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Developing family mediation in Finland : The change process and practical outcomes
Get PDFIn this article, I discuss the process and outcomes of a successful developmental project on family mediation in Finland. Family mediation is a municipal service available for divorcing parents who cannot agree on child custody matters. In the Marriage Act of 1987, prerequisites were made for family mediation as an early intervention to help families in conflict. In practice, only few parents used the service. Moreover, the concept of mediation was fluid and diffuse and practitioners working with divorce families understood and applied mediation in different ways. Moreover, often family mediation was not undertaken as a distinct process. In the article, I describe the developmental work done in a project called "Fasper" whose aim was to change the present situation by exploring the concept of family mediation and producing new mediation models, practices and tools for family mediators. Following the methodological starting points of Developmental Work Research, the project did not offer a ready-made, top-down model for family mediation. Instead, practitioners studied divorce services and developed, tested and implemented new models and practices for family mediation. It is important to continue this work and bring it to the national level in order promote major changes in the system. © The Author(s) 2018.Peer reviewe
Court work in transition : An activity-theoretical study of changing work practices in a finnish district court
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Sarjakuva translatorisen toiminnan välineenä
No full textThis article examines two types of translatorial action: translating social welfare documents into comics and using these comics as tools in interactions between social workers and clients. The translation process involves careful selection of visual and verbal elements to ensure that essential information is not lost or oversimplified. Visual translation strategies must consider clarity and the emotional impact of images. Comics can make implicit information explicit, enhancing understanding and engagement. Research data suggest that comics can also support interaction, with social workers acting as paraprofessional translators. Comics aid in explaining services and rules, supporting workers’ paraprofessional translatorial work as well as both worker and client memory. This dual-level translatorial action—creating and using comics—enhances client participation and strengthens the role of social workers as communicators.This article examines two types of translatorial action: translating social welfare documents into comics and using these comics as tools in interactions between social workers and clients. The translation process involves careful selection of visual and verbal elements to ensure that essential information is not lost or oversimplified. Visual translation strategies must consider clarity and the emotional impact of images. Comics can make implicit information explicit, enhancing understanding and engagement. Research data suggest that comics can also support interaction, with social workers acting as paraprofessional translators. Comics aid in explaining services and rules, supporting workers’ paraprofessional translatorial work as well as both worker and client memory. This dual-level translatorial action—creating and using comics—enhances client participation and strengthens the role of social workers as communicators
Suomalaisen sovittelun tila ja mahdollisuudet
No full textSuomalaisen sovittelun tila ja mahdollisuudet (SUSTIMA)-hankkeessa selvitettiin suomalaisen sovittelun nykytilaa ja kehitysnäkymiä. Pääasiallisina aineistoina käytettiin haastatteluita (30 haastateltavaa) sovittelun eri osa-alueilta sekä kuutta kyselyä, jotka suunnattiin lakisääteisten sovittelun osa-alueiden toimijoille (yhteensä 535 vastaajaa).
Suomalaisen sovittelun kenttä on laaja ja elävä. Raportissa käsitellään kahtatoista erilaista Suomessa toimivaa sovittelun osa-aluetta, jotka jakautuvat lakisääteisiin ja epävirallisiin menettelyihin. Sovittelutoiminnan voimakas kasvu Suomessa 2000-luvulta alkaen on merkinnyt sovittelun osa-alueiden erikoistumista. Samalla sovittelun kenttä on hajanainen ja järjestäytymätön. Julkisen vallan toimien koordinointi, sovittelun laadunvarmistus ja koulutuksen kehittäminen ovat jääneet jälkeen sovittelun sovellusten kehityksestä. Sovittelun lupausten – kuten riitojen reilumman, joustavamman ja halvemman käsittelyn tai kansalaisten ongelmanratkaisun ja osallisuuden lisääntymisen – lunastaminen edellyttää kokonaisvaltaisempaa strategista otetta yhteistyössä julkisen vallan ja sovittelun toimijakentän välillä. Sovittelu voitaisiin näin integroida paremmin erilaisiin oikeudenkäytön, turvallisuuden ja hyvinvoinnin palvelujärjestelmiin.
