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Despite the advocates of the common EU identity, many people and scholars do believe that the EU will not ultimately prevent them from being French, German, Polish, and so on. It is almost impossible to avoid recognition of the opposing phenomenon of common identity, growing ethnocentrism, particularly when the EU is seen from the perspective of the smaller countries and cultures. Many of them seem sincerely concerned about the prospects of the effective preservation of their cultural specifics within the EU common socio-cultural context, if ever fully established. We argue that contemporary corporate management theory and practice can offer several concepts and cases that can lead to the desired achievement of a common identity, while not suppressing the individual goals, values and cultural identity of the EU member states. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the project of future Europe, by presenting an insight into the set of best-practices in the cross-cultural management within a selected group of big corporations, that can almost in their original form be transposed onto the areas of social life and politics.

International audience ; Nuclear power operating organizations and regulatory bodies (RB's) are facing problems related to shortage of technical and experienced human resources due to the dearth of new developments in the field of nuclear science and engineering and due to the ageing of the existing, experienced manpower; this has become even worse. This poses a serious concern to the nuclear industry vis‐à‐vis its survival and progress. Therefore it is essential that the organizations working in this area, to devise different mechanisms for the proper management and preservation of the knowledge and the intellectual capital contained therein. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), being the apex body of the United Nations, responsible for the safe and secure progress of the nuclear field, has also taken different steps in order to guide these organizations in this regard. Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority (PNRA) established in 2001, has also taken different measures to assess the maturity of the knowledge it contains and its significance for the success of the organization. This paper highlights the methodology employed by PNRA to assess the criticality and maturity of its knowledge domains.

Values and character education possess the inherent building blocks for the preservation of a healthy society. Values and character education have the potential to address moral issues in society and especially in educational institutions, such as schools, colleges and universities. One of the primary aims of values and character education is to allow students to experience life to the fullest. Values and character education could probably ensure a better life and future for South Africa"s youth.From the available literature, it is evident that society is experiencing a crisis regarding values, character and morality. The decline of human and societal values portrayed in the media has compelled the current government to initiate values education programmes in colleges and other institutions such as universities.In order to determine the values orientation among students of Further Education and Training Colleges (FET) in the North-West Province, an empirical study was done to ascertain students" opinions and the contributions of values education and character education. Semi-structured interviews were also conducted with the student council, the head of support services, as well as an official of student support services.

The 2009 Copenhagen Conference has been quite unsuccessful for the EU views and the general expectations generated by the agenda of negotiations. It principally demonstrated a huge change in the balance of influences between the main regions of the world. The Cancun conference in 2010 has confirmed the radical turn operated by the Copenhagen meeting. For two decades, the dominant approach has been to look for more and more stringent quantitative commitments of states in regard to their GHG emission levels, only balanced by flexibility mechanisms, with the idea of a phased-in geographical and temporal expansion of the approach. Instead, at Copenhagen and Cancun, have been laid the foundations of a bottom-up, loosely coordinated and fragmented approach made of unilateral pledges shaped by domestic agendas, just balanced by international review process, new promises of new financial transfers toward developing countries, with a particular attention given to programs against deforestation. Since Copenhagen, it is the vision of an international community taking due steps to wisely develop an appropriate common action for the preservation of a major global public good that blew up. Adapted from the source document.

Since the end of World War II, the Kuomintang (KMT) (Guomindang) government has erased all traces of Japanese rule from public space, deeming them "poisonous" to the people in Taiwan. This frenzy, often termed "de-Japanization" or qu Ribenhua in Chinese, included the destruction and alteration of Japanese structures. Yet, with democratization in the 1990s, the Japanese past has been revisited, and many Japanese structures have been reconstructed and preserved. This paper examines the social phenomenon of preserving Japanese heritage in present-day Taiwan. It mainly investigates religious/ spiritual architecture, such as Shinto shrines and martial arts halls (Butokuden), war monuments and Japanese statues and busts. A close investigation of these monuments finds that many of them are not restored and preserved in their original form but in a deformed/ transformed one. This finding leads the paper to conclude that the phenomenon is a postcolonial endeavour, rather than being "pro-colonial", and that the preservation of Japanese heritage contributes to the construction and consolidation of a Taiwan-centric historiography in which Taiwan is imagined as multicultural and hybrid. Adapted from the source document.

