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create metaphors / challenging established schemes / my resolution This brilliant illustrated metaphor is credited to Paul Blow at the Guardian titled: Elections in the Islamic states: – 10th April 2010
February 4, 2014
understand conflict fear, honor, and interest finding peace within In consideration of the role of aesthetics in the field of conflict analysis and resolution, my professor asked that we create a haiku that represents our vision of the field. I suspect aesthetics has been part of an undercurrent of not only conflict analysis and resolution […]
December 31, 2013
Thankfully the Center for Preventive Action’s recent release of its Preventive Priorities Survey: 2014 doesn’t include the Balkans on its list of conflicts that could break out or escalate in the next year. So why am I still drawn to the Balkans in my study of conflict analysis and resolution? There certainly are a number […]
October 19, 2013
As I haven’t posted here in a long while, I thought I would share my response to a professor’s encouragement to try to describe what is happening today in the world and what may follow. I know at least one person who enjoyed it (http://erzaaruqaj.com/) As I am amidst a transformation from national security analyst […]
August 20, 2013
My summer reading has taken my reading list on a bit of a turn toward the revolutionary… Reza Aslan, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth From the Publisher: Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of history’s most influential and enigmatic characters by examining Jesus through the lens of the […]
November 23, 2012
Last week I referred to a Foreign Policy blog post by Micah Zenko and how it relates to my transition from national security studies to peace studies. I’d like to share that post here in its entirety as it is definitely something I am ruminating on. First, the “security paradox” that General Dempsey refers to […]
July 6, 2012
A new post is in the hopper focusing on stability operations for a guest post at a new website on my blogroll: The Kabul Cable. It is a blog serving “as a portal into the current events affecting Afghanistan for scholars, students, researchers, diplomats and practitioners of war.” Readers of Pathfinder will be familiar with […]
May 18, 2012
A common source of reference is emerging in my study of multi-paradigm conflict analysis: Lederach and Dugan. In Tom Woodhouse and Oliver Ramsbotham’s, Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution, the chapter on “Theoretical Frameworks” discusses an integrated model for peace building based off of John Paul Lederach research. While not squarely meeting the intent of the question […]
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