Postwar societies are high-risk contexts for youth violence. Nevertheless, not all postwar societies are equally violent. This article explores how these variations can be explained by focusing on the interaction between youths and adult society in a comparison of Guatemala and Cambodia....

The termination of war is mostly seen as a basis not just for recovery but for a fundamental transformation or change in development paths towards peace, stability and development. The Central American peace processes of the last decades were one of the first laboratories for the liberal...

In European history, war has played a major role in state‐building and the state monopoly on violence. But war is a very specific form of organized political violence, and it is decreasing on a global scale. Other patterns of armed violence now dominate, ones that seem to undermine...

"What makes atypical employment forms attractive from the point of view of enterprises is the personnel-policy leeway that they provide with regard to working hours, remuneration or continuity of employment. In particular company-internal social relations based on trust are important for the...

"What makes atypical employment forms attractive from the point of view of enterprises is the personnel-policy leeway that they provide with regard to working hours, remuneration or continuity of employment. In particular company-internal social relations based on trust are important for the...

When and to what extent should forecasts rely on linear model or human judgment? The judgmental forecasting literature suggests that aggregating model and judge using a simple 50:50 split tends to outperform the two inputs alone. However, current research disregards the important role that the...