Human–Leopard Conflict and Coexistence: A Case Study from Gir Somnath, Gujarat, India | Chapter 4 | Research Perspective on Biological Science Vol. 10

 

Globally, the escalation of human-wildlife conflict poses a severe threat to both biodiversity conservation and the livelihoods of rural communities. In the semi-arid landscapes of Western India, the proximity of human settlements to protected areas has created complex dynamics of co-existence and confrontation. This study assesses the diel and seasonal patterns of human-leopard (Panthera pardus fusca) conflict in the Gir Somnath district of Gujarat, utilising a comprehensive dataset spanning a decade (2014–2023). By integrating secondary records from the Gujarat Forest Department with primary field observations and community discussions, we identified critical spatio-temporal hotspots. Analysis reveals that regions like Gir Gadhada (29%) and Talala (18%) are particularly vulnerable due to their forest-fringe location. While winter saw a peak in 2023, the monsoon remains the most consistently hazardous season over the 10-year period. Chronobiological findings highlight a significant nocturnal bias, with most incidents occurring between 12:00 AM and 6:00 AM, a period when leopards frequently visit settlements or multiple-use zones in search of prey. The study advocates for a shift from traditional mitigation to adaptive conservation strategies, emphasising the importance of "relief" mechanisms and nocturnal vigilance to foster a balanced co-existence.

 

 

Author(s) Details

 

Rahul B. Solanki
Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Noble University, Junagadh-362001, Gujarat State, India.

 

Vibhuti B. Raval
Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Noble University, Junagadh-362001, Gujarat State, India.

 

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Relationship of Emotional Intelligence and Conflict Management Styles among Nurses in Pakistan | Chapter 6 | Contemporary Research in Business, Management and Economics Vol. 8

 

Emotional intelligence is the ability to perceive, express, understand, and manage emotions. It is an essential factor that may measure individual’s performance in their professional lives beyond their daily lives, increase or decrease their success, contribute to the measurement of managerial qualities, and improve organizational communication and interaction. In healthcare organizations, conflict management is crucial because incapable conflict management causes undesirable working conditions, control recreations, constant disappointment, a rebate inside the quality of care, and a rise in healthcare costs. The present study aimed to identify the role of emotional intelligence on conflict management styles among nurses. The sample consisted of 400 nurses, and the model was taken from four public and four private hospitals located in Multan City. A purposive sampling technique was used to collect the data, and the age range was between 25 to 45 years. Two research instruments were used to collect the data. The emotional intelligence scale developed by Schutte et al. (2018) was used and consisted of 33 items. The interpersonal conflict inventory developed by Rahim (1983) was used and consisted of 28 items. This study showed the relationship between emotional intelligence and conflict management styles; integration, obliging, dominating, and compromising are positively correlated with the score of emotional intelligence, and avoiding was negatively correlated with emotional intelligence. The results further showed a significant difference in age in emotional intelligence among nurses, and there is also a significant difference in age in conflict management styles among nurses. Moreover, the results revealed a significant difference in emotional intelligence and conflict management styles among the nurses of public and private hospitals. Emotional intelligence is positively and significantly correlated with conflict management styles. Thus, an analysis of the relationship between emotional intelligence and conflict management styles can assist management in initiating a tailor-training program to improve their abilities to manage conflict among the nurses and the administrative healthcare staff of both public and private hospitals.

Author(s)details:-

 

Mehwish Liaqat (Consultant Clinical Psychologist & Senior Demonstrator)
(MMDC) Multan Medical Dental College Multan, Pakistan.

 

Nazia Jahangir (Permanent Lecturer)
Department of Psychology, Institute of Southern Punjab Multan, Pakistan.

 

Iqra Ghafoor
Department of Psychology, Institute of Southern Punjab Multan, Pakistan.

