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The book explores how diversity in United Nations' peace mission composition affects peacekeeping effectiveness. It identifies four key dimensions of composition: Blue Helmets' field diversity, top mission leadership diversity (between Force Commander and Special Representative of the Secretary General), vertical leadership distance (Leadership-Blue Helmets), and horizontal distance with the local population. Each dimension of diversity of mission is measured as linguistic, geographical, and religious distance. The book finds that diversity of Blue Helmets and diversity of top leadership may increase the mission's capacity to reduce battle-field violence and civilian victimization. This book crucially demonstrates why diversity of mission composition is a key variable to consider when trying to enhance peacekeeping effectiveness.

There is presently a view that accessible technologies offer an inclusive and humanistic expression of technology. They do. But that is not all. Accessible technologies offer more than this: they contain within them lessons on transformational leadership. Through examining six case studies the reader will begin to interpret these accessible technologies as expressions of leadership. The risk inherent in the current view is that to view accessible technologies only as examples of humanism, or the good, is to risk underselling them. In fact, accessible technologies (which are being created across international society) represent a powerful leadership approach to technology itself. Through their leadership, these accessible technologies demand and create new and original thinking by society. The reader will benefit from this Element by learning to identify transformational leadership within accessible technological creations and consequently gaining a capacity to apply this leadership to the very purposes of technology itself.

Front Cover -- The Changing Era of Diseases -- The Changing Era of Diseases -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Overview -- 1. Can We Live in a Disease-Free World? -- 2. Pandemic of Chronic Diseases and the Late Chronic Diseases -- 3. Changing View of Disease -- 4. What Next After the End of "the Era of Diseases"? -- 5. Composition of This Book -- 1 - From the Origin of Disease to Pandemic Infectious Diseases -- 1.1 The Emergence of Diseases -- Humankind undergoes physical and intellectual development -- Hunter-gatherers suffered from infectious diseases but never from communicable diseases -- Civilization gave birth to diseases -- Livestock breeding changes the disease pattern of humankind -- Is disease a punishment from god? -- 1.2 Humankind Begins to See Disease Through the Eyes of Reason -- Reason leaps forward -- Hippocrates brings down disease from god's domain to the human domain -- Rising to the center of western medicine through anatomical knowledge -- Oriental medicine took a different path from western medicine -- 1.3 Epidemics Changed History -- Conditions ripe for epidemics of infectious disease -- Smallpox brought the fear of epidemics -- The black death ends feudalism and makes powerful nations appear -- Influence of epidemics in the history of the west and the east -- Medicine equipped with the potential to develop into a science -- 1.4 Biomedical View of Diseases as the Basis of Modern Medicine -- The industrial revolution spreads tuberculosis and cholera -- Emergence of modern medicine, which assumes the specific cause of a specific disease -- Disease-centered instead of patient-centered medicine -- Western medicine replaces traditional oriental medicine in the east -- 2 - The Age of Chronic and Late Chronic Diseases: A New View of Diseases -- 2.1 Humankind Enters the Age of Chronic Diseases

"Comment habitons-nous, dans la Nord-Amérique? Quelle est notre manière collective d'être sur cette terre et comment en tirons-nous notre subsistance? L'ouvrage propose une enquête géophilosophique sur l'habitation postcoloniale, qui fait apparaître le vécu spatial contemporain comme un mouvement général de déracinement. Ce mouvement correspond au processus de colonisation et à la révolution industrielle, dont l'habitat actuel est le résidu. L'autrice met au jour les forces, les valeurs et les formes de cet arrachement, en même temps qu'elle examine celles de la résistance à cette tendance, exposant ainsi les tensions du rapport à la territorialité. La méthode retenue, transdisciplinaire, réunit l'analyse du discours, l'auto-ethnographie, la documentation photographique, l'histoire des idées, la critique littéraire et l'analyse phénoménologique : une démarche inédite et fructueuse, qui débouche sur une poétique de l'espace."--Page 4 de la couverture

Intro -- Dank -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Abkürzungsverzeichnis -- Abbildungsverzeichnis -- Tabellenverzeichnis -- 1 Einleitung -- 1.1 Die Lernherausforderung: Weltgesellschaft -- 1.2 Eine konzeptionelle Verortung -- 1.2.1 Globales Lernen -- 1.2.2 Politische Bildung -- 1.2.3 Begegnungsreisen -- 1.3 Eine theoretische Verortung -- 1.3.1 Erziehungswissenschaftliche Globalisierungsforschung -- 1.3.2 Empirische Jugendforschung -- 1.3.3 Internationale und interkulturelle Austauschforschung -- 1.4 Das Erkenntnisinteresse -- 1.5 Aufbau der Arbeit -- 1.6 Methodischer Zugang -- 1.7 Qualitativ-rekonstruktive Sozialforschung -- 1.8 Methodologische Vorannahmen: Praxeologische Wissenssoziologie -- 1.9 Das Sample -- 1.9.1 Auswahl der Länder -- 1.9.2 Auswahl der Gruppen -- 1.9.3 Darstellung der Gruppen -- 1.9.3.1 Gruppen aus Bolivien -- 1.9.3.2 Gruppen aus Deutschland -- 1.9.3.3 Gruppen aus Ruanda -- 1.10 Forschung im Nord-Süd-Kontext -- 1.10.1 Zum Umgang mit Sprache -- 1.10.2 Zum Umgang mit fremdkulturellen Daten -- 1.10.3 Zum Umgang mit sprachlicher und kultureller Hybridität -- 1.11 Datenerhebung: Das Gruppendiskussionsverfahren -- 1.12 Datenauswertung: Die dokumentarische Methode -- 1.12.1 Thematischer Verlauf und Transkription -- 1.12.2 Formulierende Interpretation -- 1.12.3 Reflektierende Interpretation und komparative Analyse -- 1.12.4 Typenbildung -- 1.13 Zusammenfassung -- 2 Darstellung der empirischen Ergebnisse -- 2.1 Mehrdimensionale Basistypik der Differenz -- 2.1.1 Dimension 1: Lokalisierung von Differenzen -- 2.1.2 Modus 1: Orientierung am persönlichen Nahraum -- 2.1.2.1 Modus 2: Orientierung an Gemeinschaft -- 2.1.2.2 Modus 3: Orientierung an Gesellschaft -- 2.1.2.3 Zusammenfassung -- 2.1.3 Dimension 2: Verallgemeinernde Ordnung von Differenzen -- 2.1.3.1 Modus 1: Hierarchisierung -- 2.1.3.2 Modus 2: Identifikation -- 2.1.3.3 Modus 3: Abstrahierung.

The Oxford Handbook of Acculturation and Health brings together three very different, but complementary, streams of work: theoretical and methodological "basic" work on acculturation, and applied work linking acculturation to various health outcomes among international migrants and their families, and interventions applying acculturation-related principles to prevent or treat health behaviours or problems. In this volume, the work of landmark acculturation theorists and methodologists appears in the same volume as applied epidemiologic and intervention work on acculturation and public health.