Search results for "CONFLICT"

Good moments in parents' spousal relationships: A daily relational maintenance perspective

2010

This study examined positively experienced spousal moments among couples with young children. The diary data were gathered from 95 women and 55 men in 95 Finnish families over a seven-day period using an open-ended question. Seven kinds of activities were identified in the descriptions of moments: doings, conversations, presence, positivity, physical intimacy, support, and conflict management. Doings related to shared tasks and favors as well as conversations concerning catching up and family issues were more often mentioned by women than by men. Notably, positive spousal moments also often included children who were described as a landscape for the spousal relationship, as participants in …

Fortalezas y debilidades de la mediación escolar desde la perspectiva del alumnado de educación secundaria

2016

In this paper we present a study to know the valuation of school mediation as an educational strategy taking into account the views of students in five schools in secondary Valencia, where the formal mediation process has been active for at least two years. It also seeks to identify the strengths and weaknesses identified.To achieve the objectives it has collected information from 593 students through an ad hoc difference between issues that all students must answer questionnaire; questions addressed only the students who have gone to mediation service; and finally issues to respond only the students who have acted as mediators.Through descriptive exploratory study conducted, is highlighted…

Motives, Roles, Effectiveness and the Future of the EU as an International Mediator

2018

AbstractThis article concludes this special issue on the European Union as international mediator that set out to advance our theoretical and empirical knowledge aboutEUmediation. Providing a comprehensive reflection ofEUmediation activities and the diverse settings where they take place, this concluding article identifies some connection points between the articles and discusses their findings on the motives/drivers, roles/strategies, effectiveness and institutional capacities ofEUmediation. It discusses the implications of these findings for policymaking, focusing on the conditions forEUmediation effectiveness, the advantages of the multi-layered nature ofEUmediation and the need for flex…

Emotions and political rhetoric: Perception of danger, group conflict and the biopolitics of fear

2016

Abstract In the present article I shall argue that human emotion is multifaceted and has a cognitive dimension in virtue of its intricate connections with beliefs, memories, imagination, and other products of human rationality. Human emotion also has a social and political dimension. When we think about fear we cannot characterize it as a mere stimulus-response phenomenon: it is, due to its cognitive facet, more complex and related to our ideas about survival and well-being. This leaves fear exposed to political rhetoric, and thus to political manipulation. Fear can be aroused, guided and nourished amongst the population, giving rise to a biopolitics of fear. In this article, I will conside…

Introduction to the monographic issue “Conflicts in the territory. The evidence of incompatibility between economic growth and sustainability”

2020

El creixement econòmic està produint canvis en el metabolisme social. Les societats cada vegada consumeixen més materials i energia alhora que produeixen més quantitats de deixalles, tot impulsant un desplaçament geogràfic de fonts de recursos i embornals de residus. Això crea impactes que no són resolts per polítiques econòmiques o canvis en la tecnologia, i per tant, cauen desproporcionadament sobre alguns grups socials que moltes vegades protesten i resisteixen, encara que tals grups no sempre es defineixen com a ecologistes (Martínez Alier, 2003). La distribució ecològica es refereix, així, a les asimetries o desigualtats socials, espacials, temporals en l'ús que fan els humans dels rec…

Entrevista a Ernest Garcia i Joan Martínez-Alier: “Per conservar la llibertat hem d’aprendre a deixar de creure en l’abundància i el creixement econò…

2020

El creixement econòmic ha produït canvis en el metabolisme social. L’extracció i ús de recursos naturals i les deixalles, emanacions o residus estan generant cada vegada més conflictes socioambientals i ecològic-distribuïts, tant a escala global com a escala local. Tanmateix, els recursos s’estan exhaurint i cada vegada es fa més evident que la premissa de conciliar creixement econòmic i protecció del medi ambient no és, ni serà, realitzable. Això ha produït canvis i polaritzacions en la consciència col·lectiva. Per una banda, hi ha reaccions del tipus negacionisme extrem i de destrucció ambiental. I, per altra, reaccions de col·lapse. Conversem amb Joan Martínez-Alier, catedràtic i investi…

Review of Agent-Based Models of Social Conflict and Civil Violence

2017

This chapter contains a review of the state of the art on agent-based models for simulation of large-scale social conflict and violence. It is structured in four parts. The first contains a summary of general definitions and concepts. The second contains the presentation and discussion of Epstein’s agent-based model, which is a landmark model of civil and ethnic violence due to its simplicity, soundness, and explanatory power. The third part contains a review of extensions of Epstein’s model that have been proposed by several authors. The chapter ends with some remarks on the limitations of existing ABM and on possibilities for their improvement.

Variaciones del drama historial en Lope de Vega

2013

Starting from the presentation of the principles underlying the current research and that link it to previous studies —principles which deal with the concept and features of drama historial (historic drama) in Lope de Vega—, the essay focuses on the distinction of two fundamental modes of drama historial: the commemoration of famous historical events on the one hand, and moral conflict analysis, almost always of private nature and exploding in specific historical circumstances, on the other hand. These two major strategies of significance, the one being characteristic of a collective memory, associated with the identity of the nascent nation, and the other one exploring private identity, th…

Between conflicts and commerce: The impact of institutions and wars on Swedish-Portuguese Trade, 1686-1815

2015

This paper is related to a multiyear project aimed at compiling new data on the early modern trade flows between smaller (or weaker) states. It presents a quantitative analysis of the nature and volume of trade between Sweden and Portugal during the period in question, seeking to identify long-run changes in these flows and to determine whether institutional changes and wars fundamentally altered the composition, trends, or volume of trade. First, it appears that trade between Portugal and Sweden hinged on only a few key commodities, most importantly iron from Sweden and salt from Portugal. In particular, we found that Portugal was somewhat more dependent on Swedish iron than Sweden was on …

Using System Dynamics to understand Workplace Conflict

This study uses a systemic approach to explore the dynamics of learning and negative emotion in workplace intraorganisational conflict. Our dynamic hypothesis was that the endogenous dynamics between the level of intraorganisational conflict and the levels of learning and negative emotion, which are accumulating in the organisation as by-products of conflict, are causing the conflict level to oscillate. A review by Cronin & Berzukova (2006) identified two problematic, undesired patterns of intraorganisational conflict development over time (Group Disintegration, Groupthink) and one desired pattern of moderate conflict level (Cohesion and Resilience), which comprised our Reference Mode. …