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The Effect of COVID-19 Lockdown Measures on Physical Activity Levels and Sedentary Behaviour in a Relatively Young Population Living in Kosovo
2021
To abate the spread of the COVID-19 virus, different restriction measures were imperative, limiting the possibility to be engaged in physical activity. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the effect of COVID-19 lockdown on physical activity (PA) levels expressed as energy expenditure (MET-min/week) and sedentary behaviour in Kosovo. The possible association between PA levels and other factors was analyzed. 1633 participants (age range: 13 to 63 years; mean: 24.70 ± 9.33 years; body height: 172 ± 10.57 cm; body mass: 69.10 ± 13.80 kg; BMI: 23.09 ± 3.63 kg/m2) participated in the study, categorized by age, gender, BMI, and living area. An online survey, including an adapted version of the…
La rinascita della guerra giusta
Il concetto di “guerra giusta” figura in una serie di riflessioni nel diritto internazionale e viene riferita all’uso legittimo della forza militare, così come è previsto nella Carta delle Nazioni Unite. Rinasce dalle sfide della storia contemporanea e possiamo coglierne i significati soltanto analizzando alcuni contesti storici nei quali ricorre e svelando, a partire da questi, le ragioni e i limiti della sua reviviscenza. Sebbene la guerra sia stata messa al bando dopo la seconda guerra mondiale, se escludiamo la guerra del Vietnam, non possiamo dimenticare orrori recenti per cui le forze occidentali sono dovute intervenire: massacri e pulizia etnica in Bosnia e Kosovo, Ruanda, Sudan, Sie…
Some Remarks on the Relationship between Secession and General International Law in the Light of the ICJ’s Kosovo Advisory Opinion
2012
How is it possible to regard something that is not prohibited, as illegal? What are the resulting consequences of fact and law? This chapter suggests that a reasonable way to reconcile these two assertions is to admit that they refer to two profiles of the phenomenon in question that must be kept separate. Independence is not prohibited, but not all means to reach it are allowed under general international law. To render this concept, the author submits the idea of a normative "due process" seen as a set of rules giving no legal entitlement to statehood nor determining the creation of a State, but forming a normative course through which factual processes should be legally channelled. The c…