Abstract This paper investigates four questions related to ethical issues associated with the involvement of engineers and scientists in 'military work', including influence values beliefs, role gendered perspectives moves beyond purely technical. It fits strongly into a human (and planet)-centred systems perspective extends my previous AI Society papers on othering narrative ethics, ethics soc...

<p>Differences are a necessity that humans cannot deny, including differences in matters of belief and religion. Humans living side by community should be able to create harmonious, safe peaceful life. However, harmonious relations between religious adherents often disrupted for various reasons. Religious people, who respect care one another, provoked so differences, which understood as g...

This article addresses the topics of peace and security in the context of human development and explores their various meanings and manifestations at the national and international levels. First, it defines the concept of peace, suggesting that peace is not simply the absence of violence (negative peace) but includes the structural conditions that create positive peace in a society. Next, the a...

an impressive international apparatus dedicated to peacebuilding—that is, the attempt to build stable, legitimate, and effective states after war—has emerged.1 The arst sustained push in this direction came with the development of second-generation peacekeeping operations that both monitored cease-ares and attempted to help states emerging from civil wars develop the requisites for a stable pea...

The article analyses the political utilization of EU-funded research in support EU conflict prevention and peacebuilding. By an institutional empirical analysis, it seeks to assess extent which this ‘high politics’ area is utilized policy-making. analysis shows a highly complex path-dependent structure for policymaking, marked by spill-over dynamics supranational entrepreneurship. focussed on H...

The complex and protracted nature of contemporary violent conflicts in Nigeria other parts the world poses increasingly significant challenges to resolution armed conflicts. Traditional peace mediation strategies techniques have proven largely inefficient responding emerging security presented by revolving around religious ethnopolitical affiliations or issues related perceptions group identity...

Available online 18 December 2014 Given that women consistently receive less attention thanmen in peace building and that gender analysis rarely informs strategies related to conflict transformation, this article examines how a European Union (EU) PEACE III project, titled Women and Peacebuilding: Sharing the Learning, addresses this gap. It challenges the hierarchal nature of the dialogue on p...

Neighbor-on-neighbor killing causes lasting harm to individuals, communities and societies. Even though the territory has been divided, a geographical proximity that has particular consequences remains along ethnic lines. In such context, when antagonist parties must live as proximate neighbors, post-conflict trauma must be addressed for reconciliation to occur. In ex-Yugoslavia, years of vario...

As the knowledge discovery process has been widely applied in a variety of domains, there is a growing opportunity to use the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud as a primary data source for knowledge discovery. The tasks of finding the relevant data from various sources and then using that data for the desired analysis are the key challenges. There is a striking increase on the availability of statis...

Empathic failures are common in hostile intergroup contexts; repairing empathy is therefore a major focus of peacebuilding efforts. However, it is unclear which aspect of empathy is most relevant to intergroup conflict. Although trait empathic concern predicts prosociality in interpersonal settings, we hypothesized that the best predictor of meaningful intergroup attitudes and behaviors might n...