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"This timely collection of essays examines the growth of digital activism, including how international activists have employed technological innovations to tackle global problems"--

Chapter 1. Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War 1. - Chapter 2. Clusters, Coordination, and Health Sector Transitions 32. - Chapter 3. Trauma and the New Normal 61. - Chapter 4. Individual Interventions 91. - Chapter 5. The GBV Proxy 118. - Chapter 6. Ex-Combatant Rehabilitation 158. - Chapter 7. Redemption Time 183. - Chapter 8. The Healers 211

Between 1820 and 1990, the share of world income going to today's wealthy nations soared from twenty percent to almost seventy. Since then, that share has plummeted to where it was in 1900. As Richard Baldwin explains, this reversal of fortune reflects a new age of globalization that is drastically different from the old. In the 1800s, globalization leaped forward when steam power and international peace lowered the costs of moving goods across borders. This triggered a self-fueling cycle of industrial agglomeration and growth that propelled today's rich nations to dominance. That was the Great Divergence. The new globalization is driven by information technology, which has radically reduced the cost of moving ideas across borders. This has made it practical for multinational firms to move labor-intensive work to developing nations. But to keep the whole manufacturing process in sync, the firms also shipped their marketing, managerial, and technical know-how abroad along with the offshored jobs. The new possibility of combining high tech with low wages propelled the rapid industrialization of a handful of developing nations, the simultaneous deindustrialization of developed nations, and a commodity super-cycle that is only now petering out. The result is today's Great Convergence. Because globalization is now driven by fast-paced technological change and the fragmentation of production, its impact is more sudden, more selective, more unpredictable, and more uncontrollable. As The Great Convergence shows, the new globalization presents rich and developing nations alike with unprecedented policy challenges in their efforts to maintain reliable growth and social cohesion.--

There has been much recent celebration of the success of African `civil society` in forging global connections through an ever-growing diaspora. Against the background of such celebrations, this innovative book sheds light on the diasporic networks - `home associations` - whose economic contributions are being used to develop home. Despite these networks being part of the flow of migrants` resources back to Africa that now outweighs official development assistance, the relationship between the flow of capital and social and political change are still poorly understood.The authors examine the networks of migrants that have been created by making `home associations` international. They argue that claims in favour of enlarging `civil society` in Africa must be placed in the broader context of the political economy of migration and wider debates concerning ethnicity and belonging. They demonstrate both that diasporic development is distinct from mainstream development, and that it is an uneven historical process in which some `homes` are better placed to take advantage of global connections than others. In doing so, the book engages critically with the current enthusiasm among policy-makers for treating the African diaspora as an untapped resource for combating poverty. Its focus on diasporic networks, rather than private remittances, reveals the particular successes and challenges diasporas face in acting as a group, not least in mobilising members of the diaspora to fulfill obligations to home.

"The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy offers insights into the boundaries of this field of study, assesses why it is important, who is affected, and with what political, economic, social and cultural consequences. Provides the most up to date and comprehensive collection of essays from top scholars in the field includes contributions from western and eastern Europe, North and Central America, Africa and Asia; offers new conceptual frameworks and new methodologies for mapping the contours of emergent global media and communication policy; draws on theory and empirical research to offer multiple perspectives on the local, national, regional and global forums in which policy debate occurs"--

"China's Belt and Road Initiatives (BRI) is an ambitious infrastructure project conceived in 2013 by President Xi Jinping with development and investment initiatives stretching from Asia and Europe that reflect the original Silk Road with business networks through countries such as Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, as well as India and Pakistan, spanning a route of more than four thousand miles and history that can be dated back more than 2200 years. Given the background of China's unique approach in fighting the COVID-19, and against the backdrop of sluggish economic growth, innovation and management within the sustainable development of BRI will be the key and the driving force for the post-pandemic economic recovery for many countries, especially when BRI countries now accounts for nearly 30% of China's foreign trade and 15% of outward direct investment. The vision to create a vast network of railways, energy pipelines, highways, and streamlined border crossings to expand the international use of Chinese currency and improve connectivity to China is good foresight and fortuitous with COVID-19 pandemic came to plague the world, and amid in the conflicts between US and China as well as a War between Russia and Ukraine. Since the inception of BRI many books are written to cover topics ranging from globalization to detailing how China's business and politics as a major motivation for China's overseas economic activities with case studies and practices, yet seldom of these books provide structured approach to the sustainable management of BRI projects. This book is about how to manage innovation, sustainability, and business necessary to make BRI works, and how to handle the issues, problems and crisis that may arise thereof. Participants of BRI projects can take many different roles but ultimately it is team effort and leadership for each project. Here the readers will find guidelines and insights to survive and prosper in a myriad of BRI opportunities and risks. Most important of all, this book provides a glimpse of different approach for success in BRI projects, including sustainability, environmental issues, social and political aspects, technological, choice of industry, project management, education and training, governance and many more."

