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Free Download Consensus Modeling to Promote Group Wisdom: Methods and Applications
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9819793157 | 253 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 44 MB
This book explores the latest theories, methods, and applications of consensus modeling. It proposes a variety of consensus modeling methods for different decision-making contexts, including conflict risk mitigation in group decision-making, integration with the failure mode and effects analysis technique, consideration of over-adjustment and flexible consensus, social network large-group decision-making environments involving multiple consensus costs, and multi-agent collaborative decision-making with consideration of trade-offs between revenue and reputation. In addition, this book discusses the application and implementation process of the proposed consensus modeling techniques in real-world decision-making, including collecting decision data, organizing decision-making groups, controlling the decision-making process, and evaluating the results.

Free Download Geetanjali Mukherjee, "Creating Consensus: The Journey Towards Banning Cluster Munitions"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1517069971 | EPUB | pages: 220 | 0.4 mb
Newly revised and updated edition.This book analyses the events leading up to the cluster munitions ban, the provisions of the treaty, as well as assesses the progress made in the years since towards a world without the presence of cluster munitions. Cluster bombs are weapons that are small but deadly. They often look like small metal canisters, and some of them are painted, giving them the innocuous appearance of a soda can. The unexploded submunitions that are scattered on the ground, in effect, act as landmines, that can kill or severely injure anyone who comes across them, sometimes even years and decades later. It has been reported that 98% of all casualties of cluster munitions are civilians, of which one-third are children. Cluster munitions have been used in numerous conflicts since the Second World War, and it has been estimated that at least 1 billion submunitions were stockpiled globally. For decades, humanitarian organizations sought to limit the use of these weapons, but international consensus on the issue was hard to come by. The campaign to ban cluster munitions faced a monumental and nearly impossible task – to convince governments to agree to stop using a valuable weapon in their arsenals that they stockpiled by the hundreds of thousands, in a political climate where the interests of national security and state sovereignty outweighed humanitarian concerns in almost every instance. However, where many international agreements failed and diplomatic processes stalled, the campaign to ban cluster munitions succeeded. Despite strong opposition from many countries, 107 countries met in Dublin in May 2008 to negotiate and adopt a treaty prohibiting the use, production, transfer and stockpiling of cluster munitions. The outcome of the Oslo Process was a ray of hope among the usual cynicism and disenchantment of similar international processes. This book explores this question: how was this accomplished, and are there any wider lessons to be learned from it?

Free Download Building Consensus For Buisness: Learn to Facilitate a Collaborative Team to Reach a General Agreement on a Proposal That Meets the Interest of All Members … Results by Edward J. Murphy
English | April 19, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0CW1LQJ4T | 136 pages | EPUB | 0.92 Mb
This book is about Building Consensus for Business.

Free Download Keith E. Peterman, Gregory P. Foy, Matthew R. Cordes, "Global Consensus on Climate Change: Paris Agreement and the Path Beyond"
English | 2020 | pages: 153 | ISBN: 0841234248 | PDF | 7,7 mb
Authored by students who have directly engaged the global community, this book presents complex, interconnected global issues linked to climate change in a readable format for a broad audience. Chapters feature insight from the global community at the epicenter of international climate change negotiations. The guiding principle of this ACS-sponsored climate literacy project and resulting book is to enable students to communicate directly with their peers and educators, in contrast to traditional to-down approaches to involve students in climate science dialogue.

Free Download Nathan Stoltzfus, "Hitler’s Compromises: Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany"
English | 2016 | pages: 432 | ISBN: 0300217501 | EPUB | 3,6 mb
A comprehensive and eye-opening examination of Hitler’s regime, revealing the numerous strategic compromises he made in order to manage dissent

Free Download Elie Friedman, "Polarization and Consensus-Building in Israel "
English | ISBN: 1032293314 | 2023 | 372 pages | EPUB, PDF | 7 MB + 10 MB
This edited volume examines the most pressing social and political issues confronting Israel from a multidisciplinary perspective, focusing on the breakdown of social solidarity and the inability to formulate consensus.

Free Download Walter F. Baber, "Consensus and Global Environmental Governance: Deliberative Democracy in Nature’s Regime "
English | ISBN: 0262028735 | 2015 | 251 pages | PDF | 3 MB
An examination of the potential and limitations of deliberative consensus as a way to achieve effective international environmental governance.

Free Download James Piereson, "Shattered Consensus: The Rise and Decline of America s Postwar Political Order"
English | 2015 | pages: 416 | ISBN: 1594036713, 1594038953 | EPUB | 1,2 mb
The United States has been shaped by three sweeping political revolutions: Jefferson’s "revolution of 1800," the Civil War, and the New Deal. Each of these upheavals concluded with lasting institutional and cultural adjustments that set the stage for a new phase of political and economic development. Are we on the verge of another upheaval, a "fourth revolution" that will reshape U.S. politics for decades to come? There are signs to suggest that we are.

Free Download Jianxiang Xi, "Admissible Consensus and Consensualization for Singular Multi-agent Systems "
English | ISBN: 9811969892 | 2023 | 291 pages | PDF | 9 MB
This book explores admissible consensus analysis and design problems concerning singular multi-agent systems, addressing various impact factors including time delays, external disturbances, switching topologies, protocol states, topology structures, and performance constraint. It also discusses the state-space decomposition method, a key technique that can decompose the motions of singular multi-agent systems into two parts: the relative motion and the whole motion. The relative motion is independent of the whole motion. Further, it describes the admissible consensus analysis and determination of the design criteria for different impact factors using the Lyapunov method, the linear matrix inequality tool, and the generalized Riccati equation method. This book is a valuable reference resource for graduate students of control theory and engineering and researchers in the field of multi-agent systems.

Free Download Oxford, the Collegiate University: Conflict, Consensus and Continuity By Ted Tapper, David Palfreyman (auth.)
2011 | 209 Pages | ISBN: 9400700466 | PDF | 2 MB
Oxford is one of the world’s great universities but this has not meant that it is exempt from pressures for change. On various fronts it has been required to meet the challenges that universities almost worldwide have to face. Given the retrenchment of public funding, especially to support undergraduate teaching, it has been required to augment its financial base, while at the same time deciding how to respond to pressure from successive governments determined to use higher education to achieve their own policy goals. While still consistently ranked as a world-class university, it has to decide how it is to acquire the funding to continue in this league, or whether this goal is worth pursuing. Oxford is a collegiate university, which means its colleges share with the University responsibility for the delivery of its central goals. Is this balance of authority shifting over time? If so, how is this to be accounted for, and what are the likely outcomes for the collegiate university? This book sets out to address these questions and arrives at an essentially positive conclusion. Oxford will continue to remain an effective collegiate university and, while its identity will change, its central character will persist.