1. The trouble with terrorism

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Charles Townshend
Keyword(s):  
Terrorist Organizations ◽  
State Actors ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Fight Or Flight

The point of terrorism is to upset and make people feel vulnerable. ‘The trouble with terrorism’ attempts to define terrorism by examining the relationship between terror and war. Should all acts of terrorism be regarded as illegal? What factors decide whether an act of violence by non-state actors is justifiable despite being illegal? There are three elements in the terror process: seizing attention (shock, horror, fear, or revulsion), getting the terrorist message across, and fight or flight (the response to terrorism). The different strategies of terror, the shapes and forms of different terrorist organizations and their arms, as well as the role of women in terrorism are also considered.

Through the Looking Glass: No Wonderland Yet! (The Reciprocal Relationship between Methodology and Models of Reality)

1983 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhoda Kesler Unger
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
Reciprocal Relationship ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
Causal Factors ◽  
Knowledge Perspective ◽  
Question Selection ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Looking Glass

This article discusses the relationship between conceptual frameworks and methodology in psychology. It is argued that our models of reality influence our research in terms of question selection, causal factors hypothesized, and interpretation of data. The position and role of women as objects and agents of research are considered in terms of a sociology of knowledge perspective. Suggestions are offered for a more reflexive psychology.

scholarly journals The role of international humanitarian law in the search for peace: Lessons from Colombia

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
César Rojas-Orozco
Keyword(s):  
Legal Framework ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
Peace Agreement ◽  
Peace Negotiations ◽  
State Actors ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract International humanitarian law (IHL) has traditionally been seen as a legal framework regulating armed hostilities, having little to do with peace. However, recent peacemaking and peacebuilding practice has consistently relied on IHL to frame peace efforts, mainly in non-international armed conflicts. This article explores the relationship between IHL and peace, looking at practice in Colombia, where IHL has been used in a creative way as a means to build trust, facilitate peace negotiations and enforce the resulting peace agreement. Looking at this case, the article offers general insights on how IHL can facilitate the end of conflict and reintegration, frame accountability and reparation, and shield peace deals under a framework in which both State and non-State actors can find a common bargaining zone in their search for peace.

Female Patrons of Monasticism in the Late Medieval Balkans (13th-14th Centuries)

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taisiya Leber
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Spiritual Guidance ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Female Patronage ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
The Relationship

This article focuses on the role of women as patrons of monastic institutions, monks and church hierarchs in the late medieval Balkans. Two case studies from medieval Serbia are examined to demonstrate the peculiarities of the relationship between female rulers and bishops, as well as of the different forms and aspects of female patronage of monasticism, like founding and donating to monasteries or commissioning liturgical books. One of the most important questions concerns the motivation of women for patronizing monks. It is suggested that there was some interplay in cooperation between female patrons and monks. The question is posed whether prayers, commemoration, spiritual guidance and even the composing of a vita (i.e. contributing to the veneration of a new saint) may be understood as a form of compensation on the part of the monks towards female patrons.

How grammar and culture interact in Zamucoan

2021 ◽  
pp. 235-287
Author(s):  
Luca Ciucci
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Grammatical Gender ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
The Social ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
The Relationship

This paper analyzes the interaction between language and society in the Zamucoan languages (†Old Zamuco, Ayoreo and Chamacoco), spoken in south-eastern Bolivia and northern Paraguay. I show how grammatical gender was a source for poetic metaphors, systematically shaping Ayoreo mythology, and how change in Chamacoco cosmovision correlates with the development of gender switch in animal nouns. Also, some mismatches between linguistic and natural gender reflect the role of women in Ayoreo society. The relationship between the father and the first legitimate child is particularly important for the Ayoreo and is expressed through a teknonymic suffix. The attention to the preservation of the environment and the social practice to share consumable resources are reflected in the impossibility to directly possess animals and plants in Zamucoan. Competition did not play an important role in Zamucoan societies, which are traditionally egalitarian, and there are hints that Zamucoan had originally no dedicated comparative structures.

11. Gender and Security

2018 ◽  
pp. 159-172
Author(s):  
Caroline Kennedy ◽  
Sophia Dingli
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Military Conflict ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Gendered Roles ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

This chapter examines the relationship between gender and security, distinguishing between ‘practical’ and ‘discursive’ aspects of such relationship and exploring the problematizing of gendered roles through Queer Theory. Practical aspects are exemplified by the concrete role of women in militaries, or as victims, bystanders, or helpers of military conflict or of militarization in general. Discursive aspects are exemplified by the traditional connections made between militarism and masculinity and between nurturing, peace, and femininity. The chapter first explains what gender means and why issues of gender are relevant to understanding security. It shows how understanding and placing notions of gender at the centre of any debate on security can help us comprehend the way men and women relate to insecurity, violence, and war. Theorists have often discussed gender and security by referring to war and peace, but the chapter stresses the need to pay attention to the post-conflict environment.