"Contributing to a better understanding of contemporary issues of environmental sustainability from a historical perspective, this book provides a cohesive and cogent account of the history of ecological economic thought (EET). The work unearths a diverse set of ideas within a Western and Slavic context, from the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to the late 1940s, to reveal insights firmly grounded in historiographical research and of import for addressing current sustainability challenges, not least by means of improving our grasp on how humans and nature can generously coexist in the long term. The history of EET offered in this volume is rich and diverse, encompassing views that are bound by the observance of the tenets of the natural sciences, but which differ significantly in terms of the role of energy and materials to cultural development and the normative aspects involving resource distribution, social ideals and policy-making. Combining the approaches of independent scholarly figures and scientific communities from different historical periods and nationalities, the book brings elements that are still missing in the scarce literature on the history of ecological economic thought and highlights the underlying threads which unite such initiatives. The book brings a fresh look into the historical development of ecological economic ideas and will therefore be of great interest to scholars and students of ecological economics, environmental economics, sustainability science, interdisciplinary studies and history of economic thought. Marco P. Vianna Franco is a postdoctoral fellow at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Klosterneuburg, Austria, and holds a PhD in economics from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Cedeplar/UFMG) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He works in the fields of ecological economics and history of economic thought with a focus on human-nature relations from the perspectives of political economy, intellectual history, and philosophy of science. Antoine Missemer is a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a member of the International Research Centre on the Environment and Development (CIRED) in Paris, France. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland and the University of Lyon, France. His research mainly deals with the history of environmental, ecological, energy, and natural resource economics"--

The question of accessibility / Gian Maria Greco -- Access services for the blind and partially sighted : a social and legal framework for the promotion of audio description / Joan Bastard-Bou and Blanca Arias-Badia -- A profile of audio description end-users : linguistic needs and inclusivity / Elisa Perego and Christopher Taylor -- A cognitive approach to audio description : production and reception processes / Jana Holsanova -- Narratology and/in audio description / Gert Vercauteren -- Linguistic and textual aspects of audio description / Iwona Mazur -- Audio description and culture specific elements / Anna Jankowska -- "Ut pictura poesis" : the rendering of an aesthetic artistic image in form and content / Loretta Secchi -- Audio description for the theatre : a research-based practice / Aline Remael and Nina Reviers -- Opera and dance audio description / Joel Snyder and Esther Geiger -- Audio description for the screen / Maria Joaquina Valero Gisbert -- Museum audio description : the role of ADLAB PRO / Christopher Taylor and Elisa Perego -- Audio description in museums : a service provider perspective / Anna Fineman and Matthew Cock -- Visitor studies : the impact of inclusive museum audio description experiences / Rachel Hutchinson and Alison Eardley -- Audio describing churches : in search of a template / Ralph Pacinotti -- The audio description professional : a sociological overview and new training perspectives / Elisa Perego -- Audio description : a public broadcaster's core business and headache / Gunter Saerens, Tine Deboosere and Jan-Willem Van Hoof -- Profiling audio description service providers : a questionnaire-based snapshot / Irene Hermosa-Ramirez -- Research in audio description / Nazaret Fresno -- Audio description software / Vincenza Minutella -- Receptor tools / Wojciech Figiel and Kamila Albin -- Artificial voices / Agnieszka Walczak and Gonzalo Iturregui Gallardo -- Video games and audio description / Carme Mangiron and Xiaochun Zhang -- Automating audio description / Sabine Braun and Kim Starr -- Audio description personalisation / Pilar Orero -- Audio introductions / Pablo Romero-Fresco -- Audio subtitling / Anna Matamala -- Audio description translation : a retrospective / Estella Oncins -- Audio description translation : a pilot study Chinese/Spanish / Yuchen Liu and Irene Tor-Carroggio -- Audio description for the non-blind / Kim Starr -- University training / Agnieszka Chmiel -- In-house training : the course at Bayerischer Rundfunk / Bernd Benecke -- Audio description in the United States / Joel Snyder -- Audio description in Canada / Rebecca Singh -- Audio description in Australia / Kari Seeley -- Audio description in Russia / Ivan Borschevsky and Alexey Kozulyaev -- Audio description in Brazil / Eliana Franco and Vera Lucia Santiago Araujo -- Audio description in Slovenia / Mateja Vodeb and Veronika Rot.

