The Neutrality Trap

Author : Bernard S. Mayer,Jacqueline N. Font-Guzmán, PhD, JD, MHA.
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119793243

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The Neutrality Trap by Bernard S. Mayer,Jacqueline N. Font-Guzmán, PhD, JD, MHA. Pdf

Work for social change through constructive engagement and systems disruption in this practical resource for social change advocates and conflict specialists In The Neutrality Trap, expert mediators and facilitators Bernard Mayer and Jacqueline N. Font-Guzmán deliver an insightful and practical exploration of how to understand the conflicts we face as social change agents. You'll learn about systems disruption and constructive engagement: how to develop the relationships and change strategies that help people, systems, and societies confront their most important social challenges. In this important book, you will: Discover how to challenge the status quo in an effective way Practice how to "get into good trouble," and pick the battles worth fighting Learn to be strategic in your approach to social change and sustain your efforts over the long term Perfect for anyone interested in progressing and achieving social justice, The Neutrality Trap is an indispensable guide to engaging in and managing the necessary conflict that comes with meaningful change.

Author : Carsten Wieland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780755641413

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Syria and the Neutrality Trap by Carsten Wieland Pdf

The Syrian war has been an example of the abuse and insufficient delivery of humanitarian assistance. According to international practice, humanitarian aid should be channelled through a state government that bears a particular responsibility for its population. Yet in Syria, the bulk of relief went through Damascus while the regime caused the vast majority of civilian deaths. Should the UN have severed its cooperation with the government and neglected its humanitarian duty to help all people in need? Decision-makers face these tough policy dilemmas, and often the “neutrality trap” snaps shut. This book discusses the political and moral considerations of how to respond to a brutal and complex crisis while adhering to international law and practice. The author, a scholar and senior diplomat involved in the UN peace talks in Geneva, draws from first-hand diplomatic, practitioner and UN sources. He sheds light on the UN's credibility crisis and the wider implications for the development of international humanitarian and human rights law. This includes covering the key questions asked by Western diplomats, NGOs and international organizations, such as: Why did the UN not confront the Syrian government more boldly? Was it not only legally correct but also morally justifiable to deliver humanitarian aid to regime areas where rockets were launched and warplanes started? Why was it so difficult to render cross-border aid possible where it was badly needed? The meticulous account of current international practice is both insightful and disturbing. It tackles the painful lessons learnt and provides recommendations for future challenges where politics fails and humanitarians fill the moral void.

Author : Erich Reiter,Heinz Gärtner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783662130001

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Small States and Alliances by Erich Reiter,Heinz Gärtner Pdf

The book focuses on the relations between small states and alliances. It is on why, how and under what conditions states engage in alliances. What are the benefits and costs of alliances? How are the benefits and costs of alliances allocated among their members? What determines who allies with whom? Can small states still pursue their own security interests within an alliance? Can they even become integral part of an alliance? Scholars, practitioners, policy-makers and advisors from several countries discuss these issues. They address historical, empirical and theoretical topics and give policy recommendations.

Author : Guilherme Cintra Guimarães
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429594625

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Global Technology and Legal Theory by Guilherme Cintra Guimarães Pdf

The rise and spread of the Internet has accelerated the global flows of money, technology and information that are increasingly perceived as a challenge to the traditional regulatory powers of nation states and the effectiveness of their constitutions. The acceleration of these flows poses new legal and political problems to their regulation and control, as shown by recent conflicts between Google and the European Union (EU). This book investigates the transnational constitutional dimension of recent conflicts between Google and the EU in the areas of competition, taxation and human rights. More than a simple case study, it explores how the new conflicts originating from the worldwide expansion of the Internet economy are being dealt with by the institutional mechanisms available at the European level. The analysis of these conflicts exposes the tensions and contradictions between, on the one hand, legal and political systems that are limited by territory, and, on the other hand, the inherently global functioning of the Internet. The EU’s promising initiatives to extend the protection of privacy in cyberspace set the stage for a broader dialogue on constitutional problems related to the enforcement of fundamental rights and the legitimate exercise of power that are common to different legal orders of world society. Nevertheless, the different ways of dealing with the competition and fiscal aspects of the conflicts with Google also indicate the same limits that are generally attributed to the very project of European integration, showing that the constitutionalization of the economy tends to outpace the constitutionalization of politics. Providing a detailed account of the unfolding of these conflicts, and their wider consequences to the future of the Internet, this book will appeal to scholars working in EU law, international law and constitutional law, as well as those in the fields of political science and sociology.

