The figure of communism and Us-USSR bilateral diplomatic relations during the cold war : a conflict analysis
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
The Cold War is, together with the World Wars, probably the most important episode in Europe's and the United States XXth century diplomatic history. The conflict has an impressive amount of dimensions, motives and outcomes, most of which are probably still unknown. This being said,...
The Kashmir conflict - publié le 17/05/2009
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
When we speak about Kashmir, we think at first of this multitude of conflicts which concerns the history of this country. This territory situated in South Asia is a junction point of India, Pakistan and China. It always generated enormous desire. Without dwell upon the long lineage of...
Can conflicts be avoided ?
Essay - 2 pages - Politic philosophy
It is generally believed that working on the issue of conflict resolution consists of preaching about non-violence, notably by using arguments based on moral values. Nevertheless, these moral approaches cannot be considered as an universal meaning of conflicts resolution and peace...
Conflict resolution and management across cultures
Essay - 3 pages - Management
A conflict may be defined as a perception of opposing interests. In business, such as in the today's life, conflicts involve scarce resources, goals, procedures etc. No culture is immune from conflict. The only change is the perception of the conflict: in the US...
Can conflict be avoided in human societies ?
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
In each society, people have to face struggles and fights as soon as the day begins. They have to scramble just in order to reach and to creep into a subway. Others must cover a long walk just to bring back some water. Everyone has a daily struggle against the time, or against the crowd, or...
African conflict and resources
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
The history of South Africa mainly revolves around communication and the conflict of the numerous varied ethnic groups in South Africa. Just like other historical accounts of various countries, South Africa is not any different. The themes of race, gender, and the socio-economy are the...
Analyze a negotiation/conflict you have had using the four step method as a framework: Sean Parker Vs Lars Ulrich
Case study - 10 pages - Music and dance
In this assignment, we will develop a fictive negotiation between a member of the well-known band member of Metallica Lars Ulrich and the co-founder of Napster, Sean Parker. This negotiation is based on judicial attacks on Napster by many artists. In 2000, Metallica took an open stand against...
Global litigation and conflict of laws
Case study - 5 pages - Other law subjects
As clarified in the Tatry case, “It should be noted at the outset that the English version […] does not expressly distinguish between the concepts of ‘object' and ‘cause' of action. That language version must however be construed in the same manner as the majority of the other...
Partnership Confliction
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
There are actually 3 partners that held vital role in the company, one of the partners, his name is Alex, and whereby holding a big share in the small business company he shows bossy, his own ego and being assertive and never listen to his partner and disobey the rules of partnership agreement,...
Theme of Conflict in The Lullaby, by Leslie Marmon Silko
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Leslie Marmon Silko is an iconic writer and one of the most prolific Native American literary figures. Her short story Lullaby focuses on the story telling tradition of the Native American culture. Ayah the main character is an old woman retracing tragic occurrences in her life in a pattern of...
History of Ukraine and conflict with Russia
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
The international community has very limited means to put pressure on Russia and deter military intervention in Ukraine. It can be especially politically, threatening Moscow isolation. This is what Barack Obama did on Saturday during a telephone conversation that lasted ninety minutes with his...
Does the UN have a real role to play in today's world? Analyze the role and effectiveness of the UN in recent conflicts
Essay - 1 pages - International relations
The United Nations (UN) is an international organization created in 1945 after World War II. Currently it is composed of 192 members. Because of the horrors of the two world wars, the aim of the UN is first of all to establish a lasting peace in the world. During the Cold War, the role of the UN...
Water: The real perpetrator of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?
Case study - 17 pages - International relations
The vast majority of literature around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been expressly focused on negotiating a peace treaty that satisfies the nationalistic urges of both parties in the conflict. Many prominent authors have simply designated the “right to exist” as an...
Conflict management: Case study
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
Workplace, conflicts is a concept, which an organization can't afford to ignore or disassociate with, they are common and often will keep on recurring if strategic and result oriented measures are not adopted. Though such conflict have been accentuated as having both positive and...
Analysis of armed conflicts Mr Cook - The Six-Day War - publié le 27/01/2013
Case study - 10 pages - Educational studies
Seen as an ineffaceable trauma for Arabs and a poisoned victory for Israel, the Six-Day War has been a strategic moment in the history of the Middle East. Before developing the topic, a brief reminder of the previous Israeli-Arab relations is necessary to better situate and understand what led to...
