Search Results - "Sri Lanka"

South Asian media cultures audiences, representations, contexts /

Table of Contents: “…Naqvi -- Forgetting to remember : the privatisation of the public, the economization of Hindutva, and the medialisation of genocide / Britta Ohm -- Myth - the national form : Mission Istanbul and Muslim representation in Hindi popular cinema / Noorel Mecklai -- A peace of soap : representations of peace and conflict in popular teledramas in Sri Lanka / Neluka Silva -- Destigmatising star texts - honour and shame among Muslim women in Pakistani cinema / Irna Qureshi -- Through the lens of a 'branded criminal' : the politics of marginal cinema in India / Rashmi Sawhney -- Pakistani students' uses of new media to construct a arrative of dissent / Saman Talib -- Expanding the art of the possible : leveraging citizen journalism and user generated content (USG) for peace in Sri Lanka / Sanjana Hattotuwa -- Conclusion / Shakuntala Banaji.…”
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Cutting the fuse the explosion of global suicide terrorism and how to stop it / by Pape, Robert Anthony, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Why focus on suicide terrorism -- Analytic overview -- Why occupation ignites suicide terrorism -- What really motivates transnational suicide terrorists -- The largest suicide terrorist campaigns -- Iraq -- Afghanistan -- Pakistan -- Al Qaeda -- Lebanon -- Israel and Palestine -- Chechnya -- Sri Lanka -- The end of fear, the beginning of understanding.…”
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Cutting the fuse the explosion of global suicide terrorism and how to stop it / by Pape, Robert Anthony, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Why focus on suicide terrorism -- Analytic overview -- Why occupation ignites suicide terrorism -- What really motivates transnational suicide terrorists -- The largest suicide terrorist campaigns -- Iraq -- Afghanistan -- Pakistan -- Al Qaeda -- Lebanon -- Israel and Palestine -- Chechnya -- Sri Lanka -- The end of fear, the beginning of understanding.…”
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Going to school in South Asia

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : culture, curriculum, and points of intersection / Amita Gupta -- Schooling in Afghanistan / Roozbeh Shirazi -- Schooling in Bangladesh / Sajeda Amin -- Schooling in Bhutan / Tenzin Chhoeda -- Schooling in India / Amita Gupta -- Schooling in the Maldives / Mohamed Latheef and Amita Gupta -- Schooling in Nepal / Tara Niraula -- Schooling in Pakistan / Sajid Ali and Iffat Farah -- Schooling in Sri Lanka / Swarna Jayaweera.…”
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Going to school in South Asia

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : culture, curriculum, and points of intersection / Amita Gupta -- Schooling in Afghanistan / Roozbeh Shirazi -- Schooling in Bangladesh / Sajeda Amin -- Schooling in Bhutan / Tenzin Chhoeda -- Schooling in India / Amita Gupta -- Schooling in the Maldives / Mohamed Latheef and Amita Gupta -- Schooling in Nepal / Tara Niraula -- Schooling in Pakistan / Sajid Ali and Iffat Farah -- Schooling in Sri Lanka / Swarna Jayaweera.…”
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The technology of nonviolence social media and violence prevention / by Bock, Joseph G.

Table of Contents: “…Towards an applied theory of violence prevention -- Reporting and warning about deadly possibilities -- Organizing against ethnoreligious violence in Ahmedabad -- Overcoming gang violence in Chicago -- Counteracting ethnoreligious violence in Sri Lanka -- Crowdsourcing during post-election violence in Kenya -- Foisting tribal violence in East Africa -- Comparing the approaches -- How to intervene effectively -- What to do when violence prevention is unlikely to work -- Concerns about misallocation of resources -- Future directions and recommendations.…”
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The technology of nonviolence social media and violence prevention / by Bock, Joseph G.

Table of Contents: “…Towards an applied theory of violence prevention -- Reporting and warning about deadly possibilities -- Organizing against ethnoreligious violence in Ahmedabad -- Overcoming gang violence in Chicago -- Counteracting ethnoreligious violence in Sri Lanka -- Crowdsourcing during post-election violence in Kenya -- Foisting tribal violence in East Africa -- Comparing the approaches -- How to intervene effectively -- What to do when violence prevention is unlikely to work -- Concerns about misallocation of resources -- Future directions and recommendations.…”
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A comparative sociology of world religions virtuosos, priests, and popular religion / by Sharot, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…World religions, elites, and popular religion -- Religious action : a Weberian model -- Elites and masses : Max Weber, Weberian scholars, and Marxist analysis -- China : state religion, elites, and popular religion in a syncretistic milieu -- India : Brahmans, renouncers, and popular Hinduism -- Nirvana and spirits : Buddhism and animism in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia -- Hierocracy and popular religion : Catholicism in 'traditional' Europe -- Elite scholars and popular saints : a brief excursus on Islam and Judaism -- Protestants, Catholics, and the reform of popular religion -- Comparisons.…”
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A comparative sociology of world religions virtuosos, priests, and popular religion / by Sharot, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…World religions, elites, and popular religion -- Religious action : a Weberian model -- Elites and masses : Max Weber, Weberian scholars, and Marxist analysis -- China : state religion, elites, and popular religion in a syncretistic milieu -- India : Brahmans, renouncers, and popular Hinduism -- Nirvana and spirits : Buddhism and animism in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia -- Hierocracy and popular religion : Catholicism in 'traditional' Europe -- Elite scholars and popular saints : a brief excursus on Islam and Judaism -- Protestants, Catholics, and the reform of popular religion -- Comparisons.…”
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Uncovering the history of Africans in Asia

