In the hard-hit countries by HIV/AIDS, the epidemic has eroded the development gains made in past decades. The spread of HIV is heterogeneous in Sub-Saharan African courtiers, with different peaks which vary geographically and in terms of their distribution among social or economic groups. Thus, there …

Asymmetric warfare is hot, because all bigger conflicts fought in the world today are more or less asymmetric. According to Bart Tromp, late professor in the theory en history of international affairs, the war fought between the United States and the Iraqi Army in the last decade of the previous century …

In order to prevent conflicts and escalation, the United Nations works with a so called Conflict Management system. With this system, the UN aims to prevent the outbreak of conflicts. Besides, Conflict Management makes is possible to bring permanent peace to a conflict area by addressing root causes …

By means of the economic analysis of strategic behavior it is attempted to elucidate the decision making on peace support operations of the armed forces. The analysis reveals that the choice between peace keeping based on the supposed agreement of the parties involved in the conflict - and peace enforcing …

Indie porn represents a currently flourishing sub-genre of pornography, in which well known looks from subcultures such as Gothic or Punk are oftentimes staged as anti-commercial, feminist gestures of self-empowerment. In this regard the conflicts that shaped the debates around pornography's obscenity …

This article discusses a study of children's perspectives on disciplinary conflicts with their foster parents. Most children accept parental authority, but they also defend their personal autonomy and loyalties to peers. In this study, only birthchildren told real-life stories about fierce resistance …

Sometimes it is assumed that Moroccan girls in the Netherlands have a problematic adolescence: They are supposed to be �_~caught between two cultures.�_T Adolescence can be seen as the stage of life in which individuals should develop their own identity by exploring different alternatives. Moroccan girls, …

This article intends to examine some of the tensions that can arise between civilian relief workers and military personnel in peace operations. The context is the qualitative change that has taken place in the post-Cold War period concerning the types of peace operations that military personnel and humanitarian …

While NATOs definition of CIMIC would suggest an unambiguous concept, the essays in this volume make clear how complicated it can be and how it defies simple categorization. CIMIC takes place both during disaster relief and during peacekeeping operations. It takes place after military conflicts as well …

The author explores the international legal rights for states to conduct Information Operations during peacetime and discusses the appropriateness of applying the law of armed conflict to Information Operations during armed conflicts