Publication Type: Proceeding

Publication Type: Abstract
Abstract: Negotiated agreements, specifically Impact and Benefit Agreements (IBAs), between resource developers and Aboriginal communities are increasingly seen as viable approaches to assure Aboriginal communities will reap various economic benefits of resource extraction in their traditional territory. Drawing from existing literature about the social context of IBA negotiations, and their content in northern Canada, we apply Lukes’ three dimensions of power to IBAs to show how power is inequitable. We argue that IBAs do provide more direct engagement with industry and a sharing of benefits from resource development that heretofore was not provided in Northern Canada. Even so, IBAs stifle indigenous people from sharing information about benefits negotiated by other indigenous groups and social impacts of development, stifle subsequent objections to the development and its impacts, and stifle visioning about the type and pace of development appropriate for Northern indigenous people.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: The resolution of conflicts in the 21st century will depend much more on the judicious use of a combination of soft and hard power to exercise ‘smart power’ in zones of conflict, especially when there are large asymmetries of power between the internation

Publication Type: Paper (prepared oral presentation)
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Why and how do women enter politics?
What is interesting to women in politics?
The answer lays in the differences between the minds of men and women, women being more interested in real and daily life than men, who are more concerned with ideas. Which direction is Politics taking? Is it moving more toward Ideas or more toward daily life preoccupations?

Psychoanalysis, through the Symbolic language, can explain the story of political power and the power of men and women in politics. What power do women have?
At first, the power of seduction, the power of sex, the power over men, was the essential power women had, as they depended on men socially, politically, economically and religiously. This is what interested Freud: The power of the “hysterical woman,” this “object of desire” for men.

The notion, the concept of women as persons who have the ability to think and to have a mind made the same way as that of men is very new. Women had to overcome their feeling of inferiority in front of men’s language and power to enter the political arena. Even simply the right to vote was given by men to women only half a century ago.

The question now is, instead of relating to each other through power struggle, how can men and women build a complementary relationship, a real parity? How can they use their differences as a great opportunity to achieve together a common goal of humanity?

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This paper presents a test of elements of Power Transition Theory (PTT) through an examination of types of demographic transitions against civil war. It divides population transitions into nine types and, from PTT logic, derives testable hypotheses. It also tests elements of PTT's rival, Balance of Power Theory (BPT). Although the logic of PTT seems appropriate to testing at the substate level, the results are mixed. Most states plagued by ethnic civil wars have stable populations (i.e. no transitions), yet three types of transitions stand out. Even here, however, PTT predicts violence in only one of these three types of transitions. BPT fares a bit better.