Thesis--University of Michigan, 1988.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 137-147).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1965. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Bibliography: l. 161-163.

Thesis (M.S. in Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 1990. / Thesis Advisor(s): Smith, Raymond W. Second Reader: Carrick, Paul M. "June 1990." Description based on title screen as viewed on 19 October 2009. DTIC Identifier(s): component breakout program, military procurement, contract administration, logistics management, parts, decision making, quality, government furnished equipment, management planning and control. Author(s) subject terms: Component breakout; component breakin; government furnished equipment; government furnished material; contractor furnished equipment. Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-213). Also available online.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 137-147). Also available in print.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1966. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Bibliography: l. 69-71.

Thesis--University of Michigan, 1988.

This mini-dissertation looks at human trafficking in non-international armed conflicts and evaluates whether or not the law of non-international armed conflicts sufficiently prohibits and deals with human trafficking to bring more attention to the common crime in non-international armed conflicts. From the broad view, it seems as though human trafficking is neglected by the law of non-international armed conflicts in non-international armed conflicts. This mini-dissertation therefore looks closer in to the law of non-international armed conflict to identify, explain and evaluate the relevant provisions of the law of non-international armed conflict in order to draw a conclusion on whether or not human trafficking is indeed neglected by the law regulating non-international armed conflicts or not, offer criticism and make suggestions on improving the laws. In order to be in a position to draw a conclusion, offer criticism and make suggestions, the drafting history of the provisions, the textual interpretation, relevant case law and scholarly opinion will be looked at. / Mini Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2021. / Public Law / LLM / Unrestricted

This thesis investigates how and why various Iraqi and Lebanese politicians and laypeople account for the armed conflicts, which they have been living through, and the involved sides of these conflicts. In both of these countries people have been exposed to major international and civil wars. Both nations are also cosmopolitan societies that contain multiple ethnic, racial, and religious groups, which make the issue of identity of great importance. How wars should be examined is a subject of much debate within psychology. On the one hand, the majority of psychological studies of war rest upon the assumption that war is primarily a destructive experience. Thus, the focus has been traditionally on investigating lasting psychopathological effects of war. A Large number of previous studies have reported that a significant segment of people who were exposed to the experience of war developed psychological problems, especially post traumatic stress disorder. On the other hand, a growing number of psychology researchers contend that most people maintain their psychological equilibrium in the face of almost all types of traumatic experiences, including war-related affairs. These researchers have shifted the focus toward examining and explaining this finding. Within this vigorous debate, limited attention has been paid to the question of how and why people account for their experiences as well as the various aspects of war in their own words. Currently, a limited number of studies indicate that people can and do present the same war in significantly different ways, as a means to attain certain ends. Furthermore, a significant body of research suggests that people’s collective identities play an important role in relation to their understandings, descriptions, preferences and behaviours in relation to war. The war rhetoric is also reported as an important issue that can influence the people’s understanding of war, as well as war’s course of events. Hence, through adopting a discursive psychological approach to analysis, this thesis examines several important issues simultaneously. Accounts of the wars and collective identities are approached as communicative resources that are constructed and deployed as a means to accomplish social actions. This thesis examines, specifically, how different Iraqi laypeople and politicians construct the 2003 American and Allies intervention in Iraq, with focus on collective identity. It also examines how various Lebanese construe the events of the 2006 war and the civil strife that occurred during and afterward this war. The data is taken from three sources. The first one is represented by semi-structured interviews conducted in Lebanon in October 2006. The second source is TV interviews conducted and broadcasted live with Iraqi politicians and decision makers in the period from 2003 to 2008 and with Lebanese politicians from 2006 to 2008. The third source is an open-ended question distributed in Basra City, Iraq in May 2005 as part of an extensive questionnaire. This study has several practical and theoretical implications to psychology in general and in particular to the study of armed conflicts. The first contribution is highlighting the importance of analysing laypeople’s rhetorical accounts of wars, as directly involved people can and do present surprisingly different discourses from the outsiders’. I argue that to gain a realistic and applicable understanding of the discourse of war, its function and its potential implications, it is necessary to study the general public’s versions of such experience in addition to the elite’s discourses. The analysis shows that different participants have constructed different action-oriented accounts of the same war. Within these various accounts the participants invoked and incorporated a number of different stimulating notions, such as dignity, nationalism, religion, resilience and victory as part of the rational of the war. These accounts have important practical and discursive functions, such as establishing, warranting, rejecting, and promoting specific views of the war, the involved sides, and the appropriate course of action. Secondly, this study contributes to the theoretical understanding of the role of rhetorical collective identity during armed conflicts. The analysis shows that collective identities attain their meanings and their functions from, by, and through the accounts they are situated within. Thirdly, the findings of this thesis highlight the complex and consequential role of rhetorical accounts in relation to wars and to violence and the relevance of qualitative analysis. I argue that discourse of war can obscure its destructive effects, which in turn can contribute to maintaining people’s psychological equilibrium but, also, prolong the conflict. Thus, exposing the rhetorical strategies that legitimate war and warrant killing other people can be an important step toward making war unconditionally morally unacceptable.

Recent world events have affected the rates at which the United States Army Reserve (USAR) recruits and retains enlisted members. As these rates fluctuate, it becomes difficult for the USAR to forecast its recruiting requirements. This thesis describes a statistical model and an associated software tool designed to provide precise forecasts of aggregate USAR enlisted personnel trends. In particular, the tool can assist in forecasting specific USAR enlisted end strength requirements using aggregate accession, retention and attrition rates. Entitled the Army Reserve Enlisted Aggregate Flow Model (AREAFM), the tool uses a Markov Growth Model and, for the purposes of this thesis, it is standardized using fiscal year 2001 (FY01) through FY03 data and validated with FY04 data. The AREAFM is intended for annual use in forecasting the number of enlisted accessions required to achieve USAR end strength. The model can also be used to evaluate how adjustments in accession, promotion and attrition rates, perhaps as the result of changes in USAR manpower policies or current events, might affect the assigned strength. / US Army Reserve (USAR) author.