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Antiviolence advocates often find themselves working with the contradictions of struggling for a vision of justice within the constraints of the United States legal system. Perhaps the greatest contradictions are those felt by many Native advocates who understand the United States to be a settler colonial state. The incidence of violence against Native women has reached epidemic rates. People who perpetrate sexual assault against Native women are generally white. Because of the complex jurisdictional issues involving tribal lands, most sexual assaults against Native women are committed with impunity. The intersections of gender violence and colonialism in Native women's lives force numerous contradictions upon Native antiviolence advocates. Adapted from the source document.

Singapore's reaction to the Asian financial crisis suggests that while there were signs of deepening liberalization, there was little evidence of a profound retreat from the developmental state paradigm. The crisis generated an obsession with "globalization compatibility": aggressive externalization of private and state-led economic activities and a gradualist strategy for building economic community abroad.

International audience ; We are witnessing today a fundamental shift from the collapse of traditional industries to the rise of economies based on intelligence resources and adaptive problem-solving capabilities. Industries are shifting from satisfied introversion to an inescapable extroversion, and discover, with disappointment, that their own perception and sense-making remains for them a mystery. Temptation for rationalization and eagerness to reduce uncertainty by any means provoked a rush to import techniques and methods that showed efficiency in the diplomatic world into their everyday business life. Corporate intelligence units and centralized departments started to pop up in the business world in the mid-80s, with so many failures that executives wonder today if governments themselves have not over-exaggerated the efficiency of their own intelligence efforts. There was-sadly-no reason to anticipate a success in implementing techniques that were created under social and technico-economic conditions that do not exist any more.

AbstractAs the world gropes for an understanding of and solutions to poverty, one of its typologies that has come to the fore is housing poverty. Housing poverty afflicts developing countries in particular, and solving it may bring about solutions to other forms of poverty. One of the strategies that can be used to promote the understanding of housing poverty, and hence show the way to its reduction, is the decennial census of housing. This essay intends to determine whether the decennial census of housing can be used as a strategy for the reduction of housing poverty in Kenya. It evaluates the whole census business and recommends that some of the missing UN‐recommended housing topics be incorporated in order to give a complete picture of housing poverty in the country. It also recommends that the analysis and reporting of the census survey should be more sensitive to the geographical and social extents of housing poverty. This would transform the decennial census of housing into an effective strategy for poverty reduction in Kenya and, for that matter, in any developing country in the world.RésuméTandis que le monde cherche à comprendre la pauvreté et à lui trouver des solutions, l'une des typologies manifeste aujourd'hui est la pauvreté du logement. Elle affecte notamment les pays en développement et sa résolution pourrait permettre de résoudre d'autres formes de pauvreté. L'une des stratégies qui servirait à faciliter la compréhension de ce type de pauvreté, donc à ouvrir la voie vers son recul, est le recensement décennal de l'habitat. Cet article vise àétablir si un recensement décennal de l'habitat pourrait servir de stratégie pour le recul de la pauvreté du logement au Kenya. Il évalue l'ensemble de l'activité de recensement et conseille que certaines rubriques de logement qui manquent dans les recommandations de l'ONU soient intégrées afin de donner une image complète de la pauvreté du logement national. De plus, il propose que l'analyse et le compte rendu du recensement tiennent davantage compte des champs géographiques et sociaux de la pauvreté du logement. Cela ferait du recensement décennal de l'habitat une stratégie efficace de diminution de la pauvreté au Kenya et, d'ailleurs, dans tout autre pays en développement au monde.

Subject of research. Strategizing (strategic planning) of the development of the scientific and innovative sphere of the Russian Federation subjects.The purpose of the study. The purpose of the study is to assess the current practice of strategic planning of the development of the scientific and innovative sphere of the Russian Federation (regions), to identify its inherent positive aspects and limitations.Methodology. The method of content analysis of strategies for socio-economic development of regions was used, supplemented by a comparative analysis of the key tasks presented in them for the development of the scientific and innovative sphere and the measures that the public authorities intend to implement. The information base of the analysis includes updated strategies for social and economic development of the Voronezh, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, and Samara regions developed in accordance with the requirements of the Federal law of the Russian Federation No. 172 of June 28, 2014 «on strategic planning in the Russian Federation».Results and discussion. The positive aspects of the strategy practice include setting tasks related to the development of the market for intellectual property objects, venture financing, international production cooperation of enterprises, and the export of innovative products. Another positive aspect is the development of measures that are relatively new for most regions. These include measures to ensure: the creation of technology and innovation support centers based on higher education institutions, the formation of leading research centers, including world-class ones; promotion of innovative developments of small and medium-sized businesses to foreign markets; consolidation of young specialists in science and innovative activities; solution of social, housing and professional problems of young scientists and prospective researchers; creation of an environment for online communications between innovation developers, business and government agencies; promotion of innovative culture through mass media and the Internet; implementation of information policy aimed at increasing the prestige of innovation and scientific activities. Among the limitations of the practice of strategizing is defined: carried out only in a few strategies, setting new targets for the development of scientific-innovative sphere; selectivity of the proposed measures concerning the composition of the key objectives identified.Conclusions. Identified positive aspects and limitations of contemporary practice in strategies of scientific-innovation sphere indicate the need for learning from the experience of advanced regions, demand for policy formation necessary key tasks of its development and measures to ensure their effective solution.

PurposeManaging e‐government is invariably managing change. Despite plethora of literature on change management, the rate of success of e‐government projects is dismal, especially in developing countries. Deriving from strategy and change management literature, this paper seeks to present a new approach to strategize for better change outcomes in e‐government domain. A new construct of "continuity" is introduced and proposed to be managed concurrently with change forces to attain better delivery of strategic deliverables in e‐government projects.Design/methodology/approachContinuity and change forces affecting e‐government domain identified from the literature are statistically validated by conducting an "idea engineering" exercise. For this response from e‐government experts to a structured questionnaire is elicited to validate the forces, which are further modeled in the strategic framework proposed.FindingsDrawing from strategy and change management literature, it is hypothesized that "managing change in e‐government can be better leveraged by consciously and concurrently managing continuity". Based on expert survey, out of the initial six continuity and eight change forces proposed, only one continuity force has been dropped and the rest are further modeled in the framework. Propositions for future research and implications for policy makers and implementers are highlighted.Practical implicationsGiven the low rate of success of e‐government initiatives, especially in developing countries, this framework may serve as an important approach to strategizing in e‐government domain and may be of value to not just the policy makers but also to other stakeholders like project planners, implementers and also the beneficiaries.Originality/valueThe value of this paper lies in the application of the concept of strategic management of continuity and change in e‐government domain; identification of continuity and change forces in e‐government; and proposing a model linking the "constructs of continuity and change" forces with strategic deliverables of e‐government.