Raportti sisältää kymmenen yleistä toimenpidesuositusta sovittelun laadunvarmistuksen, koordinaation, koulutuksen ja tietopohjan kehittämiseksi sekä yksityiskohtaisempia suosituksia sovittelun eri osa-alueita koskien.Tämä julkaisu on toteutettu osana valtioneuvoston selvitys- ja tutkimussuunnitelman toimeenpanoa. (tietokayttoon.fi) Julkaisun sisällöstä vastaavat tiedon tuottajat, eikä tekstisisältö välttämättä edusta valtioneuvoston näkemystä.Sivuja 58, 59 ja 60 on päivitetty 14.12.2022 ja aineisto korvaa aikaisemmin, 31.3.2022 julkaistun version
Suomalaisen sovittelun tila ja mahdollisuudet
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A Proactive Approach : Law Libraries
No full textReliance on routines to avoid mistakes is a self-evident feature of many fields of human activity. The commercial pilot preparing for take-off, the engineer designing a bridge and the insurance company introducing a new product all depend on proven methods to ensure that nothing important is forgotten and to assess the consequences of planned measures. Legal work is somewhat atypical in the foregoing respect. Compared with many other activities, there are few descriptions of how the various segments of a legal task are to be devised in order to achieve the greatest possible certainty of result. Lawyers tend to work reactively, i.e., the focus is on solving problems that have already arisen. Efforts aimed at avoiding problems before they begin to brew - i.e., proactively - are less common. The proactive approach is not unknown in the legal sphere but as compared to many other fields of the law the perspective is not very well elaborated. Against this background this volume of Scandinavian Studies in Law presents 25 articles on various aspects of proactive approaches in law, the majority of them focusing on contracting issues. The collection is simultaneously a documentation of a conference on proactive law held in Stockholm 2005. In addition to the articles on proactive law this volume contains a presentation of major law libraries in the Scandinavian countries. Table of Contents: Barton, Thomas D., Thinking Preventively and Proactively, p. 71-92 Bing, Jon and Mahler, Tobias, Contractual Risk Management in an ICT Context - Searching for a Possible Interface between Legal Methods and Risk Analysis, p. 339-358 Cummins, Tim, Best Practices In Commercial Contracting, p. 131-148 Daicoff, Susan, The Comprehensive Law Movement: An Emerging Approach to Legal Problems, p. 109-128 Dauer, Eduard A., The Role of Culture in Legal Risk Management, p. 93-108 Haapio, Helena, Introduction to Proactive Law from a Business Lawyer's Point of View, p. 21-34 Haapio, Helena, Business Success and Problem Prevention through Proactive Contracting, p. 149-194 Haarala-Nystén, Soili, Contract Law and Everyday Contracting, p. 263-284 Haavisto, Vaula, Contracting in Networks, p. 237-254 Jakobsen Sandfeld, Søren, Entering New and Converging Media Markets: How to Take a Proactive Approach to Legal Issues in the Electronic Communications Sector, p. 393-406 Kavaleff, Anette, Successful Outsourcing through Proactive Contracting - Strategy, Risk Assessment and Implementation, p. 215-226 Lando, Henrik, Determinants of the Optimal Degree of Pro-activeness in Contracting, p. 255-262 Magnusson, Jarl S., Proactive Law - and the Importance of Data and Information Resources, p. 407-424 Magnusson Sjöberg, Cecilia, Presentation of the Nordic School of Proactive Law, p. 13-20 Paris, Carolyn E.C., Contract Management: Design Parameters and Challenges to Implementation, p. 195-214 Pohjonen, Soile, Proactive Law in Academia, p. 53-70 Sadighi Firozabadi, Babak and Sergot, Marek , The Role of Agreements in Virtual Organisations, p. 297-304 Schartum, Dag Wiese, Introduction to a Government-based Perspective on Proactive Law, p. 35-52 