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This issue of IJWP has three articles that look at conflict: types of conflict, conflict mediation, and the relation of virtue to conflict. Adapted from the source document.

Abstract: For Sound Studies: Art, Experience, Politics we would like to propose a performative presentation based on an improvisational format prompted by the broadcasts but re-adapted so far in public performances at the 2nd European Sound Studies Association Conference (ESSA) in Copenhagen (2014) and at the Music, Noise and Silence conference at the Royal College of Music/Science Museum (2015). Crossing the boundary between lecture and performance we will at once practise and scrutinise a number of research materials: we will improvise sounds, texts and voices that do not explain or interpret but embody rhythms, repetitions, coincidences and discordancies to present aesthetic, poetic and political conflicts. In this improvised format, the performance creates a sound work that faces its own meta-discourse and is able to talk back, infusing stable frameworks of theory and criticism with the vagaries of an invisible sound. This presentation enacts an improvisation of materials: texts, sounds, voices and things, that are brought to the event by both presenters without each other's knowledge. This conflict of material, the surprise, the unexpected are themselves parameters and strategies of the performance: we are thus unable to furnish you with a list of key text or sounds. To facilitate this performance lecture, we would like to ask permission to slightly alter the suggested time frame and to present for 30 minutes. This is not to exclude an audience but to give enough time for the responsive and improvised dynamic of the presentation to unfold successfully.

Die Autoren sehen einen wesentlichen Grund für den Stillstand des Friedensprozesses während der Amtszeit Netanyahus in dem interpersonellen Konflikt zwischen Arafat und Netanyahu. Vor allem die Unvereinbarkeit ihrer Weltanschauungen (verstanden als biographisch bedingte Selbst- und Fremdwahrnehmungen) hat es ihnen unmöglich gemacht, gegenseitiges Vertrauen - Grundvoraussetzung für den Erfolg jeglicher Konfliktlösungsstrategie - herzustellen. Die Bedeutung dieser psychologischen Dimension des Friedensprozesses wird am Beispiel des Wye River Memorandums diskutiert. (DÜI-Hns)

While tragically disrupting the lives of people in specific locations, some armed conflicts have the capacity to become social, political, and cultural stakes elsewhere. Inspired by Appadurai's conceptualization of -scapes, this article goes beyond and proposes the metaphor of 'conflict cloud' in order to understand armed conflicts in the context of globalization. Focusing on the circulation and production of narratives, we develop and delineate the main contributive features, processes, and actors of conflict clouds, using the Northern Irish conflict as an illustrative example. We posit that conflict narratives can be uploaded, downloaded, and uploaded again into conflict clouds by different actors globally. These actors are not always directly or indirectly involved in the concerned conflicts but can transform, frame, and exploit different meanings and symbols related to these conflicts for their particular agendas, usually tailoring them for specific audiences. ; publishedVersion ; Peer reviewed

The existence of a right to strike under international law has been challenged by the International Organization of Employers since the late 1980s. The employer group claims that no such right exists under international law and has been moving to undermine recognition of the right at the International Labour Organisation (ILO). This article examines the right to strike in international human rights law. It considers specifically the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and finds that the right to strike exists in both of these treaties. Further, the article demonstrates that while the ILO employers group may challenge the existence of the right to strike, its government members have overwhelmingly ratified international human rights treaties contradicting the employer group's position that there is no such right.