scholarly journals Mediation Practices in Post-Conflict Situation in Nepal: The Way Forward

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-301
Author(s):  
Sambid Bilas Pant
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Conflict Situation ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Community Mediation ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Sustainable Peace ◽  
Peace Settlement ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Made In

This paper aims to critically examine the increasing role of community mediation in the post-conflict situation in Nepal. The practice of community mediation at the professional level is in a preliminary stage in Nepal. Regardingthe peace settlement process and the state of community mediation in different countries, various efforts have been made in Nepal regarding community mediation. The country is gradually advancing towards community mediation practices in ensuring access to justice. Community mediation has been practiced for resolving disputes or conflict through the judicial committees (JCs) formed under the local government. The practices of conflicts or disputes resolution through community mediation have begun in Nepal at the individual or family level, school or community level, or at workplace. It is, therefore, vital to prevent the recurrence of conflicts or disputes through community mediation to ensure sustainable peace. Various efforts have been made to build the capacity of individuals and agencies to settle disputes and to ensure mutual trust and cooperation in Nepal. In the changing context, confronting COVID 19, building awareness, providing education and training to the mediators for community mediation is vital to execute JC practice in Nepal. Community mediation as an important aspect in ensuring sustainable peace in the spirit of the local government act is, therefore, very essential in Nepal.

Ethical Climate and Whistleblowing Intentions: Testing the Mediating Roles of Public Service Motivation and Psychological Safety Among Local Government Employees

2020 ◽  
pp. 009102602094454
Author(s):  
Wisanupong Potipiroon ◽  
Achakorn Wongpreedee
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Ethical Climate ◽  
Psychological Safety ◽  
Public Service Motivation ◽  
Government Employees ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Individual

Local governments in several developing countries are plagued with corruption. This study draws attention to the role of organizational ethical climate in promoting whistleblowing intentions among local government employees and asks whether public service motivation (PSM) and perceptions of psychological safety mediate this relationship. Based on survey data of 365 employees in 40 local governments in Thailand, our multilevel analysis confirms that the relationships between ethical climate and internal and external whistleblowing intentions were indirect. In particular, psychological safety was found to play a mediating role at both the individual and organizational levels of analysis, whereas the mediating role of PSM was observed only at the individual level. The findings also revealed the presence of “collective PSM” at the organizational level, which in turn helped to facilitate external whistleblowing intentions. This research unveils the importance of individual- and organization-level factors in the whistleblowing decision-making process.

scholarly journals Inclusion, Justice, and Peace in Colombia

2020 ◽  
pp. 329-344
Author(s):  
Jennifer S. Easterday
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Peace Process ◽  
Peace Processes ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Sustainable Peace ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
Promote Gender Equality ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Just Peace

This chapter discusses the interplay between inclusion and accountability, using the Colombian peace process as an example. The chapter examines how inclusive input into the peace process, including a referendum, can shape the nature of accountability in post-conflict situations. Drawing on the ‘peace before justice’ debate, the chapter asks whether extensive inclusion can be an impediment to peace, or a guarantor of just peace. It discusses the role of women in the negotiations and the Special Jurisdiction for Peace It concludes that peace processes should be inclusive and promote gender equality to support sustainable peace.

Peacemaking, Peacekeeping, and Peacebuilding

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luc Reychler
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effective ◽  
Conflict Prevention ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Official Discourse ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Un Peacekeeping ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
Made In

Peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding have generated considerable interest in the areas of education, research, and politics. This can be attributed in part to the growing recognition that there are limits to violence and that proactive violence prevention is more cost-effective than reactive conflict prevention. Peacebuilding became part of the official discourse when the United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali introduced the concept of post-conflict peacebuilding in the Agenda for Peace. The agenda specified four areas of action relating to preventive diplomacy, peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding. Two important documents have helped bring peacebuilding to the mainstream: the 2000 Brahimi Report, a response to the failures of complex UN peacekeeping in the 1990s, and In Larger Freedom: Towards Development, Security and Human Rights, which led to the establishment of the Peacebuilding Commission. Conflict prevention and peacebuilding have also been mainstreamed in the European Union and in most of the foreign offices of the member states. A central focus of studies on peacebuilding is the interrelationships between peacemaking, political change, development, peacekeeping, and reconciliation. Despite the progress made in terms of research, there are a number of gaps and challenges that still need to be addressed. Many analysts, for example, leave the end state vague and implicit and make no systematic differentiation between different types of peace. With respect to context, two salient issues require more attention: the qualities of a peacebuilder and the role of integrative power. The widest research gap is found in the planning of the peacebuilding process.