 

Dr. Qurratulain Fatima (Associate Professor of Behavioral Sciences)
(MMDC) Multan Medical Dental College Multan, Pakistan

 

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Resistance and Conflict in Subansiri: A Mapping | Chapter 5 | Research Advances in Environment, Geography and Earth Science Vol. 1

A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of surface water or ground streams. Reservoirs created by dams not only control floods but also provide water for activities such as irrigation, human consumption, industrial use, aqua culture and navigability. Hydropower is often used in conjunction with dams to generate electricity. A dam can also be used to collect or store water which can be distributed between locations. Dams generally serve the primary purpose of retaining water, while other structures such as floodgates or levees (also known as dikes) are used to manage or prevent water flow into specific land regions. The Subansiri Lower Dam, officially named Subansiri Lower Hydroelectric Project is a gravity dam on the Subansiri river in North Eastern India of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. The Dam is designed to be 116 m (381 ft) tall, measured from the river bed and 210 m (690 ft) from the deepest foundation. It is expected that the dam will supply 2000 MW of power. But the project has gone through several problems during construction. It has to face severe landslides and public opposition. Even the shifting of people from that location to another place has brought troubles to villagers since most of them are dependent on aqua farming and on agriculture. Many farmers and locals residing on the bank of Subansiri River are living below poverty line and shifting to another location where government provides them land seems to evoke conflict. Hence, Subansiri dam can be termed as conflict creators. The present paper tries to focus on conflict that occurred during the construction of Subansiri Dam. The aim of the paper is to find out the reasons of conflict and opposition and also tries to find out the space of resistance.

Author(s) Details:

Abu Taher Mollah,
Department of Mathematics, Pramathesh Barua College, Gauripur, Dist. Dhubri, Assam, India.

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Transitional Justice in Chilean Post-Dictatorship Film and Fiction: An Approach to Amnesty Not Amnesia | Chapter 10 | Research Aspects in Arts and Social Studies Vol. 7

 The Chilean Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a compromise resolution as it was mindful of the immense agony borne apiece victims and their families in addition to the unrest generated by the prosecution of military directors of Argentina in the 1980s. This chapter presents the conflict between two histories: the dominant, political history what of the victims; the former bothersome to deny the misconducts and the latter asserting the incident of brutal exhibitions of power. This chapter reliable to conceptualize thought and trauma while grounding frightening testimony as long as of dictatorship in the collective thought so that individual sufferers might still continue to feel a sense of owned by the collectivity.

Author(s) Details:

Rania Samir Youssef,
College of Language and Communication, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Egypt.

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Transitional Justice in Chilean Post-Dictatorship Film and Fiction: An Approach to Amnesty Not Amnesia | Chapter 10 | Research Aspects in Arts and Social Studies Vol. 7

 The Chilean Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a compromise resolution as it was mindful of the immense pain borne apiece victims and their families in addition to the unrest generated by the prosecution of military rulers of Argentina in the 1980s. This chapter presents the conflict between two histories: the dominant, political history what of the victims; the former difficult to deny the misconducts and the latter asserting the incident of brutal exhibitions of power. This chapter reliable to conceptualize thought and trauma while grounding frightening testimony as long as of dictatorship in the collective thought so that individual casualties might still continue to feel a sense of owned by the collectivity.

Author(s) Details:

Rania Samir Youssef,
College of Language and Communication, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Egypt.

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Shapley Value Allocation Approach to Assess Conflicts Over Logone River Basin | Chapter 8 | Research Aspects in Arts and Social Studies Vol. 7

 The objective concerning this paper is to administer game theory tools to resolve conflicts over a large body of water allocation question in the logone river pool.  Natural resources management is the manipulation of system-producing unaffected systems to advance their long-term productivity for two together human use and biological result. The use of water in the Logone Basin has been a main source of contention middle from two points users to a degree farmers and fishermen. In this paper, we examine how cooperative theory of games can help us understand the significance of coordination. A beneficial mathematical programming is used to decide the net land benefit of the players in the water administration competition. The Shapley value plan is used for the second opportunity to find the appropriate equilibrium that answer all users. This method was used to the real-globe case of the Logone River, which is individual of the rivers suffering from water shortage in the Lac Chad basin. The study further demonstrated that cooperative theory of games can be used to resolve water conflicts and the authority can therefore implement institutions that urge to coordination.

