scholarly journals Process Oriented Psychology: Advanced Practices for Dispute Resolution

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 649-662
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Communications Theory ◽  
Process Oriented ◽  
Taoist Philosophy ◽  
Conflict Process ◽  
Flow Of Information

This article introduces Process Oriented Psychology – also known as Processwork – a relatively new approach to working with dispute resolution and conflict. Process Oriented Psychology is a comprehensive awareness-based paradigm that seeks to observe, follow, and support the flow of information signals as they emerge and unfold through communication in people, groups, and communities. It is a humanistic, trans-disciplinary approach for developing awareness and change, drawing from Jungian and Gestalt psychologies, sociology, systems and communications theory, Taoist philosophy, indigenous knowledge, and physics.

scholarly journals Globalization, Knowledge Economy and the implication for Indigenous Knowledge

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 55-62
Author(s):  
Kgomotso H Moahi
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Flow Of Information

This paper considers the impact that globalization and the knowledge economy have on the protection and promotion of indigenous knowledge. It is asserted that globalization and the knowledge economy have opened up the world and facilitated the flow of information and knowledge. However, the flow of knowledge has been governed by uneven economic and political power between the developed countries and the devel-oping countries. This has a number of ramifications for IK. The dilemma faced is that whichever method is taken to protect IK (IPR regimes, documenting IK etc) exposes IK to some misappropriation. Protecting it through IPR is also fraught with problems. Documenting IK exposes IK to the public domain and makes it that much easier to be misused. However, not protecting IK runs the danger of having it disappear as the custodians holding it die off, or as communities become swamped by the effects of globalization. The conclu-sion therefore is that governments have to take more interest in protecting, promoting and using IK than they have been doing.

Designing Contentious Politics in Post-1989 China

Modern China ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 459-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Lorentzen
Keyword(s):  
Central Government ◽  
Safety Valve ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Information Gathering ◽  
The State ◽  
Vertical Flow ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Bargaining Position ◽  
Popular Contention ◽  
Flow Of Information

This article proposes a new approach to studying China’s contentious politics in the post-1989 era. This approach treats China’s central government as an institutional designer whose policies on social conflicts shape popular contention. This approach offers four insights. First, protests can provide useful information to the state about citizen grievances, but only if they are costly enough to ensure that only serious claimants engage in them. Second, protesters routinely forego strategies that would give them a stronger bargaining position because the state benefits from maintaining a consistent policy of rewarding only protests that pursue weaker strategies. Third, the contradictory “safety valve” and “single spark” metaphors for protest can be reconciled by distinguishing between the vertical flow of information from citizens to state and the horizontal flow of information from citizen to citizen. Finally, the article suggests why protests have been tolerated when apparently safer information-gathering institutions exist.

scholarly journals Lexicography and the translation of ‘cedars of Lebanon’ in the Septuagint

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacobus A. Naude ◽  
Cynthia L. Miller-Naude
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Greek Translation ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Contradictory Data

Botanical terms in the Septuagint reveal a mass of uncertain and sometimes contradictory data, owing to the translators’ inadequate and inaccurate understanding of plants. To understand the metaphorical and symbolic meaning of plants, the new approach represented by Biblical Plant Hermeneutics places the taxonomy of flora on a strong ethnological and ethnobotanical basis by studying each plant in situ and gathering indigenous knowledge about the plant and its context in the biblical text. This article applies this methodology to the translation of the Hebrew source text term אֶרֶז [cedar] in the Septuagint as κέδρος [cedar] or κέδρινος (the adjectival form of κέδρος) and its interpretation in the light of lexicography, which lead to contradictory identifications. A complexity theoretical approach is proposed to provide a solution for the various identification choices in the light of lexicography to communicate the cultural values of the Hebrew source text and its Greek translation.

