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...

Inspired by the recent Democratic National Primary, we consider settings in which the members of a distributed population must balance their individual preferences over candidates with a requirement to quickly achieve collective unity. We formalize such settings as the “Democratic Primary Problem” (DPP) over an undirected graph, whose local structure models the social influences acting on

Modern organic metaphors for society have run parallel to the very idea of sociology as a science, starting with Comte and Spencer’s use of the term ‘‘social organism’’ (Comte, 1830–42; Spencer, 1897). These metaphors provide a self-renewing source of debate, analogies, and disanalogies. Processes of social regulation, conservation, growth, and reproduction provoke an irresistible epistemic res...

in the modern era, under the  influence of the western literary criticism has been highly spoken  about organic  unity in arabic ode but many  researchers and critics is established incomplete concept of organic unity in their minds and think it means the ode become confined  to an personal experience or a feeling and while they study it in the poetry they are amaze between logical unity and th...

Rob Kling, his research interests, and his advocacy were at the center of a movement in analytical inquiry and empirical research now known as ‘social informatics’. His unexpected death in May, 2003 was a loss. Despite our loss, those of us who engage in social informatics research are finding unity by strengthening and furthering the conceptual perspective, analytical approaches, and intellect...

Abstract This essay examines the term duoyuan yiti , ‘pluralistic unity’, in cultural and artistic contexts China its use everyday speech form of metaphors. It briefly introduces history this provides examples political speech, academic writing grassroots communication. The article also analyses discourses, phrases ideas that have been constructed around noting their profound impact on social l...