Swedish National Defence College

About: Swedish National Defence College is a education organization based out in Stockholm, Sweden. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Crisis management & Politics. The organization has 218 authors who have published 569 publications receiving 8074 citations.

Street arts of resistance in Tahrir and Gezi

Abstract: With the tremendous visibility of popular mobilization in the last decade, scholars have increasingly directed their attention to the streets to examine the dynamics of power and resistance. Among ...

Achieving what cannot be done: coping with the time constants in a dynamic decision task by doing something else.

Abstract: This study examines how people handle the time constants in dynamic decision tasks, using a microworld called NEWFIRE which simulates forest fire fighting. The results showed that the participants did not adapt to the time constants, as shown by the fact that they did not discriminate between fires requiring different number of fire fighting units when varying the number of fire fighting units was a means of compensating for the time constants. If they were allowed to move units before the fire started their performance improved, suggesting that they could compensate for their problems with the time constants by restructuring the task in such a way that they did not need to consider them. It is suggested that such restructuring may well be how people handle dynamic tasks also in other circumstances, and that more effort should be put into studying what people actually do in dynamic tasks, rather than into only assessing whether or not they perform optimally.

The defense strategies of middle powers: Competing for security, influence and status in an era of unipolar demise

Abstract: Do middle powers develop similar defense strategies? Is middle powers a useful category for exploring the diversity of strategies among different categories of states? This article presents...

The Urbanity of Peacebuilding: Urban Environments as Objects and Sites of Peacebuilding Knowledge Production

Abstract: This article diagnoses a representational bias in current scholarship on the materiality and spatiality of urban peacebuilding. The bias reduces peacebuilding knowledge production to situated proce...

Global and local re-presentations of resilience in the Caribbean : the role of art in the construction of the self

Abstract: The global diffusion and reification of resilience – as the innate acceptance of vulnerability and suffering – has become an increasingly common feature in global development and humanitarian disco ...