"Macanas", "tragedias" y "dramas" : Los jueces y su presentación del pasado de terrorismo de Estado en el Juicio por la Verdad de Bahía Blanca, Argentina

El trabajo que aquí se presenta tiene como objetivo indagar en las diferentes manifestaciones sobre el pasado reciente de terrorismo de Estado realizadas por los jueces durante las audiencias de uno de los denominados "Juicios por la Verdad", que se realizó en la ciudad de Bahía Blanca, Argentina entre 1999 y 2000. Se trabajó con una metodología de análisis cualitativo y se utilizaron distintas fuentes de información tales como entrevistas a jueces y abogados de organizaciones de derechos humanos y la totalidad de los videos de las audiencias del Juicio por la Verdad de Bahía Blanca. Como resultado se establece la manera en que estos profesionales del derecho interpretaron el terrorismo de Estado confrontando la posición adoptada por los militares de no brindar información y de reivindicar la "guerra antisubversiva", deslindando a la vez las distintas responsabilidades entre los miembros de las Fuerzas Armadas.

Hijos de víctimas del terrorismo de Estado : Justicia, identidad y memoria en el movimiento de derechos humanos en Argentina, 1995-2008

Este trabajo analiza la agrupación HIJOS, organismo de derechos humanos conformado por hijos de víctimas del terrorismo de Estado argentino. El objetivo consiste en realizar un estudio de algunas de las características distintivas de este grupo, teniendo en cuenta especialmente sus rupturas y continuidades con respecto a las prácticas dele derechos humanos. Se analiza el surgimiento del grupo, la conformación de su identidad colectiva, su demanda de justicia y la elaboración de relatos acerca del pasado reciente

HIJOS La Plata. Memorias tensionadas. Análisis de los relatos sobre el pasado reciente que elaboran los militantes de HIJOS

El presente trabajo propone mostrar y analizar cómo los integrantes de la agrupación HIJOS La Plata (organismos de derechos humanos conformado por hijos de víctimas del terrorismo de Estado argentino) han construido sus memorias acerca del pasado reciente. Interesan, más específicamente, las maneras en que elaboran relatos referidos al terror estatal llevado a cabo por la última dictadura (1976-1983) y al período de radicalización política inmediatamente anterior. Mientras la memoria humanitaria, propia del los organismos de derechos humanos que nacieron como respuesta defensista frente al terror estatal, centra sus denuncias en el carácter humano de las personas cuyos derechos fueron violados y omite o silencia sus trayectorias políticas; la memoria militante de los HIJOS rescata en clave reivindicatoria las experiencias políticas de sus padres y pretende no recordarlos sólo como víctimas, sino también como luchadores políticos. El objetivo de este trabajo es indagar las tensiones que resultan de la pertenencia de HIJOS al movimiento de derechos humanos, muchas de cuyas prácticas reproducen, y los conflictos que supone su intención de reivindicar la lucha revolucionaria de sus padres

Hijos de víctimas del terrorismo de Estado : Justicia, identidad y memoria en el movimiento de derechos humanos en Argentina, 1995-2008

Este trabajo analiza la agrupación HIJOS, organismo de derechos humanos conformado por hijos de víctimas del terrorismo de Estado argentino. El objetivo consiste en realizar un estudio de algunas de las características distintivas de este grupo, teniendo en cuenta especialmente sus rupturas y continuidades con respecto a las prácticas dele derechos humanos. Se analiza el surgimiento del grupo, la conformación de su identidad colectiva, su demanda de justicia y la elaboración de relatos acerca del pasado reciente

HIJOS La Plata. Memorias tensionadas. Análisis de los relatos sobre el pasado reciente que elaboran los militantes de HIJOS

