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  • Introduction: The Environment: Issues in Justice, Conflict and Peacebuilding

    Pagnucco, Ronald (DigitalCommons@CSB/SJU, 2024-03-03)
  • Opening Remarks for the 34th Annual Peace Studies Conference

    Bruess, Dr. Brian (DigitalCommons@CSB/SJU, 2024-03-03)
  • La paz como valor de la democracia. Reflexiones desde sociedades violentadas

    Dora Elvira García-González (Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, 2023-12-01)
    El presente escrito pretende articular las realidades conceptuales de paz y democracia y la cauda significativa que cada una de ellas conlleva. Se defienden las implicaciones que comprende la democracia y que tienen que ver con las diversas formas de interacción plural, las maneras de participación igualitaria, las exigencias deliberativas y críticas y la escucha. Con todo esto se abren cauces para generar entornos pacíficos. La paz se constituye como un valor central de la democracia y por ello esta resulta tan relevante, sin embargo, hoy día se aprecian las diferentes amenazas y violencias a las que está sujeta. Se defiende el posicionamiento en el que la paz se constituye como basamento axiológico y como ideal moral de la democracia.
  • Evolución normativa constitucional, una mirada a la transformación de los derechos de las mujeres en Ecuador

    Ximena Torres (Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, 2024-03-01)
    Tomando como punto de partida una visión amplia de la realidad normativa ecuatoriana y su transformación, articulada entre otros factores, con la respuesta a la exigibilidad social y la coyuntura al desarrollo de los derechos humanos en el orden mundial, la finalidad de este trabajo es, lograr una aproximación a la evolución constitucional ecuatoriana, para verificar los avances en materia de derechos de las mujeres, de manera particular. Para el efecto, se aborda la evolución histórica de los derechos fundamentales de las mujeres en las normas constitucionales promulgadas en la historia del Ecuador, en donde se aplicó la Metodología de Análisis de Género para el fenómeno legal a fin de determinar, además, la existencia o no de sexismo en los enunciados jurídicos encontrados. Entre los principales hallazgos se puede señalar que la evolución denota inexistencia de derechos y mera enunciación de principios en los primeros períodos, más adelante, en un nivel intermedio se encuentran contemplados de manera progresiva algunos derechos los cuales, no obstante, se establecen de manera sexista, ya para el período más reciente, la evolución denota una clara amplitud normativa con nulos rezagos de sexismo. En definitiva, se evidencia la transformación de la normativa constitucional en materia de derechos fundamentales de las mujeres, como el reflejo de las necesidades que demanda la sociedad, el alcance de importantes reivindicaciones de los colectivos, y la clara apertura normativa al cambio gestada mediante una disposición política cada vez más vigente.
  • Principio de oportunidad de la acción procesal penal y justicia restaurativa

    Uribe Álvarez, Roberth (2023)
    Contemporary criminal procedural systems, which tend to be accusatory, often establish a regime for criminal action that includes the so-called “opportunity principle”, which grants the holder of criminal action a margin of discretion that allows them to abstain from exercising such action, definitively or temporarily, in legally established cases. The current Colombian criminal procedural system regulates the “opportunity principle”, linking its exercise to various criteria, which are more oriented towards the conception of criminal action as a state duty rather than a focus on the rights of victims of criminal conduct. This work proposes a divergent approach, aimed at establishing the foundations of a conception of the opportunity principle in criminal procedural action that gives more relevance to restorative justice than to retributive justice, in the construction of doctrine on the opportunity of criminal procedural action and, therefore, more projection to the perspective of victims’ rights than to the perspective based on the right or power of the State to punish and the consequent duty to exercise such action.
  • Obstacles and advances in transitional justice in Spain: from forgetting to democratic memory

    Aix Marseille Université (AMU); Universidad de Deusto (DEUSTO); Joaquín A. Mejía Rivera; Lerena Garcia, Alejandro; De La Orden Bosch, Gustavo (HAL CCSDEditorial Guaymuras, 2022-04-01)
    International audience
  • The Russian War Against Ukraine and Its Implications for the Future of Liberal Interventionism