Since the end of World War II, the Kuomintang (KMT) (Guomindang) government has erased all traces of Japanese rule from public space, deeming them "poisonous" to the people in Taiwan. This frenzy, often termed "de-Japanization" or qu Ribenhua in Chinese, included the destruction and alteration of Japanese structures. Yet, with democratization in the 1990s, the Japanese past has been revisited, and many Japanese structures have been reconstructed and preserved. This paper examines the social phenomenon of preserving Japanese heritage in present-day Taiwan. It mainly investigates religious/spiritual architecture, such as Shinto shrines and martial arts halls (Butokuden), war monuments and Japanese statues and busts. A close investigation of these monuments finds that many of them are not restored and preserved in their original form but in a deformed/ transformed one. This finding leads the paper to conclude that the phenomenon is a postcolonial endeavour, rather than being "pro-colonial", and that the preservation of Japanese heritage contributes to the construction and consolidation of a Taiwan-centric historiography in which Taiwan is imagined as multicultural and hybrid. (JCCA/GIGA)

The legitimacy of humanitarian intervention has been contested for more than a century, yet pressure for such intervention persists. Normative evolution and institutional design have been closely linked since the first debates over humanitarian intervention more than a century ago. Three norms have competed in shaping state practice and the normative discourse: human rights, peace preservation, and sovereignty. The rebalancing of these norms over time, most recently as the state's responsibility to protect, has reflected specific international institutional environments. The contemporary legitimacy of humanitarian intervention is based on UN Security Council authorization of the use of force. Although the Security Council is often viewed as representative of great-power influence, international acceptance of its role is based on the role of non-permanent members and their support for the sovereignty norm. The current rebalanced norms supporting humanitarian intervention, institutional bias that protects state sovereignty, and the changing character of mass violence may undermine the tenuous contemporary legitimacy of humanitarian intervention. Normative adjustments and new institutional designs are required to insure the legitimacy of international action that protects populations against mass violence.

With the former industrial cities of Eastern Europe in ruin—once the pillars of these economies— the attention of both investors and academics has shifted toward capital cities and their new political and economic potential fueled by the rise of new governments and new foreign direct investment. The failed attempts to privatize many of these former industrial spaces has left entire cities in ruin and despair, forgotten by all but artists and preservationists, who see these spaces not only as aesthetically inspiring but also as charged with redemptive potential. This article puts forward an alternative exploration of the Eastern European postcommunist transition through these ruined spaces, arguing that the aesthetic dimension of change is key to understanding the human impact of the transition. Focusing on two former industrial sites—the Hunedoara Ironworks in Romania and the Vitkovice Ironworks in the Czech Republic—the article seeks to understand the rhetorical and material relationship between these ruined spaces and the workers who once inhabited them as well as the effect that different practices of representation—mainly photography—and preservation have had on these spaces.

N° ISBN - 978-2-7380-1284-5 ; International audience ; This paper results from an on-going research on the interconnections between rural development processes and farming development in the South of France. (Haute-Garonne and Tarn departments). We elaborate a tool to classify the links between farming and territorial development in territorial projects, according to two geographical theories of territoriality. We have analysed the representations of farming in three sample "Pays" (cross-municipality structures with participatory local development attributions, plus, in some cases, land planning attributions) in the vicinity of Toulouse, the 4th largest city in France. These territories share the same twofold feature: a deep and increasing intertwining of urban development and rural land uses, and the preservation of their rural character as an identity label. In each case, we have examined the local territory project and operation documentation, and conducted interviews with the major actors in territorial planning and farming development institutions in the area. This research leads to a comparative assessment of the underlying creative thinking in each territorial project, and more particularly how farming activities and land use are included in the different territorial projects.

