Free Download Basics of conflict resolution (Beta)
Released 4/2024
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Skill Level: General | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + srt | Duration: 1h 34m | Size: 266 MB
Please note that this is an experiment using AI-generated audio for this course, which was originally produced in Spanish. This is a pilot course and our plan is to retire it in July. Unfortunately, the exercise files and in-course quizzes are available in the course's original language only. Please let us know what you think by leaving a review.

Free Download Susan Forbes Martin, "Women, Migration, and Conflict: Breaking a Deadly Cycle"
English | 2009 | pages: 263 | ISBN: 9048128242, 9400791313 | PDF | 2,0 mb
An estimated 35 million people worldwide are displaced by conflict, and most of them are women and children. During their time away from their homes and communities, these women and their children are subjected to a horrifying array of misfortune, including privations of every kind, sexual assaults, disease, imprisonment, unwanted pregnancies, severe psychological trauma, and, upon return or resettlement, social disapproval and isolation.

Free Download Ruchi Chaturvedi, "Violence of Democracy: Interparty Conflict in South India"
English | ISBN: 1478020016 | 2023 | 272 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In Violence of Democracy Ruchi Chaturvedi tracks the rise of India's divisive politics through close examination of decades-long confrontations in Kerala between members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and supporters of the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh and the Bharatiya Janata Party. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and extensive archival research, Chaturvedi investigates the unique character of the conflict between the party left and the Hindu right. This conflict, she shows, defies explanations centering religious, caste, or ideological differences. It offers instead new ways of understanding how quotidian political competition can produce antagonistic majoritarian communities. Rival political parties mobilize practices of disbursing care and aggressive masculinity in their struggle for electoral and popular power, a process intensified by a criminal justice system that reproduces rather than mitigating violence. Chaturvedi traces these dynamics from the late colonial period to the early 2000s, illuminating the broader relationships between democratic life, divisiveness, and majoritarianism.

Free Download The Conflict Shoreline By Eyal Weizman, Fazal Sheikh
2015 | 96 Pages | ISBN: 386930992X | PDF | 10 MB
The village of al-'Araqib has been destroyed and rebuilt more than seventy times in the ongoing "battle over the Negev," an Israeli state campaign to uproot the Palestinian Bedouins from the northern threshold of the desert. Unlike other frontiers fought over during the Israel-Palestine conflict, this one is not demarcated by fences and walls but by shifting climatic conditions. The threshold of the desert advances and recedes in response to colonization, cultivation, displacement, urbanization, and, most recently, climate change. In his response to Sheikh's "Desert Bloom" series (part of Sheikh's The Erasure Trilogy, published by Steidl), Eyal Weizman's essay incorporates historical aerial photographs, contemporary remote sensing data, state plans, court testimonies, and nineteenth-century travelers' accounts, exploring the Negev's threshold as a "shoreline" along which climate change and political conflict are deeply and dangerously entangled.

Free Download Power, resistance and conflict in the contemporary world : Social movements, networks and hierarchies By Karatzogianni, Athina; Robinson, Andrew
2013 | 324 Pages | ISBN: 0203869389 | PDF | 2 MB
This book examines issues of organisation in resistance movements, discussing topics including the integration of the world system, the intersection of networks with discourses of identity, and the possibility of social transformation. Drawing on a number of theorists including Deleuze and Guattari, authors Athina Karatzogianni and Andrew Robinson seek to reinterpret World Systems Theory in order to engage with issues of power, resistance, and conflict in the contemporary world. Discussing contemporary scholarship in global politics ...

Free Download Archaeological Perspectives on Conflict and Warfare in Australia and the Pacific (Terra Australis) by Geoffrey Clark, Mirani Litster
English | March 8, 2022 | ISBN: 1760464880 | 282 pages | EPUB | 22 Mb
When James Boswell famously lamented the irrationality of war in 1777, he noted the universality of conflict across history and across space - even reaching what he described as the gentle and benign southern ocean nations. This volume discusses archaeological evidence of conflict from those southern oceans, from Palau and Guam, to Australia, Vanuatu and Tonga, the Marquesas, Easter Island and New Zealand. The evidence for conflict and warfare encompasses defensive earthworks on Palau, fortifications on Tonga, and intricate pa sites in New Zealand. It reports evidence of reciprocal sacrifice to appease deities in several island nations, and skirmishes and smaller scale conflicts, including in Easter Island. This volume traces aspects of colonial-era conflict in Australia and frontier battles in Vanuatu, and discusses depictions of World War II materiel in the rock art of Arnhem Land. Among the causes and motives discussed in these papers are pressure on resources, the ebb and flow of significant climate events, and the significant association of conflict with culture contact. The volume, necessarily selective, eclectic and wide-ranging, includes an incisive introduction that situates the evidence persuasively in the broader scholarship addressing the history of human warfare.

Free Download James Jay Carafano, "Wiki at War: Conflict in a Socially Networked World"
English | 2011 | pages: 338 | ISBN: 1603446567, 1603445862 | PDF | 4,0 mb
In 2011, amid the popular uprising against Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, the government sought in vain to shut down the Internet-based social networks of its people.

Free Download Chris C. Demchak, "Wars of Disruption and Resilience: Cybered Conflict, Power, and National Security "
English | ISBN: 0820340677 | 2011 | 304 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Increasingly, the power of a large, complex, wired nation like the United States rests on its ability to disrupt would-be cyber attacks and to be resilient against a successful attack or recurring campaign. Addressing the concerns of both theorists and those on the national security front lines, Chris C. Demchak presents a unified strategy for survival in an interconnected, ever-messier, more surprising cybered world and examines the institutional adaptations required of our defense, intelligence, energy, and other critical sectors for national security.

Free Download Martin Bell, "War and Peacekeeping: Personal Reflections on Conflict and Lasting Peace"
English | 2020 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 1786077639, 086154224X | EPUB | 2,9 mb
Following a sixty-year journey from war to peace, from soldier to UNICEF ambassador, Martin Bell reflects on war and peacekeeping, and where they stand today

Free Download Christopher R. Duncan, "Violence and Vengeance: Religious Conflict and Its Aftermath in Eastern Indonesia"
English | ISBN: 0801451582 | 2013 | 264 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Between 1999 and 2000, sectarian fighting fanned across the eastern Indonesian province of North Maluku, leaving thousands dead and hundreds of thousands displaced. What began as local conflicts between migrants and indigenous people over administrative boundaries spiraled into a religious war pitting Muslims against Christians and continues to influence communal relationships more than a decade after the fighting stopped. Christopher R. Duncan spent several years conducting fieldwork in North Maluku, and in Violence and Vengeance, he examines how the individuals actually taking part in the fighting understood and experienced the conflict.