11. Gender and Security

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Kennedy ◽  
Sophia Dingli
Keyword(s):  
War And Peace ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Military Conflict ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

This chapter examines the relationship between gender and security, distinguishing between ‘practical’ and ‘discursive’ aspects of such relationship. Practical aspects are exemplified by the concrete role of women in militaries, or as victims, bystanders, or helpers of military conflict or of militarization in general. Discursive aspects are exemplified by the traditional connections made between militarism and masculinity and between nurturing, peace, and femininity. The chapter first explains what gender means and why issues of gender are relevant to understanding security. It shows how understanding and placing notions of gender at the centre of any debate on security can help us comprehend the way men and women relate to insecurity, violence, and war. Theorists have often discussed gender and security by referring to war and peace, but the chapter stresses the need to pay attention to the post-conflict environment.

Globalization and the Emergence of Violent Non-state Actors: The Case of Human Trafficking

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Zhidkova
Keyword(s):  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Organized Crime ◽  
The State ◽  
State Sovereignty ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
Transnational Organized Crime ◽  
State Actors ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis study examines the impact of globalization on the emergence of human trafficking as a transnational security threat. The author discusses the relationship between globalization and violent non-state actors (VNSAs), seeing human trafficking as one of VNSAs threatening the state in the age of globalization. The erosion of state sovereignty and emergence of transnational organized crime are analyzed in an attempt to understand the role of globalization in transforming human trafficking into a transnational challenge.

Alban Berg and Peter Altenberg: Intimate Art and the Aesthetics of Life

1993 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
David P. Schroeder
Keyword(s):  
Full Understanding ◽  
Alban Berg ◽  
Personal Significance ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Literary Autobiography

The importance of literature to Berg in the creation of his artistic world has generally been underestimated. Peter Altenberg was especially influential on the young Berg through their friendship, Berg's reading of Altenberg's works, and the relationship of Berg's future wife with both men. Not only is a full understanding of the Altenberg Picture Postcard Texts crucial to the interpretation of Berg's Altenberg Lieder, but Altenberg's peculiar approaches to literary autobiography and vision of the role of women provided a model for Berg for this and subsequent works. Berg extracted five short texts from Altenberg's full texts and rearranged them in a way that had special aesthetic and personal significance for himself. Important aspects of Berg's musical setting relate directly to his treatment of the texts.

scholarly journals The Role Of Women In Improving The Income For Economic Changes In Underprivileged Families

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Wildan Suharso ◽  
Rina Karyati ◽  
Vivi Andriyani ◽  
Taufan Reza Achmadi ◽  
Hardianto Wibowo
Keyword(s):  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Economic Level ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Or Organization ◽  
The Relationship

Women are a significant part of every aspect of life, from a large environment to the smallest one, women are sometimes appointed as heads of a unit or organization. The role of women is increasingly felt when in a family that has a category of poverty families, the ability of women to obtain a budget, and expenditure becomes very important. Economic change is faster if women can manage income, expenses, and households well. This study analyzes the role of women in increasing income for changes in the underprivileged economy using Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) by combining secondary data review and direct observation. Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats (SWOT) Analysis is used to determine the environmental conditions used by case studies when conducting research. Analysis is used to determine the relationship between income and changes in the economic level. The data used are secondary data supported by direct data collection and field collection. The number of respondents used as sample data is 145 underprivileged families in the Lawang District of Malang, which are spread across four research areas with 36 data details in zone 1, 25 data in zone 2, 21 data in zone 3, and 63 data in zone 4. Research Results show that the role of women is very important in efforts to improve the welfare of underprivileged families and analysis of the participation of changes in the relationship between increasing income with changes in the economic level of underprivileged families.

The Church: Towards a Common Vision

Exchange ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-249
Author(s):  
Radu Bordeianu
Keyword(s):  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
The World ◽  
World Council ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church ◽  
Common Vision ◽  
The Way

The 2013 convergence document, The Church: Towards a Common Vision (ctcv) incorporates several aspects of the response of the Napa Inter-Orthodox Consultation to The Nature and Mission of the Church (nmc) which, as its subtitle suggests, was A Stage on the Way to a Common Statement, namely The Church. Eastern and Oriental Orthodox responders (jointly!) point to the imprecise use of the term, ‘church’, the World Council of Churches (wcc)’s understanding of ‘the limits of the Church’, and to the ‘branch theory’ implicit in nmc, an ecclesiology toned down in ctcv. Bordeianu proposes a subjective recognition of the fullness of the church in one’s community as a possible way forward. Simultaneously, Orthodox representatives have grown into a common, ecumenical understanding of the relationship between the Kingdom of God and the church’s work for justice; attentiveness to the role of women in the church; and accepting new forms of teaching authority in an ecumenical context. The positions of various churches are no longer parallel monologues, but reflect earnest change and convergence.

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