Lorelle Jabs
Biographic Data
| ID | 2146689 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lorelle Jabs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lorelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Jabs |
| SIGNATURE | JABS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Seattle Pacific University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sustainability in Karamoja? Rethinking the terms of global sustainability in a crisis region of Africa
Journal Article Sustainability in Karamoja? Rethinking the terms of global sustainability in a crisis region of Africa Get access Sustainability in Karamoja? Rethinking the terms of global sustainability in a crisis region of Africa, edited by David Knaute and Sacha Kagan. Cologne: Rudiger Koppe Verlag, 2009. xi + 526 pp. £24.80 (paperback). ISBN 978 3 89645 256 6. Lorelle Beth Jabs Lorelle Beth Jabs Seattle Pacific University Search for other wo…
You Can’t Kill a Louse with One Finger”
Among the Karimojong, a preliterate tribe residing in northeast Uganda, interpersonal conflict tends to be harsh, bloody, violent, and often results in serious injury. Intra‐group conflict resolution practices in this remote community were analyzed through interpersonal conflict stories. Virtually all of the thirty‐one stories of violent conflict described here achieve complete reconciliation and full restoration of relationships. The system of c…
When safety culture backfires
This paper applies concepts from the sociology and anthropology of organizations to understand limits to the implementation of a more effective safety culture in the workplace. It highlights unintended consequences of combining bureaucratic control and shared governance and identifies sources of inertia within already existing safety cultures. The data come from focus group interviews with workers in a research and development facility of a multi…
Where Two Elephants Meet, the Grass Suffers
Over the past three decades, the once-adaptive practice of "taking by force" (cattle raiding) by pastoralist tribes in Northern Uganda has been transformed into a violent, ongoing intractable conflict within the tribes that threatens to destroy the Karimojong people and their way of life. This article suggests that in addition to the typical sources of intractable conflict, a massive influx of automatic weapons not only created instability in the…
Where Two Elephants Meet, the Grass Suffers
Over the past three decades, the once-adaptive practice of "taking by force" (cattle raiding) by pastoralist tribes in Northern Uganda has been transformed into a violent, ongoing intractable conflict within the tribes that threatens to destroy the Karimojong people and their way of life. This article suggests that in addition to the typical sources of intractable conflict, a massive influx of automatic weapons not only created instability in the…
Where Two Elephants Meet, the Grass Suffers
Over the past three decades, the once-adaptive practice of "taking by force" (cattle raiding) by pastoralist tribes in Northern Uganda has been transformed into a violent, ongoing intractable conflict within the tribes that threatens to destroy the Karimojong people and their way of life. This article suggests that in addition to the typical sources of intractable conflict, a massive influx of automatic weapons not only created instability in the…
When safety culture backfires
This paper applies concepts from the sociology and anthropology of organizations to understand limits to the implementation of a more effective safety culture in the workplace. It highlights unintended consequences of combining bureaucratic control and shared governance and identifies sources of inertia within already existing safety cultures. The data come from focus group interviews with workers in a research and development facility of a multi…
You Can’t Kill a Louse with One Finger”
Among the Karimojong, a preliterate tribe residing in northeast Uganda, interpersonal conflict tends to be harsh, bloody, violent, and often results in serious injury. Intra‐group conflict resolution practices in this remote community were analyzed through interpersonal conflict stories. Virtually all of the thirty‐one stories of violent conflict described here achieve complete reconciliation and full restoration of relationships. The system of c…
Sustainability in Karamoja? Rethinking the terms of global sustainability in a crisis region of Africa
Journal Article Sustainability in Karamoja? Rethinking the terms of global sustainability in a crisis region of Africa Get access Sustainability in Karamoja? Rethinking the terms of global sustainability in a crisis region of Africa, edited by David Knaute and Sacha Kagan. Cologne: Rudiger Koppe Verlag, 2009. xi + 526 pp. £24.80 (paperback). ISBN 978 3 89645 256 6. Lorelle Beth Jabs Lorelle Beth Jabs Seattle Pacific University Search for other wo…
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (3 works) · African history and culture analysis (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Bureaucracy (1 work) · Business (1 work) · Cambodian History and Society (1 work)