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Argues that the Charter leans towards a social democratic ideology and suffers from restrictive implications. Outlines an alternative vision of the EC based on individual freedom and decentralised political structures. (SJK)

"The Social Practice of Human Rights bridges the conventional scholar-practitioner divide by focusing on the space in between. In capturing this cutting edge research program, the volume proposes a perspective that motivates critical self-reflection of the strategies that drive communities dedicated to the advocacy and implementation of human rights"--

"Digital literacy practices have often been celebrated as means of transcending the constraints of the physical world through the production of new social spaces. At the same time, literacy researchers and educators are coming to understand all the ways that place matters. This volume, with contributors from across the globe, considers how space/place, identities, and the role of digital literacies create opportunities for individuals and communities to negotiate living, being, and learning together with and through digital media. The chapters in this volume consider how social, cultural, historical, and political literacies are brought to bear on a range of places that traverse the urban, rural, and suburban/exurban, with emphasis placed on the ways digital technology is used to create identities and do work within social, digital, and material worlds. This includes agentive work in digital literacies from a variety of identities or subjectivities that disrupt metronormativity, urban centrism (and other -isms) on the way to more authentic engagement with their communities and others. Featuring instances of research and practice across intersections of differences (including, but not limited to race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, and language) and places, the contributions in this volume demonstrate the ways that digital literacies hold educative potential"--

Although the illicit arms trade has evolved over recent years, despite the end of the Cold War it appears to be as vibrant as ever. From Bosnia and Kosovo to Angola and Sierra Leone, illicit arms flows have played a key role in areas of contemporary instability and violence. Against this background, this volume brings together studies of several key issues relating to this trade: the changing nature of the illicit arms trade; the origins of the Iran-Contra affair; the flow of illicit arms from post-communist Russia; the role of France in arming the genocide in Rwanda; the question of the role of private security companies in areas of instability; and the prospects of controlling the illicit trade in small arms. This timely volume will be essential reading for courses in Criminology, War and Peace Studies, International Politics, and African and other Area Studies which deal with arms trafficking and conflict issues

Intro -- Foreword: Multimodal, Multidimensional, and Multilevel Social Network Systems -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Knowledge Brokers, Networks, and the Policymaking Process -- Knowledge Brokerage and Use of Research Evidence -- Knowledge Brokerage in Policy and Practice Settings -- Knowledge Brokers in Health and Medicine -- Knowledge Brokers in Education -- Knowledge Brokers in Communication -- Knowledge Brokerage and Social Network Analysis -- Explicit Network Measurement of Brokerage Activity -- Social Network Analysis, Knowledge Brokerage, and Research Evidence -- References -- Disseminating Evidence to Policymakers: Accounting for Audience Heterogeneity -- Evidence to Inform the Dissemination of Evidence to Different Policymaker Audiences -- What Sources Do Policymakers Turn to for Research Evidence? -- Who Do Policymakers Perceive as Reliable Sources of Research Evidence? -- What Do Policymakers Perceive as the Most Important Attributes of Evidence? -- How Do Knowledge and Attitudes About Evidence Vary Among Policymakers? -- Strategies to Account for Audience Heterogeneity When Disseminating Evidence to Policymakers -- Audience Segmentation Analysis -- Message Tailoring -- Framing -- Conclusion -- References -- "Being Important" or "Knowing the Important": Who Is Best Placed to Influence Policy? -- Use of Network Analysis to Study Power and Influence -- Hubs and Authorities -- Methods -- Results -- Who Are the Important Actors and How Do We Know Them? -- Who Can Accurately Identify the Important Actors? -- Power Through Agency or Structure? -- Discussion -- Limitations -- References.

An individual's decision to use alcohol and the frequency, quantity and situation of such use are the result of a combination of biological and social factors. Drinking is not only a personal choice, but also a matter of custom and social behaviour, and is influenced by access and economic factors including levels of disposable income and cost of alcoholic beverages. Until prevention efforts cease to focus narrowly on the individual and begin to adopt broader community perspectives on alcohol problems and strategies to reduce them, these efforts will fail. This book, first published in 1998, challenges the current implicit models used in alcohol problem prevention and demonstrates an ecological perspective of the community as a complex adaptive system composed of interacting subsystems, an appreciation and understanding of which offers an alternative approach to the prevention of alcohol dependence and alcohol-related problems

Introduction : literacy lives in transcultural times / Rahat Zaidi and Jennifer Rowsell -- Complicating literacies : settler ways of being with story(ies) on Wabanaki lands / Pam Whitty -- International struggles over "low literacy" versus the alternative "social practices" approach / Brian Street -- Multiliteracies reconsidered : a "pedagogy of multiliteracies" in the context of inquiry-based approaches / Margaret Early and Maureen Kendrick -- Examining the relational space of the self and other in the language-drama classroom : transcultural multiliteracies, situated practice and the cosmopolitan imagination / Burcu Yaman Ntelioglou -- Monster high : converging imaginaries of girlhood in tweens' digital doll play / Karen E. Wohlwend and Carmen L. Medina -- Investing in new literacies for a cosmopolitan future / Ron Darvin and Bonny Norton -- Public engagement and digital authoring : Korean adolescents write for/as action / Amy Stornaiuolo and Jin Kyeong Jung -- Artifacts as catalysts for reimagining transcultural literacy pedagogies / Michelle A. Honeyford with Judy Amy-Penner, Tim Beyak, David Beyer, Amanda Borton, Kelly Fewer, Chasity Findlay, and Damian Purdy -- Rescripting classed lives and imagining audiences as online cosmopolitan practice / Diane Collier -- Poststructural and posthuman theories as literacy research methodologies : tensions and possibilities / Candace R. Kuby -- Proper distance and the hope of cosmopolitanism in a classroom discussion about race / Anne Crampton, Cynthia Lewis, and Jessica Dockter Tierney -- Towards transculturalism in tackling diversity for literacy teacher education / Patriann Smith, S. Joel Warrican, and Gwendolyn William.

In this study we discussed the construct validity of knowledge asset measurement models by focusing on the adequacy of theoretical content. The importance of an organization's role as a social community in creating knowledge assets has not been adequately addressed in existing organizational
knowledge asset measurement models. This social aspect of an organization manifests itself in the knowledge conversion process through which various knowledge inputs are transformed into organizational knowledge assets. We suggested that, from the organizational learning and dynamic capability
perspective, the construct of knowledge assets should cover the organization's learning capability, accumulated through social interaction within and outside the organizational boundary. In our proposed model, social capital provides an infrastructure for knowledge creation, and learning capability
measured knowledge creation and exchange activities. Indicators of social capital and learning capability are suggested, and implications and limitations of this study are discussed.