Although some of today’s armed conflicts seem unsolvable, the fact is that in the last three decades, four out of five of the armed conflicts have concluded with a peace agreement at a negotiating table. This book –written by Vicenç...
Alain Musset is director of École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and honorary member of Institut universitaire de France. With a PhD in Geography from EHESS, Dr Musset is also the director of the school's master programme in Comparative Studies on Development and a PhD programme in...
Paul Robbins, Director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin. Considered to be one of the most renowned researchers in the emerging field of political ecology.
Paul Robbins, director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is one of the world's leading experts in political ecology. He visited the UAB as a guest speaker at the ENTITLE programme...
Not only politicians, but also citizens have double standards when judging the severity of corruption: an experiment shows that individuals are more tolerant when corruption affects politicians from the party they sympathise with. Data shows that this perceptual partisan bias...
A doctoral thesis at the UAB aims at considering whether mediation is an efficient mechanism of redress in the consumer domain, as well as to determine whether the B2C domain supports the introduction of ITCs and particularly, online mediation procedures. Moreover, the research aims at...
In democratic societies, mass media have been defined as the "fourth power" because of their social influence and their function as a counterbalance to possible abuses by the other powers. In this sense, the media are seen as a tool for invigorating the...
