En aquest article repassarem les teories de la secessio principals des d’un punt de vista normatiu i les relacionarem amb el debat sobre la constitucionalitzacio de la secessio i, en concret, amb el cas catala. La nostra conclusio es que els conflictes de secessio son complexos perque hi estan implicades diverses questions relacionades amb la justicia i la democracia. Quant al cas catala, nosaltres defensem l’adopcio d’un enfocament constitucional o quasiconstitucional com a manera pacifica i raonable de gestionar el debat secessionista. Aquest enfocament tindria en compte allo que autors com Norman o Sunstein han suggerit en les seves analisis. Les democracies liberals son capaces de considerar la secessio com una manera de solucionar les disputes territorials, que cal abordar des d’un punt de vista pragmatic i raonable.
{"title":"Legalizing Secession: The Catalan Case","authors":"L. Lozano, M. Calvet","doi":"10.7238/JOC.V4I2.1910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/JOC.V4I2.1910","url":null,"abstract":"En aquest article repassarem les teories de la secessio principals des d’un punt de vista normatiu i les relacionarem amb el debat sobre la constitucionalitzacio de la secessio i, en concret, amb el cas catala. La nostra conclusio es que els conflictes de secessio son complexos perque hi estan implicades diverses questions relacionades amb la justicia i la democracia. Quant al cas catala, nosaltres defensem l’adopcio d’un enfocament constitucional o quasiconstitucional com a manera pacifica i raonable de gestionar el debat secessionista. Aquest enfocament tindria en compte allo que autors com Norman o Sunstein han suggerit en les seves analisis. Les democracies liberals son capaces de considerar la secessio com una manera de solucionar les disputes territorials, que cal abordar des d’un punt de vista pragmatic i raonable.","PeriodicalId":183832,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Conflictology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115709989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Número Complet Journal of Conflictology Volum 4, Número 1","authors":"Claudia Solanes Roca-Sastre","doi":"10.7238/JOC.V4I1.1841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/JOC.V4I1.1841","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":183832,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Conflictology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129135938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article discusses peace education in terms of its content and communication form in relation to its context. Content and form involve major choices which are decisive in defining the substance of any education practice, including education for peace, and the implicit or explicit choices made are related to the differing conceptions of peace education.
{"title":"Rethinking Peace Education","authors":"A. Cabezudo, Magnus Haavelsrud","doi":"10.7238/JOC.V4I1.1521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/JOC.V4I1.1521","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses peace education in terms of its content and communication form in relation to its context. Content and form involve major choices which are decisive in defining the substance of any education practice, including education for peace, and the implicit or explicit choices made are related to the differing conceptions of peace education.","PeriodicalId":183832,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Conflictology","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125537697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Relevance and Urgency of our Task","authors":"Eduard Vinyamata","doi":"10.7238/JOC.V4I1.1840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/JOC.V4I1.1840","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":183832,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Conflictology","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129253819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sens dubte, hi ha moltes respostes possibles a la pregunta de per que l'Africa no es democratitza: herencia colonial, cultura politica incivica, ressaca autoritaria, feble base constitucional etc. Rares vegades es relaciona la crisi de democratitzacio amb la incapacitat de l'estat. No obstant aixo, en aquest article, que s'inspira en teorics estatistes notables i amb Nigeria com a telo de fons per a la recerca, s'afirma que la falta d'estatalitat es l'arrel de la crisi de la democratitzacio a l'Africa. Com el seu predecessor colonial, l'estat postcolonial a l'Africa no te els recursos per a donar suport a la democracia genuina. L'article conclou que canviar la tendencia a l'Africa en general, i a Nigeria en particular, ha d'incloure la reestructuracio i la relegitimacio de l'estat.
{"title":"Interrogating Stateness-Democratization Nexus in Nigeria: Issues and Contentions","authors":"A. Basiru","doi":"10.7238/JOC.V4I1.1661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/JOC.V4I1.1661","url":null,"abstract":"Sens dubte, hi ha moltes respostes possibles a la pregunta de per que l'Africa no es democratitza: herencia colonial, cultura politica incivica, ressaca autoritaria, feble base constitucional etc. Rares vegades es relaciona la crisi de democratitzacio amb la incapacitat de l'estat. No obstant aixo, en aquest article, que s'inspira en teorics estatistes notables i amb Nigeria com a telo de fons per a la recerca, s'afirma que la falta d'estatalitat es l'arrel de la crisi de la democratitzacio a l'Africa. Com el seu predecessor colonial, l'estat postcolonial a l'Africa no te els recursos per a donar suport a la democracia genuina. L'article conclou que canviar la tendencia a l'Africa en general, i a Nigeria en particular, ha d'incloure la reestructuracio i la relegitimacio de l'estat.","PeriodicalId":183832,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Conflictology","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117307981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
La conducta de la policia durant les eleccions de 2007 i la crisi que les va seguir a Kenya no es pot oblidar. Les histories tragiques i les imatges repugnants que van sacsejar el mon encara continuen vives avui. Al centre de tot hi havia la conducta de la policia. Els informes de drets humans van acusar la policia d'actuar amb impunitat durant aquell periode. Els policies van ser els responsables de diversos assassinats i els que van ser portats als tribunals van quedar impunes. L'excap de la policia, el general major Hussein Ali, retirat, va ser un dels que es va enfrontar a carrecs a la Cort Penal Internacional (CPI) de l'Haia. La Sala de Questions Preliminars de la CPI no va poder confirmar les seves acusacions de crims contra la humanitat. Des dels esdeveniments historics de 2007-2008, la conducta de la policia a Kenya ha estat un tema clau en els debats sobre drets humans i mitjans de comunicacio. Aquest article es la meva incursio periodistica en les recentment concloses eleccions generals de 2013, que van tenir lloc a Kenya el 4 de marc de 2013, i se centra en la conducta de la policia abans, durant i despres de les eleccions.