Analysis of armed conflicts Mr Cook - The Six-Day War
Case study - 10 pages - Educational studies
Seen as an ineffaceable trauma for Arabs and a poisoned victory for Israel, the Six-Day War has been a strategic moment in the history of the Middle East. Before developing the topic, a brief reminder of the previous Israeli-Arab relations is necessary to better situate and understand what led to...
Balancing work-family conflicts
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
At some point in our careers, we have all experienced something that is referred to as a “Work-Family Conflict.” The best way to describe this, and in the simplest terms, is that issues at home are taking a person's attention away from work or situations at work are taking a...
Cold war: More often than not, superpowers, rather than causing regional conflicts, were reluctantly drawn into them
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
The Cold War, besides being fought initially against an European-dominated background, was also extended to the Third World later. This globalization of the Cold War is inextricably linked to the entanglement of the two superpowers, the United States (US) and the Soviet Union, in several proxy...
Economics is the study of the allocation of scarce resources amongst unlimited and conflicting end uses
Case study - 2 pages - Economy general
In this world that we live in, there exists a problem due to the conflict between the scarcity of resources and the unlimited wants of the people. Economics is concerned with dealing with this problem, as efficiently as possible. Why, then, are resources scarce? The problem of scarcity...
Conflict identification and resolution
Case study - 3 pages - Human resources
Every individual perceives and identifies situations differently. A situation that may not necessarily affect one may be more significant to another. Conflict arises in every organization because of differing opinions that generally lead to arguments and will most likely lead to...
Team building exercise for conflict resolution
Case study - 2 pages - Human resources
At some point in our lives we have all been part of a team and chances are we are still part of those teams, whether they are at home, at work, or at school, we are all part of some team. Unfortunately, within any team conflicts can and do arise. The trick then is to figure out the best...
Conflict management styles paper
Case study - 2 pages - Administrative law
The hiring process is the steps that are taken with perspective new employees. The hiring process begins with the interview and ends with training of a new hire. If the manager is hiring for a position that requires the employee to work in a team setting, he or she should be looking for a team...
Galileo's conflict
Case study - 2 pages - Philosophy
Galileo's conflict with the Catholic Church began in 1610 when he published a series of newsletters titled Starry Messenger, which chronicled his astonishing observations. The most notable of his discoveries was the idea that the planets of our solar system revolve around the sun and not...
Ethnic group conflict
Case study - 2 pages - Psychology
Within Southeast Asia there is a region called Burma. Throughout this region there is much suffering because of the war waged between the Myanmar Tatmadaw regime and the Democratic Karen Buddhist Party. The individuals who make up the Democratic Karen Buddhist Party are an ethnic assembly who...
Analysis of the notion of sport from a sociological perspective, using a number of theoretical approaches (functionalist, conflict, feminist, etc), influenced by scholars like Marx and Durkheim
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
Sport has been the focus of increased debates by socio-political commentators since decades. During the twentieth century, sport became much more than just a physical activity with the advent of new technology and the mass media, professional sport gained in importance (Foer, 2005). The situation...
To what extent do the characteristics of the "Comprehensive Peace Agreement" represent an efficient model of mediation for the Sudanese conflict?
Case study - 6 pages - Political science
Since its independence in 1956, Sudan has only enjoyed 15 years of peace and almost 40 of civil wars. Always opposing Khartoum, the South, the Darfur region and even Northern parts managed to oppose an armed resistance to the central power (UNMIS Website). Hence, from 1983 to 2005, Sudan was...
Ethnic Nationalism and Conflict: Yugoslavia and Germany
Essay - 7 pages - Philosophy
“Nationalism, as Michnik points out, is a device for avoiding responsibility. By identifying “the other,” which may be an ethnic minority, neighbors, or even just political opponents, as an enemy bent on subverting the nation, nationalist can shift blame for every social ill from...
The incorporation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict within the Arab-Israeli wars
Case study - 8 pages - International relations
From the onset, Arab states surrounding Israel - Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon - were concerned with the emergence of a non-Arab state adjacent to their borders, and it is this preoccupation, more than a genuine sense of solidarity with Palestinians, that explains Arab involvement in what...
Conflict, decision making, and organizational design
Case study - 6 pages - Business strategy
At Verizon Wireless conflict is pretty much taught as the rule not the exception. We're trained to deal with conflict and negotiation strategies to help ourselves get out of the conflict. It's part of the job and expected that customers are not always going to be happy with...
Gender conflict and domestic violence in country western music
Case study - 9 pages - Educational studies
A woman is abused by her domestic partner every nine seconds in the United States, according to the Family Violence Prevention Fund1. Even though domestic abuse is thus extremely common and frequent, it is rarely alluded to in music, with the notable exception of the country western genre....