Table of Contents: “…Collins -- The Makran-Baluch-African network in Zanzibar and East-Africa during the XIX century / Beatrice Nicolini -- Somali migration to Yemen from the 19th to the 21st centuries / Leila Ingrams & Richard Panhurst -- Nineteenth century European references to the African diaspora in the Arabian peninsula / Clifford Pereira -- Migrant and the Maldives : African connections / Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya -- The African native in Indiaspora / Jeanette Pinto -- Migrants and mercenaries : Sri Lanka's hidden Africans / Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya.…”
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Torture power, democracy, and the human body /

Table of Contents: “…Kaufman-Osborn -- Dying Is not permitted : sovereignty, biopower, and force-feeding at Guantánamo Bay / Lauren Wilcox -- The torture device : debate and archetype / Stephanie Athey -- Specters of the Muselmann : Guantánamo Bay Penalogial Theme Park and the torture of Omar Khadr / Joseph Pugliese -- This fragile body : Susan Crile's Abu Ghraib : abuse of power / Julia A. Ireland -- Sri Lanka : landscapes of massacre / Suvendrini Perera.…”
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Uncovering the history of Africans in Asia

Table of Contents: “…Collins -- The Makran-Baluch-African network in Zanzibar and East-Africa during the XIX century / Beatrice Nicolini -- Somali migration to Yemen from the 19th to the 21st centuries / Leila Ingrams & Richard Panhurst -- Nineteenth century European references to the African diaspora in the Arabian peninsula / Clifford Pereira -- Migrant and the Maldives : African connections / Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya -- The African native in Indiaspora / Jeanette Pinto -- Migrants and mercenaries : Sri Lanka's hidden Africans / Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya.…”
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Torture power, democracy, and the human body /

Table of Contents: “…Kaufman-Osborn -- Dying Is not permitted : sovereignty, biopower, and force-feeding at Guantánamo Bay / Lauren Wilcox -- The torture device : debate and archetype / Stephanie Athey -- Specters of the Muselmann : Guantánamo Bay Penalogial Theme Park and the torture of Omar Khadr / Joseph Pugliese -- This fragile body : Susan Crile's Abu Ghraib : abuse of power / Julia A. Ireland -- Sri Lanka : landscapes of massacre / Suvendrini Perera.…”
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More than a pretty picture using poverty maps to design better policies and interventions /

Table of Contents: “…: poverty mapping experience in Cambodia -- Poverty maps of Yunnan Province : potential usages and lessons for scaling-up in China -- The 1990 and 2001 Ecuador poverty maps -- Indonesia's poverty maps : impacts and lessons -- Poverty maps and public policy : lessons from Mexico -- Poverty map country application : Morocco -- Sri Lanka poverty map : policy impacts and lessons -- Thailand's poverty map : from construction to application -- Poverty mapping : experience from Vietnam.…”
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New perspectives on liberal peacebuilding

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Suicide warfare culture, the military, and the individual as a weapon / by Skaine, Rosemarie

Table of Contents: “…Theoretical analysis of suicide warfare -- Defining suicide warfare -- Suicide warfare in modern conflicts -- Suicide and policies of war -- Strategies of suicide warfare -- Effects of suicide warfare -- Case studies -- Japan's kamikaze pilots -- Hezbollah and Palestinian conflicts with Israel -- Sri Lanka and the Tamil Tigers -- Chechen separatists -- Al Qaeda -- Conclusion: Suicide as a weapon in war -- Appendix: Documents -- A. …”
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More than a pretty picture using poverty maps to design better policies and interventions /

Table of Contents: “…: poverty mapping experience in Cambodia -- Poverty maps of Yunnan Province : potential usages and lessons for scaling-up in China -- The 1990 and 2001 Ecuador poverty maps -- Indonesia's poverty maps : impacts and lessons -- Poverty maps and public policy : lessons from Mexico -- Poverty map country application : Morocco -- Sri Lanka poverty map : policy impacts and lessons -- Thailand's poverty map : from construction to application -- Poverty mapping : experience from Vietnam.…”
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Suicide warfare culture, the military, and the individual as a weapon / by Skaine, Rosemarie

Table of Contents: “…Theoretical analysis of suicide warfare -- Defining suicide warfare -- Suicide warfare in modern conflicts -- Suicide and policies of war -- Strategies of suicide warfare -- Effects of suicide warfare -- Case studies -- Japan's kamikaze pilots -- Hezbollah and Palestinian conflicts with Israel -- Sri Lanka and the Tamil Tigers -- Chechen separatists -- Al Qaeda -- Conclusion: Suicide as a weapon in war -- Appendix: Documents -- A. …”
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Settlers in contested lands : territorial disputes and ethnic conflicts /

Table of Contents: “…/ Jacob Mundy and Stephen Zunes -- Settlement, sovereignty, and social engineering : fascist settlement policy between nation and empire / Roberta Pergher -- The Indonesian settlement project in East Timor / Ehud Eiran -- Settlers and state-building : the Kirkuk case / Denise Natali -- Settlers, immigrants, colonists : the three layers of settler-induced conflict in Sri Lanka / Evangelos Liaras -- Settlers, mobilization and displacement in Cyprus : antinomies of ethnic conflict and immigration politics / Neophytos Loizides -- Conclusion : the political dynamics of settlement projects : the central state-settler-native triangle / Ian S. …”
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