Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Coping with Unfulfilled Standards in Dating Relationships:
Drawing Upon Personal Resources
Research suggests that romantic relationships can be particularly distressing when relationship standards are not fulfilled (Baucom, Epstein, Rankin & Burnett, 1996b). Discovering the many possible coping strategies used by partners in dating relationships is the first step in understanding how people deal with unfulfilled standards. The second step in understanding how people cope with unfulfilled standards is to begin exploring the coping resources that individuals draw upon in such times of stress. This investigation was conducted to explore the coping strategies people use when reacting to unfulfilled standards. In the first study, 26 coping strategies were generated. Then, in the second study, the results suggested a ten-factor solution: punishing, clarifying, reframing, self-disparaging, modeling, discussing, exiting, seeking social support, escaping, distancing and using humor. In addition, it was discovered that each of these sets of coping strategies was linked to two personal resources, relationship locus of control and self-esteem.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: While recent research on humanitarianism suggests that a new humanitarian norm has emerged in the wake of the Cold War, I argue that activities that could be loosely described as “humanitarian” have taken place for centuries. Yet discussions about humanitarianism are usually limited to the relatively recent past. Furthermore, humanitarian activity is commonly viewed as the exception, rather than the rule, in that it is viewed as contingent upon the interests of powerful states. This explanation, however, does not account for the ways in which humanitarian ideas and state interests are mutually constituted. Hedley Bull identifies limitations to war as a primary institution of international society, in that such limitations minimize war as a manifestation of disorder, yet he does not explain how these limitations came to be. The goal, therefore, of this paper is to investigate efforts to limit the effects of war in the early modern era, in order to show how humanitarian practices evolved alongside and contributed to the emergence of international order. The paper examines the case of French and Dutch Protestant refugees in England during the reign of Elizabeth I. The investigation of early forms of humanitarian practice will help to shed light on how beliefs about moral obligation are are constituted by historically embedded notions of identity and power.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the interrelation between Israeli Law and the socio-political status of the Arab-Palestinian Minority in the period between the "Land Day" (1976) and the "October events" (2000).

In the first three decades since the creation of Israel, the mode of inter-communal relationship between Arabs and Jews in Israel was that of a "control" system (Lustick, 1980). The paper explores the involvement of the Israeli Law in the dynamics that have occurred in this relationship, namely, its movement to a system termed by sociologist Sami Smooha "ethnic democracy" (Smooha, 1990).

My main argument is that several legal developments helped strengthen two socio-political processes. First, Law contributed to the appearance of more liberal aspects in the Israeli reality (in Israel proper, namely, within the green-line). Secondly, certain legal developments eroded important mechanisms that used to stabilize the control policy and thus pushed for a new and more moderate equilibrium. The main purpose of the paper is to analyze Law's contribution to this erosion of the "control" system.

An important caveat is in need here. The Arab minority status has improved, but it is far from being enviable. A more comprehensive analysis thus demands to unfold, simultaneously, the darker side of the Israeli Law in this context.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Purpose: To examine how perinatal status (pregnancy through three-months postpartum) affects a woman’s help-seeking (within the criminal justice system and within the emergency medical system) after an assault by her intimate partner.
Methodology: Retrospective review of court records and medical records of the entire population of adult, female victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) identified by police request for authorized IPV charges in the year 2000 in a mid-west city. Records review spanned 1999 through 2001.
Results: For the 964 IPV victims, there were 1438 assaults, 4456 emergency department (ED) visits and 634 obstetric events (158 perinatal at the assault). Victims in the perinatal period had fewer recorded injuries than non-perinatal victims (49.6% vs 34.7%). However, perinatal victims were just as likely to seek help as non-perinatal victims: 77.5% called 911 themselves and 8.5% visited an ED vs. 76.3% and 9.0% of non-perinatal victims, respectively. Compared to perinatal victims who have severed the relationship, perinatal victims who are still together with the perpetrator appear less likely to call 911 (73.4% vs 88.6% and more likely to visit an emergency department (9.6% vs 5.7%).
Conclusions: Despite apparently less severe assaults, perinatal victims seek help at rates equal to non-perinatal victims. If perinatal victims remain together with the perpetrator, their help-seeking venue is more likely to be an ED and less likely to be 911, compared to non-perinatal victims.