Part 1: Introduction (2 pages)

Introduce the research you selected (title, authors)

This study is a good example of academic egotism and arrogance. This study had a great premise and really solid ideas to begin with. Trying to solve why genocide occurs is one of the greatest and most profound subjects to study. However, this study stopped being good immediately after those first descriptive concepts formed. Instead of using real history, and real functioning cultural data, this study instead focused on some of the most irrelevant behavior pattern motivations possible. In this review the following topics will be discussed and the mistakes this article makes will be well defined.

This study was to find out why the people of the former Yugoslavia have been in active and genocidal conflict for decades. Of the more than 50 cultures in the area of the Vinca River, which is one of the oldest areas of civilization on the planet (8000 years old), the area has name changed enumerable times. Almost nothing of the ancient past of the area was addressed. The methods and design of the study was some of the best motivations in all of academics and scholastic. But this study ignored 99% of the relevant data to focus on mostly irrelevant data from 1990 to present. The ethics of this study started out perfect, but soon turned into nothing more than an exercise in arrogance and egotism on the part of the researchers. The cultures are infinitely more complex than the study presents. The study almost ignores the cultures it is studying entirely. This study to improve for future needs to be redesigned from just after how to prevent genocide forward. This study presents almost nothing regarding any adherence to the scientific method, the conclusions have zero basis in realty.

Describe the study

The study is based on the concept of trying to solve the multilayered conflict which exists in the former Yugoslavia. Since the war in the 1990s it has had enumerable name changes and shifts in governments. Not to mention more than a few genocidal actions and activities. The participants claim they are performing the actions for x, y, z, etc. reasons. But as the article clearly shows, there is nothing but out of context facts, evidence, and an almost impossible to understand the ethos of collectivism working to further the conflict.

Of course, the conflict is well beyond any simple study to try and unravel. This specific study is all but entirely lost when it comes to both the applications of the mathematics, the quantitative equations used were missing the point of the regional conflict almost completely.

A novice in history can notice where the “mistakes” in the scientific method assumptions are made. The reader simply needs to examine the sentence structures to determine where the authors are reaching to find answers to how to solve the equation without any real foundation to workable solutions.

A hard and significant examination of the history of the area, reveals just how huge and inappropriate the gaps in the quantitative equations are. The article emphasizes from the 1990s to present issues, when in all hard fact reality, the conflicts in the area go all the way back to the Vinca culture 6000 bce or 8000 years ago. More armies have marched through the area on their way to Europe than can be easily counted, this article does not address any of those issues. In a way it bypasses all that evidence in favor of the all to real modern scholastic concepts of insanely complex issues cannot be boiled down to one simple answer enough. For some academics and scholars, everything needs to be reduced down to the simplest concept possible, so that that simple concept can be tackled and solved. Real life does not work that way.

Describe the problem addressed in the study as well as the research question

The study itself was focused and centered upon trying to find ways in which it might be possible to find the ethos of the current conflict and its aftermath from previous conflicts (some of which stretch back in time by in some cases to the Vinca Culture itself circa 6000 bce.). The study finds the most difficultly in trying to identify why the cultures would rather fight and fight and fight rather than come to an understanding and try to collectively work for peace. The sheer level of misunderstanding and research bias on dozens of levels leads to a great start but most of the efforts are a pure hard-core waste of time.

A slight academic argument can be made that this among dozens if not hundreds of other studies in a similar line of thinking not only did not deescalate the conflicts but it could have just as easily refocused the participants deeper into their rage and need to erase the fact their enemies existed at all.

Part 2: Methods and Design (2 pages)

The researchers worked very hard to find out who the participants in the current conflicts are. To isolate and focus the study into who and what the active participants in the present are, and work from their spoken and physical behavior patterns. Trying to create statistical behavior patterns, to reflect what the violence spur is, why it exists, and how to stop it. The problem is, of the several hundred surveys sent out, more than 60% were last 30s college educated females. The study on several aspects has almost no basis in reality.

Describe the overall design of the study you selected

The overall design of the study was to find out what the specific issues were from 1990 to present, why the radically dominant cultures in the area have no interest in anything other than finding their enemies and killing them. Killing every last one of them. It appears that every few weeks to months there is another sequence of violence, where the super radical members of the dominant culture have no ability to function unless they are trying to genocide their enemy. This study was an attempt to find out ways to curtail said violence, by finding out what the ethos is.

