Margee M Ensign
Biographic Data
| ID | 1418174 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margee M Ensign |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margee M |
| FAMILY NAME | Ensign |
| SIGNATURE | ENSIGN M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
We are Obsessed with Peace”
The American University of Nigeria's Adamawa Peace Initiative (AUN-API) was established in 2012 at the height of countrywide strikes sparked by the removal of fuel subsidies in the country. Soon thereafter the Boko Haram uprising gained momentum in our region. AUN-API focuses on teaching and training vulnerable youth to give them employable skills, to build unity and tolerance, and to offer hope. In 2014 AUN-API began large-scale humanitarian wor…
Rwanda
Imagine a nation with the highest proportion of women legislators in the world. Imagine a country where a democratically elected president is committed to gender equality and poverty reduction, where urban and rural schools are being wired to the Internet, and where the government is committed to becoming a middle-income country by 2020. Imagine that this country is located in the heart of sub-Saharan Africa and that this progress comes in the wa…
Self-Reliance and Political Development
This article examines decision making in the development context from an information- processing perspective. Drawing on the work of Chenery and Black, three economic and four political strategies are identified. Using an artificial intelligence methodology-the common-sense algorithm-the decision rules for each political strategy and an economic strategy emphasizing self-reliance are modeled. Simulations were run on the strategies. Responses repr…
Crisis and Continuity in the International System
What are the determinants of change within a society? Are we, as social scientists, able to forecast the direction a society will take? Is the future predetermined or unpredictable? These are some of the important questions that have been raised by social scientists and philosophers for many years. In order to fully understand and appreciate different approaches and perspectives on these questions, the works of two authors have been chosen for re…
Self-Reliance and Political Development
This article examines decision making in the development context from an information- processing perspective. Drawing on the work of Chenery and Black, three economic and four political strategies are identified. Using an artificial intelligence methodology-the common-sense algorithm-the decision rules for each political strategy and an economic strategy emphasizing self-reliance are modeled. Simulations were run on the strategies. Responses repr…
Crisis and Continuity in the International System
What are the determinants of change within a society? Are we, as social scientists, able to forecast the direction a society will take? Is the future predetermined or unpredictable? These are some of the important questions that have been raised by social scientists and philosophers for many years. In order to fully understand and appreciate different approaches and perspectives on these questions, the works of two authors have been chosen for re…
Self-Reliance and Political Development
This article examines decision making in the development context from an information- processing perspective. Drawing on the work of Chenery and Black, three economic and four political strategies are identified. Using an artificial intelligence methodology-the common-sense algorithm-the decision rules for each political strategy and an economic strategy emphasizing self-reliance are modeled. Simulations were run on the strategies. Responses repr…
Rwanda
Imagine a nation with the highest proportion of women legislators in the world. Imagine a country where a democratically elected president is committed to gender equality and poverty reduction, where urban and rural schools are being wired to the Internet, and where the government is committed to becoming a middle-income country by 2020. Imagine that this country is located in the heart of sub-Saharan Africa and that this progress comes in the wa…
We are Obsessed with Peace”
The American University of Nigeria's Adamawa Peace Initiative (AUN-API) was established in 2012 at the height of countrywide strikes sparked by the removal of fuel subsidies in the country. Soon thereafter the Boko Haram uprising gained momentum in our region. AUN-API focuses on teaching and training vulnerable youth to give them employable skills, to build unity and tolerance, and to offer hope. In 2014 AUN-API began large-scale humanitarian wor…
Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Ideology (2 works) · Positive economics (2 works) · Africa (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work)