Tag: Conflict

Free Download Brian Sandberg, "War and Conflict in the Early Modern World: 1500 – 1700"
English | 2016 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 0745646026, 0745646034 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
In this latest addition to the War & Conflict Through the Ages series, Brian Sandberg offers a truly global examination of the intersections between war, culture, and society in the early modern period. He traces the innovative military technologies and practices that emerged around 1500, exploring the different forms of warfare including dynastic war, religious warfare, raiding warfare, and peasant revolt that shaped conflicts during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He explains how significant social, economic, and political developments transformed warfare on land and at sea at a time of global imperialism and growing mercantilism, forcing states and military systems to respond to rapidly changing situations.

Free Download Visual Occupations: Violence and Visibility in a Conflict Zone By Gil Z. Hochberg
2015 | 225 Pages | ISBN: 0822359014 | PDF | 3 MB
In Visual Occupations Gil Z. Hochberg shows how the Israeli Occupation of Palestine is driven by the unequal access to visual rights, or the right to control what can be seen, how, and from which position. Israel maintains this unequal balance by erasing the history and denying the existence of Palestinians, and by carefully concealing its own militarization. Israeli surveillance of Palestinians, combined with the militarized gaze of Israeli soldiers at places like roadside checkpoints, also serve as tools of dominance. Hochberg analyzes various works by Palestinian and Israeli artists, among them Elia Suleiman, Rula Halawani, Sharif Waked, Ari Folman, and Larry Abramson, whose films, art, and photography challenge the inequity of visual rights by altering, queering, and manipulating dominant modes of representing the conflict. These artists’ creation of new ways of seeing-such as the refusal of Palestinian filmmakers and photographers to show Palestinian suffering or the Israeli artists’ exposure of state manipulated Israeli blindness -offers a crucial gateway, Hochberg suggests, for overcoming and undoing Israel’s militarized dominance and political oppression of Palestinians.

Free Download Sanem Şahin, "Reporting Conflict and Peace in Cyprus: Journalism Matters"
English | ISBN: 3030950093 | 2022 | 226 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book studies journalism in Cyprus to understand how journalists negotiate their roles and responsibilities in conflict-affected societies. In Cyprus, journalism has navigated through the pressures and challenges of intercommunal and political tensions. The book outlines a historical context of the conflict, also known as the Cyprus problem and discusses the news media’s involvement in it. However, the primary concern is journalists’ perceptions of their professional roles and external forces affecting their work. It examines the impact of political, economic and organisational influences, media ownership and technological developments on their work through interviews conducted with journalists. It studies professional and ethical challenges journalists experience, especially when reporting intercommunal relations. Finally, it explores the impact of digital media on journalism and the public debate on the Cyprus problem.

Free Download Hamid E. Ali, "Natural Resources, Inequality and Conflict"
English | ISBN: 3030735575 | 2022 | 248 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This edited volume explores the link between natural resources and civil conflict, focusing especially on protest and violence in the context of mining and the extraction of minerals. The primary goal of the book is to analyze how the conflict-inducing effect of natural resources is mediated by inequality and grievances. Given the topicality of the current boom in mining, the main empirical focus is on non-fuel minerals. The work contains large-N studies of fuel and non-fuel resources and their effect on conflict. It presents case studies focusing on Zambia, India, Guatemala, and Burkina Faso, which investigate the mechanisms between the extraction of natural resources and violent conflict. Finally, the book provides a summary of the previous analyses.

Free Download Monica Lagazio, "Militarized Conflict Modeling Using Computational Intelligence"
English | 2011 | pages: 268 | ISBN: 1447127013, 0857297899 | PDF | 2,8 mb
Militarized Conflict Modeling Using Computational Intelligence examines the application of computational intelligence methods to model conflict. Traditionally, conflict has been modeled using game theory. The inherent limitation of game theory when dealing with more than three players in a game is the main motivation for the application of computational intelligence in modeling conflict.

Free Download Collisions of Conflict : Studies in American History and Culture, 1820-1920 By Sobieraj, Jerzy
2014 | 152 Pages | ISBN: 3631648480 | PDF | 2 MB
This book explores and analyzes the problems and challenges that have resulted from the Civil War, Reconstruction, slavery, and segregation in North America. These painful chapters in American history have continued along racial and regional lines and are of particular interest today when the USA are for the first time governed by an African American president. The postscriptum extends the main narrative by focusing on selected writers’ activities and fiction during the Civil War and Reconstruction

Free Download Tamra Pearson d’Estree, Bonnie B.G. Colby, "Braving the Currents: Evaluating Environmental Conflict Resolution in the River Basins of the American West"
English | 2004 | pages: 409 | ISBN: 1402075030, 1402081324 | PDF | 5,2 mb
Braving the Currents systematically identifies, applies, and evaluates criteria to define success in complex multi-party natural resource disputes. The authors elucidate the full range of criteria for defining success that researchers, stakeholders, and practitioners have relied on as they have participated in, and reflected upon, environmental conflict resolution (CR) efforts. They examine 28 "success" criteria from many angles, present a method for systematically considering all the elements necessary for successful environmental CR, and then apply this analytic framework to eight specific western U.S. water conflicts. The criteria are assessed in terms of their accessibility, reliability, validity, and overall usefulness in evaluating specific conflict cases and different resolution methods.

Free Download Terre Satterfield, "Anatomy of a Conflict: Identity, Knowledge, and Emotion in Old-Growth Forests"
English | 2003 | pages: 208 | ISBN: 0774808934, 0774808926 | PDF | 13,9 mb
Anatomy of a Conflict explores the cultural aspects of the fierce dispute between activist loggers and environmentalists over the fate of Oregon’s temperate rain forest. Centred on the practice of old-growth logging and the survival of the northern spotted owl, the conflict has lead to the burning down of ranger stations, the spiking of trees, logging truck blockades, and countless demonstrations and arrests. Satterfield shows how the debate about the forest is, at its core, a debate about the cultural make-up of the Pacific Northwest. To talk about forests is to talk about culture, whether the discussion is about scientific explanations of conifer forests, activists’ grassroots status and their emotional attachment to land, or the implications of past people’s land use for future forest management. An engaging ethnographic study, this book emphasizes the historical roots and contemporary emergence of identity movements as a means for challenging cultural patterns. It makes a significant contribution to culture- and identity-driven theories of human action in the context of social movements and environmental studies.

Free Download Progress vs Parasites: A Brief History of the Conflict that’s Shaped our World (Audiobook)
English | September 05, 2019 | ASIN: B07X6K74LK | M4B@128 kbps | 10h 11m | 445 MB
Author: Douglas Carswell | Narrator: Russell Bentley
The change in our ancestors’ behaviour was barely perceptible at first. Only a few clues in the archaeological record – sea shells, ochre and stone tools exchanged over long distances – hint at what was to come. Today, a network of interdependence and trade spans the planet – lifting most of our species out of the grinding poverty of the past.

Free Download John Sherrodd (Author, Narrator), "A Deeper Connection: How to Navigate Conflict and Grow Relationships"
English | ASIN: B0CBCP2C7P | 2023 | MP3@64 kbps | ~05:29:00 | 156 MB
Conflict is something that many people shy away from or avoid altogether. Others are ready for battle at the first sign of conflict and immediately begin strategizing their approach to victory. No matter the approach, the outcome is usually the same-a disconnect. The real loss is often the relationships.
A Deeper Connection is a guide to transforming how you think about conflict, yourself, and your approach to life. This book provides lasting transformation that can fix many of the problems you are encountering in your relationships. This book details a system for approaching and resolving conflict with ease.