RISK MANAGEMENT IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT BY THE LGUS (AS EXEMPLIFIED BY DĄBROWA GÓRNICZA COMMUNE)

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 115-132
Author(s):  
Jarosław Rokicki
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Management Control ◽  
Management Process ◽  
Control Processes ◽  
Risk Management Process ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Made In

Risk management is an integral part of the management control processes, which is primarily the responsibility of the Manager of local government units. Conscious and structured risk management allows the manager to limit events that may have a negative impact on the implementation of tasks. This is why it is so important to organize a risk management process that ensures the achievement of objectives and tasks. The theoretical settlement made in part one of the article allowed the author, on the basis of internal regulations in the selected Dąbrowa Górnicza commune, to synthetically describe the risk management process and to present the measures and indicators that illustrate the process. Against this background, a formalized risk management process in a commune where a lot of space has been devoted to the risk management process adopted is shown. The responsibilities of the individual employees of the organizations involved in the risk management process have been clearly identified.

How Conditional Amnesties Can Assist Transitional Societies in Delivering on the Right to the Truth

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Julian Sarkin
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Transitional Societies ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Right ◽  
Legal Consequences ◽  
Made In

This article explores how conditional amnesties can assist post-conflict societies to recover truth. It examines how such amnesties can be used optimally to achieve the best results as part of transitional justice mechanisms. Thus, a central question is to see how amnesties can be used for truth recovery purposes. For that reason, the status and role of amnesties, and whether such amnesties can be used to learn more about the past and assist in truth recovery is explored. The article explores what amnesties are, how prevalent they are and how amnesties can be used optimally to achieve the best results. An issue that is also explored is whether amnesties are needed for perpetrators to participate in transitional justice mechanisms. The argument that is made, in this regard, is that amnesty is absolutely necessary to persuade perpetrators to testify. If they do not have such legal protection, perpetrators fear the legal consequences that may result if they admit to crimes for which they have not been charged. Another question that is examined concerns whether amnesties, and specifically conditional amnesties, pass international law muster. This article therefore investigates the continual and extensive use of amnesty to determine whether a conditional amnesty violates international law. The article suggests how a conditional amnesty process could be structured and what difficulties such a process should avoid if perpetrators are to enter such a process.

A Tale of Two Cities: ‘Authentic’ Tourism in Belfast

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madeleine Leonard
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Situation ◽  
Political Prisoners ◽  
Tour Guides ◽  
The Past ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
The City

The purpose of this paper is to consider the role of tour guides in presenting ‘authentic’ versions of the conflict and post-conflict situation in Belfast. The paper is based on how post-conflict Belfast and relationships between Catholics and Protestants are presented by tour operators to tourists visiting the city. The paper is based on eight tours undertaken in 2008 involving twelve tour guides. The paper compares and contrasts the discourses produced by former paramilitary combatants who are now employed as tour guides by Coiste (an organisation that focuses on supporting former political prisoners) with ‘neutral’ tour guides who provide ‘official’ Belfast City Sightseeing tours. Each claim to be giving an ‘authentic’ account of the past and present and the paper will explore the various dimensions of ‘biased authenticity’1 presented.

scholarly journals Peranan Pemerintah Daerah Dalam Upaya Perlindungan Pra Penempatan Pekerja Migran Indonesia Di Luar Negeri

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-91
Author(s):  
Sonhaji Sonhaji
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Made In

Research from the role of the Department of Industry and Manpower in Purworejo Regency in an effort to protect the pre-placement of Indonesian migrant workers abroad aims to find out the role of the Department of Industry and Manpower in Purworejo Regency in an effort to protect pre-placement of Indonesian migrant workers abroad, to find out the obstacles experienced , and to find out the efforts made in overcoming these obstacles. The results of the study indicate that the role of the Department of Industry and Labor Purworejo Regency in an effort to protect the pre-placement of Indonesian migrant workers abroad is in accordance with applicable regulations. Although in the implementation of its role there have been several obstacles which these obstacles come from the Indonesian migrant workers in question. The Department of Industry and Manpower of Purworejo Regency makes efforts in overcoming the obstacles that arise when carrying out its role so that the implementation of its role can run smoothly. Keywords: Role of Local Government, Pre Protection of Placement of Indonesian Migrant Workers Abroad AbstrakPenelitian dengan judul peranan Dinas Perindustrian dan Tenaga Kerja Kabupaten Purworejo dalam upaya perlindungan pra penempatan pekerja migran Indonesia di luar negeri ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui peran Dinas Perindustrian dan Tenaga Kerja Kabupaten Purworejo dalam upaya perlindungan pra penempatan pekerja migran Indonesia di luar negeri, untuk mengetahui hambatan yang dialami, serta untuk mengetahui upaya yang dilakukan dalam mengatasi hambatan tersebut. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa peran Dinas Perindustrian dan Tenaga Kerja Kabupaten Purworejo dalam upaya perlindungan pra penempatan pekerja migran Indonesia di luar negeri adalah sudah sesuai dengan aturan yang berlaku. Walaupun dalam pelaksanaan perannya mengalami beberapa hambatan yang mana hambatan tersebut berasal dari pekerja migran Indonesia yang bersangkutan. Dinas Perindustrian dan Tenaga Kerja Kabupaten Purworejo melakukan upaya-upaya dalam mengatasi hambatan yang timbul pada saat melaksanakan perannya sehingga pelaksanaan perannya dapat berjalan dengan lancar. Kata Kunci: Peranan Pemerintah Daerah, Perlindungan Prapenempatan Pekerja Migran Indonesia di Luar Negeri Abstract

