The need to see the context of conflicts, or, Why does Team Defence Fort Two have so much lore?
When engaging with media the essential nature of context to conflicts becomes obvious as context...
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Finding Middle Ground
Reading the article on the Smithsonian’s Enola Gay exhibition and visiting the Auckland War Memorial Museum, there was a clear theme. Both acknowledged the tension between commemoration and scholarship in relation to conflict....
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Violent Video Games? Conflict (or lack thereof) in the Grand Strategy genre.
The Australian outback: unexplored, uninhabited, dangerous. You’re an explorer setting out for the first time across the new frontier.
Read MoreA Conceptual Analysis of Conflict
The eighth paperback Collins English dictionary defines conflict as: [An] opposition between ideas or interests. A struggle or battle. To be incompatible. The Latin root word of conflict is ‘confligere’, or ‘to combat’. While...
Read MoreThe Modern Erosion of the American Revolutionary Spirit
The spirit of the American Revolution was embodied in the Constitution and its amendments: tenets for the protection of individual liberty and limitation of governmental power. Yet while such ideals seemingly entrenched to the founding fathers, arguably, that liberal spirit has been eroded either by the isolation of citizenry from the original injustices or by the diminution of the original law. Analysing the recent murder of George Floyd, we see how the complexities of modernity inhibit individual intervention against the abuse of state powers.
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