Seipel, Peter, Nordic School of Proactive Law Conference 2005: Closing Comments, p. 359-364 Syse, Aslak, Equality and Accessibility: A Proactive Approach to Strengthen the Legal Status and Protection Against Discrimination of Persons with Disabilities, p. 367-384 Taskinen, Tommi K.J., Some Thoughts on Proactive Counselling and Legal Mentality, p. 227-236 Trzaskowski, Jan, Legal Risk Management in a Global, Electronic Marketplace, p. 319-338 Weitzenböck, Emily M., Prevention is Better than Cure: Fostering the Growth of Dynamic Networked Organisations through the use of Proactive Legal Measures, p. 305-318 Vikström, Mats, The Impact of IT on the Foundation for Businesses Daily Operation, p. 285-296 Zimmer, Frederik, Tax Legislation between Politics and Legal (and Economic) Thinking, p. 385-392 Law Libraries in Denmark, p. 427-433 Law Libraries in Finland, p. 434-441 Norwegian Law Libraries, p. 442-447 Law Libraries in Sweden, p. 448-462</p
Consistent reductions of IIB*-M* theory and de Sitter supergravity
No full textWe construct consistent non-linear Kaluza Klein reduction ansatze for a subset of fields arising from the reduction of IIB* and M* theory on dS5 × H5 and dS4 × AdS 7, respectively. These reductions yield four and five-dimensional de Sitter supergravities, albeit with wrong sign kinetic terms. We also demonstrate that the ansatze may be used to lift multi-centered de Sitter black hole solutions to ten and eleven dimensions. The lifted dS5 black holes correspond to rotating E4-branes of IIB* theory. © SISSA-ISAS 2004.BATRACHENKO A, HEPTH0212186; BERNDDT K, 2003, CLASSICAL QUANT GRAV, V20, P4177; Cvetic M, 2000, PHYS REV D, V62, part. no., DOI 10.1103-PhysRevD.62.046005; Cvetic M, 2000, NUCL PHYS B, V590, P233, DOI 10.1016-S0550-3213(00)00466-1; Cvetic M, 2000, PHYS REV D, V62, DOI 10.1103-PhysRevD.62.086003; Cvetic M, 2000, PHYS REV D, V62, DOI 10.1103-PhysRevD.62.064028; Cvetic M, 1999, NUCL PHYS B, V558, P96, DOI 10.1016-S0550-3213(99)00419-8; Cvetic M, 2000, NUCL PHYS B, V574, P761, DOI 10.1016-S0550-3213(99)00828-7; Cvetic M, 2000, NUCL PHYS B, V586, P275, DOI 10.1016-S0550-3213(00)00372-2; DAURIA R, 2002, J HIGH ENERGY PHYS; DEWIT B, 1987, NUCL PHYS B, V281, P211, DOI 10.1016-0550-3213(87)90253-7; Duff MJ, 1999, NUCL PHYS B, V554, P237, DOI 10.1016-S0550-3213(99)00299-0; GIBBONS GW, HEPTH0111072, P81301; GUNAYDIN M, 1986, NUCL PHYS B, V272, P598, DOI 10.1016-0550-3213(86)90237-3; GUNAYDIN M, 1985, PHYS LETT B, V154, P268, DOI 10.1016-0370-2693(85)90361-2; Hull CM, 2001, J HIGH ENERGY PHYS; HULL CM, 1988, CLASSICAL QUANT GRAV, V5, P1517, DOI 10.1088-0264-9381-5-12-005; Hull CM, 1998, NUCL PHYS B, V536, P219, DOI 10.1016-S0550-3213(98)00691-9; Hull CM, 1998, J HIGH ENERGY PHYS; Hull CM, 1998, J HIGH ENERGY PHYS; Hull CM, 2000, NUCL PHYS B, V575, P231, DOI 10.1016-S0550-3213(00)00057-2; KASTOR D, 1993, PHYS REV D, V47, P5370, DOI 10.1103-PhysRevD.47.5370; Liu JT, 2001, PHYS LETT B, V498, P123, DOI 10.1016-S0370-2693(00)01350-2; LONDON LAJ, 1995, NUCL PHYS B, V434, P709, DOI 10.1016-0550-3213(94)00511-C; Lu H, 1999, PHYS LETT B, V467, P67, DOI 10.1016-S0370-2693(99)01170-3; Lu H, 2000, PHYS LETT B, V475, P261, DOI 10.1016-S0370-2693(00)00073-3; LUKIERSKI J, 1985, PHYS LETT B, V151, P382, DOI 10.1016-0370-2693(85)91659-4; Nastase H, 1999, PHYS LETT B, V469, P96, DOI 10.1016-S0370-2693(99)01266-6; Nastase H, 2000, NUCL PHYS B, V581, P179, DOI 10.1016-S0550-3213(00)00193-0; PERNICI M, 1985, NUCL PHYS B, V259, P460, DOI 10.1016-0550-3213(85)90645-5; PILCH K, 1985, COMMUN MATH PHYS, V98, P105, DOI 10.1007-BF01211046; VAULA S, 2002, J HIGH ENERGY PHYS10363
HKT geometry and de Sitter supergravity
