This chapter addresses the case study of mediation in Syria, examining mixed approach to Syrian peacemaking process involving both determined-designed and adaptive mediation. It assesses multiple sometimes conflicting roles individual institutional actors, internal external, analyzes how involved actors ‘adapted’ contextual complexities unique ways varying degrees despite preexisting constraint...

This paper describes a research project that addresses the difficulties in dealing with regulatory documents such as national and regional codes. These documents tend to be voluminous, heavily cross-referenced, possibly ambiguous and even conflicting at times. There are often multiple documents that need to be consulted and satisfied; however it is a difficult task to locate all of the relevant...

Abstract This study examines the concept of “description” and its theoretical foundations. The literature about it is surprisingly limited, usage vague, sometimes even conflicting. Description should be considered in relation to other processes, such as representation, data capturing, categorizing, which raises question what means describe something. often used for any type predication but may ...

This paper is a comparative study of the elite capture in Pakistan and developmental structure South Korea. The seeks to examine: why does Pakistani state remain captured by social actors, despite similar post-colonial geopolitical trajectories Korea, failing set up transform into an Asian tiger? On other hand, Korea was able become achieved high rates economic growth, uplifting living standard...

Introduction With the increasing demand on productivity, quality, and availability, machines have become more complex and capital intensive. Developing and implementing a maintenance programme is a difficult process that suffers from many problems. It often suffers from lack of a systematic and a consistent methodology. In addition, since the process of developing the programme relates to diffe...