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Transitional Justice and its Role in Development in Post-Conflict Northern Uganda
Full text linkThis study was completed during a 6-week period in Gulu District, Northern Uganda. The main objective of this study was to understand and analyze the various transitional justice mechanisms currently being used in post-conflict Northern Uganda. The researcher set out to hear the population’s general attitudes on justice and understand the challenges that hinder the justice process through the perspective of government officials (including opposition party members), NGO workers, lawyers, academics, and religious leaders. A specific focus was point on the compensation aspect of transitional justice since the region is suffering from severe under-development and poverty issues. This led to an extensive examination of the various post-conflict development programs currently being implemented, in addition to several other justice mechanisms.
This study was completed while the researcher simultaneously conducted a practicum at the Refugee Law Project office in Gulu town. Therefore, one of the main research methods practiced was observation as an RLP intern. Much insight was gained through observing the work of RLP, which gives free legal aid to war victims, mediates conflict disputes, and does extensive research and advocacy work on post-conflict justice issues. The other main research method used was interviewing. The researcher conducted semi-structured interviews with key informants and community members throughout Gulu District. The responses from these interviews were analyzed to obtain both qualitative and quantitative data.
The researcher concluded that there is much work that needs to be done in the transitional justice field in order for the people of Northern Uganda to obtain justice and for the region as a whole to reach the same development levels as the rest of the country. One major challenge is the difference between the needs of the victims and the current transitional justice policy in practice today. In order for the people of Northern Uganda to feel that they have obtained justice, the justice methods must align to their specific needs and desires. Secondly, another challenge is in implementation of justice mechanisms and recovery programs. There has been substantial efforts to create a transitional justice process but it has been implemented in an ineffective way, and its marred with corruption on every level. In order for there to be durable peace, these challenges must be addressed
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Together Against Poverty Phase II Project Learning Review - Advocacy in Action: Stories of Change and Learnings for the Future
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Oxfam, through the four-year, multi-country program Together Against Poverty Project -Phase II (TAP2), has implemented impactful interventions contributing to strategic policy and practice outcomes in agriculture, aid effectiveness, and gender equality.
Throughout the project, Oxfam has undertaken continuous learning and adaptation to ensure that our different advocacy and program tactics and strategies, which include research, policy development, direct advocacy, alliance building, and public communications, are the most effective for achieving desired outcomes.
To this end, we present seven stories of ‘Signs of Change’ that highlight how Oxfam’s work has contributed to change, the different strategies utilized to effectively make change happen, and general reflections and learning for our future work. These stories come from across the project’s geographies and cover work related to food systems, aid quantity and quality, and gender justice from the start of the grant in July 2021.
This Learning Report serves as a concise but powerful resource for internal learning and external impact showcasing concrete examples of policy and program successes across multiple contexts.
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Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
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