Author : Julie Shields
Publisher : Capital Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1931868557

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How to Avoid the Mommy Trap by Julie Shields Pdf

The essential guide for mothers and potential mothers who want to share childrearing responsibilities with men.

Author : Matthew Hindman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691210209

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The Internet Trap by Matthew Hindman Pdf

Why there is no such thing as a free audience in today's attention economy The internet was supposed to fragment audiences and make media monopolies impossible. Instead, behemoths like Google and Facebook now dominate the time we spend online—and grab all the profits. This provocative and timely book sheds light on the stunning rise of the digital giants and the online struggles of nearly everyone else, and reveals what small players can do to survive in a game that is rigged against them. Challenging some of the most enduring myths of digital life, Matthew Hindman explains why net neutrality alone is no guarantee of an open internet, and demonstrates what it really takes to grow a digital audience in today's competitive online economy.

Author : Lilia I. Bartolomé
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : 0820497045

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Ideologies in Education by Lilia I. Bartolomé Pdf

Exposes the invisible yet pervasive nature of oppressive dominant ideologies, the urgent need to articulate their existence, and the harmful impact they have on education. The solutions to many of the educational challenges facing subordinated students are not purely technical or methodological in nature, but are instead rooted in commonly unacknowledged discriminatory ideologies and practices. The invisible foundation, hegemonic ideologies that inform our perceptions and treatment of subordinated students, needs to be made explicit and studied critically in order to comprehend the challenges presented in minority education, and possible solutions, more accurately. Confronts the continuing existence and vigorous resurgence of not-easily-named discriminatory perspectives toward students from subordinated cultural groups, as well as their numerous manifestations in schools, and identifies the measures necessary to neutralize unequal material conditions and biased beliefs. From publisher description.

Author : Henry Louis Gates Jr.,Anthony P. Griffin,Donald E. Lively,Nadine Strossen
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780814730904

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Speaking of Race, Speaking of Sex by Henry Louis Gates Jr.,Anthony P. Griffin,Donald E. Lively,Nadine Strossen Pdf

Contributors argue that hate speech restrictions on college campuses are dangerous and counterproductive. Essays discuss race theory and the First Amendment, racist speech and democracy, regulating racist speech on campus, and the hate speech debate from a lesbian/gay perspective. Includes an introduction by Ira Glasser, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Doon Arbus
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811229500

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The Caretaker by Doon Arbus Pdf

A lush, disorienting novel, The Caretaker takes no prisoners as it explores the perils of devotion and the potentially lethal charisma of things Following the death of a renowned and eccentric collector—the author of Stuff, a seminal philosophical work on the art of accumulation—the fate of the privately endowed museum he cherished falls to a peripatetic stranger who had been his fervent admirer. In his new role as caretaker of The Society for the Preservation of the Legacy of Dr. Charles Morgan, this restive man, in service to an absent master, at last finds his calling. The peculiar institution over which he presides is dedicated to the annihilation of hierarchy: peerless antiquities commune happily with the ignored, the discarded, the undervalued and the valueless. What transpires as the caretaker assumes dominion over this reliquary of voiceless objects and over its visitors is told in a manner at once obsessive and matter-of-fact, and in language both cocooning and expansive. A wry and haunting tale, The Caretaker, like the interplanetary crystal that is one of the museum’s treasures, is rare, glistening, and of a compacted inwardness. Kafka or Shirley Jackson may come to mind, and The Caretaker may conjure up various genres—parables, ghost stories, locked-room mysteries—but Doon Arbus draws her phosphorescent water from no other writer’s well.

Author : Andrea Renda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Antitrust law
ISBN : 9461384580

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Antitrust, Regulation and the Neutrality Trap: a Plea for a Smart, Evidence-based Internet Policy by Andrea Renda Pdf

When they look at Internet policy, EU policymakers seem mesmerised, if not bewitched, by the word 'neutrality'. Originally confined to the infrastructure layer, today the neutrality rhetoric is being expanded to multi-sided platforms such as search engines and more generally online intermediaries. Policies for search neutrality and platform neutrality are invoked to pursue a variety of policy objectives, encompassing competition, consumer protection, privacy and media pluralism. This paper analyses this emerging debate and comes to a number of conclusions. First, mandating net neutrality at the infrastructure layer might have some merit, but it certainly would not make the Internet neutral. Second, since most of the objectives initially associated with network neutrality cannot be realistically achieved by such a rule, the case for network neutrality legislation would have to stand on different grounds. Third, the fact that the Internet is not neutral is mostly a good thing for end users, who benefit from intermediaries that provide them with a selection of the over-abundant information available on the Web. Fourth, search neutrality and platform neutrality are fundamentally flawed principles that contradict the economics of the Internet. Fifth, neutrality is a very poor and ineffective recipe for media pluralism, and as such should not be invoked as the basis of future media policy. All these conclusions have important consequences for the debate on the future EU policy for the Digital Single Market.

