Publications associées à Violence

Generalizing Bulk-Synchronous Parallel Processing for Data Science: From Data to Threads and Agent-Based Simulations

Agent-based simulations have been widely applied in many disciplines, by scientists and engineers alike. Scientists use agent-based simulations to tackle global problems, including alleviating poverty, reducing violence, and predicting the impact of pandem ...

EPFL2023

The Birth of the Workshop: Techno-Morals, Peace Experts and the Care of the Self in the Middle East

Nikolas Kosmatopoulos

In the article I examine through ethnography and contextual analysis one of the flagship techniques of peace expertise in the Middle East and elsewhere, the so-called conflict resolution workshop. For the transnational and hyper-mobile clan of peacemakers ...

2014

Multidisciplinary design of suitable assistive technologies for motor disabilities in Colombia

Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano

raumatic or pathological brain lesions often result in motor disabilities that have strong personal and social effects. Assistive technologies can support this population, potentially improving their autonomy and promoting their participation in society. H ...

2014

The Dynamics of Restraint in Cote d'Ivoire

Research on conflict prevention has mainly focused on the causes of war and post-conflict reconstruction. Our knowledge on how civilians manage to contain violence in unstable and conflict environments is, however, very limited. This article aims to unders ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Female vulnerability to the development of depression-like behavior in a rat model of intimate partner violence is related to anxious temperament, coping responses, and amygdala vasopressin receptor 1a expression

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Maria Isabel Cordero Campana, Guillaume Poirier

Exposure to violence is traumatic and an important source of mental health disturbance, yet the factors associated with victimization remain incompletely understood. The aim of the present study was to investigate factors related to vulnerability to depres ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2013

Evidence for biological roots in the transgenerational transmission of intimate partner violence

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Maria Isabel Cordero Campana, Vandana Veenit, Basira Salehi, Guillaume Poirier, Cristina Marquez Vega, Xavier Fontana

Intimate partner violence is a ubiquitous and devastating phenomenon for which effective interventions and a clear etiological understanding are still lacking. A major risk factor for violence perpetration is childhood exposure to violence, prompting the p ...

2012

Violences, sécurités et territoires : transformations urbaines à Barcelone et Bogota

Charlotte Boisteau

The phenomenon of urban violence and the resulting sense of insecurity are at the very heart of contemporary urban dynamics. In order to respond to the growing public demand for security, various public, private, and community measures contribute to the ne ...

EPFL2009

Sécurité, dynamiques urbaines et privatisation de l'espace à Johannesburg

Charlotte Boisteau

Le passage de l’Apartheid à la démocratie en 1990 fut vécu par la population noire sudafricaine comme une victoire des droits de l’Homme. La lutte pour la libération des peuples opprimés et l’importation d’un modèle étatique occidental ont provoqué des mil ...

2005