THE INFLUENCE OF CONFLICTING STATE DYNAMICS IN ROMANIAN ORGANISATIONS OVER THE CAUSES OF NATIONAL ECONOMIC CRISIS

The paperwork presents the evolution of the conflicting states in Romanian organizations between 1992-2008 and presents data regarding the causes of the conflicts from a economic, social and political point of view. There are presented data regarding the number of conflicts recorded in the period of years analyzed, the evolution of conflicts divided by the branches of the national economy, the number of participants at the conflicts and strikes and their claims.conflicts, conflicting rights, conflicts of interest, conflict dynamics.

The role of problem-based learning in developing communication conflict resolving skills among selected non-government organisations in Pakistan

Communication conflicts among employees of the developing organisations in Pakistan have been one of the major issues over the years. The causes are numerous but the efforts to reduce and resolve these conflicts effectively are found to be rare. The objectives of this case study were to examine the nature of communication conflicts predominant among employees at the workplace, explore the role of culture in communication conflicts, identify the perceptions of employees of in-house training using Problem Based Learning (PBL) approach and finally propose a PBL-based training module for developing conflict resolving skills among employees at the work place in Pakistan. This study adopted a Case Study approach. Using purposeful sampling, it involved forty Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) employees from different parts of Pakistan. The data emerged from three instruments involving semi-structured interviews, surveys and observations to examine the nature of communication conflicts among employees and see the impact of PBL training on the soft skills of respondents. Interview and observation data were transcribed and analysed through thematic analysis while the data from the survey was computed through descriptive statistics using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The findings from this study show the existence of different type of communication conflicts among employees in the developing organisations. The result shows the substantial role of PBL in developing conflict resolving skills and other essential soft skills among employees as a whole. The finding concludes that PBL plays an instrumental and effective role towards improving the various soft skills and traits including among employees of an NGO sector

The development of an automatic method of safety monitoring at Pelican Crossings

This paper reports on the development of a method for automatic monitoring of safety at Pelican crossings. Historically, safety monitoring has typically been carried out using accident data, though given the rarity of such events it is difficult to quickly detect change in accident risk at a particular site. An alternative indicator sometimes used is traffic conflicts, though this data can be time consuming and expensive to collect. The method developed in this paper uses vehicle speeds and decelerations collected using standard in-situ loops and tubes, to determine conflicts using vehicle decelerations and to assess the possibility of automatic safety monitoring at Pelican crossings. Information on signal settings, driver crossing behaviour, pedestrian crossing behaviour and delays, and pedestrian-vehicle conflicts was collected synchronously through a combination of direct observation, video analysis, and analysis of output from tube and loop detectors. Models were developed to predict safety, i.e. pedestrian-vehicle conflicts using vehicle speeds and decelerations

Education: A More Powerful Weapon Than War?

In this paper, I analyze the impact of education on civil war onset, utilizing variables measuring length of compulsory education and number of internal armed conflicts in a given country per year. Using data from the Quality of Government Institute’s Quality of Government Standard Time Series data set, I test this hypothesis and find that an increase in compulsory education length decreases the expected number of internal armed conflicts. The results suggest further importance of education as a great equalizer among individuals as well as nations

JULIET’S PSYCHOLOGICAL CONFLICTS IN WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S DRAMA “ROMEO AND JULIET”

Learning literature is important and it will provide us with valuable and useful knowledge that has significant benefits concerning the topic. By learning literature we will have wider insight and wiser consideration in decision-making. This study is focused on the aspects of “Romeo and Juliet” namely: (1) What are the psychological conflicts faced by the main characters in “Romeo and Juliet” drama, (2) what are the causes of the main characters’ psychological conflict and (3) what are the effect of the psychological conflict on the main characters. The method in this research is the descriptive qualitative method. In order to make a systematical description, the writer classifies the results of the study into four sub-chapters and they are collecting the data, analyzing the data, presenting the result, and drawing a conclusion. Based on the result of the data analysis, it is found out that there are three psychological conflicts faced by the main characters. They are: fear, worries, and confusion. The conflicts brought the main characters to take any decision, finally they died after drinking poison