Final act of the Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace, Mexico City, February-March, 1945.

Mode of access: Internet.

Report of the First American conference for democracy and terms of peace held at Madison Square Garden, New York City, May 30 and 31st, 1917.

Mode of access: Internet.

Rapport à la Conference Sanitaire Internationale sur la marche et le mode de propagation du choléra en 1865.

Mode of access: Internet.

For a government of peace and freedom in Italy! Appeal at the underground conference in Milan, December 1942.

English and Italian.

Atoms-for-peace in the Philippines : official report of the Philippine delegation to the International Conference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy /

On t.p.: Geneva, 1955.

Proceedings of the SCAR Conference, held at Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, November, 9-12, 1976. --

Includes bibliographical references.

Plans and documents relating to roads, bridges, railways, canals, water, gas, &c., deposited with the clerk of the Peace for the County of Salop.

Mode of access: Internet.

Social capital society and peace: Reflections on conflict transformation in the Philippines

Civil society is recognised as comprising complex and multifaceted entities, resilient to and yet responsive to both the state apparatus and global market processes. Civil society in the Philippines, long regarded as one of the most vibrant, diverse and innovative in Asia, has emerged as a significant actor in the field of conflict resolution and peace-building. In thinking about the work of peace, this paper engages with the effectiveness of civil society in mobilising societal awareness for a ‘just and lasting peace’ in the southern Philippines. Shaped by development paradigms that privilege concepts such as social capital, the paper aims to interrogate how such concepts situated within the development–security nexus proposed by the Philippine government and funding agencies have influenced conflict-transformation initiatives in Mindanao, Philippines.

2000 Transportation Scholars Conference: Compendium of Papers, 2000

Compendium of papers presented at the Transportation Scholars Conference in 2000.

Whose peace? Local ownership and UN peacebuilding

In recent years, there has been an increasing emphasis on the participation of national actors in United Nations peace operations, reflecting what has become a near orthodox commitment to ‘local ownership.’ Advocates of local ownership assert that it: (1) increases the legitimacy of UN peacebuilding efforts; (2) increases the sustainability of peacebuilding activities after the departure of the UN; and (3) increases democratic governance in post-conflict states. While such thinking about local ownership has informed UN peacebuilding policy to a large extent, the UN has, to date, assumed these positive benefits without critically examining the causal mechanisms that allegedly produce them, specifying the conditions under which this correlation holds, or providing convincing evidence for these assertions. Moreover, exactly what local ownership is, what is being owned, and who local ‘owners’ are remain unclear. Indeed a closer examination of ownership’s relation with legitimacy, sustainability, and democratization reveal a plethora of contradictions that imply that local ownership may in fact decrease the UN’s ability to deliver peacekeeping results. Crucially, however, the UN persists in adopting a local ownership approach to peacebuilding, suggesting that it does so because it is normatively appropriate rather than operationally effective.

Controlling traffic jams on urban roads modeled in Coloured Petri net using Genetic Algorithm

This paper presents an application to traffic lights control in congested urban traffic, in real time, taking as input the position and route of the vehicles in the involved areas. This data is obtained from the communication between vehicles and infrastructure (V2I). Due to the great complexity of the possible combination of traffic lights and the short time to get a response, Genetic Algorithm was used to optimize this control. According to test results, the application can reduce the number of vehicles in congested areas, even with the entry of vehicles that previously were not being considered in these roads, such as parked vehicles. © 2012 IEEE.

Roads towards gender equity in Latin America and the Caribbean

Includes bibliography