Processes of constitutional discussion increasingly invite widespread popular inclusion and participation. Conceptual practical problems remain, not least the respects in which is to take place. In deeply divided places, these challenges are intensified, first difficulties conceptualising inclusion, second dangers participation may pose peace. We tackle empirically by looking at a hard case ami...

Terrorism is one of many possible tactics to which actors may resort in political conflicts; however, previous studies of the strategic substitution within terrorism have primarily focused on shifts in attack modes following government countermeasures. Yet, the decision to resort to specific violent tactics can be highly complex, and will typically also depend on number of factors other than go...

1 School of Computing and Mathematics and Computer Science Research Institute, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Northern Ireland Emails: {x.hong; cd.nugent; md.mulvenna}@ulster.ac.uk 2 School of Computer Science, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland Emails: {w.liu; jma03}@qub.ac.uk 3 School of Computing and Information Engineering and Computer Science Research Institute, University of...

1Neuropathology Laboratory, Royal Group of Hospitals Trust, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom; 2School of Biology and Biochemistry, The Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom; 3School of Medicine, The Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom; 4Department of Biology, University of Oldenberg, Oldenberg, Germany; and 5INRS-I...

E. S. Wallace PhD, J. A. White PhD*, A. Downie FFOMt, G. Dalzell MDt and D. Doran BA§ Department of Sport and Leisure Studies and NIBEC, University of Ulster, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK, *Department of Public Health Medicine and Epidemiology, University Hospital, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK, tOccupational Health, Safety, and Environmental Services, Northern Telecom Europe Li...

We assessed awareness and control of hypertension and hypercholesterolaemia in a cross-sectional study of 586 men from France and 189 from Northern Ireland, aged 35-55, without known coronary artery disease. Prevalence of hypertension was 28% in France and 31% in Northern Ireland (p < 0.42). In France, 70% of hypertensive subjects were aware of their status, vs. 58% in Northern Ireland (p < 0.1...

BACKGROUND Over one billion children are exposed worldwide to political violence and armed conflict. Currently, conclusions about bases for adjustment problems are qualified by limited longitudinal research from a process-oriented, social-ecological perspective. In this study, we examined a theoretically-based model for the impact of multiple levels of the social ecology (family, community) on ...

Background and objectives: Dissociative disorders remain relatively controversial diagnoses in British psychiatry. The aim of the current paper was to assess Northern Irish psychiatric patients with complex clinical presentations for dissociative disorders. Method: Twenty patients meeting operationally defined criteria for psychiatric complexity were blindly assessed by a psychiatrist in a diag...