Ethnic crises and national security in Nigeria

The article focuses on the interface between ethnicity and national security in Nigeria. It critically explores the negative mobilization of ethnicity in Nigeria's fourth republic, and how this has been shaping (and reshaping) the democratization process, particularly in the management of cooperation and conflict over contestations for power and other resources. The re-democratization of Nigeria in 1999 has been preceded with high expectations of meaningful reductions in the high level of insecurity witnessed under the long years of military suzerainty. However, this has not been the case. Rather, what is obtained is an increase in national insecurity on a much larger scale. This article argues that one of the banes of national security in the Nigerian state is ethnic politics, which continues to witness changes in context and character with grave consequences for the future of democracy. The central argument is that ethnicity has always been a major driver of politics and conflicts in Nigeria and the trend is not likely to change anytime soon.     

初中生情绪不安全感与攻击行为的关系

本文基于情绪安全感理论,探讨初中生情绪不安全感与攻击行为的关系,采用问卷调查的方式,对新疆某市区274名初中生进行调查。结果显示:①初三年级间接攻击水平显著高于初一年级(F=4.41,p<0.05);②初一、初二年级情绪不安全感水平显著高于初三年级(F=8.31,p<0.001);③初中生情绪不安全感与攻击行为之间存在显著正相关(r=0.32,p<0.01)。调查结果表明,降低初中生的情绪不安全感水平,有助于减少其攻击行为的发生。     

论李煜词的文化内蕴

李煜的词是中国词坛上的一朵奇葩，不仅清丽自然，真情流露，而且是亡国之君情感的真实写照。其前期词轻描淡写却能再现栩栩如生的生活画面，后期词情深哀切，以有形的物来形容无形的愁，遣词用字准确贴切，艺术概括高度凝炼。     

《诗经·采薇》的意象及其军事思想

《采薇》诗成功地塑造了一些意象，将主观之“意”和客观之“象”完美地结合在一起，成为千古不朽的意境，蕴涵着独特的时代情感，具有丰富深刻的文化内涵，流露出一定的军事思想倾向。     

DAR ES SALAAM

Countries in transition often experience increased levels of crime, making their citizens vulnerable to the exploits of criminals. The lack of reliable statistics hampers the development of sound crime reduction strategies. This essay considers the value of victim surveys as additional sources of information to augment official police data. It presents the findings of such a survey undertaken in Dar es Salaam and compares them with findings obtained in similar surveys of Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria and Johannesburg. The information obtained in the survey conducted in Dar es Salaam provides valuable insights into crime rates and patterns. In comparing the results of the survey in Dar es Salaam, some interesting trends emerged around the theft of vehicle parts and vehicle theft, violent crimes, the levels of violence employed in burglaries and the use of weapons. The information gleaned from these surveys will go far in developing crime reduction strategies and measures that will be effective and appropriately targeted.     

兵团幼儿教师职业倦怠研究

教师职业倦怠是教师长期在高水平压力体验下产生的情感、态度和行为的一种衰竭状态,是教师对不能顺利应对工作压力的极端反应。本研究采用根据改编过的Maslach倦怠量表对225名新疆兵团骨干幼儿教师进行问卷调查,结果显示:新疆兵团幼儿教师职业倦怠总体状况较为良好;经方差分析4-6年教龄的幼儿教师较其他教龄幼儿的教师表现出更为严重的情绪衰竭;大专以下学历的幼儿教师与本科学历幼儿教师都出现了不同程度上的情绪衰竭,其中本科教师情绪衰竭更为严重;城市和连队幼儿园教师的情绪衰竭较乡镇幼儿教师严重。据此,研究认为可从加强幼儿园建设与管理、提高社会对幼儿教师的认知、强化教师自身的疏导和调节等三个方面缓解兵团幼儿园教师职业倦怠状况。     

合理情绪行为疗法在士兵情绪疏导中的应用

合理情绪行为疗法强调认知对人的行为的决定作用,它提供了一种帮助战胜不合理信念、改变不良情绪的有效方式。把合理情绪行为疗法应用于士兵的情绪疏导工作中,对部队的稳定和发展具有积极的现实意义。     

归因理论对英语教学的启示

本文通过对归因理论的阐述和对学生学业状况的归因倾向分析,提出了归因理论对英语教学的启示:一要关注学生的归因反应;二要研究学生的归因倾向,引导学生正确归因;三要重视培养学生的情感智力和认知技能;四要对教师自身的教学工作进行正确的归因。     

Artisanal small-scale opal mining (ASOM) insecurity in the Delanta wereda,Ethiopia: The shifting landscape of multidimensional insecurity in the face of emergent ASOM wealth

The commencement of opal mining in Ethiopia a decade ago has attracted the involvement of poor peasants, wealthy traders and traffickers. Although the academic and official literature on artisanal small-scale opal mining (ASOM) has primarily focused on the loss of wealth owing to a lack of skill and its traditional nature, this study explores the multidimensional insecurity that the discovery and mining of opal stones in the Delanta wereda of Wollo has brought about. This study contends that the ASOM industry has brought a new and previously unknown body of wealth to a society that is not used to the circulation of huge amounts of money in its narrow geography of commerce, engendering multidimensional insecurity. To make things worse, the network of patrimony and rentierism connecting locals with powerful people at the regional and federal level has given licence to illegal wealth extraction at the cost of exacerbating local insecurity. The qualitative data for the study was collected using interviews, focus group discussions, non-participant observations and document analyses at Delanta mining sites, the Wegel Tena town administration and Dessie city.     

Holmes’ front: constructing a new face of battle for America’s Civil War

ABSTRACT

In his seminal study of the changing nature of warfare between Agincourt and the Somme, military historian John Keegan proposed that future historians might consider combatants’ emotions in their assessments of the impact and nature of conflict. Recent years have witnessed the emergence of the history of emotions as an analytical approach, but rarely, if ever, is this directed toward the study of military history, far less the history of insurgencies and counter-insurgencies. This paper examines America’s civil war (1861–1865) as a case study of the ways in which an emotional history approach might illuminate not the physical experiences of but rather the immediate and longer-term reactions to counter-insurgency conflict through a focus on one specific individual, the future Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. It proposes that Holmes, whilst not a man of the ranks, nevertheless can reveal the wider ramifications of civil war and its emotional impact, both individually and culturally. As a relatively limited internecine war, one not fought by professional armies but by volunteer forces, America’s civil war highlights the ways in which the soldier’s response points us toward the kind of emotional revolution that has, to date, mainly been located within the European nations.