Meetings or Power Weeks? Boundary Work in a Transnational Police Project

Meetings are common in contemporary working life, but they are often overlooked in academic studies and sometimes defined as empty or boring by employees. Yet, the meeting society is being reproduced again and again. There seem to be hidden ways to incorporate meetings into today’s working life without arousing critique about pointless activities and deviations from what should really be done. One strategy was illustrated in a study of a transnational police project. Police culture celebrates visible crime fighting, which is associated with action, physical toughness, and capturing criminals. The police officers involved in the project emphasized the need to avoid “a lot of meetings,” but de facto constructed their project as meetings. Nonetheless, the project was declared a success. We analyze this paradox in terms of boundary work concerning meetings; the police officers turned some meetings into “real police work” by discursively and practically removing them from the category of bureaucracy and its associations with formalities, rigidity, and documentation. The most important example is how an “operational action group meeting” was renamed “power weeks,” eradicating the very word “meeting” from the term. This was closely associated with increased informality and multi-tasking during these gatherings.

The Architecture of Functional Jurisdiction: Unpacking Contactless Control—On Public Powers, S.S. and Others v. Italy, and the “Operational Model”

Available accounts on jurisdiction, effective control, and the reach of human rights protections fail to provide a coherent construction that is principled and applicable across the board, within and beyond territorial borders. The “functional jurisdiction” model posited herein resolves these incongruities by looking at the normative foundation of sovereign authority overall, predicated on an exercise of “public powers” through which State functions are discharged, taking the form of policy delivery and/or operational action, whether inland or offshore, and which translates into “situational” control. Using the pending case of S.S. and Others v. Italy as an illustration, the article focuses on the sovereign-authority nexus that unites a specific state with a specific individual in a specific situation, triggering human rights obligations even through mechanisms of “contactless control” exercised via remote management techniques and/or through a proxy third actor. The role of extraterritorial operations, qua complex mechanisms of governance that implement broader policies with a planning, rollout and post-implementation phase, is central to this re-conceptualization, as is also the understanding that what makes control “effective” is its capacity to determine the material course of events and the resulting position in which those affected find themselves upon execution of the measure(s) concerned.

Article 28 TEU

Article 14 TEU Where the international situation requires operational action by the Union, the Council shall adopt the necessary decisions. They shall lay down their objectives, scope, the means to be made available to the Union, if necessary their duration, and the conditions for their implementation.

IMPLEMENTASI KEBIJAKAN PENGENDALIAN PENULARAN HIV/AIDS MELALUI HUBUNGAN SEKSUAL

Indonesia is the fourth country with the number of HIV / AIDS incidents increasing from year to year. HIV is a virus that can cause AIDS. The occurrence of AIDS can not only occur in the city but has spread to remote villages. The number of HIV / AIDS incidents at this time is of concern to the world. Until the existence of an HIV / AIDS control policy that refers to the Getting To Zeros global policy, namely: (1) reducing to eliminate new HIV infections, (2) reducing to eliminate deaths caused by conditions related to AIDS, (3) eliminating discrimination PLWHA. Based on global policies, the Indonesian government issued a policy as an effort to prevent the spread of HIV / AIDS. The government also issued a policy which essentially prohibits sexual acts freely, penetration, and sexual relations in similar couples, children, deceased people, and animals. This review aims to conduct policy analysis and implementation in dealing with HIV / AIDS cases through free sexual relations and barriers that affect the success of policies. The results of this literature review are that the policy to prevent HIV / AIDS transmission in Indonesia is still not going well. These obstacles occur in the form of still a dilemma in the law. Evidenced by the existence of problems in translating global and national strategies into packages of (operational) action programs that easily measure success at all levels of service by considering the problem of HIV / AIDS. So far, the action programs carried out by Indonesia are still carried out inconsistently so that the results have not been felt. Thus, HIV / AIDS control programs are not enough to be carried out by health workers alone but must involve other sectors. The community is primarily a key population and the need for government roles and responsibilities.

