Can There be a Just Resolution of Conflict?

Excerpt I may have first thought about just resolution of conflict when I was a student at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem many years ago. Those days I often heard on the radio--there was no TV in Israel at the time--and read about King Hussein\u27s repeated calls for a just and lasting Peace in the Middle East. I have also noticed over the years that the same slogan has been repeated, not only by King Hussein, but also by other prominent and less prominent leaders in regard to other conflicts.(1) The notion of just resolution of conflict has attracted me more and more, especially over the years in regards to my study of Africa

Interactivity and Control: The Case of Dynamic Maps for Navigation in Hypertext

Rich information environments such as online tutorials and web-books pose considerable difficulties for users, of which the most notable is being ‘lost in hypertext’. If these environments are to become commonplace, they must be designed to relieve users of these difficulties. In this paper we study the effects of dynamic navigational maps on orientation and search performance. We designed a conceptual map that tracks the user’s position vis-à-vis the content of the web-book and the history of the user’s visits. We show how these maps improve search performance significantly in terms of efficiency (number of clicks) but only weakly in terms of time or accuracy. We call for more research on how to enhance user control in complex information environments

Personal Dynamic Feedback in Acquiring Information to Manage Your Health

This paper makes two contributions at two different levels: one is about a design principle of HCI, namely the provision of personalized and dynamic feedback in interactive applications; the second contribution is a demonstration of the need for visual and dynamic representations to explain the design of interactive interfaces. At the first level, in the context of patients managing their health behavior, we analyze the design of feedback that builds on Visualization, Personalization, and Interactivity. Utilizing these elements DPF creates the right atmosphere for a unique InfoVis experience. We argue that such feedback will increase comprehension, participation in planning health behavior and self-efficacy. These three factors positively affect intentions to change behavior as recommended by the medical staff. A pilot study demonstrates the feasibility and impact of personalized and dynamic feedback. At the second level, we demonstrate how to use, contingently, three forms of visuals: static, dynamic distilled visuals and dynamic visuals in context (film

Revisiting Egyptian Foreign Policy towards Israel under Mubarak: From Cold Peace to Strategic Peace

This article is the first academic study of Egyptian foreign policy towards Israel under Hosni Mubarak (1981–2011). It challenges a deeply entrenched conventional wisdom that Egypt pursued a cold-peace foreign policy towards Israel throughout this period. We demonstrate that Egyptian foreign policy towards Israel was dynamic – comprising cold peace (1981–91), a hybrid foreign policy of cold peace and strategic peace (1991–2003), and a pure strategic peace posture (2003–11). We also use the case of Egyptian foreign policy towards Israel as a heuristic to develop a conception of a new type of peace, strategic peace, as an intermediary analytical category between cold and stable peace

On the African Role in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Dahomey.

Ronen Dov. On the African Role in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Dahomey.. In: Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 11, n°41, 1971. pp. 5-13

The Impact of HCI Design on Health Behavior: The Case for Visual, Interactive, Personalized-content (VIP) Feedback

There is overwhelming evidence of patients’ low compliance with taking medication and keeping health related diets. In this work, we explore Visual, Interactive, and Personalized-content (VIP) feedback, as a novel method for increasing a patient\u27s compliance with health care prescriptions. We hypothesize that VIP feedback positively affects intentions to change health behavior by affecting the users\u27 sense of involvement, self-efficacy and comprehension, and, thereby, affecting their intentions to change behavior. We then test the mediation model through a longitudinal experiment in which the subjects used a nutritional information system that supplied them with personal medical information (n=155). The results support the mediation model and present interesting implications for design. VIP feedback offers an opportunity to develop long-term intervention effects on users’ behavior