Parties to international negotiations typically invoke conflicting notions of justice. If these can be reconciled, this has positive effects on the negotiation process and outcome. If conflicts over justice persist, negotiations can stall or result in suboptimal outcomes. However, research to date paid scant attention to the means by which justice in international negotiations can be attained. This dissertation addresses this gap and studies two aspects of justice in international negotiations, as well as factors that shape them. The first two essays of the composite dissertation focus on perceptions of justice during negotiations; the latter two on shared justice formulas that parties devise to guide the negotiations. The empirical focus lies primarily on international environmental negotiations – an issue area where justice is central and often explicitly addressed. The final essay extends the analysis of justice to the Cyprus Talks – negotiations on a protracted social conflict that share some key characteristics with environmental negotiations in terms of complexity and interlinkages. Essay I develops the concept of justice and suggests a comprehensive approach to justice in international environmental negotiations. This conceptualization better explains variations in parties' perceptions of justice than conventional approaches, which only cover some of the four components identified in the comprehensive approach. Essay II finds that the relationship between the chairperson and the negotiating parties affects perceptions of justice. Justice is attained, when the actors involved build a cooperative relationship based on their ability to form expectations and on a positive assessment of their exchange. If necessary, such relationship formation can be facilitated through the involvement of intermediary actors. Essay III distinguishes between three different types of shared justice formula that parties devise in international environmental negotiations. A cursory analysis shows that different explanatory factors shape the different types of shared justice formula, which furthermore are linked in different ways to negotiation effectiveness, both fruitful avenues for future research. Essay IV finds that ripeness theory – in a modified form that accounts for complexity and relationships among a multitude of players – helps to explain when parties devise a shared justice formula to guide negotiations. In conjunction, the essays contribute to current debates in the literature on justice and international negotiations, by taking account of complexity in the study of justice, and by stressing the importance of relationship formation with actors beyond the negotiating parties to attain justice.

The all-new edition of this security bestseller reveals the most relevant and up-to-date incident response techniques, tools, and case scenarios. Incident Response & Computer Forensics, Third Edition arms you with the right know-how to react quickly and efficiently to the daily onslaught of data breaches that hit all organizations worldwide. This new edition is chock-full of updates about tools and techniques as well as real-world scenarios reflecting today's most common types of incidents. Specific, detailed advice covers all aspects of incident investigation and handling, with an emphasis on forensics. Special features highlight important tips for security practitioners: the Law Enforcement feature that appears throughout all chapters provides advice on when and how law enforcement must be informed; the What Can Happen feature shows how badly certain scenarios could turn out (with non-action or wrong-action) and why; the Where to Look feature guides you through the fastest routes to key evidence; and the Eye Witness feature details relevant real-world cases for context and urgency. Part I: Introduction to Incident Response covers real-world incidents, an introduction to the incident response process, preparation for incident response, and what happens after the detection of an incident. Part II: Data Collection covers live data collection from Windows and UNIX systems, forensic duplication, collecting network-based evidence, and evidence handling. Part III: Data Analysis covers computer system storage fundamentals, data analysis techniques, investigating Windows and UNIX systems, analyzing network traffic, investigating hacker tools, investigating routers, and writing computer forensic reports. The most technically rigorous handbook on incident handling available All-new advice on architecting networks from the ground-up to fight intrusions New details on streamlining intrusion diagnoses for faster recovery New coverage of: log file and massive data analysis; memory analysis; social media portals to entry; malware analysis; and mobile device-originated breaches New real-world scenarios added throughout exemplify the latest, most prevalent incident types New and up-to-date methods for investigating and assessing hackers' latest tools A forensics-forward approach to handling and protecting sensitive data without further compromising systems. -- Provided by publisher

"The Internet has been hailed as a promising tool for fostering transnational interactive communication, the creation of a global civil society, and the empowerment of grassroots actors. This article focuses on the seminal case of the Zapatista movement, in which the Internet is widely seen as having had a crucial role. The activist and scholar Cleaver (1995) spoke of a 'new electronic fabric of struggle'. Other activists, or hacktivists as several called themselves, used the term 'cybemal' to refer to the on-line dimension of the struggle. Ronfeldt and Arquilla (1998), researchers of the Rand Corporation, a Santa Monica-based think-tank serving the Pentagon, saw in the conflict in Chiapas a new type of warfare and called it a 'social netwar'. Because of the Zapatistas' extensive network structure they grouped them in the same category as Al-Quaeda and warned about the emerging threat long before Al-Quaeda's attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Castells (1998) regarded the Zapatista insurgency as the prototypical form of contention in what he described as the emerging network society. Even the Mexican PRI government spoke of an 'Internet war' (e.g., Gurria 1995), and President Fox (2000) later commended the Zapatistas for their pioneering achievements in using the Internet. Yet, these terms tend to exaggerate the Internet's role in the uprising and trivialize the causes of the conflict and of the fact that real arms were used and real people died. When the Mexican government spoke of a 'guerra de Internet' it did so to downplay the offline significance of the conflict, while the computer-skilled Zapatista supporters from post-industrial countries were flattered by such a characterization of their activities. This collusion between foes have led thus to an Inflation of the Internet's role and impact. More systematic empirical scrutiny is warranted in order to assess the Internet's role vis-à-vis other media interfaces, while avoiding the pitfalls of exaggeration and underestimation. This paper builds on the author's previous research on the Zapatista uprising (Schulz 1998, 2001) and extends it through a focus on the media aspects. The data set consists of over 42,000 electronic mails and webpages as well as national and international mass media sources and ethnographic fieldwork in multiple sites in Mexico, the United States, and Europe over the period 1994-2005." (author's abstract)