John W. Burton

Conflict: Human Needs Theory

Preface - Foreword and Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Introduction - Needs as Analogues of Emotions P.Sites - Meaningful Social Bonding as a Universal Human Need M.E.Clark - The Biological Basis of Needs in World Society: The Ultimate Micro-Macro Nexus D.J.D.Sandole - Needs Theory, Social Identity, and an Eclectic Model of Conflict R.J.Fisher - Conflict and Needs Research K.Gillwald - Social Conflicts and Needs Theories: Some Observations R.Roy - Necessitous Man and Conflict Resolution: More Basic Questions about Basic Human Needs Theory C.Mitchell - On Conflicts and Metaphors: Toward an Extended Rationality O.Nudler - Self-Reflexivity and Freedom: Toward a Prescriptive Theory of Conflict Resolution J.S.Scimecca - Human Needs and the Modernization of Poverty V.Rader - Taking the Universality of Human Needs Seriously C.Bay - The Role of Knowledge in Conflict Resolution Y.Friedman - Processes of Governance: Can Governments Truly Respond to Human Needs? W.Potapchuk - Applying a Human Needs Perspective to the Practice of Conflict Resolution: The Israeli-Palestine Case H.Kelman - International Development in Human Perspective J.Galtung - Basic Human Needs Theory: Beyond Natural Law R.E.Rubenstein - Index

Systems, states, diplomacy and rules

Foreword Preface Part I. Systems and States: 1. Systems 2. The needs of states 3. Legitimized behaviour 4. Decision-making 5. Conflict Part II. The Behaviour of States: 6. The systemic behaviour of states 7. Non-systemic behaviour 8. Reactions to non-systemic behaviour Part III. Diplomacy: 9. The role of theory in decision-making 10. An alternative system of thought 11. The responsibility of states 12. On diplomacy Part IV. Guidelines: 13. International guidelines 14. Restatement and propositions Bibliography Index.

Making sense of waste flakes: New methods for investigating the technology and economics behind chipped stone assemblages

This paper looks at how waste flakes can be used to characterize production on working floors, and describes a replication experiment designed to test the fit of two neolithic assemblages from different cultural contexts to a simulated pattern of axe manufacture, using a multivariate classification technique. Further discussion examines the basis of a typological approach to the classification of flake assemblages, and seeks an explanation for apparent type shifts during the Neolithic in a “demand” based model of raw material supply.

A dysentery epidemic in New Guinea and its mortality

WHEN JAPANESE FORCES LANDED IN RABAUL IN JANUARY 1942, MOST EXPAT riate civilians withdrew from the mandated territory of New Guinea, and Australias administration of the territory was virtually nominal for almost a year. The Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit (ANGAU) came into being in February 1942, and replaced civilian administration until the end of the war (Figures 1 & 2). By the end of September 1942 it had nine officers and other ranks near Madang, three officers and five privates on or near the north coast, and 110 members of the Royal Papuan Constabulary (RPC) and labourers at their disposition. Medical officers and medical assistants could not continue the patrols which they had undertaken regularly before the war. The condition of minimal administration persisted until well into 1943 when an epidemic of bacillary dysentery began in the highlands. The impact of this epidemic on village populations has not previously been described and assess ed. The sudden outbreak of the epidemic came as a surprise to ANGAU. There were observers at Hagen, Wabag, Kundiawa, Bena Bena and Aiyura, who could have raised the alarm if an epidemic had struck any earlier. During 1943 European Medical Assistants (EMAs) were also found to take charge of rural hospitals at Bena Bena and at Mt Hagen. They compiled lists of cases treated in these two hospitals during October, but there was no entry in the column provided for dysentery. At Bena Bena many of the hospital patients may well have been contract labourers employed by ANGAU; but at Hagen at least a significant proportion of patients must have been villagers. It is further stated that 58 Hageners were treated during medical patrols.1 Among ANGAUs facilities was a Pathology Laboratory on Gemo Island in Port Moresby. On 1 December 1943 Lieutenant S. H. Christian, the officer in charge, reported an increase in the number of dysentery specimens submitted for examination; and for the first time he reported that Shiga dysentery had

Peace research" and "international relations

&dquo;Peace research&dquo; organizations are now developing in many countries. They represent a somewhat belated popular intellectual response to the circumstances of the nuclear age, and probably feed to some extent upon frustrations experienced by those who earlier responded emotionally and publicly. Those concerned with &dquo;peace research&dquo; include both natural and social scientists.

Unfinished Business in Conflict Resolution

The general thesis of “analytical problem-solving facilitated conflict resolution” is that parties to a conflict are able to find agreed options or means by which to cooperate in achieving their goals once they have made a complete analysis of the problems in their relationships. Such an analysis includes perceiving accurately the depths of feelings and the frustrations experienced by each other, and the extent to which apparently hostile behaviors are the consequence of environmental constraints.

No-alineación y política mundial contemporánea

John Wear Bi rtox ocupa el cargo de Reader in International Relations en el University College London. Ha publicado los siguientes libros: International Relations: A General Theory. (Cambridge University Press, 1965). Xonalignment (editor and contributor). (Andre Deutsch, 1966). Systems, States, Diplomacy and Rules. (Cambridge University Press, 1968). Conflict and Communication. (MacMillan, June 1969).

The person for the period

Sir Robert Menzies, The Measure of the Years, Cassell Australia Ltd., 1970, pp. 300,

DAVID EASTON. A Systems Analysis of Political Life. Pp. xvi, 507. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1965.

6.95. Kylie Tennant, Evatt: Politics and Justice, Angus and Robertson Ltd., Sydney, 1970, pp. 418,

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