Analysing different conflicts in Late Medieval Alexandria, this book offers new insights into the micro-mechanics of Venetian life and trade in Egypt and recalibrates the narrative of the strictly regulated and often violent contacts between East and West. This thorough microanalysis, based on the private archive of a Venetian merchant and consul in Alexandria read in conjunction with other Venetian and Mamluk sources, provides a differentiated image of conflict patterns cutting across the cultural divide. It transforms our image of Alexandria as a city at the intersection of Orient and Occident into that of a microcosm in its own right where disputes did not always fall neatly along cultural divides and conflicts were traded as much as trade created conflicts.
Trading Conflicts
Venetian Merchants and Mamluk Officials in Late Medieval Alexandria
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Georg L.K.A. Christ
Kingsley M. De Silva
Conflict resolution in South Asia* KINGSLEY M. DE SILVA University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka and International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Kandy and Colombo, Sri Lanka (Received 19 March 1993; accepted 29 September 1993) Key words: conflict, ethnicity, nationalism, refugees, religion, separatism
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Introduction Africa remains boiling and bloody on account of intractable intra-state conflicts and wars. The strategies adopted to manage the conflicts and wars – multinational peacekeeping force, demobilization of and reintegration of combatants, democratization and state-building – are
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Barry and Robinson
International Negotiation 7: 137–142, 2002. © 2002 Kluwer Law International. Printed in the Netherlands. 137 Ethics in Conflict Resolution: The Ties That Bind BRUCE BARRY 1 ∗ & ROBERT J. ROBINSON 2† 1 Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA (E
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The study of how the media functions in conflict remains a relatively uncharted field. Trapped between orthodox theories of media ethics and principles and studies of news production practices in western media institutions, the lack of empirical works on media in conflict have seen a field
Redie Bereketeab
* Redie Bereketeab is Associate Professor of Sociology. Currently he is a senior researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden. He runs a research project on Conflict and State Building in the Horn of Africa. Introduction Four outstanding features characterize the Horn of
Mediating the Conflict in the Rasht Valley, Tajikistan
The Hegemonic Narrative and Anti-Hegemonic Challenges
Edward Lemon
the conflict in Rasht, controlling the ways in which it was framed. For international relations theorist Francois Debrix, the goal of the mediator “is not to allow us to perceive or experience any reality that has been previously massaged, manufactured, and operated by the medium himself.” 1 Yet, the
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International Negotiation 7: 185–207, 2002. © 2002 Kluwer Law International. Printed in the Netherlands. 185 Toward Ethically Grounded Conflict Interventions: Reevaluating Challenges in the 21st Century LARISSA A. FAST 1 ∗ , REINA C. NEUFELDT 2† & LISA SCHIRCH 3‡ 1 Conrad Grebel University
Kanisha Bond and Faten Ghosn
2002 ). While we have learned much in recent decades about the effect of state-level cultural characteristics on the likelihood of interstate conflict, conflict escalation, and intervention outcomes, there exist very few systematic studies of the effect of culture – and its multi-dimensionality – on a