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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459830503321

Autore

Hoglund Kristine

Titolo

Understanding Peace Research [[electronic resource] ] : Methods and Challenges

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2011

ISBN

0-203-82855-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ObergMagnus

Disciplina

303.6/6072

303.66072

Soggetti

Conflict management - Research

Conflict management - Research - Methodology

Conflict management --Research --Methodology

Conflict management --Research

Peace - Research

Peace - Research - Methodology

Peace --Research --Methodology

Peace --Research

Law, Politics & Government

International Relations

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Understanding Peace Research: Methods and challenges; Copyright; Contents; Boxes, figures and tables; About the contributors; Acknowledgements; Part I: Introduction; 1. Doing Empirical Peace Research; 2. The Origins of Contemporary: Peace Research; Part II: Evaluating Information; 3. Peace Research and Source Criticism?; 4. Gathering Conflict Information Using News Resources; 5. News Reports versus Written Narratives; Part III: The Practice of Information Gathering; 6. Systematic Data Collection; 7. Comparative Field Research in War-torn Societies; 8. In-depth Interviewing

9. Focus Groups10. Survey Research in Conflict and Post-conflict Societies; Part IV: Conclusions; 11. Improving Information Gathering



and Evaluation; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of different methods and sources of information-gathering for peace and conflict students and researchers, as well as the challenges presented by such work. Research on conflict-ridden societies carries special challenges for the collection and evaluation of information about the conflict and its actors. First, due to the nature of information emerging, incentives to misrepresent and propaganda is common. News coverage is sometimes poor and reporting is often incomplete, selective and biased. Second, the sensitivity of the topic and the

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Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN00113600

Titolo

Differential geometry and continuum mechanics / Gui-Qiang G. Chen, Michael Grinfeld, R. J. Knops  editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Cham], : Springer, 2015

Titolo uniforme

Differential geometry and continuum mechanics

Descrizione fisica

VIII, 387 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Soggetti

35-XX - Partial differential equations [MSC 2020]

35A30 - Geometric theory, characteristics, transformations in context of PDEs [MSC 2020]

57Q35 - Embeddings and immersions in PL-topology [MSC 2020]

58-XX - Global analysis, analysis on manifolds [MSC 2020]

58D10 - Spaces of imbeddings and immersions [MSC 2020]

58D17 - Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) [MSC 2020]

58J32 - Boundary value problems on manifolds [MSC 2020]

58J60 - Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.) [MSC 2020]

58Zxx - Applications of global analysis to the sciences [MSC 2020]

74A60 - Micromechanical theories [MSC 2020]

74B20 - Nonlinear elasticity [MSC 2020]

74P20 - Geometrical methods for optimization problems in solid mechanics [MSC 2020]

76A15 - Liquid crystals [MSC 2020]

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia