‘Special Protection Measures’: States Parties’ reporting on article 38 of the Convention of the Rights of the Child

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 569-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chaditsa Poulatova
Keyword(s):  
Child Soldiers ◽  
Geographical Region ◽  
Reporting Guidelines ◽  
Regime Type ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Special Protection

In 1989 when the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) came into existence children officially became right holders. This article reviews States Parties’ reporting on Article 38 of the CRC to test how far the reporting guidelines have been fully met by the States Parties’ reports to the Committee on the Rights of the Child. The first section analyses the adequacy and the depth of the reports submitted by the States Parties’ up to the 44thsession of the Committee (January 2007). The second examines and evaluates the Committee’s use of List of Issues and its Concluding Observations. The third examines the relationship between the reporting performance and the geographical region, income level and regime type of the States Parties to the CRC. The fourth focuses on States Parties that have experienced war/conflict over the past years and have a well established record of use of child soldiers either in government or non-governmental militia groups. The fifth concludes that States Parties have provided the Committee with poor, inadequate or no reporting on article 38, despite its significance.

scholarly journals Presidential Address: A View From the Lectern

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-16
Author(s):  
J. E. Rea
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Canadian History ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Adequate Response ◽  
The Great War ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
National Defence

Abstract This paper explores the relationship among teaching, research, and publications for, the author argues, a good teacher must carry out advanced historical research and >report results to a wider academic audience. This observation leads to an examination of three kinds of questions which challenge the historian as teacher: the first, questions to which the primary and secondary literature provide no answer; the second, questions to which standard works offer no adequate response but which inspire research and rethinking and thereby lead to a new understanding of the issue; and the third, questions which can be fully answered only by informed speculation. The paper then illustrates the challenge posed by each type of question by looking at important incidents in twentieth-century Canadian history: the first, why Prime Minister Borden on 1 January 1916 doubled Canada's manpower in the Great War to five hundred thousand; the second, why did the tariff disappear as an issue from elections after 1935; and the third, why did the Cabinet accept the forced resignation of J. L. Ralston as Minister of National Defence in November of 1944? The specialised knowledge required to respond to such questions necessarily enriches our overall understanding of the past.

Healthy populations, political stability, and regime type: Southeast Asia as a case study

2014 ◽  
Vol 40 (5) ◽  
pp. 859-876 ◽  
Author(s):  
SARA E. DAVIES
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Regime Type ◽  
Conflict Prevention ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
The Past ◽  
Long Life ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractOver the past decade, there have been increased attempts to understand the contributing factors to the relationship between healthy populations (that is, populations that have long life expectancy from birth), the prevention of conflict, and governance regimes that enable ‘healthy nations’ to survive and thrive. These studies have been largely informed by longitudinal studies on the positive relationship between regime type, provision of health care, and conflict prevention. This article examines what insights a comparison of postconflict countries in a regional setting may provide to challenge or indeed extend the findings advanced so far in the literature on the relationship between regime type and health insecurity. The Southeast Asian experience confirms the obvious – that the cessation of armed conflict is related to improved health outcomes. However, it challenges presumptions that democratisation plays a significant role in shaping this relationship.

The Roman Imperial Cult and Revelation

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Naylor
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Book Of Revelation ◽  
Imperial Cult ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Classical Studies ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Emperor Worship

The question of the relationship of the Roman Imperial Cult and Revelation has occupied the attention of scholars throughout the past one hundred years. During this time, major shifts have taken place both in the assessment of the Roman Imperial Cult in the context of the Roman Empire and in the interpretation of its role with respect to the book of Revelation. This article surveys and assesses these trends. It begins with a discussion of studies on the Roman Imperial Cult from the standpoint of classical studies. Next, texts within Revelation typically cited as indicating a response to emperor worship are introduced. The third and final section focuses upon studies on Revelation, with particular focus given to interpretive approaches, Christology, and the question of persecution under Domitian.

Decentralization and Good Governance

2021 ◽  
pp. 281-304
Author(s):  
Besfat Dejen Engdaw
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Structural Reforms ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Fourth Part ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

Decentralization and good governance are policy instruments whereby the world in general and African in particular have pursued it for the past 40 and 50 years. Despite empirical studies not yet being conclusive, decentralization helps to improve good governance. Decentralization and good governance are brought into Africa following the beginning and end of structural reforms, to bring economic development, respectively. The chapter has six parts. The first part deals with the introduction and background of good governance and decentralization. The second part highlights the meanings or concepts and elements of good governance, and issues and concepts related to decentralization. The third part insights the relationship between decentralization and good governance. The fourth part gives some highlights about decentralization and good governance in Africa, and when and why decentralization has been introduced among African nations. The fifth part investigates the relationship between decentralization, good governance, and economic development; and the last part provides conclusion.

scholarly journals To ‘see’ is to break an entanglement: Quantum measurement, trauma and security

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 450-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
K M Fierke ◽  
Nicola Mackay
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Quantum Measurement ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Medical Physics ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Relationship

This article seeks to explore the quantum notion that to ‘see’ an entanglement is to break it in the context of an ‘experiment’ regarding the ongoing impact of traumatic political memory on the present. The analysis is a product of collaboration over the past four years between the two authors, one a scholar of international relations, the other a therapeutic practitioner with training in medical physics. Our focus is the conceptual claim that ‘seeing’ breaks an entanglement rather than the experiment itself. The first section explores a broad contrast between classical and quantum measurement, asking what this might mean at the macroscopic level. The second section categorizes Wendt’s claim about language as a form of expressive measurement and explores the relationship to discourse analysis. The third section explores the broad contours of our experiment and the role of a somewhat different form of non-linear expressive measurement. In the final section, we elaborate the relationship between redemptive measurement and breaking an entanglement, which involves a form of ‘seeing’ that witnesses to unacknowledged past trauma.

Domesticating Italy's foreignness in China: the transcultural politics of the copy and the real

Modern Italy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurizio Marinelli
Keyword(s):  
Apparent Paradox ◽  
Chinese Cities ◽  
The Real ◽  
Cultural Images ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Italian Design ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Italian Architecture

This article consists of three sections. The first one concentrates on the conceptualisation of the Italian concession in Tianjin (1901–1947). The second connects the past imagery of the Italian ‘aristocratic concession’ to its contemporary reinvention as the ‘New Italian-style Town’. The third section explores the rationale for the diffusion of what I define as Italianerie: a fascination for Italy, for a ‘real-unreal’ Italian-flavoured atmosphere, through the creation of multi-million-dollar luxury designer outlets known as ‘Florentia Villages’. The first Florentia Village, ‘inspired by classic Italian architecture’, opened in Wuqing, halfway between Beijing and Tianjin, in June 2011, followed by the replica of this template in eight Chinese cities. Is this the outcome of a specific patrimonialisation strategy? What is the significance of this showcase of Italian design in China? What lies behind the apparent paradox of reproducing ‘in/authentic’ Italy in miniature, and using it to sell the ‘real’ luxury products, in a country like China, which is stereotyped as the paradise of the fake? Is innovation by design reconfiguring the relationship between production and consumption of cultural images and commodities? This article intends to explore these questions with particular attention to transcultural strategies in Chinese urbanism – past and present.

scholarly journals El cristal con que se mira: verdad y relativismo en la historiografía de Carlo Ginzburg / In the eye of the beholder: truth and relativism in historiography of Carlo Ginzburg

2017 ◽  
pp. 7-18
Author(s):  
Graciela Velázquez Delgado
Keyword(s):  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Methodological Strategy

Resumen. En este artículo, sin que pretenda ser exhaustivo sino un acercamiento, se analizará la noción de verdad en la propuesta historiográfica de Carlo Ginzburg. Para lograr el análisis de esta noción será preciso mencionar los ejes de análisis: el primero tiene que ver con la interrelación entre la noción de realidad, que es el objeto del que se habla, y entre la noción de verdad, que es la relación que la realidad tiene con el conocimiento; en el segundo, se discutirá la estrategia metodológica para llegar a conocer la realidad pasada (la reducción de escala); y en el tercero se abordará la dimensión escritural de la propuesta de Ginzburg y sus implicaciones con la verdad. Todo esto con el objetivo de mostrar que el modelo indiciario conduce de forma inevitable al relativismo.Abstract. In this article, without claiming to be exhaustive but an approach, analizes the notion of truth in the historiographical proposal of Carlo Ginzburg. To achieve the analysis of this notion should be mentioned the analitic axis, the first has to do with the interrelation between the notion of reality that is the object of which we study, and from the notion of truth, that is the relationship that the reality has with knowledge; in the second, the methodological strategy will be discussed to get to know the past reality (downscaling) and in the third, the scriptural dimension of Ginzburg‘s proposal and its implications with the truth. All this with the aim of showing that, the indiciary model inevitably leads to relativism.

SOSITHEUS AND HIS ‘NEW’ SATYR PLAY

2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 202-213
Author(s):  
Sebastiana Nervegna
Keyword(s):  
New Music ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Greek Drama ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Original Contribution ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Looking Back ◽  
Selection Of

Active in Alexandria during the second half of the third century, Dioscorides is the author of some forty epigrams preserved in the Anthologia Palatina. Five of these epigrams are concerned with Greek playwrights: three dramatists of the archaic and classical periods, Thespis, Aeschylus and Sophocles, and two contemporary ones, Sositheus and Machon. Dioscorides conceived four epigrams as two pairs (Thespis and Aeschylus, Sophocles and Sositheus) clearly marked by verbal connections, and celebrates each playwright for his original contribution to the history of Greek drama. Thespis boasts to have discovered tragedy; Aeschylus to have elevated it. The twin epigrams devoted to Sophocles and Sositheus present Sophocles as refining the satyrs and Sositheus as making them, once again, primitive. Finally, Machon is singled out for his comedies as ‘worthy remnants of ancient art (τέχνης … ἀρχαίης)’. Dioscorides’ miniature history of Greek drama, which is interesting both for its debts to the ancient tradition surrounding classical playwrights and for the light it sheds on contemporary drama, clearly smacks of archaizing sympathies. They drive Dioscorides’ selection of authors and his treatment of contemporary dramatists: both Sositheus and Machon are praised for consciously looking back to the masters of the past. My focus is on Sositheus and his ‘new’ satyr-play. After discussing the relationship that Dioscorides establishes between Sophocles’ and Sositheus’ satyrs, and reviewing scholarly interpretations of Sositheus’ innovations, I will argue that Dioscorides speaks the language of New Music. His epigram celebrates Sositheus as rejecting New Music and its trends, and as composing satyr plays that were musically old fashioned and therefore reactionary.

Psychiatry, politics and national socialism

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S2) ◽  
pp. 762-762
Author(s):  
S.M. Pereira ◽  
J. Bohun ◽  
S. Guimarães
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
National Socialism ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historic Review ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
Memorial Sites ◽  
The Relationship

IntroductionThe misuse of psychiatry by politics during dictatorships has mainly happened in the first half of the last century during the Third Reich and Stalinist period in Soviet Union. Even today the psychiatric diagnoses may be changed in an abusive way for politic purposes as they were in the past. This may undermine the credibility of psychiatry. The psychiatric professional organizations only recently start to discuss and investigate this issue.MethodsThe authors made a literature review in historic and psychiatric books. They also visited some memorial sites were psychiatry and dictatorship were sadly connected in history. Using as main example the abuse made by psychiatrists as a politic instrument in the Third Reich period, the authors aim to make a historic review about the relationship between psychiatry and politics.ConclusionAbuse and misuse in psychiatry may also easily be done nowadays. Psychiatry is a science with not so clear boundaries, what is normal or abnormal may be sometimes unclear mainly if not seen in a serious and ethic perspective. Because of this psychiatrists should be very clear about their position in ethics, science and society.The psychiatric professional organizations should face the facts of the tragic relationship between psychiatry and politics in history, discussing this issue more openly for an appropriate understanding of the past and for preventing new errors in the future.

Poor Acceptance of the Past is Related to Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults

GeroPsych ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 246-251
Author(s):  
Gozde Cetinkol ◽  
Gulbahar Bastug ◽  
E. Tugba Ozel Kizil
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Geriatric Depression ◽  
Ego Integrity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Depressed Group ◽  
Total Death ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. Depression in older adults can be explained by Erikson’s theory on the conflict of ego integrity versus hopelessness. The study investigated the relationship between past acceptance, hopelessness, death anxiety, and depressive symptoms in 100 older (≥50 years) adults. The total Beck Hopelessness (BHS), Geriatric Depression (GDS), and Accepting the Past (ACPAST) subscale scores of the depressed group were higher, while the total Death Anxiety (DAS) and Reminiscing the Past (REM) subscale scores of both groups were similar. A regression analysis revealed that the BHS, DAS, and ACPAST predicted the GDS. Past acceptance seems to be important for ego integrity in older adults.

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