Author(s) Details:

Maya Ernest,
University of Maroua, Cameroon.

Ngouhouo Ibrahim,
University of Dschang, Cameroon.

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Political Goodwill a Catalyst for Peace: A Case of Ethiopia-Eritrea Conflict Settlement| Chapter 1 | Research Developments in Arts and Social Studies Vol. 3

Ethiopia and Eritrea are neighbours in the Horn of Africa, sharing a border that has seen bloodshed and strife in the past. The Badme border warfare, which has resulted in thousands of deaths in both nations, starvation and drought, backing for rebel groups destabilising each other's regimes, and instability in the Horn, is the most remembered and extended war. Despite the fact that they share ethnic groupings, languages, customs, and so on, their common legacies have resulted in quite diverse political, economic, and historical consequences. In the year 2000, the world community was able to persuade both governments to embrace international arbitration. Arbitration, on the other hand, was a legal option that neither country pursued. Both nations signed a Memorandum of Understanding, a political step, in 2018, and have had a largely peaceful coexistence till 2022. This study examines the elements that fueled the war, the outcome of the 2018 Peace Agreement, which restored peace to both countries after decades of hostility, and how political goodwill played a critical part in the resolution of the conflict. In-depth desk review research, text analysis and interpretation, and official documents were used in this article. The study used an interdisciplinary approach to its theoretical and methodological approach. This research argues that political goodwill contributed to the 2018 Peace Agreement, as opposed to the 'external' 2000 arbitration and Algiers Agreement, when the parties 'agreed' but did not 'consent' to adopt legal binding measures. Political goodwill led to the establishment of the enforcement system and breach consequences for the 2018 Agreement, demonstrating that political ownership and leadership promote peace.

Author(s) Details:

Sarah M. Musau,
Diplomacy and International Affairs, Euclid University, Bangui, Central African Republic

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Study on Conflict and Its Political Economy Implications in Southern Sudan | Chapter 6 | New Innovations in Economics, Business and Management Vol. 6

 Since the pre-colonial and post-colonial eras, relations between Sudan and South Sudan have been marked by political and economic marginalisation of South Sudan as a result of underrepresentation, discrimination, and other restrictions that prevent South Sudanese from holding important constitutional positions. The imposition of Arabic language and culture on the people of South Sudan resulted in conflict since Northern Sudan was largely Arab and Muslim, whilst Southern Sudan was predominantly black Africans, with the majority of them being Christians or practising African traditional religion. The qualitative descriptive methodologies were employed to conduct this research, and data were gathered through the use of secondary sources such as books, journals, and online resources; relative deprivation theory was applied in this study. The findings revealed that the colonial masters' decision in 1947 to abolish the Addis Ababa Agreement, which granted Southern Sudan semi-autonomy, and to amalgamate Northern and Southern Sudan into a single country without consulting the people of South Sudan, was a mistake, because North and South Sudan were administered by Britain as two separate countries, coupled with the aforementioned ideological differences between Northern and Southern Sudan.

Author(s) Details:

Amon Rimamtanung Stephen,
Department of Political Science and International Relations, Federal University Wukari, Taraba State, Nigeria.

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Behavioral ecology of Centrobolus (Diplopoda, Spirobolida, Pachybolidae) in Southern Africa | Chapter 1 | New Visions in Biological Science Vol.9

 To understand the mechanisms of selection, 42 research on fire millipedes were evaluated; sperm competition and cryptic female choice were investigated. In comparing male mating strategies to female mating strategies and sperm usage, approaches to: (1) quantify size dimorphism and find the selection pressures operating on the sexes, (2) determine the functional significance of male and female genitalia, (3) understand why there should be a conflict of sexual interests in prolonged copulations, and (4) resolve the mechanisms of sperm competition and cryptic female choice were included. The biological significance of the sexual distinctions between male and female body plans observed in millipedes is unknown.

