Intervention often does not lead to peace, but rather to prolonged con ict. Indeed, we document that it is an important source of prolonged con icts. We introduce a theoretical model of the balance of power to explain why this should be the case and to analyze how peace can be achieved: either a cold peace between hostile neighbors or the peace of the strong dominating the weak. Nonintervention...

This article describes an approach to assessing infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices using small-sample surveys which was developed jointly by VALID International; CONCERN Worldwide; Save the Children; the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation; the Niger National Institute of Statistics; the Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute (EHNRI); the Sudanese Federal Mini...

This book is an interesting collection of writings concerning the development of international partnerships and the pursuit of global peace. The book is divided into four basic parts that describe the international development of global peace by utilizing the concept of Global University. The precept here is to understand that the authors of the various topics believe that peace is obtainable i...

A conference on Approaches to Creating a Stable World Peace was held by the Maharishi International University (MIU) Institute of World Peace at MIU in the Spring of 1991.1 A common theme in the conference was that the basic structure and dynamics of society must change in order to achieve a stable world peace. The speakers described a variety of ways in which a stable world peace was being pur...

The article develops an understanding of public deliberations during a peace process, focusing on the interaction between the elite level negotiations and the “public peace process.” It does so by examining the dialogical mechanisms that are set to work in the public sphere once the elite consider the possibility of identifying the former enemies as allies or friends. These dialogical mechanism...

Religious elites are active for peace in many violent conflicts. Normative explanations of‐ ten do not suffice to explain their engagement. In this paper we draw on the findings of social‐movement research to identify the factors that induce rationally acting religious el‐ ites to be active for peace. It is their relationships to the government, other religious elites, and believers that c...

"If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle; we won't have to pass fruitless idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all that peace and love for which consciously or unconsciously the...

with respect to the fact that mohammad (pbuh) is the last prophet of allah and islam is the eternal religion and regarding the spitefulness of the enemies of islam, the question that arises is that how the prophet reacted politically to expand islam and to confront his enemies. in this article three types of foreign policy behaviours of the prophet, i.e. invitation, war and defense , and peace,...

What makes security relations stable and, therefore, conducive to permanent peace? When and why is the peace in a region so stable that the outbreak of a major war is unlikely or perhaps even inconceivable? There are essentially two ways to answer these questions; either a given system must possess necessary structural prerequisites of stability, or the social and cognitive conditions of stabil...