Author : Rebecca Subar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Political participation
ISBN : 1629638366

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When to Talk and When to Fight by Rebecca Subar Pdf

When to Talk and When to Fight is a conversation between talkers and fighters. It introduces a new language to enable negotiators and activists to argue and collaborate across different schools of thought and action. Weaving beautiful storytelling and clear analysis, this book maps the habits of change-makers, explaining why some groups choose dialogue and negotiation while others practice confrontation and resistance. With lucid charts and graphs by Rosi Greenberg, When to Talk and When to Fight is a brilliant new way of talking about how we change the world.

Author : Cheryl Payer
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780853453765

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The Debt Trap by Cheryl Payer Pdf

Details the history of the first thirty years of the system of aid and credit in which the IMF is the keystone.

Author : J.W.G. Jacobs,L.J.M. Cornelissens,M.C. Veenhuizen
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781614998785

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Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: A Multidisciplinary Approach by J.W.G. Jacobs,L.J.M. Cornelissens,M.C. Veenhuizen Pdf

Generalized hypermobility has been known since ancient times, and a clinical description of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) is said to have first been recorded by Hippocrates in 400 BC. Hypermobility syndromes occur frequently, but the wide spectrum of possible symptoms, coupled with a relative lack of awareness and recognition, are the reason that they are frequently not recognized, or remain undiagnosed. This book is an international, multidisciplinary guide to hypermobility syndromes, and EDS in particular. It aims to create better awareness of hypermobility syndromes among health professionals, including medical specialists, and to be a guide to the management of such syndromes for patients and practitioners. It is intended for use in daily clinical practice rather than as a reference book for research or the latest developments, and has been written to be understandable for any healthcare worker or educated patient without compromise to the scientific content. The book is organized as follows: chapters on classifications and genetics are followed by chapters on individual types, organ (system) manifestations and complications, and finally ethics and therapeutic strategies, with an appendix on surgery and the precautions which should attend it. A special effort has been made to take account of the perspective of the patient; two of the editors have EDS. The book will be of interest to patients with hypermobility syndromes and their families, as well as to all those healthcare practitioners who may encounter such syndromes in the course of their work.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Deflation
ISBN : UCAL:$C47011

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Monetary Policy and the Liquidity Trap by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bernard S. Mayer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118178249

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The Dynamics of Conflict by Bernard S. Mayer Pdf

The Dynamics of Conflict When it was published in 2000, Bernie Mayer’s The Dynamics of Conflict Resolution quickly became one of the seminal works in the conflict resolution field. The book bridged the gap between abstract theoretical approaches and practical handbooks and became an immensely valuable and accessible resource for experienced and novice practitioners, as well as for professors and students of conflict management who needed a deep yet practical view of conflict and methods for dealing with it. The Dynamics of Conflict is the second edition of Mayer’s classic book. While building on the strengths of the first edition, this thoroughly revised and updated book keeps pace with the most current trends and research in the field and explores four key concepts: interactional dynamics, system dynamics, culture and conflict, and conflict engagement. Like the first edition, the focus of the new edition is on the ways we can productively think about conflict and conflict intervention, rather than on specific techniques and processes. Mayer presents ideas about conflict as a set of conceptual tools that build on one another and contribute to a multifaceted view of conflict and conflict intervention but that also stand on their own. Filled with illustrative examples, the book draws from the author’s thirty years of experience with interpersonal, family, community, organizational, labor management, environmental, public policy, and international disputes and includes instances of conflicts that have been in the news. In addition, this vital resource contains information on the most important work that has been done in the past decade on culture, systems, and conflict engagement and shows how conflict concepts apply to new technologies such as online communication and conflict resolution efforts on the Web. In the concluding chapter Mayer explores how conflict intervention efforts fit into more general values about peace, democracy, and social justice, and the personal impact that conflict work as a field has on conflict specialists.