El presente trabajo propone mostrar y analizar cómo los integrantes de la agrupación HIJOS La Plata (organismos de derechos humanos conformado por hijos de víctimas del terrorismo de Estado argentino) han construido sus memorias acerca del pasado reciente. Interesan, más específicamente, las maneras en que elaboran relatos referidos al terror estatal llevado a cabo por la última dictadura (1976-1983) y al período de radicalización política inmediatamente anterior. Mientras la memoria humanitaria, propia del los organismos de derechos humanos que nacieron como respuesta defensista frente al terror estatal, centra sus denuncias en el carácter humano de las personas cuyos derechos fueron violados y omite o silencia sus trayectorias políticas; la memoria militante de los HIJOS rescata en clave reivindicatoria las experiencias políticas de sus padres y pretende no recordarlos sólo como víctimas, sino también como luchadores políticos. El objetivo de este trabajo es indagar las tensiones que resultan de la pertenencia de HIJOS al movimiento de derechos humanos, muchas de cuyas prácticas reproducen, y los conflictos que supone su intención de reivindicar la lucha revolucionaria de sus padres

Global Threats, 2014

In this poll on global and national threats to security and safety, just over half (55%) of Canadians say they aren't confident in the ability of domestic security services to prevent homegrown radicals from carrying out terrorist attacks in Canada.

Complete Public Law Text, Cases and Materials, 3rd edition

Complete Public Law: Text, Cases, and Materials combines extracts from key primary and secondary materials with clear explanatory text to provide a complete resource for students of constitutional and administrative law. Clear, concise explanation of key legal principles is combined with a wide range of extracts, from statutes, case law and academic materials to provide a complete resource for students The authors use straightforward and uncomplicated language to ensure legal concepts and the complexities of the British constitution are easily understood Learning features such as thinking points, diagrams, useful notes, summary points and reflective questions provide valuable support for students and encourage them to engage with the subject A helpful 'case study' chapter on human rights, terrorism and the courts illustrates how the Human Rights Act has been used in practice across the legal system, providing extra insight into the importance of both human rights law and the process of judicial review The 'Judicial review: putting it all together in problem answers' chapter pulls together strands from previous chapters to provide a checklist of issues to be considered in order to diagnose a judicial review problem and advise a client

The Communicative Dimension and Security in Asia-Pacific: A communicative-viewing proposal for reform of the Japanese Intelligence Services

The postwar development of the Intelligence Services in Japan has been based on two contrasting models: the centralized model of the USA and the collegiality of UK, neither of which has been fully developed. This has led to clashes of institutional competencies and poor anticipation of threats towards national security. This problem of opposing models has been partially overcome through two dimensions: externally through the cooperation with the US Intelligence Service under the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security; and internally though the pre-eminence in the national sphere of the Department of Public Safety. However, the emergence of a new global communicative dimension requires that a communicative-viewing remodeling of this dual model is necessary due to the increasing capacity of the individual actors to determine the dynamics of international events. This article examines these challenges for the Intelligence Services of Japan and proposes a reform based on this new global communicative dimension.

The Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Global Security Strategy of the EU

The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) is one of the main security challenges facing the international community today. However the new Global Security Strategy of 2016 raises the question of non-proliferation of WMD only as an incidental matter, not addressing directly the threat, a fundamental threat in the regional and global security. This is a clear step backwards for the European common security.

Islamismo e terrore: un grande Jihad contro il senso comune (essay)

What implies the conversion to fundamentalist Islam? What are the repercussions and implications of ‘political Islam’ in specific contexts? The relation between Islam, democracy and violence is often represented in a reductive or simplistic way. In order to contribute to a reasoned debate on these pressing questions, this essay covers some key dynamics stemming from long-term ethnographic observation regarding the conversion to neo Salafism among Arab Bedouin citizens in southern Israel, placing them in the context of contemporary developments of Islamic political thought. The ethnographic sensitivity, combined with the voices of some eminent Islamic intellectuals, allows to go beyond both the rhetoric of cultural complexity and the common-sense view that Islamic terrorism would be a kind of ‘anti imperialism of the losers’, arguments employed often to contest emerging neo-orientalist discourses. In this sense, the essay states the need to shed light on coordinates and interpretative categories that are not placed in an essentially different but in often unexpected ways.

