Regional integration and development as the RISC Consortium celebrates its tenth anniversary

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Social Vulnerability ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Urban Violence ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Relationship

The Consortium for Comparative Research on Regional Integration and Social Cohesion (RISC) was born in 2007 following a conference on Social Cohesion in Europe at the Americas. (Koff, 2009) The rich discussions addressed numerous social cohesion issues in the aforementioned continents, such as human rights, social vulnerability, risk and welfare, environmental challenges and social cohesion, the relationship between borders, states and regions and urban violence. While the relevance of each of these issues to social cohesion was clear from the outset of our discussions, understanding their contributions to the conceptualization of social cohesion was far more difficult. In fact, these debates raised numerous questions that underlie social cohesion debates: What relationships exist between rights, responsibilities and cohesion? For what protections and services are governments responsible vis-à-vis their citizens under social cohesion policies? What relationships exist between social cohesion, risk and vulnerability? How does natural resource management affect social cohesion? How is social cohesion affected by territorial scales? And how can social cohesion address urban marginalization and violence?

scholarly journals Professor Robert VH Dover

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Keyword(s):  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Comparative Research

As the Editors’ Note to this inaugural 2019 issue has noted, the Consortium for Comparative Research on Regional Integration and Social Cohesion (RISC approaches this new year with optimism. However, as 2018 came to a close, RISC suffered an immeasurable loss, which we wish to acknowledge here. Professor Robert VH Dover of the Instituto de Estudios Regionales (INER) at the Universidad de Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia, passed away in December, leaving holes in both the consortium’s leadership and the hearts of its members.

scholarly journals Leadership and Natural Resource Management: Linkages to the Persistence of Oil-related Conflicts in Nigeria’s Niger Delta

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-116
Author(s):  
Kialee Nyiayaana
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
The People ◽  
Oil Resources ◽  
The Relationship

This paper explores the relationship between leadership and natural resource management and the persistence of oil-related conflicts in Nigeria’s Niger Delta. It adopts the process theoretical approach to leadership. The key argument is that the space for conversations between leaders and the people of the Niger Delta in the management of oil resources has been historically restrictive in favour of leaders. This accounts for the highly skewed oil ownership and distributive structures that undermine the security needs of the people. Yet, the destructive consenting behaviour of the people shapes peacebuilding process and outcomes in ways that reinforce structures of insecurity and violence in the region.

Managing arid zone natural resources in Australia for spatial and temporal variability - an approach from first principles

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Stafford Smith ◽  
Ryan R. J. McAllister
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
First Principles ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Arid Zone ◽  
Individual Species ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Variability ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
The Difference

Outback Australia is characterised by variability in its resource drivers, particularly and most fundamentally, rainfall. Its biota has adapted to cope with this variability. The key strategies taken by desert organisms (and their weaknesses) help to identify the likely impacts of natural resource management by pastoralists and others, and potential remedies for these impacts. The key strategies can be summarised as five individual species’ responses (ephemerals, in-situ persistents, refuging persistents, nomads and exploiters), plus four key emergent modes of organisation involving multiple species that contribute to species diversity (facilitation, self-organising communities, asynchronous and micro-allopatric co-existence). A key feature of the difference between the strategies is the form of a reserve, whether roots and social networks for Persistents, or propagules or movement networks for Ephemerals and Nomads. With temporally and spatially varying drivers of soil moisture inputs, many of these strategies and their variants can co-exist. While these basic strategies are well known, a systematic analysis from first principles helps to generalise our understanding of likely impacts of management, if this changes the pattern of variability or interrupts the process of allocation to reserves. Nine resulting ‘weak points’ are identified in the system, and the implications of these are discussed for natural resource management and policy aimed at production or conservation locally, or the regional integration of the two.

Well-Being as a Pathway to Equity

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-12
Author(s):  
Walter Flores ◽  
Éloi Laurent ◽  
Jennifer Prah Ruger
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
Economic Equity ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

This chapter explores the relationship between well-being and equity, and makes the case for well-being approaches as a powerful pathway to advance equity. In a world without equity, well-being is impossible. Inequities in income, health, education, environmental conditions, access to opportunity, and other factors hinder individual, community, and civic well-being. Pursuing a well-being approach centered on equity—from what gets measured and how, to the way stories are told and the voices that tell them, to what gets prioritized and acted upon and by whom—can reduce these inequities. And in the symbiotic relationship between well-being and equity, as well-being improves, so does equity; likewise, as equity improves, so does well-being. The chapter addresses three intersecting components of well-being and equity: economic equity, human rights, and social cohesion. Through these lenses, it looks at implications and opportunities for social and policy change and illuminates work that remains to be done.

