A5065561383- Library Science and Information Literacy
- Peacebuilding and International Security
- Web and Library Services
- Library Science and Administration
- International Development and Aid
- Political Conflict and Governance
- Global Peace and Security Dynamics
- Global Security and Public Health
- Library Collection Development and Digital Resources
- Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Advanced Database Systems and Queries
- Historical Studies on Spain
- Philippine History and Culture
- Colonialism, slavery, and trade
- Historical Influence and Diplomacy
- Online and Blended Learning
- Italy: Economic History and Contemporary Issues
- Religion, Society, and Development
- Historical Economic and Social Studies
- Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
- Data Quality and Management
- Cambodian History and Society
- Human Rights and Development
- Political Philosophy and Ethics
London School of Economics and Political Science
2013-2025
University of Johannesburg
2024
La Trobe University
2023
Berea College
1984-2020
University of Central Oklahoma
2011-2017
Colorado State University
2017
Hartford Financial Services (United States)
2016
Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services
2016
New York University
2005-2010
Earlham College
1984-2007
Abstract Protection is not simply something done or delivered to people by states, humanitarian organisations and armed peacekeepers. Instead, a growing literature has begun examine the self‐protection strategies of communities in protracted violent crises. Its authors suggest that nuanced understandings how retain measure agency face violence an important first step for those seeking reduce their levels threat vulnerability. We use interview data from Bor Ler, South Sudan, long affected...
Abstract Many contemporary humanitarian organisations derive their legitimacy from claims to protect civilians. Yet, what these do in its name includes a diverse and contested range of activities that are often far global publics affected populations understand as constituting protection. As others have argued, this detracts honest discussions about when how humanitarians well placed keep civilians safe violence threats. To begin address gap, we review three well‐known publicly say they done...
ABSTRACT Recent wars have brutally shown that civilians are not safe. This is despite high‐level global commitments and multi‐billion‐dollar humanitarian spending to keep civilian strangers protected. The high death tolls in recent armed conflicts prompting new questions about how if we can protect times of war, what the real politics such protection is. In this special section its introduction, argue it essential pay attention civilians' actual experiences their own strategies for staying...
Corporate databases increasingly are being viewed as potentially rich sources of new and valuable knowledge. Various approaches to “discovering” or “mining” such knowledge have been proposed. Here we identify an important previously ignored discovery task, which call data archaeology. Data archaeology is a skilled human in the sought depends on goals analyst, cannot be specified advance, emerges only through iterative process segmentation analysis. We describe system that supports...
This paper reframes the security and development debate through fresh theoretical lenses, which view as highly contested both in realm of politics ideas.[i] For some analysts concerns political power, including use organised force to establish maintain social orders protect them from external internal threats. others it is about how individuals communities are protected (or themselves) violence, abuse power other existential risks. We integrate approaches whilst placing our focus on deep...
1University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne The Jews Vienna and the First World War David Rechter London/Portland, OR Littman Library Jewish Civilization 2000 218 £ 29.95
In this article we propose two alternative yet interrelated definitions of security, which jointly encapsulate its dual and contested nature. These were constructed to guide a literatur...
Novel gene-editing (GE) technologies provide promising opportunities to increase livestock productivity and tackle several global production sustainability food security challenges. However, these technologies, as with previous genetic modification in production, are very likely generate social controversy opposition toward their use the meat industry. Here, we explored public attitudes consumption predisposition gene-edited products potential added benefits farming. Our results show that...
Abstract This article examines how former Protection of Civilian site (PoCs) residents are staying safe and protecting themselves after the United Nations Mission in South Sudan's (UNMISS) handing over PoCs to Revitalised‐Transitional Government National Unity (R‐TGoNU). Using key informant interviews, questionnaires, observations, we establish that those still residing do so with less humanitarian assistance, increased insecurity, few authorities they can rely upon or turn for protection....
Journal Article Report on a Botanical Visit to Lord Auckland, Campbell, Antipodes, and other Antarctic Islands, in Letter from Thomas Kirk, F.L.S., Chief Conservator of State Forests, New Zealand, Sir Joseph D. Hooker, K.C.S.I., F.R.S., F.L.S. (Communicated by the latter.) Get access Kirk Search for works this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Linnean Society, Volume 28, Issue 194, August 1891, Pages 327–330, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8339.1891.tb01463.x Published: 05 January...
For many observers, state-building in Timor-Leste has overlooked and undermined local norms governance practices, resulting a potentially destabilising distance between citizens the state. The emerging state justice system been singled out for imposing inaccessible alien institutions onto population that historically fought to retain its identity. Nonetheless, viewing access as central development peace, international organisations continue work aid equitable swift resolution of disputes....
Abstract Using ethnographic research from Pakistan, this paper argues that social accountability programmes overlook the role of intermediaries in clientelistic states risk undermining wider democratising projects they seek to support. It proposes a theory ‘isomorphic activism’ describes how these public authorities appropriate others' opportunities participate politics and, process, undermine democratic norms. Isomorphic activism is shown be more likely when are based on ideals civil...
Discussions on African responses to Covid-19 have focused the state and its international backers. Far less is known about a wider range of public authorities, including chiefs, humanitarians, criminal gangs, armed groups. This paper investigates how pandemic provided opportunities for claims contests over power in Uganda, Democratic Republic Congo, South Sudan. Ethnographic research used contend that local forms authority can be akin miniature sovereigns, able interpret dictates, policies,...
During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, while Genoa was at height of its colonial expansion, Livorno little more than a fishing village. The Genoese had assembled territorial state in Liguria, taken island Corsica and, as early 1277, were sending ships directly to England Flanders. All merely malaria‐infested appendix Porto Pisano. Over course sixteenth century, however, grew by leaps bounds end century concerns over Tuscan city's growing importance commercial port become...
Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) has been deployed at over 70% of rural electric cooperatives, and this new data source offers opportunities for valuable applications beyond billing. The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) developed open computer software to perform anomaly detection dynamic power flow analysis with AMI the cooperatives (consumer-owned, not-for-profit utilities). We describe software, discuss challenges collecting working data, further potential...
September 28, 2016, marked the 50th anniversary of Connecticut Mental Health Center, a state-owned and state-operated joint venture between state Yale University built sustained with federal, state, university funds. Collaboration across these entities has produced wide array clinical, educational, research initiatives, few which are described in this column. The missions clinical care, research, education remain foundation for an organization that serves 5,000 individuals each year who poor...