Suchergebnisse

Die Schrift ist als Handreichung für Menschenrechtsorganisationen und -aktivisten gedacht "to equip human rights monitors with basic skills and tools needed to effectively gather, collate and document information on specific human rights abuses and therefore enable scholars and practitioners committed to advocating respect for human rights better discharge their functions." Das Themenspektrum reicht deshalb vom Knüpfen von Kontakten, Interviewführung und dem Sammeln von Informationen bis zur Dokumentation und zur Öffentlichkeitsarbeit. Im Anhang finden sich die einschlägigen internationalen, von Nigeria ratifizierten Konventionen und Kapitel vier der nigerianischen Verfassung von 1999 sowie nützliche Adressen zum Thema. (DÜI-Sbd)

Abstract
In recent years, both transitional justice and the role of the European Court of Human Rights in dealing with historical abuses have evolved. Transitional justice has begun to address widespread or systemic human rights abuses outside of the contexts of armed conflict and authoritarian regimes. In three key recent judgments, El-Masri v Macedonia, Janowiec v Russia and O'Keeffe v Ireland, the Court has clarified and expanded its approach to addressing historical human rights violations relevant to transitional justice in significant, if inconsistent, ways. To date, there is no exploration of the relationship between transitional justice, historical abuse outside the contexts of armed conflict or authoritarian rule and the European Convention of Human Rights. This article seeks to address that gap by considering the potential opportunities and obstacles for the use of the Convention to address historical abuse in consolidated democracies as a part of transitional justice.

"Serial no. 37." ; CIS Microfiche Accession Numbers: CIS 82 H521-31 ; Microfiche. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Part I: Conceptualizing Power -- Chapter 1 Introducing Key Issues -- Introduction -- Physical versus social power -- Power 'to' versus power 'over' -- Asymmetrical versus balanced power -- Power as structures versus agents -- Actual versus potential power -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Meet the Family - Domination, Authority and Legitimacy -- Introduction -- The 'dominant' academic discourse on power -- Bringing authority and legitimacy back in -- Max Weber's complicated legacy -- Recapitulation -- Power, modernity and ambivalence -- Part II: Theorizing Power -- Chapter 3 European Sources -- Introduction -- Early modern harbingers: Machiavelli and Hobbes -- Theorists of modernity: Marx, Durkheim and Weber -- Return to Italy: classical elitism and Gramsci -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 American Debates -- Introduction -- Power: community structures and national elites -- The power of positive function -- Power hides its face -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Epistemological Approaches -- Introduction -- Barnes: self-fulfilling prophecies -- Foucault: power/knowledge -- Actor-networks, 'realrationalität' and the ghost of Machiavelli -- Bourdieu: the practice of power -- On language and culture -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Evolutionary Approaches -- Introduction -- Energy, technology and evolution -- Two philosophic histories -- Modes, forms and sources of power -- Conclusion -- Part III: Investigating Power -- Chapter 7 Domination, Authority and Legitimacy in Liberal Society -- Introduction -- State, economy, and the 'memorable alliance' -- Civil society -- Public and private -- Competition as legitimation -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8 Religion and Morality -- Introduction -- Human limits and explanations of religion -- Religion as reflecting the social constitution of power relations.

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The growth of the inmate population nationwide has given rise to supermax prisons over the past two decades. Among the controversial issues that supermax prisons face are concerns about the types of individuals placed in solitary confinement and the arbitrary nature of those placements. This study profiled inmates in administrative segregation, as supermax confinement is called in Colorado, and the process and reasons for their placement. Evidence of institutional misbehavior, more serious criminal histories, and preexisting mental health needs were found among segregated inmates.

The factors which produced an excess of centralisation in Africa are described. The training needs arising from the new emphasis on decentralisation are then outlined. An assessment is made of current training efforts and a programme for future action offered.