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Al-Maliky, Salam J. Bash – Higher Education Studies, 2012
Huge environmental and health crises such as the use of Depleted Uranium (DU) munitions during the military activities against Iraq and the required responses are amongst the fields that Iraqi higher education institutions (HEIs) may have a crucial role. Similar international cases, such as Agent Orange (Vietnam), Three Mile Island (USA) and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Role, Health Education, Health Promotion
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Pretorius, Joelien – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2008
The article proceeds from the argument that war is a social institution and not a historical inevitability of human interaction, that is, war can be "unlearned." This process involves deconstructing/dismantling war as an institution in society. An important step in this process is to understand the philosophical and cultural bases on…
Descriptors: Interaction, War, Technology, Social Change
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Dufour, Joanne – Social Education, 2004
The dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II inaugurated a new era in world history, the atomic age. After the war, the Soviet Union, eager to develop the same military capabilities as those demonstrated by the United States, soon rivaled the U.S. as an atomic and nuclear superpower. Faced by the possibility of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, World History, Weapons, War