Having rebuilt its military, Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 and has now positioned more than 100,000 troops on borders, challenging NATO’s supposed encirclement of military capabilities Central Europe. The West responded with threats unprecedented sanctions. This crisis stems from the Soviet Union’s collapse West’s effort to create a ‘Europe whole free’ at peace. failed convince play positive r...

Summary This article focuses on the quest for digitalisation in peace mediation and to extent which digital disruption is reshaping its practices. While wider field of diplomacy has seen dramatic changes practices, a ‘latecomer’. The explores constitutive effects specific norms practices identifies opportunities as well restraining even counterproductive digitalisation. Digital technologies, to...

With regard to literature, improved estimations for the number of possible moves and placements are provided, showing that the complexity of Diplomacy is enormous, making it a good candidate for machine learning and evolutionary learning techniques. To enhance the playing strength of an existing Diplomacy bot and alleviate the distance to the presumed best current bot, a look-ahead planning com...

It has recently been argued that apparent peace between democracies may be the result of political similarity rather than joint democracy, and that there may exist an “autocratic peace” which is similar to the democratic peace. If political similarity generally is the cause of peace rather than joint democracy specifically, then the democratic peace is merely a statistical artifact that follows...

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...

This article draws on new data and analyses to investigate whether the contractualist peace supersedes the democratic peace. A series of studies have shown that contractualist economy accounts for the democratic peace, but defenders of the democratic peace claim that these studies contain measurement errors, that democracy correlates with peace at least in interaction with contractualist econom...

U-M Peace Corps representative [email protected] [1] Our U-M Peace Corps office is staffed by one or more Peace Corps recruiters who are returned Peace Corps Volunteers and U-M graduate students. Our Peace Corps recruiters provide information about the Peace Corps, advise those who may consider joining, and accept applications from prospective volunteers. The Peace Corps recruiters maintain...

Discusses the implication of peace negotiations in the political democratization and social justice in Guatemala. Elements of the peace process; Phases of the civil war; Formation of the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity; Creation of peace accords; Role of the United Nations Verification Mission on peace accords; Achievement of peace accords. Archdiocese Of Guatemala. 1999. Guatemala, Nev...

Conventional assumptions locating peacebuilding temporally after violence have largely prevented exploration of how is practiced amidst conditions ongoing violence. This article ad...