Describe the type of methodology used (i.e., qualitative, quantitative, or mixed method)

This study used the quantitative method. Mostly females average age 39 with college backgrounds. The study could not have missed the point of the ethos of the conflicts more. In a culture where females have almost no value for the super dominant and aggressive misogynist this is close to the perfectly wrong group to ask. Their opinions are of course valuable, but the input of a group of people who have been relegated to less than second class citizens for 1000s of years is a great way to find out other details. But not the ethos of why the cultures they belong to and or surround them hate them so much. Those answers can only be found in the very ancient past. 1000s of years before the Trojan War, these conflicts began. There is where the answers this study was supposed to focus on can be found.

Describe any ethical considerations within the study you selected.

This study attempted to identify why a couple of the cultures were all but entirely focused and ethos goal directed towards genocidiing their enemy cultures. Some were even interested in genociding subgroups within their own culture. Bloodthirsty is a solid way to describe a lot of the actions and activities that occurred in this area for the last several 1000 years. The ethics of this study were centered on trying to find out why the alpha cultures were, in essence, on a soul level entirely devoted to seeking out their enemies and erasing them from existnace. This is a huge ethical dilemma the study was focused on but failed in all ways to come even close to finding out why.

Part 3: Culture within Research

In reality there are about 50 to 100 different cultures in the area, some individuals belong to more than one culture at a time. This makes things very confusing. The situation through chaos breeds more confusion that by default leads to more violence and tests of loyalty. It is odd that as part of the pack, leaders demand “tests” of loyalty from younger members. Those tests of loyalty almost by default require acts of violence and or murders, not unlike the Mafia and or the gangs in America. But instead of being “tests of loyalty” they are called other things. Initiations, earning your bones, being blooded, etc. they all boil down to the same thing. Finding other humans and killing them. It is actually very interesting just how much genocide begins similar to the actions of a serial killer. It appears one of the things this study found a link between, purely by accident is that mathematically shown through the statistics done is individuals who want, need, and desire to kill in whatever type of form they have an additional excitement to their crimes when they can watch/observe someone else perform said action. They can enjoy, but not actually get their own hands dirty.

How did the researcher(s) incorporate the nature of culture within their study?

They not only did not, but those specific questions were either ignored flat out, or worse the concept of academics/scholastic arrogance and ego takes over and logical, reasonable, etc. answers are placed which absolutely ignore the core of how the scientific method works. A strong leader can convince a group that x is true, despite all evidence to the contrary. Example geocentric universe theory, another example of mass scientific psychosis the belief that the Pyramids are graves for the great Kings of Egypt, etc. These have absolutely no scientific evidence to back them up, but you can still find scientists who believe said concepts. Exactly the same applies to this study, assumptions from a strong belief standpoint are used instead of real hard physical data.

Are there aspects of the study where researchers could have better incorporated the influence of culture in the sample, methods, analyses or conclusion, and how?

The largest problem with this and most studies like this, no matter how good the equations are both the quantitative and qualitative equations fail to consider the actual functions and structures of how each culture operates. They simply fail to have a large enough structural framework to convert the working parts into a solid enough equation format.

If the researchers were given an opportunity to improve on their research, what would you suggest? Be specific.

Throw out every single aspect of the studies base idea and start from a completely different historiography and group think model concepts.

Start from zero. Start from the ideas and concepts that that these conflicts began 2000 years before the first semi-translatable language was invented on a different continent more than 2000 miles away. Sumerian and Hieroglyphics were invented circa 3500 bce (a huge amount of circa is involved and the earliest proto versions of those languages are only to an extremely small degree like 5% are translatable. Example there is a huge amount of evidence that points to the idea that the translation of “The Scorpion King” is not actually a “Scorpion” but reference to an ancient historical figure from Egypt. However, that information is not all that acceptable to modern genocidal level anti-Semitic academics and scholastics. This is one of the core issues for this article, why do the group A cultures want so desperately to genocide group B cultures. The Jewish, Muslim, other, and indifference groups of cultures in the area are pure subconsciously fighting out theocracy ideas that predate translatable written languages), these conflicts began well before 3500 bce, and will continue far into the future. After 6000 years of nonstop conflicts with only a small group of people having any idea what the origins of the hatreds are, it is at this point almost an evolutionary concept to seek out “the enemy” and erase them from existence. Logic, reason, and language have nothing to do with it after pushing close to 10,000 years of the same ethos goal direction.