Normative fault-lines of trans-national human rights jurisprudence: National pride and religious prejudice in the European legal space

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 469-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
DANIEL AUGENSTEIN
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
National Level ◽  
Religious Minority ◽  
Human Rights Protection ◽  
European Court ◽  
Legal Space ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe article explores the relationship between religious pluralism and national-majoritarian models of social cohesion in European human rights jurisprudence. Comparing the German, French and British interpretation of the ‘social cohesion limitation’ of freedom of religion it contends that, at the national level, concerns for social cohesion are fuelled by attitudes towards religious diversity that range from indifference to intolerance and that are difficult to reconcile with the normative premises of religious pluralism in a democratic society. The second section of the article traces the relationship between religious pluralism and social cohesion in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. The analysis suggests that the diversity of national-majoritarian approaches to social cohesion in Europe prevents the Court from ensuring an effective trans-national protection of religious pluralism. The third section turns to the controversial Lautsi judgments of the European Court of Human Rights to place the Court’s approach to religious minority protection in the context of trans-national judicial politics in the European legal space. The concluding section suggests an alternative approach to religious pluralism and social cohesion that vindicates religious diversity and does justice to the counter-majoritarian telos of human rights protection.

scholarly journals On African cohesion and international cohesion

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-111
Author(s):  
Ambassador Dumisani S. Kumalo
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Keynote Address

Keynote address of the 2011 Conference of the Consortium for Comparative Research on Regional Integration and Social Cohesion (RISC) Rustenburg, South Africa, 30 November 2011

scholarly journals Barriers and borders

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-98
Author(s):  
Anthony Turton
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Keynote Address ◽  
International Conference

Keynote Address of the 2019 International Conference of the Consortium for Comparative Research on Regional Integration and Social Cohesion (RISC), Johannesburg, South Africa, 4 November 2019.

scholarly journals SEKTOR PARIWISATA DI PULAU NIAS

Populasi ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Helmut Weber
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
International Market ◽  
View Point ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Source Countries ◽  
Very High

The tourist potential in the island of Nias like the Langundri beach and Sorake have doubtlessly made it a place with a very high value from the stand point of tourist activities. This tourist potential has however, not yet beenfully exploited because the natural resource management and the human resource management is evidently still very limited. The greenness of the tourist potential in the island of Nias has got a strong attracting force towards the tourists from 11 source countries, including Germany. Because of this therefore, it is absolutely essential to formulate a strategy which can be used to develop tourism in this location, so that the place can improve on its position in the international market and also be able to improve on the welfare of the population here.Helmut Weber in his paper portrays the tourist potential in the island of Nias not only from the view point of its beautiful natural resources, but also from the angle of the rich cultural aspect of the community in this place which is very interesting to be enjoyed.

scholarly journals Social Cohesion as the Missing Link between Natural Resource Management and Peacebuilding: Lessons from Cocoa Production in Côte d’Ivoire and Colombia

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 13002
Author(s):  
Katharina Löhr ◽  
Bujar Aruqaj ◽  
Daniel Baumert ◽  
Michelle Bonatti ◽  
Michael Brüntrup ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Cote D'ivoire ◽  
Côte D’Ivoire ◽  
Cote D’Ivoire ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Côte D'ivoire ◽  
Cocoa Production

Social cohesion plays a key role in processes of peacebuilding and sustainable development. Fostering social cohesion might present a potential to enhance the connection of natural resource management and peacebuilding and better functioning of sustainable land use systems. This contribution explores the nexus between social cohesion, natural resource management, and peacebuilding. We do so by (1) reviewing literature on the three concepts and (2) studying four different key action areas in the context of sustainable cocoa production for their potential to enhance social cohesion, namely (a) agroforestry; (b) cooperatives; (c) certification schemes; and (d) trade policies. Research is based on experience from cocoa production in two post-conflict countries, Côte d’Ivoire and Colombia. Our findings show that by fostering environmentally sustainable agricultural practices, these key action areas have a clear potential to foster social cohesion among cocoa producers and thus provide a valuable contribution to post-conflict peacebuilding in both countries. However, the actual effects strongly depend on a multitude of local factors which need to be carefully taken into consideration. Further, the focus in implementation of some of these approaches tends to be on increasing agricultural productivity and not directly on fostering cocoa farmers’ wellbeing and societal relations, and hence a shift toward social objectives is needed in order to strengthen these approaches as a part of overall peacebuilding strategies.

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