KEANGGOTAAN VIETNAM DALAM PENANGANAN RANJAU DARAT ANTI-PERSONIL (RDAP) DAN EXPLOSIVE REMNANTS OF WAR (ERW) MELALUI ASEAN REGIONAL MINE ACTION CENTER (ARMAC)

Tulisan ini membahas mengenai peranan ASEAN Regional Mine Action Center (ARMAC) dalam menangani permasalahan Ranjau Darat Anti-Personil (RDAP) dan Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) di Vietnam. Vietnam sebagai negara yang menjadi tempat perang pada Perang Vietnam, menyimpan sisa-sisa senjata berupa RDAP dan ERW. Senjata-senjata tersebut telah tertanam sejak perang berlangsung yang hingga kini belum meledak. Lantaran hal tersebut, dikhawatirkan dampak RDAP dan ERW di Vietnam akan sangat merugikan masyarakatnya. Oleh karena itu, tulisan ini akan keanggotaan Vietnam dalam ARMAC terkait permasalahan tersebut. Tulisan ini akan membahas secara khusus dan berfokus pada peranan ARMAC di Vietnam. Dengan menggunakan sudut pandang rezim internasional, tulisan ini akan menganalisis keefektivan keanggotaan Vietnam dalam ARMAC. Hasil tulisan ini menunjukkan bahwa peran ARMAC belum begitu terasa bagi Vietnam lantaran partisipasi Vietnam yang tidak seaktif Kamboja dalam menjalankan program kerja ARMAC. Hal tersebut juga lantaran dipengaruhi oleh adanya interest yang dimiliki oleh Vietnam.

Weakened Connection between East China Summer Rainfall and the East Asia-Pacific Teleconnection Pattern

The interdecadal change in the relationship between the East Asia-Pacific (EAP) teleconnection pattern and rainfall over East China during boreal summer (June–August) was investigated using observation and reanalysis datasets during 1951–2018. As proposed in a previous study, summer rainfall in the Yangtze-Huaihe River (YH-R) valley is below (above) normal when a positive (negative) EAP event occurs. Based on the close relationship with the rainfall anomalies, the EAP teleconnection pattern has been widely used in the prediction of summer rainfall variations in the YH-R valley. However, we found that the rainfall anomalies in the YH-R basin associated with the EAP pattern were weaker and less evident after the late 1980s. This finding indicates a decreased relationship between the EAP pattern and YH-R basin summer rainfall after the late 1980s, and a decrease in the quality and skill of seasonal predictions of YH-R basin summer rainfall related to the EAP pattern. This pronounced weakening in the YH-R summer rainfall-EAP pattern connection is attributed to the northeastward displacement of the Japanese action center of the EAP pattern after the late 1980s, which caused weaker anomalous vertical motion and moisture transportation over the YH-R valley. The present research reveals that the interdecadal expansion in the size of the Indo-Pacific warm pool in the late 1980s is likely responsible for the northeastward shift in the Japanese action center of the EAP teleconnection pattern by modulating anomalous convective activities and the northward propagation of the EAP pattern.

The Impact of the Stratospheric Polar Vortex Shift on the Arctic Oscillation

Using the ERA-Interim reanalysis dataset for the time period 1979–2016, we analyzed the influence of the stratospheric polar vortex shift on the Arctic Oscillation (AO) in winter (December–March). The results show that a shift in the stratospheric polar vortex toward the Eurasian continent is favorable for the occurrence of the negative phase of the AO. The duration of the AO events accompanied by the stratospheric polar vortex shift toward the Eurasian continent (AO-shift events) is longer than that of the remaining negative AO events (AO-noshift events), and the intensity of AO-shift events is greater than that of AO-noshift events from day 4 to day 15 of the life cycle of the events. The enhancement in the AO intensity during AO-shift events is likely due to downward extension of the stratospheric northern annular mode (NAM) signals and more poleward-propagating planetary waves in the troposphere and lower stratosphere and their convergence in the mid-high latitudes. Furthermore, the polar vortex shift can lead to changes in the intensity of the three action centers in the AO spatial pattern at 500 hPa. In general, during AO-shift events, the three action centers are stronger than those during AO-noshift events. There is an overall westward shift of the Arctic action center during AO-shift events, which may be closely related to the changes of Greenland blocking frequency.

Resistance to Racial Equity in U.S. Federalism and Its Impact on Fragmented Regions

In this commentary, we provide our ground-level observations of how the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19 or COVID) has exposed weaknesses in our federal system to respond to local communities, particularly Black and Latina/os who live and work in the St. Louis region. Our perspectives come from a virtual town hall hosted by the Community Innovation and Action Center (CIAC) at the University of Missouri, St. Louis on April 18, 2020. Based on these initial public discussions, we use St. Louis as a lens for arguing that government’s attenuated impact is not due to a natural disaster itself, but the inevitable result of race-based policies that had worked against Black peoples over generations. The real failure involves our federalist system’s lack of a commitment to racial equity—when race no longer is used to predict life outcomes, and outcomes for all groups are improved—when designing the federal plan to respond to COVID-19 in local communities.

Resistance to Racial Equity in U.S. Federalism and its Impact on Fragmented Regions

In this commentary, we provide our ground-level observations of how the novel COVID-19 pandemic has exposed weaknesses in our federal system to respond to local communities, particularly African Americans and Latina/os who live and work in the St. Louis region. It is based on a virtual town hall hosted by the Community Innovation and Action Center (CIAC) at the University of Missouri, St. Louis on April 18, 2020. Based on these initial public discussions, we use St. Louis as a lens for arguing that that government’s attenuated impact is not due to a natural disaster itself, but the inevitable result of race-based policies that had worked against African Americans over generations. The real failure involves our federalist system’s lack of a commitment to racial equity - when race no longer is used to predict life outcomes, and outcomes for all groups are improved - when designing the federal plan to respond to COVID-19 in local communities.

The role of corporate communication in intelligent organizations

Intelligent organizations are characterized for having a high learning capacity, innovation, response and competitivity within its action center. However, corporate communication is also seen as a basic component of such organizations; being considered a pillar of effectivity in management within the organizational mark. The following article makes a reflexion around corporate communication and it’s underlying elements, perceiving it as an indispensable piece of management in the intelligent organizations that find success and are able to maintain themselves in high uncertain environments, competitivity, client’s demand and under a high volume of information that characterize the actual knowledge society. It emphasizes the necessity of the communication role value in this context and it poses a net mode from the effective management of corporate communication allowing development of organization intelligence.