SOUTH AFRICA AND THE SADC STAND-BY FORCE

SOUTH AFRICA AND THE SADC STAND-BY FORCE

The regional powerhouse, South Africa, has since the introduction of the nonracial democratic dispensation in 1994, played a central and important role in theformation of both the regional and continental security architecture.With theestablishment of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in 1992,one of the central areas of collaboratio

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Pakistan Library Association: The Difficult Beginnings

This paper Worklights traces the history of the initiative that led to the formation of the Pakistan Library Association and deals with the difficulties it faced in its functioning during the first few years of its life.It uses primary documents dealing with this period especially those related to its formation, constitutional difficulties, and ope

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Personal Value Preferences, Threat-Benefit Appraisal of Immigrants and Levels of Social Contact: Looking Through the Lens of the Stereotype Content Model

The study examines a model proposing relationships between personal values, positive (i.e., benefits) and negative (i.e., threats) appraisal of immigrants, and social contact.Based on a values-attitudes-behavior paradigm, the study extends previous work on personal values and attitudes to immigrants by examining not only negative but also positive

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Stochastic economic analyses of even-aged timber growing

Abstract Background StochPV is a computer programme enabling the risks and uncertainties inherent in even-aged timber growing to be recognised through stochastic analysis.Most financial analyses of even-aged plantation or forest stands have used deterministic analyses, such that Worklights a single set of volumes, costs and prices yields a single a

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