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Third parties and conflict prevention
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Editorial collection (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- CONTENTS:IntroductionJan Eliasson: The challenge of conflict preventionConceptual developmentsFen Osler Hampson: The United Nations and the responsibility to preventVidar Helgesen: Preventing conflict and preventing terrorismPeter Wallensteen & Frida Möller: Third parties in conflict prevention. A systematic lookRegional organizations in conflict preventionSven Biscop: A defining commitment for the EU. Preventing (even more) conflict in the Middle EastGiorgi Gogia: The EU and South Caucasus. The need to shift from an economic to a political actorMarie V. Gibert: The difficult exercise of conflict prevention. The EU in the Mano River Basin (West Africa)Klaus Schumann: Council of Europe enlargement. An ever greater Europe thanks to multilateral commitmentsNon-governmental actors in conflict preventionTimo Kivimäki & David Gorman: Non-governmental actors in peace processes. The case of AcehKjell-Åke Nordquist: Securing independence and peace in East Timor. Conflict prevention though non-governmental actorsGlobal organizations in conflict preventionBirger Heldt: Preventive diplomacy in emerging intrastate conflicts. Some historical patternsConnie Peck: The role of special representatives of the security-general in conflict prevention
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Gender regimes, citizen participation and rural restructuring
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- This book aims to unravel how rural gender regimes are constituted, enforced, made sense of and resisted, and ho struggles of resistance lead to empowerment and change in various countries in the four corners of Europe as well s Australia and India. The book focuses on the intricate relationship between laws and institutions and everyday life. It analyzes on the one hand how laws and institutions are constituted and on the other hand how gender regimes are built at the local rural level, sometimes in compliance with these frames and sometimes contesting them, The articles, in diverse ways, give voice both to women’s struggles for recognition and men’s voices in gendered rural societies. Through applying the concept of the welfare state and gender regimes within rural research, this book contributes to the further development of a comparative theoretical framework for rural gender studies. The importance of integrating rural gender studies into both the mainstreams of rural and feminist research has been emphasized in previous research, as has that of developing comparative analytical frameworks. The conceptual framework adopted in this volume wets out to meet this challenge by approaching rural gender relations and the meeting point of two core research areas: gender regimes and rural transformative processes. Research into gender regimes offers a promising analytical framework for comparing gender relations in diverse rural settings. At the same time, by addressing rural concerns deriving from the specificity of rural transition processes and gender regimes, the approach also contributes to an elucidation of the complexity of citizenship.
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Exploring teacher education in Laos : Aims, obstacles and possibilities
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- All over the world education has a primary role for national development and personal well-fare. Most countries are now united in the effort to give basic education. Education is at the core of modernization. Teacher education is essential in this process and is given more attention than ever before as a mean to enhance the quality of general education. In this book nine teacher educators, who have just finished a professional master in education, are presenting results and giving recommendations on how to improve teacher education and schools in Lao PDR. Many of the articles dealing with the factors that might hinder the implementation of “the five pointed star”, how to improve activity-based learning, group activity and learning, teachers’ ways of questioning, the use of illustrations and how to relate to the daily life of the students; each of these methods being represented by a point of the star.
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Mediated crossroads : Identity, youth culture and ethnicity : theoretical and methodological challenges
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Editorial collection (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- The book Mediated Crossroads focuses on family, young people, ethnicity and the media in the context of increasing migration in contemporary Western societies. The book includes studies covering both media use and reception. It reflects on the growing interest in ethnic minorities – both on the macro and micro level – within media and cultural studies. The contributing authors present empirical work on the media and cultural practices of migrants in a wide range of countries such as Belgium, Finland, Greece, Israel, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U.K, and the empirical data are framed by theoretical discussions on a more general level. The collection of studies is characterized by a discursive, everyday life perspective, in which concrete cases of migrant life – with a focus on children, women, families or young people – in relation to media and popular culture are analysed. The book deals with central issues in ethnicity and media research, such as how diasporic groups negotiate their identities, cultural experiences and tradi tions in everyday life in an environment that is increasingly permeated by various media, not least the Internet.
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