    Geis, Anna; Schröder, Ursula (PRT, 2024-02-29)
    The Russian war against Ukraine has already had crucial implications for the future of liberal interventionism. Drawing on current debates in IR about the transformation of the global world order, the article outlines how processes of global reordering affect (liberal) interventionism at different scales. The article argues that what has become known as the liberal international order is in retreat, at the expense of liberal peace-oriented international interventions. At the same time, current geopolitical realignments appear to be dividing the world into new spheres of influence, pitting democracies against autocracies at the global level and within regional conflicts. However, when it comes to security interventions and peacekeeping, the emerging realities on the ground, where a growing number of actors with different agendas interact, are more complex than simplistic world-order narratives suggest. Using the cases of international peacekeeping and security assistance as examples, the article shows that in some current international intervention sites, the emerging "multi-order world" is characterised by complicated constellations of parallel external assistance offers and rapid shifts in allegiances that do not necessarily follow clear divisions between "authoritarian" and "liberal" forms of assistance. The article therefore does not confirm expectations of the emergence of a "new Cold War" and a new round of ideological competition between international systems.
  • The United Nations and peace education

    Bajaj, Monisha; Page, James S. (Information Age Publishing, 2008)
    The United Nations was founded in 1945 and since that time the agencies of the United Nations have regularly affirmed the importance of peace education. Peace education is a right and peace education is an integral part of the process of encouraging a culture of peace. One of the interesting developments is that over time is the pronouncements and resolutions of the United Nations have become more explicit regarding the importance of peace education. Official United Nations pronouncements and resolutions may still only have the power of moral persuasion, yet these pronouncements do represent a powerful tool for peace educators in emphasizing the importance of the task. Contents: Definitions; The UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; UNESCO and Peace Education; Peace Education and the Rights of Children; The UN and Disarmament Education; Peace Education as a Human Right; The UN and Education for Tolerance; Peace Education and Culture of Peace; Conclusions; References.
  • Transitional justice in a comparative approach

    Université de likasi (Unili); Université de Sherbrooke (UdeS); Kandolo On'Ufuku Wa Kandolo, Pierre Félix (HAL CCSDÉditions Hubert Kalukanda, 2023-12-30)
    International audience
  • Addressing Barriers to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Massachusetts Community Mediation

    Palihapitiya, Madhawa; Yokotsuka, Shino; Zeferino, Karina; Ho, Jarling (ScholarWorks at UMass Boston, 2023-08-25)
    This report presents over three years of systematically engaging, documenting and analyzing the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) needs/gaps and assets of state funded community mediation centers in Massachusetts. The report was compiled by researchers and an in-house DEI expert at the statutory state office of dispute resolution, the Massachusetts Office of Public Collaboration (MOPC) at the University of Massachusetts Boston. The office has been serving as a neutral forum and state-level resource for over 30 years. The report is based on qualitative research that falls into the category of community based participatory research conducted through a series of community listening sessions organized and facilitated by seven community mediation centers from 2021 to 2022 involving residents from Cambridge, Framingham, Lowell, Lynn, Vineyard Haven, Greenfield, and Leominster in Massachusetts. The report also contains a literature review of diversity, equity and inclusion research, particularly on nonprofits and DEI in mediation/ADR. This research offers findings for Massachusetts community mediation to increase diversity, equity and inclusion and offers recommendations that are broadly applicable for all community mediation systems interested in developing their own DEI systems across the globe.
  • Responsibility of the Netherlands for the Genocide in Srebrenica: The Nuhanović and Mothers of Srebrenica Cases Compared

    UU LEG LAW Landelijke Onderzoekschool Rechten van de Mens; Sub Internationaal Publiek Recht; UCALL / Aansprakelijkheid en verantwoordelijkheid; Spijkers, Otto (2014)
    This article compares the recent judgment of the District Court in The Hague in the case of the Mothers of Srebrenica Association et al. v. the Netherlands (“Mothers of Srebrenica”) with the judgments of the Dutch Supreme Court of last year in the cases of Mustafić and Nuhanović v. the State of the Netherlands. In both cases the Dutch courts had to address the question of attribution—can you attribute the acts of the Dutch un peacekeepers to the Netherlands? And the Dutch courts needed to assess the wrongfulness of the conduct of the Dutch peacekeepers.
  • DE FREDSBEVARANDE OPERATIONERNAS KRITISKA VÄN En kvantitativ undersökning av Kinas deltagande i FN:s fredsbevarande operationer mellan 1991 och 2017

    Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; University of Gothenburg/Department of Political Science; Carlsson, Albin (2024-03-01)
    The United Nations’ peacekeeping missions have, since the end of the cold war, become increasingly characterised by liberal goals through the phenomenon of liberal peacebuilding. At the same time, China has become an active participant in peacekeeping while simultaneously criticising those liberal ambitions. Many studies have tried to explain this contradiction. However, little is yet known to what extent they actually participate in liberal peacebuilding. With the purpose of studying the possible conflict between liberal ambitions in UN peacekeeping and Chinese willingness to participate, this study aspires to fill that gap by answering whether they have contributed to a lesser extent in peacekeeping operations with liberal aims. The hypothesis was informed by liberal political theory in international relations, using current knowledge on the Chinese approach to peacekeeping. Descriptive and regression analysis was done on a material consisting of 163 observations, based on datasets IPI and PEMA, of all operations active in Africa between 1991 and 2017. The results show that, between 2000 and 2017, China participated to a greater, not lesser, extent with more personnel to operations with stronger liberal ambitions. Furthermore, the total size of a peacekeeping operation is strongly correlated with higher liberal ambitions, making it difficult to determine the independent effect these variables have on Chinese participation.
 Between the years of 1991 and 1999, Chinese participation was not affected by either variable. In conclusion, the relation between Chinese participation in peacekeeping operations and UN liberal ambitions is more complex than is sometimes assumed.
  • Ecumenism and Peace:From Theory and Practice to Pilgrimage and Companion-ship.

    Enns, F (WCC, 2022)
    The globally reconciling-conciliar Church is on the path - the via transformativa - toward unity through action and reflection, guided by the Gospel visions of justice and peace. Fernando Enns analyzes what has been learned in recent decades on the 'testing grounds' of ecumenical theory and practice, then demonstrates how the new era of the WCC's action-oriented programs produce ongoing, diverse ecclesial efforts toward social and spiritual transformation. Enns examines in depth the WCC's 'Decade to Overcome Violence, ' leading to the theological basis of the 'Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace, ' a further outgrowth of what the oikoumene has learned through peace-centered ecumenism. The development of a full, coherent, inspiring, globally-responsible and effective commitment to seek 'just peace' remains an urgent task as the Church considers Christ's Companionship as our model for this journey. Part practical guide to ecumenical methodology and part theological interpretation and prognosis, Enns shows how both ecumenism and peace are, in essence, the mission and purpose of the Church today.
  • Taking the Risk of an Ecumenical Pilgrimage:Trusting in a Trinitarian Framed Faith

    Springhart, Heike; Thomas, Günter; Enns, F. (Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2017)
  • Radical Reformation:From the Anabaptist Movement to the Peace Churches

    Enns, Fernando; Weisse, Wolfram; Enns, F. (Waxmann Verlag, 2017)
  • Ideologías en conflicto en el siglo XXI: islamofobia vs occidentalofobia

    Bermejo Laguna, José Manuel (2016)
    Recently started the new millennium, the West is witness a conflict between two ideologies that converge to use Islam as a weapon of choice with which declared opponents. To Islamophobia, that joins large sectors of the Western population and whose strategy involves systematically revile the Islamic civilization, with the purpose of ratting as Muslim enemies to men and women who reside in Western societies, opposes the Western phobia which is monopolized by native radical ideologies of the Islamic world. Identified these two philosophies, the aim of this research pursues the separately analysis from both to come to conclude as necessary the alteration of the foundations that are supporting, to avoid being affected as sensitive areas as the personal and social safety. The methodology, consisting in the exposition of causes that may be indicative of the mutual resentment that his followers profess themselves, comes to demostrate the impact that those speeches have the time to build an enemy; fed, on the one hand, of imaginary fears, the rejection of all meaning of multicultural theory of modern societies, and therefore, negative cultural concessions to people who do not promote them in their societies of origin. The Western phobia, sponsored by the Islamist ideology, comes to introduce Islam in the early stages as the resource with which to face the Western supremacy, and from there to promote violence against those who have usurped their land, and are reproaching their lano interest in addressing proposals for modern political, social or family. Only proposals of intercultural harmony and rejection of the discourses that make Islam a political and military ideology may prevent that these ideologies continue gaining accessions.

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