BACKGROUND Although the consequences of disability are magnified in humanitarian contexts, research into the difficulties of caring for children with a disability in such settings has received limited attention. METHODS Based on in-depth interviews with 31 families, key informants and focus group discussions in Turkana, Kenya, this article explores the lives of families caring for children wi...

Recent armed conflicts highlight the military’s need to develop new strategies that assist in situational assessment and planning for combating insurgent operations. Although insurgent warfare tactics have been used for thousands of years, the degree to which they have been recently employed presents an especially significant challenge. One of the challenges the intelligence community faces in ...

This paper examines the impact of armed conflict on the lives of the forestdependent poor in Nepal. Based on a survey study carried out in four districts among forest-dependent poor and their service providers, the findings show that the armed conflict is severely affecting the lives and living conditions of the poor. The lack of food, drinking water, education, health care and employment oppor...

this study investigates the effect of women's employment on family and social relations in the city of aran & bidgol. the theoretical framework of research is role conflict theory. survey methods is used in this study and the statistical population included all women working in the city of aran & bidgol. using cochran's formula and simple random sampling, 250 married women were select...

The health and vitality of relationships, groups, and society at large is strongly challenged by social dilemmas or conflicts between short-term self-interest and long-term collective interest. Pollution, depletion of natural resources, and intergroup conflict can be characterized as examples of urgent social dilemmas. This article advances a conceptual framework in which we analyze social dile...

The kinship theory of genomic imprinting predicts that conflicts of interest between parents can promote the evolution of opposed expression patterns of maternally and paternally derived alleles in the offspring. The social Hymenoptera (ants, some bees, and some wasps) are particularly suitable to test this theory, because a variety of social conflicts are predicted due to relatedness asymmetri...