Suchergebnisse

In this policy brief, former P/PV President Gary Walker asks, Is mentoring now a durable part of American social policy? If so is this unalloyed good news? Adapted from an article that first appeared in The Handbook of Youth Mentoring (DuBois and Karcher, ed. 2005), the brief reflects on the impact and appeal of mentoring, addresses various critiques of the movement and suggests future directions for mentorings application.

On realist terms, politics is about power, security, and order, and the question of whether politics can practice compassion is irrelevant. The author argues that a politics of compassion is possible and necessary in order to address human security needs. She extend debates on care ethics to develop a politics of compassion, using the example of asylum seekers to demonstrate that politics can practice compassion with (1) attentiveness to the needs of vulnerable people who are suffering, (2) an active listening to the voices of the vulnerable, and (3) open, compassionate, and appropriate responses to particular needs.

In light of dramatic and risk-laden change in the Palestinian political landscape, explored are the substance of domestic changes impacting the development of Palestinian political and governing systems and the dynamics of relations with Israel, and the incentive structure in which key Palestinian players have decided their objectives, crafted policy perspectives, and conducted cost-benefit analyses. The failures of Fatah and the rise of Hamas, as well as the lack of a credible alternative, or "third force," are discussed before examining the relationship between internal structures and processes, eg, Palestinian Authority reform, to external ones, eg, the peace process. Attention is given to the implications of Hamas' electoral victory over Fatah for the peace process, noting that the international community's unwillingness to address fundamental political issues of Israeli-Palestinian relations while fixating on the notion of Palestinian reform, has made it complicit in Israeli unilateralism, a problem that predates Hamas' win. How Hamas will approach the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, particularly in terms of US and EU policy prescriptions, is considered in closing.