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Improving performance and fostering accountability in the public sector through system dynamics modelling: From an ‘external’ to an ‘internal’ perspe…

2010

This paper aims to outline the benefits justifying a tailored approach to System Dynamics (SD) modelling in the public sector, to improve performance and foster decision makers' accountability. The need of combining an ‘internal’ with an ‘external’ perspective (in respect to decision makers) in developing SD models is claimed. Different levels of intervention (i.e. macro, micro and meso) are discussed. Two case studies are analysed. The first one demonstrates how a dynamic resource-based view (DRBV) can support an analysis of the impact of back and front office units on a public sector organization's performance drivers. The second case shows how SD modelling based on a DRBV can also be app…

On the Nature of Information Management in Complex and Natural Disasters

2015

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to present reflections on the nature of information management (IM) and its role and function to support coordination in one of the largest humanitarian crises of our time, the Syria crisis. Starting from general principles for humanitarian information management, we analyze the challenges that information managers face in conflict situations, when information is – more than anywhere else – a source of power and influence. This work outlines the interdependence of advocacy and operational information management, the sensitivity of information, and barriers to information sharing. The results are complex and highly interlaced information and coordination…

Komunikācija: Kultūra, sabiedrība, mediji

2002

Communication Skills Development of Musical Lessons for Children up to Three Years

2015

<p><em>The paper will be made theoretical and empirical research. The aim of the paper – to explore the musical lessons communication skills development for children up to tree years. The theoretical part of the paper will be based on scientific research in Latvian, Russian and European literature. In theory will be studied music lessons and musical diversity component applications to improve the communication skills of children up to three years. The empirical part will be described in musical activities that have been developed based on scientific grounds to improve the communication skills of children up to three years.</em></p><em>The research results will …

Historical memory and forgetting in the teaching of history : the case of Japan and Italy

2015

En el presente artículo, se revisan algunas investigaciones y publicaciones relevantes donde se analizan aspectos vinculados con la inclusión de la memoria en la enseñanza de la historia (en los casos de Italia y, en mayor medida, Japón) y la conexión existente entre política y gestión de la memoria. Respecto a este último asunto, se evidencia la importancia de la política en relación a la selección y los olvidos en la memoria institucional y cómo los rituales conmemorativos o la construcción de una historia oficial implican un posicionamiento respecto a la memoria. Se observan posicionamientos políticos que determinan la selección de la memoria en la Historia oficial que, al mismo tiempo, …

Regional Security Cooperation and the SADC’s Organ for Politics, Defence and Security: A Picture of Mixed Performance

2017

This chapter provides a profound analysis of regional security cooperation in the SADC and focusses on the institutionalisation and performance of the organisation’s central conflict management institution, the Organ for Politics, Defence and Security (OPDS). By clarifying the regional security complex in every detail, Muntschick highlights the countries’ common demand for institutionalised regional security cooperation and reflects on the conflicting interstate interests on the institutional design of the SADC’s central security organ. External actors play no significant role, but a lack of compromise between the leading military powers, South Africa and Zimbabwe, is initially responsible …

Occupations of Housing and Social Centers in Rome: A Durable Resistance to Neoliberalism and Institutionalization

2017

Squatting for housing and social centers has a long tradition in Rome since the end of the 1960s. By the mid-1970s, the occupation of buildings to set up political and social activities became part of the repertoire of left radical movements. In this chapter a set of 34 squatted spaces for housing and social centers in Rome active in 2014 is analysed. Squatting practices thus provide a lens to interpret the evolution of urban struggles, urban development and the changing sociopolitical contexts. Furthermore, Mudu and Rossini examine the role played by the processes of neutralization, co-optation, normalization and contention that explain the institutionalization of squatting in the city of …

The logic of the construction of rural politics: political discourses on rurality in norway

2009

Two competing discourses emerge from a careful reading of parliamentary debates in Norway on rural development. One regards rural values as intrinsic, while the other regards the rural as an actor ...

Europe’s Peat Fire: Intangible Heritage and the Crusades for Identity

2019

Dissonances of ethnic nationalism have in Western cultural policy long been concealed by the universalist discourses of the international treaties on material heritage protection, as framed by the expansive heritage conservation apparatuses of the European nation states. Originally inspired by the 19th century romantic spirit of conservation, they became in the 20th century part of the modern, state-apparatus. Yet parallel with the European enlargements and new kinds of memory debates on the Holocaust and postcolonialism, these authorized heritage regimes have received more and more competition from a transnational counter-discourse on intangible cultural heritage. Like the earlier transfor…

El happening y la creación de situaciones en dos novelas de Julio Cortázar espacios de liberación y metáfora de la escritura

2013

In his 60’s theoretical texts Julio Cortázar wrote about the happening as an avant-garde and radical practice. He underlined as well the difficulties of the 60’s intelligentsia to conceptualize it properly. His novels 62. Modelo para armar and Libro de Manuel experimented with the structure of happening as a model for narrative exploration. In fact, Cortázar used the happening and the debordian idea of situation for giving a possible answer to the main debate about the relationship between critical intelligentsia and political activity.