How did SSR in Sierra Leone Impact on International Policy-Making on SSR?

2011 ◽  
pp. 27-50
Author(s):  
Paul Jackson ◽  
Peter Albrecht
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
International Policy

scholarly journals The Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus: Solving Rubik’s Cube in Policy and Practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Diego A. Cimino
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
International Policy ◽  
Rubik's Cube ◽  
Rubik’S Cube

Historically, the 20’s of each of the last centuries proved to be challenging years, where moments of historical opportunities were followed by daunting global difficulties. The 20’s of this 21st Century clearly followed the same historical destiny, with still an uncertain ending. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, the geopolitical, economic, social and environmental complexities of today’s world appeared as inter-connected as ever before. The aim of this paper is to analyze most discussed nexuses in the international policy-making space, the so called “Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus” or “Triple-Nexus”, referred to the gradual coordination, cooperation, integration and interaction of humanitarian, development and peace actions and actors at all levels.

The Rise of Multistakeholder Partnerships

2017 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 205-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayelet Berman
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
International System ◽  
Intergovernmental Organizations ◽  
International Policy ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Past ◽  
Governance Model ◽  
Public And Private Stakeholders ◽  
Private Actors ◽  
Multistakeholder Partnerships

In the past two decades, multistakeholder partnerships have been on the rise. With the perceived failure of intergovernmental organizations to get things done, the international system has turned toward partnerships. Allowing for collaboration with private actors, they are increasingly seen as the governance model du jour. They're praised for being democratically legitimate, thanks to their inclusion of a range of public and private stakeholders—most notably the inclusion of developing countries and civil society that had hitherto been excluded from international policy-making processes. My comments address three topics: (1) the rise of partnerships in context, (2) the reasons for their rise, and (3) challenges.

A Global and Intergenerational Storm

2019 ◽  
pp. 13-38
Author(s):  
Kristina Diprose ◽  
Gill Valentine ◽  
Robert M. Vanderbeck ◽  
Chen Liu ◽  
Katie Mcquaid
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
International Policy ◽  
Original Contribution ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Human Sense

This chapter situates the INTERSECTION programme of research within wider international debates regarding the relationship between consumption and climate change. It explores how this relationship is addressed in arguments for environmental justice and sustainable development, and how it is reflected in international policy-making. This discussion highlights how climate change is typically cast as both an international and intergenerational injustice, or the convergence of a ‘global storm’ and an ‘intergenerational storm’. This chapter also situates the original contribution of the book within recent social science scholarship that explores how people live with a changing climate, advocating a ‘human sense’ of climate and social change, and outlines the main themes of the subsequent empirical chapters.

scholarly journals Primary Student Teachers’ Understanding of Basic Ideas of Nature of Science: Laws, Theories and Models

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constantina Stefanidou ◽  
Constantine Skordoulis
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Nature Of Science ◽  
Scientific Literacy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
International Policy ◽  
Primary Student ◽  
Basic Ideas

Nature of Science is an integral part of scientific literacy which researchers and international policy-making institutions highlight as the purpose of science education. The notions of scientific law, theories and models are crucial for understanding the Nature of Science. These notions are better grasped in the historical context of Nature of Science.  For this purpose, appropriate instructional sequences, based on semi-structured interviews, were designed and implemented to investigate whether and how the student teachers of Primary Education can perceive these concepts. The study revealed that after particular difficulties were confronted, student teachers were able to grasp firmly the notions of scientific law, theories, models and the relationships among them.

Globalization of Air Transport: The Challenges of the GATS

2002 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 431-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanaa Fayed ◽  
John Westlake
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Air Transport ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Trade In Services ◽  
International Policy ◽  
Demand And Supply ◽  
New Challenges

The impacts of globalization on national and international policy making processes are illustrated by an examination of the effects on air transport industries. Trends towards the liberalization of air transport activities have been noted in many countries, mainly, to date, those of developed or rapidly developing status. Specific demand and supply conditions affect the air transport industries, and a particular regulatory framework has grown up since the 1940s. The study examines trends towards the privatization of airline companies in the context of (a) the development of so-called global ‘alliances’ or ‘partnerships’ and (b) liberalization at regional level and within trade groups such as the European Union. The new challenges of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) are considered, especially in terms of how developing countries can develop appropriate policies in response to the forces of globalization, increasing liberalization and competition.

scholarly journals International Norms and Domestic Structures

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 85-104
Author(s):  
Ryan Lebans ◽  
Lauren Peirce ◽  
Kevin Verberne
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Politics ◽  
Sharp Line ◽  
International Policy ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Global Policy ◽  
Climate Change Issue ◽  
International Importance

The traditional conception of watertight compartmentalization between “domestic” and “international” policy issues is simply no longer realistic. The advent of globalization has fundamentally altered how we perceive of policy-making. as Sidney Tarrow put it, “[i]n today’s world, we can no more draw a sharp line between domestic and international politics than we can understand national politics in the United states apart from its local roots” (Tarrow, 2005: 2). The rise of the international importance of the climate change issue is perhaps the most prominent example of the breakdown of the traditional local versus global policy distinction.

scholarly journals Problematising adult basic and secondary education in a globalised world. From second chance to school recovery

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 19-34
Author(s):  
Marcella Milana
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Situational Analysis ◽  
International Policy ◽  
Public Intervention ◽  
The Social ◽  
Equality In Education ◽  
Second Chance ◽  
Policy Solutions

The article problematises the role Adult Basic and Secondary Education (ABSE) plays in response to global challenges, under the influence of global policy. Drawing on a three-year study that assumed a social realism perspective and employed situational analysis, it discusses three dimensions of policy making in adult education: the scales of political mobilisation, the environments for policy-making, and the meanings conveyed. In doing so, it argues that although the perceptions and reception of as well as influence on international policy vary across countries, ABSE has turned today into a school-recovery opportunity for the younger generations who failed in school and people whose educational achievements in a given country are not recognised when migrating to a new one. This calls into question both the way policy in ABSE sees the social problem at stake and how policy solutions in this area of public intervention impinge on broader issues of (in)equality in education.

scholarly journals Private sector development and the persistence of fragility in Sierra Leone

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 602-631
Author(s):  
Brian Ganson ◽  
Herbert M’cleod
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Fragile States ◽  
Business Growth ◽  
International Policy ◽  
Private Sector Development ◽  
Extensive Documentation ◽  
Peaceful Development ◽  
State Relations

AbstractRhetoric from both domestic and international policy actors equated foreign direct investment and robust business growth in Sierra Leone with an exit from fragility. To the contrary, the trajectory of private sector development experienced from 2002 to 2014 contributed to Sierra Leone's socio-political challenges, replicating in the contemporary period dynamics of grievance and exclusion that were root causes of the country's endemic instability and then civil war. This study challenges the practices and refines the ideas underlying the prevailing vision for business-led development in Sierra Leone and other fragile states. It links extensive documentation of the role of business in Sierra Leone with peacebuilding and statebuilding frameworks to present a novel perspective on the mechanisms of action of private sector development in contexts of persistent fragility. In doing so, it provides a foundation on which further theoretical propositions for the ordering of business-state relations in support of transitions from fragility to peaceful development can be developed and tested.

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