{"title":"Conduct of the Police in Kenya’s 2013 General Elections","authors":"Jack Shaka","doi":"10.7238/JOC.V4I1.1786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/JOC.V4I1.1786","url":null,"abstract":"La conducta de la policia durant les eleccions de 2007 i la crisi que les va seguir a Kenya no es pot oblidar. Les histories tragiques i les imatges repugnants que van sacsejar el mon encara continuen vives avui. Al centre de tot hi havia la conducta de la policia. Els informes de drets humans van acusar la policia d'actuar amb impunitat durant aquell periode. Els policies van ser els responsables de diversos assassinats i els que van ser portats als tribunals van quedar impunes. L'excap de la policia, el general major Hussein Ali, retirat, va ser un dels que es va enfrontar a carrecs a la Cort Penal Internacional (CPI) de l'Haia. La Sala de Questions Preliminars de la CPI no va poder confirmar les seves acusacions de crims contra la humanitat. Des dels esdeveniments historics de 2007-2008, la conducta de la policia a Kenya ha estat un tema clau en els debats sobre drets humans i mitjans de comunicacio. Aquest article es la meva incursio periodistica en les recentment concloses eleccions generals de 2013, que van tenir lloc a Kenya el 4 de marc de 2013, i se centra en la conducta de la policia abans, durant i despres de les eleccions.","PeriodicalId":183832,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Conflictology","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128637820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article discusses the fundamental principles of family mediation training and social competencies, focussing on the needs and requirements of mediation training. The results of the research, which was conducted with the assistance of professional mediators and students, are presented with a view to analysing the incorporation of mediation training within the competencies and requirements of the European Higher Education Area. The competencies defined by the statistical analysis can serve as a useful tool for the development of new syllabuses and for professionals who work in the area of conflict management.
{"title":"Family Mediation: Competencies for Social Work Training","authors":"Luis Miguel Rondón García","doi":"10.7238/JOC.V4I1.1634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/JOC.V4I1.1634","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the fundamental principles of family mediation training and social competencies, focussing on the needs and requirements of mediation training. The results of the research, which was conducted with the assistance of professional mediators and students, are presented with a view to analysing the incorporation of mediation training within the competencies and requirements of the European Higher Education Area. The competencies defined by the statistical analysis can serve as a useful tool for the development of new syllabuses and for professionals who work in the area of conflict management.","PeriodicalId":183832,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Conflictology","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130547014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Local initiatives in the dynamics of conflict and peace building are germane to understanding the actions and inactions of a people reacting towards their plights. This study adopts a qualitative methodology to investigate initiatives in local communities in the unending conflicts and peace building processes in Nigeria, using the Gokanaya, Onelga, and Eche communities in Rivers State as case studies. The major findings were that the roles and networks of key indigenous institutions such as the elders' council, ruling houses and 'mothers of the land', as well as traditional healers and witch doctors are vital in directing the affairs of the communities: their socio-political, economic, spiritual and religious activities. However, government and multinational corporations often sidelined them. With only technocrats and the educated elite involved in negotiating peace, key stakeholders were missing and conflicts in the region intensified. The study recommends that peace building initiatives should take a bottom-top approach and be devoid of politics.
{"title":"Initiatives of Oil Producing Communities and the Dynamics of Conflict and Peace Building in the Niger Delta","authors":"A. Ikuomola","doi":"10.7238/JOC.V4I1.1622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/JOC.V4I1.1622","url":null,"abstract":"Local initiatives in the dynamics of conflict and peace building are germane to understanding the actions and inactions of a people reacting towards their plights. This study adopts a qualitative methodology to investigate initiatives in local communities in the unending conflicts and peace building processes in Nigeria, using the Gokanaya, Onelga, and Eche communities in Rivers State as case studies. The major findings were that the roles and networks of key indigenous institutions such as the elders' council, ruling houses and 'mothers of the land', as well as traditional healers and witch doctors are vital in directing the affairs of the communities: their socio-political, economic, spiritual and religious activities. However, government and multinational corporations often sidelined them. With only technocrats and the educated elite involved in negotiating peace, key stakeholders were missing and conflicts in the region intensified. The study recommends that peace building initiatives should take a bottom-top approach and be devoid of politics.","PeriodicalId":183832,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Conflictology","volume":"28 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132880628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Usar l'esport per a tractar diversos problemes socials -una estrategia denominada esport per al desenvolupament i la pau (EDP)- s'esta tornant una estrategia ampliament acceptada, sobretot a les regions afectades per pobresa, violencia i conflictes. Identificant un conjunt de caracteristiques uniques, una amplia gamma d'agents en el camp de la pau i el desenvolupament, incloses les agencies de desenvolupament internacional, l'ONU i diverses organitzacions no governamentals, han donat suport a l'esport com a catalitzador social significatiu. Aquest treball tracta del seguent: 1) presentar l'esport per al desenvolupament i la pau, 2) posar en relleu les formes en que l'esport pot ajudar a crear processos de pau i resolucio de conflictes, i 3) presentar iniciatives actuals d'esport per al desenvolupament i la pau a Colombia.
