Abstract Cities have always been the place where 'diversity' has settled, within a substantial ethnic, cultural, religious and linguistic identity. The author's emphasis on need for cultural policy migration welcoming not in 'moral' terms but relation to mutual interest between different peoples cultures. A which highlights allows peaceful coexistence sharing, provides basis what can be called ...

The paper analyses the representation of mother figure in thirteen short stories by Lygia Fagundes Telles, published between 1949 and 2007. Proving her status as a major contemporary Brazilian literature, poses question from multiple perspectives, also using wide diversity styles tones. In some narratives, more or less common reasonably peaceful situations are enacted, but there others that cou...

We investigate the role of networks of alliances in preventing (multilateral) interstate wars. We first show that, in the absence of international trade, no network of alliances is peaceful and stable. We then show that international trade induces peaceful and stable networks: Trade increases the density of alliances so that countries are less vulnerable to attack and also reduces countries' in...