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The group of Children Born of War (CBOW) has existed under the notion of different wordings throughout history of mankind. Being fathered by foreign and often enemy soldiers and local mothers these children are known under a variety of different names in their respective home countries. Although different, these particular groups of children seem to share some similar characteristics across time, nations, and conflicts. In order to facilitate a systematic comparative analysis, the research field of Children Born of War was established in 2006 unifying the various research activities, information and knowledge on these children cross-nationally. This article summarizes the achievements obtained so far focusing on the following questions: How was the conceptual framework developed to analyze CBOW interdisciplinary and internationally? How was the empirical evidence base on CBOW expanded and consolidated? What are the results obtained so far? The article concludes that developing new research programs is a cumbersome and challenging process as basic components of the research field do not exist a priori. With respect to the field of Children Born of War this process is further complicated as the topic is highly sensitive. Nevertheless, by systematically expanding collaboration and research networks, presenting the topic in relevant research settings and engaging in knowledge transfer the research program today has reached a level of consolidation which provides a sustainable basis for future development. It thereby supports further research on the topic. As the best interest of Children Born of War is often neglected, the expansion of this research field may also give this group a higher visibility in national and international politics and facilitate their empowerment in today's conflict and post-conflict zones.

Die immer weiter ausgefeilte juristische Methode und Fachsprache, sind einerseits Voraussetzungen für die Ausdifferenzierung der Rechtswissenschaften, bedeuten jedoch anderseits Schwierigkeiten für die Zusammenarbeit der Jurisprudenz mit anderen Wissenschaften. In dieser Entwicklung liegt jedoch nicht nur ein soziologisch zu beschreibender Prozeß der Ausdifferenzierung; das Recht ist vielmehr eine gesellschaftliche Tatsache, die Auswirkungen auf andere gesellschaftliche Prozesse besitzt und von diesen beeinflußt wird. Eine Rechtswissenschaft, die nicht in der Lage ist, durch Interdisziplinarität diesen vielfältigen Dimensionen ihres Forschungsgegenstandes gerecht zu werden, verliert die Möglichkeit, ihn angemessen zu untersuchen. Zugleich fehlen anderen Disziplinen, die die Auswirkungen des Rechts auf ihren Forschungsgegenstand berücksichtigen müssen, die für ihre Zwecke kompetent aufgearbeiteten juristischen Informationen. Die Forderung nach Interdisziplinarität aufzustellen, bedeutet jedoch nicht, daß sie auch möglich ist. Ihre wissenschaftstheoretischen, organisatorischen und soziologischen Bedingungen, werden im vorliegenden Band interdisziplinär und international grundsätzlich und anhand ausgewählter Problembereiche analysiert und Lösungsansätzen zugeführt. / »Interdisciplinarity in Jurisprudence« -- The mutual influences of law, society and natural environments require an interdisciplinary analysis of law. Specific methods and language limit its possibility. In the present volume members of different disciplines and different countries discuss the epistemological, organizational and sociological preconditions of interdisciplinarity in jurisprudence in international and interdisciplinary perspective, referring also to concrete examples

The issue whether or in which sense science informs us about the real world has pervaded the history of thought since antiquity. Is what Science tells us about the world determined unambigously by facts or does the content of any scientific theory in some way depend on the human conditon? "Sokal's hoax" added a new dimesion to this controversial debate which soon came to been known as "Science Wars". The focus of the present book is to review the broad range of philosophical positons on this issue, stretching from realism to relativism, to expound the epistemic merits of science and to address the central question: in which sense can science justifiably claim to provide a truthful protrait of reality? This book addresses everyone interested in the philosophy and history of sciences, and in particular in the interplay between social and natural sciences. TOC:Defense of a Modest Scientific Realism.- Scientific Realism: An Elaboration and a Defence.- Scientific Objectivity With a Human Face.- On Social Constructivist Accounts of the Natural Science.- Experimental Success and the Revelation of Reality: the Miracle Argument for Scientific Realism.- True is What is Considered True is True.- Realism and Biological Knowledge.- Objective Facts, Subjective Experiences, and Neuronal Constructs.- The Mote and the Beam.- Evidence, Logic and Moral Authority.- Neither Modernist Nor Postmodernist-A Third Way.- From Science Wars to Science Worries: Some Reflections on the Conquest of Reality.-Science Wars?Historical, Social, and Epistemological Aspects of the Sokal/Bricmont Debate

The group of Children Born of War (CBOW) has existed under the notion of different wordings throughout history of mankind. Being fathered by foreign and often enemy soldiers and local mothers these children are known under a variety of different names in their respective home countries. Although different, these particular groups of children seem to share some similar characteristics across time, nations, and conflicts. In order to facilitate a systematic comparative analysis, the research field of Children Born of War was established in 2006 unifying the various research activities, information and knowledge on these children cross-nationally. This article summarizes the achievements obtained so far focusing on the following questions: How was the conceptual framework developed to analyze CBOW interdisciplinary and internationally? How was the empirical evidence base on CBOW expanded and consolidated? What are the results obtained so far? The article concludes that developing new research programs is a cumbersome and challenging process as basic components of the research field do not exist a priori. With respect to the field of Children Born of War this process is further complicated as the topic is highly sensitive. Nevertheless, by systematically expanding collaboration and research networks, presenting the topic in relevant research settings and engaging in knowledge transfer the research program today has reached a level of consolidation which provides a sustainable basis for future development. It thereby supports further research on the topic. As the best interest of Children Born of War is often neglected, the expansion of this research field may also give this group a higher visibility in national and international politics and facilitate their empowerment in today's conflict and post-conflict zones.