Bibliography: pages 264-277. / This thesis outlines a proposal from an explicitly religious standpoint of the key dimensions of peacebuilding, focusing particularly on mediation and facilitation as a primary task. What is the value of such a study? My initial responses in the paragraphs which follow are made at the broadest possible level: the desperate need for effective peacebuilders in a world torn by violence and the potential for religiously-based peacebuilders to fill that need. I then support this response by examining other reasons for the study: the current inadequacy of religious response to conflicts, the danger of manipulation of religious leadership by other actors, and potential for the insights of religiously-based actors to contribute to the over-all practice of peacebuilding and diplomacy. In addressing the latter question I outline my own understanding of the meaning of "religion", an understanding whose impact on the broad question of peacebuilding I explore throughout the chapters which follow.

Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M. Th. (Christian Spirituality)

Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M.Th. (Christian Spirituality, Church History & Missiology)

This work mainly focuses on putting the laborers of the Richmond Armory and the Tredegar Iron Works into the context of Civil War Richmond by focusing on their skills, backgrounds, and loyalties throughout the conflict. It highlights the similarities and differences between the two institutions and the legacies that they left behind in the years following the war. It also sheds light on some of the problems facing the Confederacy during the course of the war and its struggle to procure arms.

Organization and equipment of the army in 15th century: parallel development in France, Burgundy and in the Central Europe The form of the military organization, providing of food supply, technical possibilities and conditions of transport and, of course, a character of armament had share in qualities of the army during the late Middle Ages as well as in the other eras. In this context were important contemporary technical possibilities of the weapon production, commerce of weapons and last but not least also the attitude to the progressively developed group of weapons - firearms. Purpose of this thesis is comparison of aforementioned themes context between the middle Europe with the emphasis on Bohemian lands and francophone west Europe, presented by the kingdom of France both with the duchy of Burgundy. Final aim of this effort is searching of different specifics in the studied regions together with the detection of identical trends and influences. Keywords: military organization - food supply - weapons production and armament - firearms - transport

Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M.Th. (Christian Spirituality, Church History & Missiology)

Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M. Th. (Christian Spirituality)

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1985 M37 / Master of Arts

<p>Dat je pregled i analiza performansi lakih vojnih terenskih točka&scaron;kih vozila (LVTTV), lakih komercijalnih terenskih točka&scaron;kih vozila (LKTTV) u Pik-ap verziji i postojećih sistema naoružanja pogodnih za primenu na LKTTV Pik-ap verzija.<br />Posebno je razmotrena problematika elastično-prigu&scaron;nog oslanjanja naoružanja pri njegovom jediničnom dejstvu.<br />Definisana je metodologija i projektovana je i realizovana oprema za simulaciju impulsne sile u cilju statičkih i dinamičkih ispitivanja sistema vozilo-platforma-naoružanje u laboratorijskim uslovima.<br />Prikazan je postupak ispitivanja pri statičkom opterećenju sistema i dinamičkih ispitivanja sistema vozilo-platforma-naoružanje u uslovima kontinuirane impulsne sile u cilju odredjivanja pomeranja &scaron;asije u zonama točkova i napona u &scaron;asiji vozila i osloncima platforme za prihvat naoružanja.<br />Postavljen je matematički model sistema vozilo-platforma-naoružanje i data teorijska pomeranja &scaron;asije vozila u zonama točkova pri jediničnoj impulsnoj sili odnosno impulsu.</p> / <p>The review and analysis of the performances of military ground wheeled vehicles (LVTTV), light commercial wheeled ground vehicles (LKTTV) of Pick-up version and current systems of armament convenient for the application on LKTTV Pick-up versions, were given.<br />The issues of elastic-absorbtion suspension of armament during its single shooting function was analised in detail.<br />The methodology was defined, the equipment for the simulation of impulse force was designed and realised with purpose of static and dynamic tests of the vehicle-platform-armament system in the laboratory conditions.<br />The test procedure of static and dynamic loads of system vehicle-platform-armament in conditions of continual impulse force was presented. The aim of these tests was the determination of motion of vehicle chassis in the stress of vehicle chassis and platform supports for the armament.<br />The mathematical model of vehicle-platform-armamaent system was defined and theoretical motions of vehicle chassis in the wheels zones under the single impulse force, were given.</p>

De 1945 à 1966, l’évolution de l’armée de l’air française dépend en grande partie des innovations technologiques. L’objet de la présente thèse est d’expliquer comment elle a été capable, technologiquement et structurellement, de passer d’une situation où elle est jugée désuète à une situation dans laquelle elle se tient en tête du dispositif de défense nationale et se positionne comme la troisième force aérienne mondiale. Nous identifions trois périodes essentielles dans la mutation de son expertise technologique. De 1945 à 1950, elle relève plusieurs défis, à l’image de l’intensification des transferts technologiques, de l’aviation à réaction, dans le contexte naissant de la guerre froide. Pour la période 1951-1958, elle suit un cycle de modernisation accélérée malgré les guerres coloniales, sous l’impulsion de l’aide aide américaine, à l’image du développement de programmes aéronautiques et de l’utilisation de missiles. Enfin, de 1959 à 1966, l’armée de l’air s’adapte aux stratégies et aux armes nouvelles dont le nucléaire. Cette période clé aboutit à l’entrée en service du système d’armes stratégique piloté Mirage IV, dans un environnement marqué par de multiples mutations structurelles et par la sortie du commandement militaire intégré de l’OTAN. / From 1945 to 1966, the evolution of the French Air Force largely depends on technological innovations. The aim of this thesis is to analyze how it became able – both technologically and structurally – to pass from a situation in which it was considered as an old-fashioned entity to the head of the national defense system, thus establishing itself as the third Air Force power. To do so, we identify three essential periods, which illustrate its shift to develop progressively its technological expertise. From 1945 to 1950, it meets several challenges such as technological transfers and jet-powered planes in the early years of the Cold War. From 1951 until 1958, it follows a fast modernization trend in spite of the Colonial Wars, as depicted through the development of aeronautical programs and the use of missiles, in a context of American Help. From 1959 to 1966, the French Air Force then adapts to both nuclear-based weapons and strategies, such as piloted strategic armament systems Mirage IV and structural transfers taken out of the military command integrated by NATO.