Add to that whole package of genocide are the facts that the area of south eastern European north western Ǽgean are regionally suffering from a rather insane level of cultural inferiority complex. The area is not Greece, and it is not “really” Europe, so the violently patriarchal cultures who are not egotism and arrogance than the next several world leader cultures combined are living in an area considered by both Greece and Europe to be a back water nothing. That does not help the situation at all.

Similarly, just because the battle of Actium took place 100s of miles south, does not mean the cultural issues of that battle circa 31 bce were the same then as now. What could the battle of Actium with the participants of Cleopatra and Antony battling against Octavian and his Roman friends have anything at all to do with why this article and study have no real basis in reality. Same reasons, Cleopatra and Antony were not only not lovers, he would not have been allowed within 3 feet of her the entre time they knew each other. She was Pharaoh and Empress of Rome, no matter how hard the Roman propaganda machine churned out fictions, the facts are still the facts. Her twins were absolutely not in any way, shape, or form from Antony. That fiction believed full on for the last 2000 plus years has less factual evidence to back it up than trying to study the Bosnia etic cultures from 1990 forward. The two conflicts are mostly propaganda machine inspired, where the people churning out the propaganda have no idea they are lying. The people who knew they were lying are the Roman Senators who shortly after convinced themselves that not only are the stories they told in the propaganda rags true, but why would it have been any other way. Same in Bosnia same in Actium. Caesar ordered Antony to protect and service his queen. That is what Antony did, until that battle when it was Antony’s job to ram his ships into the collected Roman fleet, allowing Cleopatra to escape the battle, sail due west to Italy. Pick up supplies and the like and head out of the Mediterranean for Northumberland. Although these aspects of Cleopatra and Octavian’s lives are facts, you will not find many documents printed in the last 2040 years to suggest anything of this sort has any basis in reality. Same goes for the Bosnia conflict, the facts are so deeply hidden, the facts hidden have cascaded into a mythology which most of the world believes.

Psychological terms, what happens when facts become hidden and cognitive dissonance fictions become facts. This causes very solid mental health issues, and a furtherance of very real world violent behavior patterns which have no real reason for the violence. Find the lies told to those cultures, millennia back. Those lies turned to truth will after several mental health grieving processes and other fighting against the facts mental protection processes are done, that will lead to real solid health. Then when those lies are identified and the truths are out, that is when the real reasons for the violence ethos can begin solving the genocidal problems.

How would your suggestion facilitate positive social change?

Reframe refocus the entire discussion. Start from the most aggressive cultures, who are no matter how cliché are Muslims. The Muslims in the area who are descendants from both the Mongol blue horde and the more aggressive aspects of the Ottoman empire. Those cultures started out with a mighty chip on their shoulder, that mighty chip came into being courtesy of the war between Esau and Jacob. Jacob was chosen to be the head of the Semitic cultures and his 12^th son the head of the Jews. Esau his brother could not deal with this and went on a genocidal seek and destroy of any and all things connected to anything which does not place Esau as the leader of the human species. Subjects and structures which have been on the extreme side of long ago forgotten. But those long-forgotten functions and structures are the foundation for the cognitive dissonance which after said information was long ago forgotten is the core of the ethos of rage and need to kill any and all who question the authority of the descendants of the Esau/Hyksos. Until that issue is addressed the human species will continue to suffer from said suppressed truths violent behavior pattern outbursts, which for the most part no one involved has even the smallest amount of idea said is the real reason for most of the conflicts for the last 2000 plus years. That is where to start any large-scale study.

conclusion

As the above evidnece has clearly shown, this study and its associated conclusions have no basis in reality. Those associated need to start their next study with a hard-physical grounding in the facts that the area has been occupied and a caravan’s crossing for different cultures for 8000 years. The number of wars fought in this area are too numerous to count. This study considers almost not a single aspect of all those facts. All those facts are why the genocide in the area is so prevalent. The ethos the culture are operating from is almost 10,000 years old. Almost nothing in this study addressed those facts. This study reviewed a multitude of different areas and aspects, not a single variable identified had any ability to provide a solid statistical picture as to why the behavior patterns are what they are. From the subjects of the study, to the approach, methods and design, proper identification of the cultures involved, etc. not a single part aspect of the above was addressed even close to correctly. The City of Tartaria although in neighboring Romania has been a large thriving city since shortly after Göbekli Tepe was intentionally abandoned. Not a single aspect of any of these factors are present, despite the fact these are the core of why the genocide started. Recommendations for future studies, learn historiography first before addressing how to solve a species wide problem.