JAPSS VOL 2, NO 1, MAY 2010

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Editorial Board

Table of Contents

Research and Analysis

An Empirical Phenomenological Psychological Study of Farmer-herdsmen Conflicts in North-Central Nigeria

Adekunle Oluwasegun and Adisa Solagberu   

Planet or Profit: Remodeling the Climate Change Negotiations

Gwendolyn Smith

The Importance of Culture in Emic Interpretations of the History of Thailand’s Southern Separatist Movement: The “Gentlemen’s Agreement” of 1943 and the Malaysian Relationship with the Separatists

Otto F. von Feigenblatt.

Conflict Discourse among Sudanese Dinka Refugees: Implications for Cross-Cultural Analysis and Resolution

Tina Jaeckle and Alexia Georgakopoulos

Self-Help as a Strategy for Rural Development in Nigeria: A Bottom-Up Approach

Akpomuvie Orhioghene Benedict

Dramatic Problem Solving: Transforming Community Conflict through Performance in Costa Rica

Steven Hawkins and Alexia Georgakopolous

African Traditional Education: A Viable Alternative for Peace Building Process in Modern Africa

Okoro Kingsley

Patriarchy: Perpetuating the Practice of Female Genital Mutilation

Sharmon Lynnette Monagan

Art and Spirituality on Second Life: A Participant Observation and Digital Quest for Meaning

Mary Stokrocki

The Cameroon and Nigeria Negotiation Process over the Contested Oil rich Bakassi Peninsula

Nicholas Tarlebbea and Sam Baroni 

Exclusion of Private Sector from Freedom of Information Laws: Implications from a Human Rights Perspective

Mazhar Siraj

Meaning of Life and Death in the Poetry of John Paul II

Sebastian, A.J

Participation Motive in the Paralympics

Omar-Fauzee, M.S, Manisah Mohd-Ali, Soh Kim Geok and Norazillah Ibrahim

The Psychological Preconditions for Collective Violence: Several Case Studies

William Walter Bostock

The Power of Social Media Image

Beatriz Peña Acuña 

Impact of Globalization on Traditional African Religion and Cultural Conflict

Alphonse Kasongo

Oiling the Guns and Gunning for Oil: Oil Violence, Arms Proliferation and the Destruction of Nigeria’s Niger Delta

Isiaka Alani Badmus

Multiple Opinions and Perspectives

New Normalcy and Shifting Meanings of the Practice of Veiling in Turkey

Ibrahim Kuran

Restoring Lost ‘Honor’: Retrieving Face and Identity, Removing Shame, and Controlling the Familial Cultural Environment through ‘Honor’ Murder

Brooklynn Welden

Latinos in U.S. Film Industry

Beatriz Peña Acuña

Gandhi, Civilization, Non-Violence and Obama

Tamer Söyler

Dependency Theories and the Icelandic Pension Crisis

Phillip Andrew Smith

Deconstructing the Caste Hegemony: Lambada Oral Literature

Suneetha Rani Karamsi 

Awards

Scholars of the Month