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Today's world is fraught with perils and pandemics. Education offers structure, stability, and hope for the future, supporting conflict resolution, peacebuilding efforts, and scientific research that can help prevent and mitigate both natural and manmade disasters. With these values in mind, how can universities apply their experiences from the COVID-19 pandemic to other emergency situations? How can they ensure accessibility to education under any circumstances without compromising on quality? With diverse contributions from Afghanistan, Turkey, Lebanon, Pakistan, Kenya, India, Saudi Arabia, and Bangladesh, Higher Education in Emergencies: International Case Studies challenges educators to design curriculums that focus on resilience and equip staff with the capability to navigate future scenarios, and students with the skills they need to someday solve them. Avoiding prescriptive standards and advocating for programmes that address the needs of individual campuses, chapters feature evidence-rich case studies that identify both the gaps in addressing vulnerabilities as well as exemplary responses that have led the way in promoting institutional adaptability. Championing a variety of the lessons taken from across the globe, Higher Education in Emergencies: International Case Studies provides a critical toolkit for preparing universities for the next pandemic, earthquake, or civil conflict.

This Handbook offers a collection of cutting-edge essays on all aspects of strategic culture by a mix of international scholars, consultants, military officers, and policymakers. The volume explicitly addresses the analytical conundrums faced by scholars who wish to employ or generate strategic cultural insights, with substantive commentary on defining and scoping strategic culture, analytic frameworks and approaches, levels of analysis, sources of strategic culture, and modalities of change in strategic culture. The chapters engage strategic culture at the civilizational, regional, supra-national, national, non-state actor, and organizational levels. Divided into five thematic parts, the volume will appeal both to students new to the subject and to scholars who wish to incorporate strategic culture into their toolbox of analytical techniques. Part I assesses the evolving theoretical strengths and weaknesses of the field. Part II lays out elements of the theoretical and methodological foundations of the field, including sources and components of strategic culture. Part III presents a number of national strategic cultural profiles representing the state of contemporary strategic culture scholarship. Part IV addresses the utility of strategic culture for practitioners and scholars. Part V summarizes the key theoretical and practical insights offered by the volume's contributors. This handbook will be of much interest to students of strategic studies, defense studies, security studies and International Relations in general, as well as to professional practitioners.

"The Routledge Handbook of Soft Power (second edition) offers a comprehensive, detailed, and ground-breaking examination of soft power - a key factor in cultural diplomacy, cultural relations, and public diplomacy. This innovative handbook is a definitive resource for inquirers into soft power desiring to familiarize themselves with cutting-edge debates and research. It will be of interest and value to students, researchers and policy makers working in cultural relations, international communication, international relations, public diplomacy, and contiguous fields"--

This book explores a new repertoire for critique in the sociology of contemporary education, focusing on emerging social theories that respond to contemporary challenges in education, education policy and governance. Presenting a variety of approaches in the sociology of education including pragmatist critical sociology, neo-Marxism, post-digital sociology, new materialisms, affirmative critique of education, and post-colonial studies, the chapters in this book engage in a novel, collective dialogue and reflection on the affordances, limitations and challenges of emerging social theories in contemporary education. The book further justifies this novel approach through inclusion of a series of interviews with leading scholars and thinkers from within and outside the field of education on the subject of critique in contemporary society and education. he book offers relevant global and decolonial perspectives to study current transformations, drawing on innovations in theorizing and empirical illustrations from different countries. Highlighting alternative visions of these transformations in an era of globalization, fragmentation, and growing nationalism, this cutting-edge book will be of great interest to researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of the sociology of education, the philosophy of education, social theory, political science and comparative policy and politics more broadly.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Acronyms -- Table of Cases -- Table of Legislation -- 1. Introduction -- I. Key Terms and Definitions -- II. Measuring 'Extent' -- III. Northern Ireland as a Research Site -- IV. Framing the Analysis: Childhood, Agency and Youth Sexuality -- V. Methodological Design: A Brief Outline -- VI. Overview of the Book -- 2. Young People who DisplayHarmful Behaviours Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives -- I. Key Terms: Children, Childhood and Adolescence -- II. Constructions of Childhood -- III. Childhood and the Social Construction of 'Victim' and 'Offender' -- IV. Framing of 'Childhood', 'Deviance' and the 'Young Offender' -- V. Childhood and the Emergence of the 'Online' Offender: Sexting and Cyberbullying -- VI. Conclusion -- 3. Young People who Display Harmful Sexual Behaviour: A Review -- I. Conceptual Frameworks Influencing Youth Sexuality: The Northern Ireland Context -- II. Theoretical Influences -- III. Feminist Narratives: A Brief Introduction -- IV. Harmful Sexual Behaviour -- V. Commercialisation and Sexualisation of Children and Young People -- VI. Conclusion -- 4. Narratives on 'Cyberbullying' Among Young People -- I. Conceptualising (Cyber)Bullying: Definitional Issues -- II. On- and Offline Bullying: A Comparison -- III. Online Harms: Beyond Bullying -- IV. Gendered Dimensions to Online Harmful Behaviours -- V. The Role of the 'Bystander' -- VI. The Harmful Impact of Cyberbullying -- VII. Conclusion -- 5. Narratives on 'Sexting' Among Young People -- I. Conceptualising Sexting: Terminology and Definitional Issues -- II. Sexting: Emergence and Nature of the Behaviour -- III. Sexting: 'Harmful' Sexual Behaviour? -- IV. Gendered Dimensions to Sexting -- V. The Harmful Impact of Sexting -- VI. Conclusion -- 6. Peer-Based Sexting, Law and Issues of Consent.

The book builds on the assumption that women can contribute significantly more to urban planning and enrich urban environments and their own neighbourhoods. Based on walking interviews with 274 women, May East identifies 33 leverage points that can help make cities greener, wilder, more inclusive, more liveable, and more poetic!.

Welcoming immigrants and refugees has become wildly controversial, and yet this isn't just a political issue--it's a biblical one. In Start with Welcome, Bri Stensrud answers your most frequently asked questions with thoughtful, honest answers from the starting point of compassion. Engaging this issue starts with one word: welcome.

Papers consider the level of ecological awareness inherent in ancient societies and to identify the possible solutions implemented, trying to answer two questions in particular: what were the choices (political, economic, social) implemented during climatic variations, and how were they perceived by ancient societies?.