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Based on her experience as a member of the South African and the Sierra Leonean truth and reconciliation commissions, the author formulates guiding principles and looks at the circumstances in which a truth and reconciliation commission constitutes an appropriate instrument to deal with transitional justice issues. The author also identifies possible contributions that truth and reconciliation commissions can make during a period of transition.

В рамках данной статьи автор предлагает рекомендации по изменению законодательства в области исполнения наказаний в отношении несовершеннолетних. Представлен анализ опыта работы Иркутского Молодежного Фонда правозащитников «ЮВЕНТА» в области проблем применения российского законодательства ; In this article the author suggests a set of changes in legislation concerning juvenile offenders. Author performs analysis of activists' experience at Irkutsk youth fund 'Uventa' in the area of Russian legislation application.

В рамках данной статьи автор предлагает рекомендации по изменению законодательства в области исполнения наказаний в отношении несовершеннолетних. Представлен анализ опыта работы Иркутского Молодежного Фонда правозащитников «ЮВЕНТА» в области проблем применения российского законодательства ; In this article the author suggests a set of changes in legislation concerning juvenile offenders. Author performs analysis of activists' experience at Irkutsk youth fund 'Uventa' in the area of Russian legislation application.

The author contends that the open European area & the lack of a common immigration policy have benefited the creation of decentralized Islamic terror cells in Europe. This fragmented threat must be combated through stricter border controls & above all through a "more dynamic" approach to risk prevention: close & precisely coordinated cooperation between intelligence agencies is urgent, the author contends. Adapted from the source document.

The article is about the specificity of social control as an element of social management. The author indicates that social control is carried out within the subject-object relations. The author gives a detailed description of the participants of social relationships in social management and control. Particular attention is paid to analysis of the essential features acquired during interaction by participants of social relationships.

This paper presents some of the results of the cooperation between the author, a physical anthropologist, and Willem Schaafsma. The subjects of study to be discussed in this paper all refer to human evolution, in particular to the process of hominisation. It is described how the interest of the author in these subjects arose, which new mathematical tools were developed, and what are the general conclusions.

The attempt to configure general contours of the economic theory of government control and supervising activity is undertaken in the article. Basing on the prerequisite of the benevolent state, the author considers its function of prevention of occurrence and compensation of undesirable (harmful) externalities caused by activities of economic agents. The author classifies types of externalities and offers corresponding mechanisms of their internalization.

David Pedersen teaches social and cultural theory at the University of Michigan, where he recently completed his Ph.D. in anthropology and history. He is the author of "The Storm We Call Dollars: Determining Value and Belief in El Salvador and the United States" (Cultural Anthropology, August 2002) and author (with Paul K. Eiss) of the introductory essay to that issue, "Values of Value."

After describing fundamentalism as reclamation o f authority over a sacred tradition, the author traces its origin to evangelicalism. Then he deals with fundamentalism in various religious traditions like Sikhism, Islam, Hinduism and Christianity. The author suggests that when fundamentalism has joined itself with political, military and police powers or with clerical power, resolute resistance must be offered, both from within and without.

This study focuses on the politics of structural adjustment reform in Brazil. Initially, the author presents some descriptive data on recent Brazilian reforms and explains how they took place. Next, she develops an argument that highlights the role of politics in the delays of the Brazilian reforms. The author concludes by presenting some of the possible theoretical implications of her empirical findings. (InWent/DÜI)

The author presents a study on African American female managers and the glass-ceiling phenomenon. The article addresses the concerns of gender and racial biases of the researcher-participant interaction that could negatively or positively influence the research findings. The author presents five possible biases to consider when conducting similar studies on African American female managers by a White male researcher.

The author challenges the scholarly emphasis on Greek rather than Roman influences informing Hannah Arendt's political thought. Focusing on Virgil, Cicero, & the Roman historiographers such as Livy, the author identifies influences on Arendt's ideas about words & deeds, audible & visible experience, & discretion & judgment. The Romans figured for Arendt ancient modes by which political thought might better apprehend the modern. K. Coddon

In this article, the author takes issue with a number of points raised by Will Kymlicka. These issues include the role of elites in defining and manipulating minority claims, the problem of intolerant minorities, and democratic consolidation in relation to minority rights. The author further discusses Kymlicka's point about territorial autonomy with reference to the work of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities. (ECMI)