Author(s) Details:

Mark Cooper,
School of Animal, Plant & Environmental Sciences University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2050, South Africa.

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Determination of Developing Constructive and Positive Conflict Resolution Mechanism Strategies at Various Organizational Levels | Chapter 9 | Selected Topics in Humanities and Social Sciences Vol. 4

 At various levels of the organisation, organisations establish a variety of constructive conflict resolution mechanisms. The notions of peace and conflict are closely linked and exist side by side depending on the conditions. At no time in history has peace and conflict coexisted. When there is no conflict, there is peace; when there is no peace, there is conflict. Since its inception as an academic field at the local, national, and international levels, conflict as a concept has been the core of peace studies. As a result, a greater knowledge of the notions of peace and war will broaden the horizons of students interested in pursuing studies in these areas.

Author (S) Details

Yagana Bulama Mohammed
Program in Sociology, University of GD, Geonka, India.

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Implementing the “Win-Win-Win PapakonstantinidisModel” as a Bargaining Solution Analysis for Local Government Decision from Territory-Community to “Behavioral” Community| Chapter 11| Modern Perspectives in Economics, Business and Management Vol. 4

 Local development as a process of local management raises a number of issues, the most pressing of which is conflict resolution among the three local power poles: (1) the state and its nominated State Periphery Departments; (2) local authorities; and (3) local people and their local movements/lobbies. Because the three poles are constantly negotiating, one of them should always win out over the other two, introducing the bargaining issue. As a result, it's vital to establish a set of rules for negotiation. The “win-win-win papakonstantinidis model” that has been offered (derived from Nash win-win extended approach)aims to find ways for the three-pole bargaining conceptual equilibrium, under conditions, thus maximising expected utilities for all involved parts in local decision-making by combining Descriptive Behavior (DB), Rational Choice, Instrumental Rationality, and Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) methodologies, then an updating community's behavioural state is expected, thus The sensitization process should be viewed as a continual journey toward the ultimate goal of complete cooperation among community members. In that circumstance, the sensitization process reaches its maximum at the same time as the local development process and the convergence of bargaining power poles.

Author (S) Details

Leonidas A. Papakonstantinidis
The Higher Technological Educational Institute of Kalamata, Kalamata, Greece.

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Investigating the Environmental Effects of Urban Livestock Keeping: Which Types of Livestock Pose More Serious Problems? | Chapter 12 | Current Research in Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences Vol.1

 

Urban livestock keeping has remained one of the key urban livelihoods in spite of the negative
environmental consequences it causes to urban dwellers. A study was conducted in two municipalities of Dodoma and Morogoro, examining the effects of livestock keeping on the environment and on the community. Primary data were collected at household level through interviews and focused group discussion. Secondary data were collected through documentary review on environmental pollution and conflict due urban livestock keeping which were obtained from Municipal Offices, libraries and internet. Using a sample of 298 respondents, The chi-square test of association between keeping livestock and environmental pollution and social conflict rejected the null hypothesis of independence at 5% level of significance on almost all pollution variables for different types of livestock, implying that keeping livestock could result into noise, heaps of waste, odour, dust, plant destruction and social conflict. The conclusion was that environmental effects of urban livestock keeping are demonstrated by all types of livestock at varying degrees. Livestock keeping of any type in urban areas has, therefore, negative environmental and health consequences when there is weak enforcement of relevant bylaws.

Author (s) Details

Rehema T. Mdendemi
President’s Office, Regional Administration and Local Government, P. O. Box 1923, Dodoma, Tanzania.

Susan R. Gwelema
Open University of Tanzania, P.O. Box 23409, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Tiberio Mdendemi
Institute of Rural Development Planning, P.O. Box 138 Dodoma, Tanzania.

Basil Msuha
President’s Office, Regional Administration and Local Government, P. O. Box 1923, Dodoma, Tanzania.

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