The Council and the Court: Shared Objectives or Opposing Views on the Crime of Aggression

This paper argues that an important part of ensuring the jurisdictional basis of the crime of aggression is to secure a partnership between the UN Security Council and the ICC. Such a partnership should be conducive towards the reality of holding to account individuals that undertake an illegal use of force. This Paper puts forward guiding principles for a model that would benefit a constructive institutional relationship between the Council and the Court. It is through the application of these five guiding principles that the inclusion of the crime of aggression in the Rome Statute can translate into a constructive relationship between the International Criminal Court and the Security Council for the betterment of international peace and security as well as international justice. I maintain that it would be damaging to both the legitimacy and operational effectiveness of the Security Council and the ICC and detrimental to the overall institutional relationship if the final outcome proves unfavourable to international action against the crime of aggression and nothing more than dead letter law. Essentially the key to a viable cooperation regime between the Court and the Council will hinge on shared objectives regarding the crime of aggression rather than opposing views, namely combating impunity by holding individuals accountable for the illegal use of force.

Paramilitary punishments in Belfast: policing beneath the peace

As an enduring legacy of the conflict, paramilitary policing remains an unpalatable but indisputable fact within Belfast's working-class, Republican communities. Historically, while much attention has been devoted to the causes and consequences of paramilitarism along with the terrorist threat posed by such organizations, little attention has been paid to the influence upon, or relations between, such nonstate policing actors, the communities in which they exist and the delivery of policing by the Police Service of Northern Ireland. While local and international literature surrounding paramilitary violence has tended towards political axiom or physical impact of such activity, the current paper presents an empirical study of the relations between communities and Republican paramilitary organizations who seek to exploit a perceived dearth of state-based policing at the community level within Belfast. Framing the ontology of paramilitary policing and its support from a community, rather than political or security perspective, the paper argues that continuing grass-roots support for this ‘new’ paramilitary policing within Republican communities of Belfast is more complex and nuanced than the political antecedents of the conflict from which such activity emerged – especially in terms of such support surviving successive political negotiations and police reforms since the ‘Good Friday’ Agreement of 1998.

Motivating residents to combat invasive species on private lands: social norms and community reciprocity

Invasive species (IS) threaten biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. To achieve landscape-scale reductions in IS and the associated gains for biodiversity, IS control efforts must be expanded across private lands. Enhancing IS control across private lands requires an understanding of the factors that motivate residents to engage or prohibit residents from engaging in efforts to control IS. Drawing from the collective interest model and literature, we sought to understand how a wide range of interpersonal, intrapersonal, and contextual factors might influence resident action around combating the invasive tree albizia (Falcataria moluccana), in the Puna District of Hawaiʻi. To do so, we used a cross-sectional survey of 243 residents and elastic net regression techniques. We found that residents’ actions related to IS control were related to their perceptions of social norms and community reciprocity regarding albizia control, as well as their knowledge of effective control strategies and their risk perceptions regarding albizia. These findings suggest that, although common intervention approaches that focus on providing education or subsidies are important, they may be more effective at reducing the spread of IS if coupled with approaches that build community reciprocity and norms.

Responsabilidade social empresarial: o caso de uma indústria alimentícia no estado do Pará

The theme of corporate social responsibility (CSR) provides discussion and analysis and relatively recent, particularly in the last twenty years, has grown into the world as well as in Brazil, the interest on the involvement of the business sector in social activities or projects facing combating poverty. However, a lack of socialization of successful experiences in the practice of CSR and clarity and consensus concepts generate deviations of understanding on the subject and the structuring of interventions. This research aimed to reveal how corporate social responsibility of the IMA Food was developed from Project Nursery Saci. The research took place under a qualitative approach of descriptive-explanatory, conducted through semi-structured interviews and non-participatory observation and interviewed 35 people in total. The interpretation and analysis of data occurred through a categorical content analysis, having as theoretical approach to socioeconomic CSR. The results showed that the major form of social responsibility of the Food IMA is based on a classical approach of CSR, focusing on philanthropy. The absence of a more systematic management of the project and reflect the fragility, instability and lack of commitment towards the community. The contributions generated by the project are substantial and important, but do not reach the development occasioned by the company. However, none of this invalidates the initiative of the organization's commitment to the community, however, requires a reassessment and restructuring of the proposal in a way that leverages the performance of the project and the company itself and it can more effectively contribute to society