{"title":"¿La construcción de la paz mediante el deporte? Una introducción al deporte para el desarrollo y la paz","authors":"A. Cárdenas","doi":"10.7238/JOC.V4I1.1493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/JOC.V4I1.1493","url":null,"abstract":"Usar l'esport per a tractar diversos problemes socials -una estrategia denominada esport per al desenvolupament i la pau (EDP)- s'esta tornant una estrategia ampliament acceptada, sobretot a les regions afectades per pobresa, violencia i conflictes. Identificant un conjunt de caracteristiques uniques, una amplia gamma d'agents en el camp de la pau i el desenvolupament, incloses les agencies de desenvolupament internacional, l'ONU i diverses organitzacions no governamentals, han donat suport a l'esport com a catalitzador social significatiu. Aquest treball tracta del seguent: 1) presentar l'esport per al desenvolupament i la pau, 2) posar en relleu les formes en que l'esport pot ajudar a crear processos de pau i resolucio de conflictes, i 3) presentar iniciatives actuals d'esport per al desenvolupament i la pau a Colombia.","PeriodicalId":183832,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Conflictology","volume":"193 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121112755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This year is the 50th anniversary of a lasting and merciless campaign for the independence of Algeria. From the French side it was called les evenements (the events), an euphemistical way to avoid the term war. However, it was a total war that lasted eight long years, and ended with the liberty for the Algerian people. Unfortunately, all became losers. The amount of rage between the parties was so high at the late stages of the war, that some of the French citizens—the so called pied-‐ noirs— lashed out and burned, hospitals, libraries, reserve fuel tanks, and all kinds of infrastructure just to leave, what had been also their land, like a desert as it was back in 1830 when the French army defeated the Ottomans and took control of this great African territory. The grimmest atrocities took place during the whole conflict but especially at the end of the war, forcing a French-‐European-‐rooted diaspora of barely one million people to fled. The echoes of this incredible wound still vibrate both sides of the Mediterranean. In the last decade, some reconciliation efforts have been made on an individual level. Some pied-‐noirs, have visited their former homes, villages, schools, cemeteries, etc., in an effort to sooth this lasting melancholy. Yet, what would have been Algeria if a reconciliation movement had taken place? Would have this been possible in 1962 or before should a strong third party had been in place? Could Algeria become one of the most advanced countries from a sociological and economic level? Unfortunately, it was not the case. In spite of this, I will try to develop and explain a process that would avoided a vast amount of sufferance that even nowadays is deeply felt by millions of people that used to live all together in a peaceful but unfair society.
{"title":"Analysis of the Algerian War of Independence or Les Événements: A lost opportunity for peace.","authors":"Miquel Calçada","doi":"10.7238/JOC.V3I2.1552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/JOC.V3I2.1552","url":null,"abstract":"This year is the 50th anniversary of a lasting and merciless campaign for the independence of Algeria. From the French side it was called les evenements (the events), an euphemistical way to avoid the term war. However, it was a total war that lasted eight long years, and ended with the liberty for the Algerian people. Unfortunately, all became losers. The amount of rage between the parties was so high at the late stages of the war, that some of the French citizens—the so called pied-‐ noirs— lashed out and burned, hospitals, libraries, reserve fuel tanks, and all kinds of infrastructure just to leave, what had been also their land, like a desert as it was back in 1830 when the French army defeated the Ottomans and took control of this great African territory. The grimmest atrocities took place during the whole conflict but especially at the end of the war, forcing a French-‐European-‐rooted diaspora of barely one million people to fled. The echoes of this incredible wound still vibrate both sides of the Mediterranean. In the last decade, some reconciliation efforts have been made on an individual level. Some pied-‐noirs, have visited their former homes, villages, schools, cemeteries, etc., in an effort to sooth this lasting melancholy. Yet, what would have been Algeria if a reconciliation movement had taken place? Would have this been possible in 1962 or before should a strong third party had been in place? Could Algeria become one of the most advanced countries from a sociological and economic level? Unfortunately, it was not the case. In spite of this, I will try to develop and explain a process that would avoided a vast amount of sufferance that even nowadays is deeply felt by millions of people that used to live all together in a peaceful but unfair society.","PeriodicalId":183832,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Conflictology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126198612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}