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Variations on the Author
No full text“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
Prosecuting international crimes at the International Criminal Court: is there a coherent and comprehensive prosecution strategy?
No full textThe authors analyze the so far published selection and strategy papers of the Office of the Prosecutor ("OTP") of the International Criminal Court ("ICC") with a view to their consistency, coherence and comprehensiveness. Given the high number of communications and referrals to the ICC a focused strategy setting out the criteria for situation and case selection and prioritization should be one of the priorities of the Prosecutor. Thus far the Office has developed a strategic framework guided by four fundamental principles: focused investigations, positive complementarity, the interests of the victims and the impact of the OTP's work. These four principles are critically evaluated by the authors in light of the ICC Statute and existing case law. In particular the positive complementarity approach, focusing on the cooperation with national jurisdictions and enhancing their own capacity to prosecute, is to be welcomed and reflects a realistic prosecutorial policy approach. The cooperation between the OTP and Germany in the prosecution of the leadership of the FDLR is a good case in point. Only such a close interaction with national jurisdictions enables the ICC to contribute to the further closing of the impunity gap. Yet, the OTP must still more precisely define its position with regard to the criteria used for the selection of situations and cases. Thus, a priority for the new Prosecutor should be the drafting of a more precise and comprehensive strategy, integrating the already existing policy and strategy papers as well as drawing on lessons learned
Continuous and Step-level Pay-off Functions in Public Good Games: A Conceptual Analysis
No full textConflicts between individuals’ and collective interests are ubiquitous in social life. Numerous experimental studies have investigated the resolution of such conflicts using public good games with either continuous or step-level payoff functions. A conceptual analysis using both classic game theory and social exchange theory shows that these two types of games are fundamentally different. A continuous function game is a social dilemma in that it contains a conflict between individual and collective interests whereas a step-level game is primarily a social coordination game. Thus, we conclude that one can not safely generalize results from step-level to continuous form games. Additionally, our analysis shows that the distinction between continuous and single-step games can be blurred by segmenting a continuous function into steps or adding steps to a single-step game. We identify characteristics of the payoff function that conceptually mark the transition from a dilemma to a coordination problem.
Good Practices Gender Mainstreaming in Actions against Child Labour
No full textComprises a collection of 19 examples of good practices in gender mainstreaming in four areas: gender analysis; gender-specific or gender-sensitive actions; institutional change; and giving girls and women a voice.Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements by the author -- Contents -- Acronyms -- Executive summary -- Introduction -- Overview of good practices -- Summary matrix of good practices contained in the report -- Category 1: Gender analysis -- 1.1 Child domestic workers in South Africa: A national report -- 1.2 A gender analysis of a child labour force survey - Turkey -- 1.3 Cross-cutting gender issues in the Good practice interventions report on combating the commercial sexual exploitation of boys and girls in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia -- 1.4 A rapid assessment that examined the situation of children in prostitution in Jamaica -- Category 2: Gender-specific and gender-sensitive actions -- 2.1 Art rehabilitation for working street girls in St. Petersburg, Russia -- 2.2 An integrated approach targeting girls involved in rural and domestic labour - East Turkey -- 2.3 HIV/AIDS and child labour in South Africa, Tanzania, and Zambia: a gender perspective -- 2.4 "MainSCREAMing" gender through education, the arts and the media -- Category 3: Institutional change -- 3.1 Getting the development agency ready for gender equality issues: A gender review -- 3.2 A practical guide for promoting gender equality in action against child labour -- 3.3 Gender mainstreaming in the design and preparation of project documents at ILO/IPEC -- 3.4 Every boy and girl counts: Global child labour estimates -- 3.5 Integrating gender issues into thematic evaluations -- Category 4: Giving girls and women (and others that are marginalized) a voice -- 4.1 How girls engaged in prostitution describe their situation in Tanzania -- 4.2 Women "on side" in "red card to child labour" football campaign -- 4.3 Preventing trafficking of women and children in the Mekong region: A participatory approach4.4 Provision of "space" for women to meet and find out about trafficking risks in China -- 4.5 A voice for girls and boys at the national stakeholder consultation on the worst forms of child labour in Nepal -- 4.6 Voicing opinions on gender equality issues in Guatemala -- Methodology -- Resource list: Good practices in gender mainstreaming -- Glossary: Key gender-related concepts -- Annex 1: Gender analysis -- Annex 2: Important areas of knowledge on gender and child labour issues -- Annex 3: Flyer sent to all ILO/IPEC staff in July 2002 -- Annex 4: Adaptation of criteria and levelsComprises a collection of 19 examples of good practices in gender mainstreaming in four areas: gender analysis; gender-specific or gender-sensitive actions; institutional change; and giving girls and women a voice.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Good psychology is good theology, good theology is good psychology
No full textThe chapter, "Good psychology is good theology, good theology is good psychology" was written by the listed authors including Donald Meen (Douglas College Faculty). The issue of homosexuality prompts us to engage in dialogue with scripture and tradition, with contemporary culture and experience, and with academic disciplines such as history, psychology, philosophy, and the law. the writers of this book suggest new avenues along which dialogue might proceed, always focused on Anglicanism's embrace of a wide range of divergent viewpoints that rather than promoting division, offers opportunities for respect and reconciliation. --From publisher description
Beyond the Market/State Binary Code: The Common Good as a Relational Good
No full textIn this chapter the Author shows that, in order to go beyond the domination of the binomial Market-State, which destroys sociability, contemporary society needs much more than good, altruistic individuals. It needs a societal configuration able to generate relational goods. Relational good is the name of the common good in a highly differentiated and globalised society
Good Things Come to Those Who Wait…
No full textThornton (2017), writing on the website Leading in Context, explains that the well-known quote used as the title of this blog may be attributed to British author Violet Fane (Mary M. Singleton) in 1892. As she contends, good things may indeed come to those who wait, “but only after certain important conditions have been met”
Good Things Come to Those Who Wait…
No full textThornton (2017), writing on the website Leading in Context, explains that the well-known quote used as the title of this blog may be attributed to British author Violet Fane (Mary M. Singleton) in 1892. As she contends, good things may indeed come to those who wait, “but only after certain important conditions have been met”
Evolutionary Algorithms for One-Sided Bipartite Crossing Minimisation (Poster Abstract)
No full textEvolutionary algorithms (EAs) are universal solvers inspired by principles of natural evolution. In many applications, EAs produce astonishingly good solutions. To complement recent theoretical advances in the analysis of EAs on graph drawing [Baumann et al., 2024], we contribute a fundamental empirical study.
We consider the so-called One-Sided Bipartite Crossing Minimisation (OBCM): given two layers of a bipartite graph and a fixed horizontal order of vertices on the first layer, the task is to order the vertices on the second layer to minimise the number of edge crossings. We empirically analyse the performance of simple EAs for OBCM and compare different mutation operators on the underlying permutation ordering problem: exchanging two elements (exchange), swapping adjacent elements (swap) and jumping an element to a new position (jump). EAs using jumps easily outperform all deterministic algorithms in terms of solution quality after a reasonable number of generations. We also design variations of the best-performing EAs to reduce the execution time for each generation. The improved EAs can obtain the same solution quality as before and run up to 100 times faster
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