scholarly journals Value components in the psychological structure of the personality of a volunteer

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-91
Author(s):  
K.A. Palkin
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Statistical Processing ◽  
Motivational Orientation ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Volunteer Work ◽  
Psychological Structure ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Made In

The article analyses the studies on uncovering determinant attributes of the value sphere of people, involved in volunteer work. Conclusions made in the course of the analysis allow us to make an assumption about the significant role of human values as providing the motivational orientation for human behavior during the decision-making about participation in volunteer activities or abandoning it. The results of the author's empirical work are based on mathematic-statistical processing of the data, obtained in the survey of 400 people (including 300 volunteers), using the technique of the «Questionnaire of terminal values» (I.G. Senin). The empirical study confirmed the hypothesis about the existence of statistically significant differences between the individual indicators of the structure of human values of volunteers and people who do not participate in volunteer activities. Further research in this area should continue to specify the differences and identify key values in the personality structure of individuals, in order to ensure the formation of a maximally reliable picture of the collective identity of the modern volunteer

“An automatic Bible in the brain”: Trauma and prayer among Acholi Pentecostals in northern Uganda

2021 ◽  
pp. 136346152110185
Author(s):  
Lars H. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Symptoms ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Symptom Relief ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Northern Uganda ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Brain

This article examines the role of prayers for traumatized survivors of war within a Pentecostal-charismatic community in post-conflict northern Uganda. It argues that becoming part of a church group and learning certain regimes of prayer can work toward symptom relief and recovery for people suffering from traumatic experiences. The study builds on 13 months of ethnographic fieldwork in rural northern Uganda, with extensive participant observation of religious practices and interviews with rural church congregants. The article attempts to show, through a single case narrative, how individual prayer practices are trained and learned and to identify features of prayer that may alter the individual experience of distress. Analytically, the article builds on Tanya Luhrmann’s scholarship on prayer and applies this conceptual framework to a post-conflict context. The study expands on Luhrmann’s concepts of prayer as an emotional technology in order to understand how psychiatric symptoms are managed within a Pentecostal-charismatic community. The article further argues that a conceptual focus on training of skills can contribute to debates on the universal versus particular characteristics of psychiatric expression and concepts of mind. This argument contributes to current debates on non-clinical ways of managing traumatic experiences and to debates about models of mind in different cultural settings.

scholarly journals The Role of Local Government, Religious and Community Figures, In Conjunction With the Security Forces (Polri) In Returning A Harmonic Life Post Conflict As Ethnic In Sambas Regency

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Setyo Utomo
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Local Government ◽  
The State ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Unitary State ◽  
Conflict Handling ◽  
The Republic

<p><em>Humans as God's creatures are given freedom of human rights from birth. As a citizen, it is necessary that the State shall be obliged to protect the freedom of the rights of its citizens. However can’t be denied the freedom of human rights between human beings with each other in fact lead to differences in interests that led to the emergence of conflicts that often lead to the occurrence of fatalities and loss of property. Whereas one of the citizens' rights is free to live anywhere within a territory of the State. Likewise with citizens of Indonesia, in the Constitution of the State has guaranteed the freedom to reside within the territory of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia. Based on the experience of conflicts in the country, with the post-conflict handling of those who had previously conflicted it can be reunited in living a harmonious life, but unlike the conflict that occurred in Sambas Regency in 1999 between ethnic Malays and Madurese which has been over the years and with post-conflict efforts that have been done until now people in Sambas district have not been able to accept the presence of Madurese in Sambas Regency.</em><em></em></p>

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