Sustainable Top Managers and their Activities in the Enterprise of the Future

Environmental safety management contributes to sustainable development. Sustainable development is a consequence of global ecological and social threats. The natural potential of the Earth is running out, which is confirmed by worsening indicators of Living Planet Index and Ecological Footprint. Acceleration of sustainable development is particularly important to production enterprises. Production enterprises use the majority of the world’s non-renewable resources and they are largely responsible for environmental pollution. The negative influence of the enterprises on the environment can be stopped by transforming them into sustainable enterprises. Sustainable top managers should play a key role in this process. Sustainable top managers constitute a new currently emerging category of leaders. They possess knowledge and experience in both management as well as sustainability. Their features include social and ecological sensitivity, innovation and the ability to convince and motivate employees within the scope of sustainable development as well. Their objective is to create an organization whose mission, strategy and operational action programmes include ecological and social initiatives. Due to this, sustainable development is becoming an important and permanent element of enterprise functioning. Sustainable leadership constitutes a key challenge for top managers which they should accept for the benefit of future generations. The support of environmental safety management by sustainable top managers promotes its implementation in enterprises thanks to their knowledge and ecological sensitivity as well as engaging in sustainable development.

Itinerant nationalisms and fracturing narratives: Incorporating regional dimensions of memory into peacebuilding

While conflict is often understood across multiple levels, including its regional dimension, peacebuilding and memory work are rarely put in conversation at this level. The article explores regional dimensions of memory and argues that these open a novel and analytically productive lens on the nature and legacy of cross-border conflict and can bolster peacebuilding approaches. Taking the key case study of the Great Lakes Region of Africa, and specifically the regionalizing dimensions of the Rwandan genocide, the article investigates the impact of two very different regional dimensions of memory on social cohesion. First, the article considers the more intuitive ways in which grievances that extend across borders and fractured regional memories continue to fuel conflict. Second, and pushing beyond this, the article considers the ways in which returning diaspora deploys memory born in the wider region in attempts at nation-building. The article thus deploys a dynamic approach to memory, exploring mobile memories and the ways in which regional experiences are carried and deployed back in a national context. Overall, the article urges us to extend regional lens beyond the study of conflict roots and operational action to the study of postconflict peacebuilding and commemoration.

ON THE CHOICE OF THE OPTIMAL POINTS OF OPENING IN CITY POWER GRIDS IN THE CONDITIONS OF THE SMART GRID

One of the main tasks being solved for all electric networks with open topology, including city electric networks, viz. a task of the choice of optimum points of disconnection, has been improved. It is shown that saturation of urban networks with distributed sources of small-scale generation causes the fact that mode parameters being determined in the urban SMART GRID conditions become observable. Therefore, the majority of problems of mode control, typical for urban distribution electric networks of a traditional design, lose their relevance under the SMART GRID conditions. The main technological task is to improve the selection of optimal points of disconnection of networks. Urban electric networks of the Belarusian United Energy System are actively saturated with distributed sources of small-scale generation, which can be connected to high-voltage buses of consumer transformer substations, including the ones on the load side; and they are equipped with automation to ensure synchronous operation with the power system and maintain autonomous operation. Therefore, the accounting of such generating sources becomes necessary as one of the objectives of managing the modes of urban electric networks (both traditional ones and the ones in the SMART GRID conditions). In the article the technique and algorithm of choice of optimal points of disconnection of city electric networks are proposed taking into account various conditions of application of sources of small generation: when the source operates in parallel with an electric network and has constant active and reactive generation or energizes the load isolated from a network taking into account restrictions of the power generated by a source. The solution of this task makes it possible to reduce losses of power and the electricity in a network much more than because of implementation of any other operational action. The developed algorithm was tested through the example of optimization of the points of disconnection of the fragment of the urban distribution network of 10 kV. An effective solution to the problem of choosing the initial positions of the points of disconnection of urban networks based on the Dijkstra algorithm is also proposed, which significantly reduces the time of their optimization.

Knowledge Management as an Organizational Process

The management of knowledge is a multifaceted organizational process that involves three parts. They are (i) a strategy, (ii) the creation of an organizational environment or space for knowledge - known as the “enabling context” or “Ba” and (iii) an operational/action toolbox consisting of IT tools and managerial practices to effectively put the strategy into action. The main objective of this paper is to propose a conceptual integrative map for Knowledge Management that was built as the result of a longitudinal programme of research on knowledge management, conducted between the years of 2001 and 2009. As an outcome of this research, knowledge management concepts, motivation, practices, results and implementation processes will be highlighted. The qualitative research strategy used was the study of multiple cases with incorporated units of analysis and three criteria were observed for the judgment of the quality of the research project: validity of the construct, external validity and reliability. Multiple sources of evidence were used and data analysis consisted of three flows of activities: data reduction, data displays and conclusion drawing/verification. The results confirmed the presuppositions and the conclusions suggest that organizational knowledge cannot be managed; it is just promoted or stimulated through the creation of a favorable organizational context, namely “Ba”.