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A refined complexity analysis of fair districting over graphs

any type being in a dominating majority in any of the districts. This is to e.g. prevent segregation or political domination of some political party. We conduct a fine-grained analysis of the ... the political choices of voters [ 3, 34, 35, 43, 44 ]. Wellstudied in this context is gerrymandering, which can be regarded as a “malicious” counterpart to our problem. In gerrymandering, the task is

Rethinking Genocide, Mass Atrocities, and Political Violence in Africa

taken, thereafter, may function to facilitate violence escalation rather than mitigation. This poses a critical challenge to scholars and practitioners studying political violence. In spite of an initial ... downward trend in political violence in the form of internal armed conflict to capture control of the state and replace incumbent governments, and an increase in varying levels of democratic governance on

From Pietism to Paradox: The Development of a Lutheran Philosophy of Education

The Christian Faith and the Liberal Arts (1960) where contributors tried to discover whether there was a Lutheran philosophy of education until later and then decided it was too narrowly focused on the ... to educational philosophy and what was going on. It was not as retrograde as I had thought as an undergraduate. It was a wonderful discovery for me. I have been trying to work out the details ever smce

Speaking of Genocide: Double Binds and Political Discourse

obsession with the definition of genocide more generally) ignores the fact that the content of a definition is only one dimension of political discourse. Consequently, calls to acknowledge the contestable

On Situating the Study of Genocide within Political Violence

This article identifies a particular challenge for comparative genocide studies, namely the underem- phasis of investigation into the relationship between genocide and other forms of political ... they are related temporally and spatially. It advocates situating genocide studies within the broader domain of political violence research to explain not only the causes of genocide but general

Editor's Introduction

scholars come from diverse fields: political science, history, sociology, psychology, law, literature, anthropology, philosophy, education, and even medicine. Most genocide scholars publish their research in

The Possibility of Resistance within The Rhizomatics of Cyberspace: William Gibson’s Neuromancer

materiality and the body are transcended. In Deleuzian philosophy, likewise, cyberspace is a disembodied space that has no fixed organizing principle but a molecular plane of disorganization that frequently ... possible affinity between Deleuze and Gibson's conceptual constellations of cyberspace, and discusses the implications of resistance within the rhizomatics of cyberspace in light of Deleuzian philosophy

The Complicated Cases of Soghomon Tehlirian and Sholem Schwartzbard and Their Influences on Raphaël Lemkin's Thinking About Genocide

The article is an examination of the persons and trials of Soghomon Tehlirian and Sholem Schwartzbard, their political assassinations as acts of vengeance for genocide and pogroms, their trials and ... , approximately thirty miles away. By age seventeen, during his apprenticeship to a watchmaker, he became fascinated with and embraced socialism as a political philosophy. Two years later, 1905, he would spend a

Review of Michael Rothberg. The Implicated Subject. Beyond Victims and Perpetrators. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019

complicity: memory, hope and the imagination,” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, vol. 22, no. 5 (2019): 504-522. 10.1080/13698230.2019.1565692. ... accountability from a discourse of guilt to a less legally and emotionally charged terrain of historical and political responsibility” (20). The book is structured in three parts, each one made up of two chapters

Using soft maximin for risk averse multi-objective decision-making

patterns [ 31 ] to mainstream political philosophy, as the ‘maximin’ principle [ 18 ]. We seek to improve the position of the lowest member of the set of values, while also not entirely disregarding

Denial: David Irving, and the Complexities of Representing a Holocaust Denier

the philosophy of the act of denial, talking on the advent of the concept in relation to genocide, with reference to “denial” as represented in artistic endeavor. ... Irving advocate for political and social right-wing movements? Yes. So, in summary, regardless of where he sits in relation to the Holocaust nowadays, Irving is definitely a non-blinker. While Irving may

Combining theory of mind and abductive reasoning in agent-oriented programming

cognitive mechanisms [11, 12]. Within philosophy and psychology, two distinct accounts of ToM exist: Theory ToM (TT) and Simulation ToM (ST) [13]. The TT account views the cognitive abilities assigned to ToM

Hardness of candidate nomination

simultaneously nominate a’. By contrast, team B cannot ensure the victory of their candidate under any circumstances, irrespective of the voting rule. In real life political parties usually carefully contemplate ... whom to nominate for important positions in the political structure of the country. This process is often performed through primaries where voters affiliated with the political party vote over candidates

Did Newsnight Miss the Story? A Survey of How the BBC's “Flagship Political Current Affairs Program” Reported Genocide and War in Rwanda between April and July 1994

At the time of the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, the BBC’s late-night political dis- cussion program Newsnight was one of the few media political spheres within which representatives of the British

#StopThisMovie and the Pitfalls of Mass Atrocity Prevention: Framing of Violence and Anticipation of Escalation in Burundi’s Crisis (2015-2017)

The ongoing Burundi crisis offers a unique opportunity to scrutinize the changing political economy of preventive framing of violence, and particularly genocide as a representational resource in ... ineffective in translating increased attention into action, it also has had three unintended and potentially perverse effects on the conflict itself, together fueling the political standoff rather than helping

The Three “Switches” of Identity Construction in Genocide: The Nazi Final Solution and the Cambodian Killing Fields

If we want to understand why political elites choose to commit genocide, we need to inquire into how elite perpetrators reconstruct the collective identity of the victim group such that genocide ... , and future actions of the victim group are ''turned on'' by the perpetrators. First, members of the victim group lose their (often marginal) status within the political community and are constructed as

Memory and Distance: On Nobuhiro Suwa's A Letter from Hiroshima

game which approach to the past is based on distancing effects. The distance, understood in the sense of Brecht and counter cinema, is part of an experimental process that becomes a political technique ... famous Theses on the Philosophy of History.9 So, we have found that Nobuhiro Suwa, through his film has achieved a particular way to construct one of the possible histories about Hiroshima city and its

Egalitarian judgment aggregation

disciplines, like philosophy, economics, legal theory, and artificial intelligence [ 38 ]. The purpose of judgThis paper extends and corrects the version appearing in the AAMAS-2021 proceedings. We are ... Political Economy , 119 ( 6 ), 1061 - 1103 . 12. Caragiannis , I. , Kalaitzis , D. , & Markakis , E. ( 2010 ). Approximation algorithms and mechanism design for minimax approval voting . In Proceedings of the

Commemorating Compassion, Countering Containment: The Female Wars on Terror Witnesses of Helen Benedict’s and Lynsey Addario’s Transcultural Narratives

political spheres. ... advocates conveying a particular political message to the readers or viewers of their work. In this way, their metonymic subjects can additionally gain credibility by not being associated with any definitive

Othering Terrorism: A Rhetorical Strategy of Strategic Labeling

, African, and foreign-born advocates and practitioners of political violence are termed terrorists with near universality, while white, Christian, Westerners acting in the name of white supremacy, anti ... applied asymmetrically to some proponents of political violence-those brown and black lives existing in precarity who challenge discursive claims on violence, statehood, capital, and what are broadly