The Roles of WHO in Handling Yemen Humanitarian Crisis during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Yemen is noted to have the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. This condition is due to the civil war for the past six years, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which emerged as a health security threat. This research aims to analyse the WHO’s role in responding health crisis in Yemen. By using qualitative methods and literature review approach, this article uses Atlas.ti to collect data regarding WHO’s activity in Yemen throughout the pandemic analysed by the international organisation’s role concept according to Clive Archer. The health security concept is also used to explain the health situation in Yemen during the pandemic. This research found accordance between WHO’s activities with Clive Archer’s idea of roles, mainly on its role as an independent actor to combat the health crisis in Yemen. However, the three roles are intertwined. As WHO has emphasised the importance of international aid to overcome Yemen’s health emergency, the writer recommends strengthening global solidarity with Yemen’s authority to improve health within the country.

Rethinking Social Roles: Conflict and Modern Life

Does sociology have anything to gain by returning to the concept of social role? Has this concept been irretrievably damaged by its significance in functionalist theory? This article aims to recover the role concept through a consideration of alternative perspectives on normativity, illustrated through research on motherhood. A pragmatist re-conception of role is defended as a way of focusing on those aspects of social structures which exert normative authority over agents, while remaining open to some degree of interpretation. This perspective treats roles not as fixed mechanisms of functional coordination or social reproduction, but instead as variable sites of mutual accountability. The article argues that a pragmatist version of the role concept supports explanation of non-determined agency and complex, uncertain and conflictual forms of normative authority. Treated in these terms, the role concept offers a valuable route to understanding the creative quality of agency and normativity.

Affordance, Role, and Script as Complementary Concepts of Artefact-User Interaction, Illustrated by the Example of an Egg Separator

This article suggests employing the affordance concept, the role concept, and the script concept in a complementary manner as analytical tools for investigating artefact-user interaction at three different levels of stability, abstraction, and interrelatedness. It argues that the affordance concept is best suited to describing general possibilities for action constituted by common technical features in combination with common taken-for-granted knowledge of how to use them. The script concept, in contrast, is best suited to analysing the most concrete situations of interaction between artefacts and users: those situations in which the interaction is defined by one particular course of action. In between, there is a middle level characterised by artefacts and users being involved in several interrelated activities for which the role concept provides the tools for analysis.

Role development in psychodrama training—Findings and challenges

Moreno considered the roles in which one operates as the “tangible aspect of what is known as ‘ego’” (zit. in Leutz 1974, p. 43). Although the role concept is one of the main concepts in psychodrama there exist only a few attempts to invent handy measurements for the development of roles. This pilot study published in the Zeitschrift für Psychodrama und Soziometrie is an attempt to systematically analyse the roles of psychodrama students in their training; based on role descriptions suggested by Clayton (1994) and Daniel (2007) combined with the five dimensions of the five-factor model of the BIG FIVE. The analysis was conducted at two measurement points: after the first period of the self-awareness training (120 h) and at the end of training (240 h). The training sessions were accurately documented, including a description of all roles the students had taken. The roles were assigned to one of the five dimensions and counted. The findings suggest a notable development after each period. Although the results are promising there are still several questions waiting for answers.

Narratives of illness in a Chinese virtual hospital

This study explores 60 individual narratives of illness presented in the initiating messages of threads that are posted in a well-known virtual space, ‘Tianya Hospital’ (????), in China. ‘Tianya Hospital’ is a discussion board where website users discuss their own or their loved ones’ health problems with other participants, who may be either health experts or patients with similar illnesses. Adopting the approach of mediated discourse analysis, the study aims to find out what is narrated (i.e., narrative presentation categories), what stance is taken and what the patterns and functions of the narrative presentation and the stance taking are. Some narrative presentation categories identified in this study are to some degree associated with existing face-to-face medical consultation phases, while others are related to a ‘timescale’ frame and the ‘sick role’ concept. The findings also show that the online narratives present not only the description of health problems, but also epistemic and affective stances. Some features of the narrative presentation organization and the stance taking in narratives can perform particular functions, such as serving to legitimize patients’ or patients’ caregivers’ complaints about healthcare services

Role concepts of technology assessment between postulates of neutrality and the demand for creating impact

Technology assessment (TA) has been evolving as a research-based and anticipatory field of scientific policy-advice for more than fifty years. Its position at the interface between science and policy-making has caused several debates on its adequate roles. Proposals reach from the position of a neutral and distant observer of ongoing developments up to taking an active role in transformation processes fueled by the technological advance, e.g. in favor of sustainable development. In this paper, several role concepts of TA will be discussed against the background of a new framework concept on technology assessment. It will be shown, that TA usually has to take the role of an Honest Broker in assessing new technologies as an umbrella role concept. The specific manifestations of this umbrella role, however, can vary from context to context. The role concept of the Honest Broker serves as an orientation to determine the more specific roles in the tension between assumed neutrality and the obligation to create impact.

Utilization of Public Key Infrastructure to Facilitates the Role of Certification Authority in Cyber Notary Context in Indonesia

Notary's concept as Registration Authority has been facilitated by Indonesian law, for example Law Number 2 Year 2014 About Amendment to Law Number 30 Year 2004 Concerning Notary Public, which explains that "other authorities regulated in legislation", the authority to certify electronic transactions (Cyber notary), make a Deed of pledge of waqf, and mortgage of aircraft. In addition to Law Number 2 Year 2014 on Amendment to Law Number 30 of 2004 concerning Notary Public, Notary's role as Registration Authority is also described in Government Regulation Number 82 Year 2012 Concerning the Implementation of Electronic Transaction System and Transaction, especially in the explanation Article 59 Paragraph (5) explaining that the Ministerial Regulation contains, among other things, arrangements on the procedure of applying for electronic certification which can be submitted through a notary. In contrast to the notary role concept as the Registration Authority, the notary role concept as a subordinate certification authority is not possible because of various obstacles.

Peran Stakeholder Dalam Mendukung Sempadan Tukad Badung Sebagai Sarana Leisure And Recreation Masyarakat Kota Denpasar

Urban society is synonymous with high levels ofstress. One of the activities that made the citizens in relieving stress and boredom of the mind is a leisure and recreation activity like in border of Tukad Badung. Denpasar City Government seeks to improve the Tukad Badung border area in various ways but until now still not optimal. Another stakeholders tried to improve the border of Tukad Badung for better and could be developed into a leisure and recreation suggestion for the citizens Each stakeholder certainly has different roles in accordance with the competence and ability. It is interesting how the role of each stakeholder. The research method used in this research is qualitative research. Where qualitative research used in-depth interview technique, observation and qualitative documents and also used the role concept to reviewing the research. The result of the research showed that stakeholders from the government consist of Banjar Gelogor Carik, Desa Pemogan, Dinas Pariwisata Kota Denpasar, Dinas Pekerjaan Umum Denpasar And Balai Wilayah Sungai Bali-Nusa Penida. While the stakeholder of the community consists of Kelompok Bank Sampah Pemogan Dan Komunitas Kali Bersih Pemogan. All these stakeholders have their respective roles in maintaining and expanding the badung border ropes in the path of the fishing pole, pemogan. Despite having different roles but all the stakeholders are hand in hand to realize the tidal river borders that are neat, beautiful and clean. Keywords : stakeholders role, leisure and recreation, citizens, borders of Tukad Badung