The Villainies of a Facetious Jurist

The Breton nobleman Noël Du Fail (c.1520–91) had an eventful career during which he distinguished himself in law and literature. This chapter focuses primarily on his three literary works written in a villainous style that is overtly facetious. His early writings parody rural community conflicts: peasant disputes which resemble vilains cas but which are not resolved through the local courts. Du Fail’s later contes reflect a somewhat pessimistic outlook on the direction in which his legal profession—and France’s social orders more generally—were headed. Du Fail’s fictious world, like Nenna’s (cf. Chapter 2), is one in which noble and vile merge together, but the dialogues and exchanges are altogether coarser than those of Nenna’s interlocutors.

ANALISIS NILAI-NILAI BUDAYA DUAN LOLAT BERBASIS KEARIFAN LOKAL PADA MASYARAKAT TANIMBAR DI KABUPATEN MALUKU TENGGARA BARAT

This study aims to describe, analyze the cultural values of duan lolat based on local wisdom in the Tanimbar community in West Southeast Maluku Regency (MTB). The research method used is descriptive qualitative research, data is collected through interviews, observation and literature studies as well as tracking related research results.The results of the study show that duan-lolat cultural values based on local wisdom remain alive and take root in the Tanimbar community as an entity or characteristic of the Tanimbar community, so they can contribute positively to the provision of development in this country. The spirit of mutual cooperation, social solidarity, compassion, independence and consensus in resolving community conflicts which are actually duan-lolat values, starting from being corrected (deconstructed) the meaning exchanged for the low value of duan-lolat, can also be transformed into the wisdom of the Tanimbar community.Keywords: Cultural Value, Duan Lolat and Local WisdomAbstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendiskripsikan, menganalisis Nilainilai budaya duan lolat berbasis kearifan lokal pada masyarakat Tanimbar di Kabupaten Maluku Tenggara Barat (MTB). Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah penelitian deskriptif kualitatif, data dikumpulkan melalui wawancara, observasi dan studi pustaka serta penelusuran hasilhasil penelitian yang terkait.Hasil penelitian menunjukan nilainilai budaya duan-lolat yang berbasis kearifan lokal tetap hidup dan mengakar di masyarakat Tanimbar sebagai entitas atau ciri khas dari masyarakat Tanimbar, sehingga dapat memberikan kontribusi positif dalam mengisi pelaksanaan pembangunan di negeri ini. Semangat gotong royong, solidaritas sosial, bela rasa, kemandirian dan kemufakatan dalam menyelesaikan konflik masyarakat yang sejatinya merupakan nilainilai duan-lolat muali mengalami pergeseran (dekonstruksi) makna sehingga menyebabkan rendahnya derajat nilai duan-lolat itu sendiri sebagai sebuah kearifan lokal yang dianut oleh masyarakat Tanimbar.Kata Kunci : Nilai Budaya, Duan Lolat dan Kearifan Lokal

ZAMBIA: ASSERTION AND RESISTANCE. READING CONFLICTS BETWEEN THE ZIMBABWEANS AND THE INDIAN DIASPORA

Over the period, the relationship between the native communities and the diaspora has become one of the incompatible relationship, and thereby led to the emergence of mistrust, division and resentment among the native communities. This has become more conspicuous concerning the native communities and the Indian diaspora in Zimbabwe (former Rhodesia). Within this backdrop, bringing the debate on the insider versus outsider, the article presents a complex picture of contemporary community conflicts between the native communities and Indian diaspora in Zimbabwe. The paper discusses the context and reasons of ethnic assertion among the native communities and their resistance towards the Indian diaspora. It explores the role of the state in the entire episodes of community conflicts in Zimbabwe. It argues that though the Indians are politically minority community, they have established their dominant position in economic sphere, and the economic prosperity of the Indian diaspora community has much contributed to the emergence of community conflicts in Zimbabwe. Keywords: ethnic assertion, resistance, community conflict, Indian diaspora, Zimbabwe.

Public Transport Route Selection, Bus Stops Location and Guidance to the Users in Dar Es Salaam

Transportation planning is very important in improving quality of transportation which in turn improve quality of life but still this profession is not much appreciated in the society. Good planning make progress towards paradise while bad or no planning leave legacy of problems and disputers. Planners perform vital role by anticipating and resolving community conflicts. Good planning requires special skills and perspectives:●Most people prefer to ignore problems until they become unavoidable. Planners are professional worriers who seek out potential problems so they can be mitigated.●Most people look at a problem from a single perspective. Planners are responsible for considering multiple perspectives; they ask, “what is best for everybody overall?”●Most people prefer simple problems and solutions. Planners learn to appreciate complexity, and search for deeper meanings and underlying causes. Planners learn to work with uncertainty and ambiguity.●Most people consider compromise a sign of weakness and failure. Planners are passionate about compromise because it resolves conflicts and often leads to better solutions and justice to everyone and every situation.●Most people prefer to consider one issue at a time. Planners apply integrated analysis, so individual, short-term decisions are consistent with multiple, long-term goals.Despite the effort of planners to help in maintaining balance between the human and natural world, yet, planners often receive little respect. Our successes are taken for granted, and we are often blamed for failures beyond our control. As coordinators of public decision-making, planners are lightning rods to criticism. Our role as unbiased facilitators is often misinterpreted as heartless bureaucrats. Stakeholders frequently hold planners personally responsible when dissatisfied with outcomes. Planners need diplomatic skills and a thick skin: if we do our job well, we are criticized approximately equally by all sides.

Resisting Gentrification and Criminalization

This chapter examines the intensive efforts of Uptown’s social justice activists to resist gentrification and criminalization after an alderman whom they perceived to be progentrification took office there in 2011. Galvanized by the displacement of young, black basketball players from a local park, black and left-leaning residents formed a new organization that aimed not only to resist gentrification and racial marginalization but also to reduce violence in order to unite the local youth around the cause of social justice. Effectively deploying racial challenges, the organization succeeded in reversing the displacement of the basketball players but eventually faltered due to the activists’ exhaustion and lack of resources. Furthermore, the related community conflicts made it more difficult for CeaseFire, a violence prevention organization, to operate and remain in Uptown, because it was drawn into the battle over gentrification.

Analysis of indigenous community conflicts on illegal mining in Botak mountain of Buru district

The results of the study by the authors of the analysis that there are found 4 factors that influence the occurrence of conflict in the area of Buru Regency mountain gold mining bald. First, there is a struggle for mining land between indigenous peoples. Secondly, indigenous peoples claim land ownership over their customary rights. third, Conflict Policy from the government towards the closure of Mining in the bald mountain area. Of the 3 factors, this is the stage in the problem in the bald mountain until the conflict from the real gold mining is found open until now. The instructions from the Buru Regency Regent followed up by issuing the Regent Instruction Number 1 of 2012 concerning the handling of social disasters as a result of the management of illegal gold mining on Mount Bald in Buru Regency. In this case, in order to follow up on the policy, the two Instructions by the Regional Government agencies along with the Security Apparatus from the TNI and POLRI conducted sweeping in the illegal gold mining area on bald mountain.