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Der vorliegende Beitrag informiert über den methodologischen Ansatz der Projektgruppe Friedensforschung Konstanz und stellt textanalytische Verfahren in den Kontext konstruktiver Konfliktbewältigung im weitesten Sinne. Ausgehend vom Primat des Gegenstandes vor der Methode zielt dieser Ansatz auf die Entwicklung einer integrativen Methodologie ab, welche quantitative und qualitative Methoden miteinander verbindet. Die Sozialpsychologische Rekonstruktion versteht sich dementsprechend nicht als eine spezifische Methode der Textanalyse, sondern als eine Familie von kommunikationsanalytischen Verfahren, die durch eine gemeinsame theoretische Konzeption miteinander verbunden sind und ein breites Methodenspektrum abdecken, welches von textinterpretativen bis hin zu inhaltsanalytischen Verfahren reicht.

The Korean War, having started on June 25, 1950, has never formally ended. As the two Koreas are technically still at war, the conflict on the Korean Peninsula has become intractable. The goal of this study is to explore the attitudes of South Koreans living in the intractable conflict about how to achieve peace. To fulfill this goal, we conducted a nation-wide survey to investigate attitudes toward militant and cooperative internationalism. We also measured various variables involved with the intractable conflict. Our results indicate that the value of international harmony and equality as well as attitudes toward peace are the best predictors of cooperative internationalism, while the value of international harmony and equality as well as the attitudes toward war were the strongest predictors of militant internationalism. Our results also suggest that the tendency to regard inter-Korean relations as zero-sum relations and the attitudes toward peace mediated the relationship between international harmony and cooperative internationalism, while the zero-sum perception and attitudes toward war on the Korean Peninsula mediated the same value factor and the cooperative internationalism. Possible implications are discussed.

In this paper, we described conflict is an unavoidable component of human activity. It is a normal daily occurrence. When it happens the next thing is resolution of conflict. Studies have shown that women are often exonerated when it comes to building peace and resolution of conflict. Given the second-class status of women in Africa, their skills and contributions are often under-valued and under-utilized. It this situation of women that lead the U.N. Security Council in Resolution 1325 reaffirmed the important role of women in peace building and resolution of conflicts and called for "their equal participation and full involvement in all efforts for the maintenance and promotion of peace and securityâ€. This paper draws upon known capacity of traditional Africa women in peace and resolution of conflict to better understand the implications of SCR1325, and proof that African women deserve to be included in peace building and resolution of conflict in Africa.Â

Este texto surge de los resultados de un proceso investigativo de incidencia llevado a cabo en el municipio de San Carlos durante los años 2016, 2017 y 2018 desde la Red Interuniversitaria por la Paz REDIPAZ e IPECAL, en el que se trazó como objetivo inicial comprender los significados construidos por las comunidades alrededor de la paz, el territorio, el conflicto armado y socioambiental, además de sus procesos y proyectos de vida colectivos; todo ello en el marco del inicio del proceso de implementación de los acuerdos de paz firmados entre el gobierno colombiano y las FARC-EP, dado que este municipio ha sido uno de los más afectados por el conflicto armado y a la vez, por el modelo económico extractivista que, de la mano de políticas estatales en alianza con multinacionales y capital privado, crean condiciones que atizan los fenómenos de violencia. Con base en esto, a medida que la investigación se fue desarrollando, fueron emergiendo otros interrogantes, entre ellos si puede ser el turismo una alternativa al modelo de desarrollo extractivista que no interfiera con las formas que tienen las comunidades para habitar sus territorios y que esté en línea con sus nociones de paz.

Study with special reference to case studies in Sri Lanka; includes very briefly case studies from South Africa, North Ireland, and Bangladesh

This article reviews the literature on gender, conflict, and peace. In traditional security studies there was not much room for gender or gender equality, while feminist theorists have claimed most of the research on war and peace. The empirical research on gender, conflict, and peace is a relatively new sub-field that brings together diverse traditions from sociology, feminist theory, international relations, and economic development. The common ground of all researchers included in this short review is the effort to systematically understand the role of gender in shaping outcomes of conflict and peace. Despite the increasing number of articles and new datasets, I identify four areas that scholars must address for the research agenda to further grow, deepen, and develop as part of the mainstream study of peace and conflict: women's status and quality of peace, women's participation, sexual violence, and gender mainstreaming to promote gender equality in development and peace.

"Approaches to Explaining Regional Conflict and Peace" published on by Oxford University Press.

In many conflicts, the consequences of engineering projects are among the problems at issue, and engineers are unavoidably parties to the problems. Engineers need to raise their awareness of the potential effects of their projects, especially in situations of serious social and political contention, and to explore alternative designs or engineering solutions, and methods of implementation, that may ameliorate rather than exacerbate tensions. Engineers will also need to dialogue effectively with the many stakeholders affected if these projects are to be politically viable and achieve their technical purposes. The paper draws on several case studies of engineering projects in conflict situations, especially in developing countries. The article offers a check list of factors to take into account when designing and locating power, irrigation, mining, transport, and other types of engineering projects, in areas of conflict or potential conflict. The focus of the paper is primarily, but not entirely, on social conflict.

Contents -- Preface -- List of Figures, Tables, and Graphs -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction. Walls: Ways of Being, Ways of Functioning, Ways of Being Transformed -- Part 1 Walls Dividing, Walls Uniting -- 1 Walls Dividing, Walls Uniting: Peace in Fusion, Peace in Separation -- Part 2 Macro Walls and Macro Networks -- 2 Why Empires Build Walls: The New Iron Curtain Around the European Union -- 3 The Enlargement Process and the "Dividing Lines of Europe" -- 4 Are Walls a National Security Issue? A View from the United States-Mexico Border