutions, does not form a large part of the tools and mechanisms for resolving conflict and building peace in Africa. This is due to the prominence of external initiatives of conflict resolution and peace initiatives based on liberal ...

where between ethnocentrism and literalism, especially in the case of Islam, have brought little distinctive anthropological analysis to bear successfully on the practical realities and political ideologies of religions. In addition, the popular assertion that certain ethnic groups that have had conflicts over centuries will continue to fight with one another is but an idea fuelled by numerous ...

Weuse laboratory experiments to explore merger failure due to conflicting organizational cultures. We introduce a laboratory paradigm for studying organizational culture that captures several key elements of the phenomenon. In our experiments, we allow subjects in “firms” to develop a culture, and then merge two firms. As expected, performance decreases following the merging of two laboratory f...

ABSTRACT In this paper, I examine Louise Erdrich’s short story “Saint Marie (1934)” excerpted from her novel Love Medicine. The narrative, told from the perspective of Marie Lazarre, a young woman of mixed Chippewa Native American and “white” Anglo-American heritage, details the events of her time at the Sacred Heart Convent under the strict tutelage of Sister Leopolda where Marie undergoes sev...

Th is chapter reviews a body of research on sacred values and cultural confl ict. Research conducted in the West Bank, Iran, Indonesia, and India reveals that when people transform a resource, idea, or activity into a sacred value, normative approaches to dispute resolution may fail. In a series of experiments, the authors fi nd that off ering material incentives to encourage people to compromi...

The medical community has hailed the recent movement to provide patient-centered care as a progressive step forward in meeting the needs of the very diverse patient population of the United States. Stakeholders in all arenas of U.S. medicine-professional organizations, public advocacy groups, hospital administration, medical school leadership, insurance carriers, and nursing-have embraced the f...

on the basis of constitution and social and cultural contexts, each country has its own private international law system. concerning countries with federal system like the united states of america, conflict of laws not only may occur between laws of the united states and law of the other countries, but also in a distinctive manner, among states of the usa together. european :union: is in the sa...