A grid model to address the behaviour of the nodes in the dissemination of information

Kybernetes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (7) ◽  
pp. 1953-1967
Author(s):  
María Teresa Signes-Pont ◽  
Higinio Mora ◽  
Antonio Cortés-Castillo ◽  
Rafael Mollá-Sirvent
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Data Dissemination ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Grid Model ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Dissemination Process ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Flow Of Information ◽  
Human Awareness

Purpose This paper aims to present a framework to address the impact of people’s behaviour in the dissemination of information through mobile social networks. Design/methodology/approach This approach follows the epidemical compartmental models and uses a grid to model the nodes’ (people) behaviour in the dissemination process. The nodes’ status is determined by binary rules that update and define the flow of information between neighbour nodes. An improved stacked-layer grid model is used to implement modulations in the application of the rules and neighbourhoods to model the impact of people’s attitude, which may improve or jeopardize the efficiency of the process. Findings This proposal shows how grid architecture is a valuable tool to model different causes of malfunction of data dissemination. Combining different grids with different neighbourhoods and different local rules provides a wide range of possibilities to depict the impact of human awareness and decision on the dissemination of data. Originality/value This works develops a new approach for the analysis of dissemination of information which add new features to traditional methods for modelling local interactions and describing the dynamics of the communication patterns in the population.

scholarly journals Decentralized Justice: A Comparative Analysis of Blockchain Online Dispute Resolution Projects

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yann Aouidef ◽  
Federico Ast ◽  
Bruno Deffains
Keyword(s):  
Game Theory ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Mechanism Design ◽  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
Large Volume ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Online Dispute Resolution ◽  
Key Players ◽  
Key Dimensions ◽  
Growth Hypothesis

In recent years, the digital economy has experienced a growing number of transactions. Traditional dispute resolution methods such as court and international arbitration are ineffective for handling a large volume of small value claims across national borders. Decentralized justice is a new approach to online dispute resolution that combines blockchain, crowdsourcing and game theory in order to produce resolution systems which are radically more efficient than existing methods. This article offers a review of the decentralized justice industry and of the key players participating in it. It presents a number of key dimensions of the industry and reviews the mechanism design choices made by these different platforms. Finally, it discusses a growth hypothesis for the industry and how it may grow in the future.

Communities of Practice and Indigenous Knowledge

2017 ◽  
pp. 226-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Namatsi Lutomia ◽  
Julia Bello-Bravo
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Shea Butter ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Practice Framework

This chapter contributes to critical inquiry literature regarding various ways that indigenous knowledge intersects with technology, especially in regards to female knowledge systems. Using Lave and Wenger's community of practice framework, this chapter illustrates how animations assist women in knowledge sharing on best practices in shea butter processing. Making use of state of the art technology, “Scientific Animations Without Borders” (SAWBO) proposes a new approach to capture, preserve and share indigenous knowledge globally. This program creates short animations showing scientific best practices, while still incorporating indigenous knowledge. These animations can be viewed with video capable cell-phones or on portable projection systems. This approach has the potential to keep indigenous and local knowledge alive, and allow for its spread across geopolitical, cultural and linguistic borders. Through this case study of shea producers, the authors examine how video animations provide a mechanism that amplifies traditional knowledge sharing through new technologies.

scholarly journals Universal standards for the concept of trust in online dispute resolution systems in e-commerce disputes

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fahimeh Abedi ◽  
John Zeleznikow ◽  
Emilia Bellucci
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
Alternative Dispute Resolution ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The Internet ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Online Dispute Resolution ◽  
Gathering Data

Abstract The need for an appropriate jurisdiction for electronic commerce disputes has led to the well-established mechanism for solving disputes through the internet known as the Online Dispute Resolution (ODR). Currently, there is no universal agreement about the concept of trust in ODR systems, although this issue has been widely discussed in the field of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). The current study aimed to develop a set of standards to enhance trust and confidence in using ODR systems. In this study, we have adopted a new approach in the ODR field, and no similar research has been conducted. This study used a quantitative (online survey) and mainly qualitative approach (interview) for gathering data. After analysing data, this research identified three elements as standards to measure trust in ODR systems including knowledge, expectations of fairness and code of ethics. Finally, our findings provide several practical and methodological implications.

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