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War and peace perpetually alternate and peace is always seen as an endless project, even a dream, to be realised in brotherhood by everyone all over the earth. Present generations should ensure that both they and future generations learn to live together in peace with the highest aspiration of sparing future generations the scourge of war. The UN Charter is the most solemn pact of peace in history, which lays down the necessary basic principles for an enduring peace. Recently, in the context of the joint effort in the recognition of the high importance of practicing tolerance, dialogue, cooperation and solidarity among all human beings, peoples and nations, the General Assembly has raised the voice of victims to strongly condemn war and to openly reiterate their inalienable right to enjoy peace such that all human rights are promoted and protected and development is fully realized.

Co-regulation presents an odd paradox in today's context of a shifting emphasis from government to governance. In the first place, co-regulation implies horizontal, 'networked' relations between government and industry. Yet at the same time, it has the hierarchical connotation inherent in regulation. The main concern addressed in this paper is what this ambiguity means for evaluations of co-regulation. What is failure here? Two contrasting interpretations of 'governance' are described, and a case study from the Dutch poultry sector is presented to seek explanations for failure. The two interpretations are found to provide complementary explanations for failure. This suggests that evaluations adopting a single perspective may produce all-too-easy – though misleading – conclusions.

PurposeThis study aims to use the framework of customer dominant logic to explore the mediating role of service co-creation on the relationships between customer involvement and perceived service performance and between customer involvement and word-of-mouth (WOM). It also investigates the moderating role of customer relational-motivational orientation on the relationship between customer involvement and service co-creation.Design/methodology/approachA questionnaire survey was conducted to collect responses from 289 Hong Kong's customers in different service settings. Structural equation modeling was used to test the proposed research model.FindingsThe results of structural equation modeling showed that the freedom of co-creation and the degree of collaboration fully mediated the effect of customer involvement on perceived service performance and WOM. Additionally, relational-motivational orientation moderated the relationships between customer involvement and the freedom of co-creation and between customer involvement and the degree of collaboration.Practical implicationsThis research provides implications to managers on how to facilitate an environment that stimulates customer co-creation. Customer-contact employees must be trained with the necessary interpersonal skills to serve customers with different levels of relational-motivational orientation.Originality/valueThe study is one of the first to identify customer involvement as a key antecedent of service co-creation attributes and the moderating role of relational-motivational orientation on the relationships between customer involvement and service co-creation attributes.

Co-perpetration is one of the most complex forms of committing a crime. The paper presents the development of this institute, beginning with the legal sources of the ancient world, but also the slave and feudal criminal legislation. The authors also analyze the emergent forms of this institute in French bourgeois and German parity law. Finally, the authors deal with this institute in the criminal legislation of feudal and bourgeois Serbia, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, but also in the modern criminal legislation of the Republic of Serbia. The aim of the paper is to point out possible directions for reform of this very important institute of criminal law. ; Saučesništvo je jedan od najsloženijih oblika izvršenja krivičnog dela. U radu je prikazan razvoj ovog instituta počevši od pravnih izvora starog sveta, ali i robovlasničkog i feudalnog krivičnog zakonodavstva. Autori analiziraju i pojavne oblike ovog instituta u francuskom buržoaskom i nemačkom paritkularnom pravu. U trećem delu rada, autori daju pregled ovog instituta u krivičnom zakonodavstvu feudalne i buržoaske Srbije, Kraljevine Jugoslavije, FNRJ, SFRJ, SRJ, kao i u u savremenom krivičnom zakonodavstvu Republike Srbije. Cilj rada je da se ukaže na moguće pravce reforme ovog veoma važnog instituta krivičnog prava.

This study empirically investigates the relevance of Traditional Trade Theory, New Trade Theory and New Economic Geography in explaining industrial and services sectors' agglomeration in the European Union. Therefore, new dynamic panel data estimation techniques will be employed. Static panel data analysis reveals that assumptions of New Trade Theory and New Economic Geography can explain industrial concentration in the EU best. Results from dynamic panel OLS show that intermediate goods' intensity and therewith New Economic Geography's assumptions are important in explaining both industrial and services sectors' agglomeration. Several non-stationarity and co-integration relationships can be detected. Further, decomposition of effects across and within sectors is provided. Scale economies are only important for across industries' variation in agglomeration, not within. For services sectors' agglomeration results show that intermediate goods intensity matters only for within and not across industries' variation in agglomeration. Further evidence for intrasectoral trade explaining equalizing economic structures for services sectors is given.

Abstract
In the last 30 years, China's ruling party, with its Reform and Opening, has made achievements that have astonished the world. In that same time span, the Party has overcome a variety of foreseeable and non-foreseeable challenges. Meeting these challenges, even turning them into momentum for reform and resources for institutional innovation, is a matter of great importance for the existence and evolution of the current system. This article considers three challenges facing the Party from the angle of organization-building: the challenge of democratic elections, revolving around village self-government; the challenge of social fragmentation resulting from the market economy; and the challenge, intimately linked to the first two, of a growing civil society. Amidst our missteps, as we "cross the river by feeling the stones", the ruling Party has adopted various policy responses to these challenges. This article focuses on three organizing techniques: transition, co-optation, and permeation. After briefly introducing these three techniques, the article then attempts a holistic analysis and explores a few related theoretical issues.