No full textSolutions of five-dimensional minimal de Sitter supergravity admitting Killing spinors are considered. It is shown that the timelike solutions are determined in terms of a four-dimensional hyper-Kähler torsion (HKT) manifold. If the HKT manifold is conformally hyper-Kähler the most general solution can be obtained from a sub-class of supersymmetric solutions of minimal N = 2 ungauged supergravity, by means of a simple transformation. Examples include a multi-BMPV de Sitter solution, describing multiple rotating black holes co-moving with the expansion of the universe. If the HKT manifold is not conformally hyper-Kähler, examples admitting a tri-holomorphic Killing vector field are constructed in terms of certain solutions of three-dimensional Einstein-Weyl geometry. © 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.ALVAREZGAUME L, 1981, COMMUN MATH PHYS, V80, P443, DOI 10.1007-BF01208280; Behrndt K, 2004, CLASSICAL QUANT GRAV, V21, P4107, DOI 10.1088-0264-9381-21-17-006; Behrndt K, 2003, CLASSICAL QUANT GRAV, V20, P4177, DOI 10.1088-0264-9381-20-19-304; Bergshoeff Eric A, 2007, JHEP-Journal of High Energy Physics, DOI 10.1088-1126-6708-2007-07-067; BRAATEN E, 1985, NUCL PHYS B, V260, P630, DOI 10.1016-0550-3213(85)90053-7; Breckenridge JC, 1997, PHYS LETT B, V391, P93, DOI 10.1016-S0370-2693(96)01460-8; Cacciatori S.L., 2007, JHEP, V0707, P046; CALLAN CG, 1991, NUCL PHYS B, V359, P611, DOI 10.1016-0550-3213(91)90074-8; CANDELAS P, 1985, NUCL PHYS B, V258, P46, DOI 10.1016-0550-3213(85)90602-9; Chave T, 1996, PHYS LETT B, V383, P262, DOI 10.1016-0370-2693(96)00760-5; Chen W, 2006, NUCL PHYS B, V732, P118, DOI 10.1016-j.nuclphysb.2005.10.018; CURTRIGHT TL, 1984, PHYS REV LETT, V53, P1799, DOI 10.1103-PhysRevLett.53.1799; DELDUC F, 1993, CLASSICAL QUANT GRAV, V10, P1201, DOI 10.1088-0264-9381-10-7-003; Elvang H, 2004, PHYS REV LETT, V93, DOI 10.1103-PhysRevLett.93.211302; FIGUERAS P, 2006, JHEP, V611, P36; Gauduchon P, 1998, J GEOM PHYS, V25, P291, DOI 10.1016-S0393-0440(97)00032-6; Gauntlett JP, 2003, CLASSICAL QUANT GRAV, V20, P4587, DOI 10.1088-0264-9381-20-21-005; Gauntlett JP, 2003, PHYS REV D, V68, DOI 10.1103-PhysRevD.68.105009; Gauntlett JP, 1999, CLASSICAL QUANT GRAV, V16, P1, DOI 10.1088-0264-9381-16-1-001; Gauntlett JP, 2004, PHYS REV D, V70, DOI 10.1103-PhysRevD.70.089901; Gibbons GW, 1997, NUCL PHYS B, V508, P623, DOI 10.1016-S0550-3213(97)00599-3; GIBBONS GW, 1978, PHYS LETT B, V78, P430, DOI 10.1016-0370-2693(78)90478-1; Gibbons GW, 2005, PHYS REV LETT, V94, DOI 10.1103-PhysRevLett.94.131602; Gillard J, 2005, CLASSICAL QUANT GRAV, V22, P1033, DOI 10.1088-0264-9381-22-6-009; GRAN U, 2007, JHEP, V702, P43; Gran U, 2005, CLASSICAL QUANT GRAV, V22, P2453, DOI 10.1088-0264-9381-22-12-010; GRAN U, 2007, JHEP, V702, P44; Gran U., 2007, JHEP, V0708, P074; GRAN U, ARXIV08021799; GROVER J, ARXIV08020231; Gutowski J, 2000, PHYS LETT B, V472, P45, DOI 10.1016-S0370-2693(99)01412-4; Herdeiro CAR, 2003, NUCL PHYS B, V665, P189, DOI 10.1016-S0550-3213(03)00484-X; HOWE PS, 1987, NUCL PHYS B, V289, P264, DOI 10.1016-0550-3213(87)90380-4; HOWE PS, 1988, CLASSICAL QUANT GRAV, V5, P1647, DOI 10.1088-0264-9381-5-12-014; HULL CM, 1986, LECT NONLINEAR SIGMA; HULL CM, 1998, JHEP, V9807, P21; KASTOR D, 1993, PHYS REV D, V47, P5370, DOI 10.1103-PhysRevD.47.5370; KLEMM D, 2001, JHEP, V102, P31; Liu JT, 2001, PHYS LETT B, V498, P123, DOI 10.1016-S0370-2693(00)01350-2; LIU JT, 2004, JHEP, V401, P7; LUKIERSKI J, 1985, PHYS LETT B, V151, P382, DOI 10.1016-0370-2693(85)91659-4; PAPADOPOULOS G, 1995, PHYS LETT B, V356, P249, DOI 10.1016-0370-2693(95)00756-B; PILCH K, 1985, COMMUN MATH PHYS, V98, P105, DOI 10.1007-BF01211046; SKENDERIS K, ARXIV07043918; Skenderis K, 2006, PHYS REV LETT, V96, DOI 10.1103-PhysRevLett.96.191301; Vaula S, 2007, PHYS LETT B, V653, P95, DOI 10.1016-j.physletb.2007.07.048; WITTEN E, 1984, COMMUN MATH PHYS, V92, P455, DOI 10.1007-BF01215276; ZUMINO B, 1979, PHYS LETT B, V87, P203, DOI 10.1016-0370-2693(79)90964-X24202
