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ABSTRACTThe effects of synchronous and asynchronous lectures and interaction formats were examined with graduate business students in on‐campus and off‐campus MBA programs. The dependent variables were scores on exams questions and learning styles and cognitive styles were used as covariates. The results indicated significant differences for discussion and lecture format and for on‐campus and off‐campus students. The results were discussed relative to learning in electronic environments.

Employing in-depth interviews with street children and service providers, and case analyses, this article explores programs and/or organizations in Toronto, Montreal, and Guatemala City that have been successful in attracting street children. Four keyelements regarding service delivery are proposed: provide direct and immediate basic services; build a sense of community that is safe and supportive; create linkages to mainstream culture; and, advocate for needed resources and/or better treatment.

The results of realization of the first privatization program are analyzed from two points of view: quantitative and qualitative. The efficiency of privatization is considered in different spheres. It is indicated that at the first stage of privatization its political and systemic goals were partially achieved, but economic and social ones seemed not to have been implemented. A number of conclusions aimed at further perfection of the process of privatization are formulated.

The present paper sets out to examine ways and means of attacking poverty and global socio-economic inequalities from a human rights perspective. First we shall look at global injustice and current ways of "approaching" it, and then investigate the problem of human rights receptivity. Next, we shall examine human rights as a possible tool in the struggle for global justice while finally focusing on a global reform program.

In this research note Ben Kiernan, director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University (www.yale.edu/gsp), scrutinizes estimates of the number of people killed in the two most recent cases of genocidal mass murder in Southeast Asia: Cambodia and East Timor. He concludes that the two cases were proportionately comparable, though many more people died in Cambodia. Each tragedy took the lives of over one-fifth of the population. (Crit Asian Stud/DÜI)

Examines Constitutional Court case seeking a court order against national and provincial health departments to compel them to provide Nevirapine to HIV-positive mothers and their new-born babies, and to plan a comprehensive national program to prevent or reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV; role of Western Cape province's policy. The consortium of AIDS activists that instituted proceedings against the government was called the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC).

The article is devoted to features of the governmental regulation of natural monopoly and the problems of their reformation. The primary tasks, methods and features of the governmental regulation of natural monopoly have been determined. The alternative approaches to reformation of natural monopoly have been considered. Estimation of existing program in that area has been given. As well perspective forecast of the development of Russian natural monopoly has been done.

AbstractThis article focuses on the question of whether corporate engagement can be used as an advocacy strategy for international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). The article will explore some of the characteristics of corporate engagement by studying the corporate engagement experience of the Australian NGO Community Aid Abroad (CAA) in its program, the Mining Campaign. The risks that emerged for CAA from policy decisions and processes within the development of the campaign are of central concern.

Master's degree students with visual impairments preferred alternative teleconferencing to the use of real-time Internet for the delivery of distance education courses, although most did not have to learn new assistive technologies to participate in the program. They thought that the program's faculty and staff were more accessible than other university personnel using e-mail and phone and that the program's web site was a good source of general information.

This paper describes the use of transformative learning theory to evaluate a family‐empowerment project focusing on life skills. The project was designed in response to welfare reform in Montana. Open‐ended interviews were conducted with 34 participants. Results revealed evidence of transformative learning outcomes such as an empowered sense of self and new connectedness with others. Respondents also spoke of factors built into the program designed to foster transformative learning. Implications are presented.

Offers an introduction to this special journal issue on research conducted by UNESCO's program, "Management of Social Transformation" (MOST), on the international problem of drug trafficking & organized crime. Comparative data are offered on various developing countries throughout Latin America & Asia, highlighting the economic & social causes & consequences of the illegal drug trade. The project's design, methodology, & goals are outlined, its publications are reviewed, & its scientific & policy-relevant results are summarized. K. Hyatt Stewart

Criticizes US-led campaign against Afghanistan mounted in response to Sept. 11, 2001 attacks against the US, the international counterterrorism coalition formed by the US and its allies, and US military and foreign policy; 7 articles. Published for the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation. Radiation hazard which the population of Thule, Greenland faces from nuclear waste on the US air base and Greenlanders' opposition to the US missile defense program.