N° ISBN - 978-2-7380-1284-5 ; International audience ; This article presents the analysis and reflection on the part of the experience of implementation of agroforestry systems, an existing alternative of agriculture as a solution for self-support, generation income to the rural population and environment preservation. Experience in that trained universities students of graduation, in order to that these, attached with the researchers from different areas, take appropriate of knowledge and strategies for work with agroforestry systems, on second moment, enable the construction of that knowledge along to the subjects of rural settlements of agrarian reform. The methodology is based on progressive pedagogical liberating trend that aims to develop conscience of all the reality they live in the quest for transformation in the collective construction of knowledge. The stimulus is given to addressing the issues related to critical discussion of the process of knowledge and different goals of each group, with the possible outcomes generate processes of self-training, preparing proposals, making the group itself platforms motor for community and assuming the implementation, evaluation and feedback of the project prepared in case the deployment of Agroforestry Systems.

N° ISBN - 978-2-7380-1284-5 ; International audience ; This paper results from an on-going research on the interconnections between rural development processes and farming development in the South of France. (Haute-Garonne and Tarn departments). We elaborate a tool to classify the links between farming and territorial development in territorial projects, according to two geographical theories of territoriality. We have analysed the representations of farming in three sample "Pays" (cross-municipality structures with participatory local development attributions, plus, in some cases, land planning attributions) in the vicinity of Toulouse, the 4th largest city in France. These territories share the same twofold feature: a deep and increasing intertwining of urban development and rural land uses, and the preservation of their rural character as an identity label. In each case, we have examined the local territory project and operation documentation, and conducted interviews with the major actors in territorial planning and farming development institutions in the area. This research leads to a comparative assessment of the underlying creative thinking in each territorial project, and more particularly how farming activities and land use are included in the different territorial projects.

N° ISBN - 978-2-7380-1284-5 ; International audience ; This article presents the analysis and reflection on the part of the experience of implementation of agroforestry systems, an existing alternative of agriculture as a solution for self-support, generation income to the rural population and environment preservation. Experience in that trained universities students of graduation, in order to that these, attached with the researchers from different areas, take appropriate of knowledge and strategies for work with agroforestry systems, on second moment, enable the construction of that knowledge along to the subjects of rural settlements of agrarian reform. The methodology is based on progressive pedagogical liberating trend that aims to develop conscience of all the reality they live in the quest for transformation in the collective construction of knowledge. The stimulus is given to addressing the issues related to critical discussion of the process of knowledge and different goals of each group, with the possible outcomes generate processes of self-training, preparing proposals, making the group itself platforms motor for community and assuming the implementation, evaluation and feedback of the project prepared in case the deployment of Agroforestry Systems.

N° ISBN - 978-2-7380-1284-5 ; International audience ; This paper results from an on-going research on the interconnections between rural development processes and farming development in the South of France. (Haute-Garonne and Tarn departments). We elaborate a tool to classify the links between farming and territorial development in territorial projects, according to two geographical theories of territoriality. We have analysed the representations of farming in three sample "Pays" (cross-municipality structures with participatory local development attributions, plus, in some cases, land planning attributions) in the vicinity of Toulouse, the 4th largest city in France. These territories share the same twofold feature: a deep and increasing intertwining of urban development and rural land uses, and the preservation of their rural character as an identity label. In each case, we have examined the local territory project and operation documentation, and conducted interviews with the major actors in territorial planning and farming development institutions in the area. This research leads to a comparative assessment of the underlying creative thinking in each territorial project, and more particularly how farming activities and land use are included in the different territorial projects.

Conceptions of developmental change and stability, and their spatial implications, are investigated in Jeffersonian republicanism and Thoreauvian environmentalism. Both Jefferson and Thoreau associated capitalist development with corruption and sought a stable, virtuous, materially frugal society in the face of modernisation. The Jeffersonian programme of agrarian, republican virtue rested on westward expansion and wilderness conquest. This approach was self-defeating: it exhausted the land base for agrarianism and promoted a commercial ethos inimical to republican virtue. Thoreau tried to address this contradiction by seeking stability and virtue through wilderness preservation. Yet both Jefferson and Thoreau problematically tried to displace developmental change away from a privileged locale and create an ahistorical, timeless preserve for virtue, whether agrarian republic or protected wilderness. A green republicanism drawing on aspects of Jefferson and Thoreau can offer an important critical standpoint on social and ecological change under capitalism. However, such a perspective must replace the Jeffersonian/Thoreauvian spatial dichotomisation of change and stability with a regionalism embracing a spectrum of interrelated locales experiencing different degrees of dynamism and permanence. Adapted from the source document.