scholarly journals La reincorporación en clave del fortalecimiento de capacidades territoriales para la construcción de paz: una mirada desde la academia

2021 ◽  
pp. 89-119
Author(s):  
Claudia Patricia Sierra Pardo ◽  
María Clemencia Castro Vergara ◽  
Jairo Ernesto Luna García ◽  
David Alejandro Fresneda Ortíz ◽  
Ana Milena Muñoz Garzón
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Political Incorporation ◽  
Peace Agreement ◽  
Collective Dynamics ◽  
New Family ◽  
National University ◽  
New Geography

Resumen: El artículo presenta la síntesis analítica de un proceso de diálogo entre la comunidad académica de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia; los firmantes y garantes del Acuerdo de Paz en La Habana, Cuba; y representantes de las FARC-EP y del Estado colombiano alrededor de con- versatorios, seguidos de un análisis del proceso de reincorporación para identificar sus alcances y limitaciones, encaminado a visualizar propuestas para su fortalecimiento en nueve ejes: compren- sión de la reincorporación; enfoque territorial en la implementación de la reincorporación; acceso a la tierra; nueva geografía de la reincorporación; seguridad en los territorios y protección de la vida de personas en proceso de reincorporación; proyectos productivos, asociatividad y vínculo con procesos comunitarios; fortalecimiento de capacidades de las personas firmantes del Acuerdo; incorporación política; y nuevas dinámicas familiares, comunitarias y colectivas. Reincorporation Process in the Sense of the Strengthening of Local Capacities for Peace- building: A view from the Academy Abstract: Through a dialogue between the academic community of the National University of Colombia, the signatories and guarantors of the Peace Agreement between the FARC-EP and the Co- lombian State signed in Havana, Cuba, an analysis of the reincorporation process was carried out in order to identify its scope and limitations. It aims at visualizing proposals for the strengthening of the agreement in nine axes: understanding of the reincorporation process; access to land; new geography of the reincorporation; security in the territories and protection of the lives of people in the process of reincorporation; productive projects, association and linkage to community pro- cesses; capacity-building of the signatories; political incorporation; and new family, community and collective dynamics. Keywords: Peace Agreement, Reincorporation Process, National University, Colombia.

scholarly journals Building Educational Research Capacity: Challenges and Opportunities From the Perspectives of Faculty Members at a National University in Oman

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824402110326
Author(s):  
Waheed Hammad ◽  
Wajeha Al-Ani
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Research Training ◽  
Research Capacity ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Supportive Environment ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
National University ◽  
Group Interviews

The purpose of this article is to explore the perceptions of faculty members regarding research capacity building in the field of Education. It particularly seeks to identify the challenges and opportunities associated with this practice from the perspectives of these members. The study adopted a qualitative research design, using focus group interviews to collect data from a sample of faculty members in the College of Education at a national university in Oman. The results revealed the existence of some challenges that hampered educational research, including time constraints, the lack of a collaborative research culture, the lack of research training, and the absence of a clear research agenda. The analysis also identified a number of capacity building opportunities such as a research-supportive environment, the availability of research funding, and the role of research groups. The study concludes with some recommendations to improve educational research capacity both in Oman and in the Arab region in general.

Preface

2008 ◽  
Vol 80 (7) ◽  
pp. iv
Author(s):  
Nikolay Mchedlov-Petrossyan
Keyword(s):  
Physical Chemistry ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Solution Chemistry ◽  
Social Program ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Scientific Heritage ◽  
National University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

This issue of Pure and Applied Chemistry is based on plenary lectures delivered at the International Conference on Modern Physical Chemistry for Advanced Materials (MPC '07), which took place 26-30 June 2007 in Kharkiv, Ukraine.The Conference was sponsored by IUPAC and the European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences, and organized by V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in cooperation with L. M. Litvinenko Institute of Physical Organic Chemistry and Coal Chemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Donetsk, Ukraine) and the Physical Chemistry Department of the Ukrainian Chemical Society. Christian Amatore (Academy of Sciences of France) and Anatoliy Popov (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) were Chairmen of the International Scientific Committee and the International Organizing Committee, respectively. Professors Yuriy Kholin and Valentin Lebed (Kharkiv National University) headed the Local Organizing Committee and the Program Committee.The aim of the Conference was to review the physicochemical foundations of modern materials science and technology. At the same time, the event offered opportunities for Ukrainian physical chemists to strengthen international ties and collaboration, and to evaluate the status of modern physical chemistry in Ukraine against global criteria. A total of 170 active delegates from 23 countries participated in the scientific program, which provided a showcase for the achievements, both of internationally recognized experts and enthusiastic young researchers, all of whom contributed constructively to lively scientific discussions.The Conference was dedicated to the centenary of the birth of the outstanding physicochemist Prof. Nikolai Izmailov (1907-1961). On 26 June, just before the opening of the Conference, the book Scientific Heritage of N. A. Izmailov and Topical Problems of Physical Chemistry was ceremonially presented to the academic community and the media in the Kharkiv National University Museum.The majority of the 19 plenary lectures were devoted to nanoscience, supramolecular chemistry, self-assembled systems, and organized solutions. The papers collected in this issue are arranged in order of their presentation during the scientific proceedings; lectures on chromatography, delivered by Profs. V. P. Georgiyevskiy (Ukraine), V. G. Berezkin (Russia), and E. Tyihák (Hungary), will be published in the Journal of Planar Chromatography and in other journals. The program also included 46 keynote and oral presentations and 120 posters, which were distributed among symposia devoted to the following topics: chromatography, materials science, solution chemistry, theoretical chemistry, electrochemistry, kinetics and catalysis, and photochemistry.The social program included a classical music concert, welcome party, conference reception, visit to the Museum of Arts, bus excursion to the museum of the great Russian painter Il'ya Repin in Chuguev, and numerous local activities. On 25 June, an all-day excursion to the typical Ukrainian city Poltava provided an opportunity to visit the famous battlefield where the army of Tsar Peter I of Russia achieved a decisive victory over the invading forces of King Charles XII of Sweden in 1709.Nikolay Mchedlov-PetrossyanConference Editor

scholarly journals Deals and Dealings: Inconclusive Peace and Treacherous Trade along the South Sudan-Uganda Border

2012 ◽  
Vol 47 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 5-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mareike Schomerus ◽  
Kristof Titeca
Keyword(s):  
South Sudan ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
The South ◽  
Peace Agreement ◽  
South Sudanese ◽  
State Authority ◽  
Broad Consensus ◽  
Authority Structures

Since Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) was signed, its border with Uganda has become a hub of activity. Contrasting developments on the Ugandan side of the border with those on the South Sudanese side, the paper draws on empirical fieldwork to argue that the CPA has created new centres of power in the margins of both states. However, in day-today dealings on either side of the border, South Sudanese military actors have become dominant. In the particular case of Arua and the South Sudan-Uganda border, past wartime authority structures determine access to opportunities in a tightly regulated, inconclusive peace. This means that small-scale Ugandan traders – although vital to South Sudan – have become more vulnerable to South Sudan's assertions of state authority. The experience of Ugandan traders calls into question the broad consensus that trade across the border is always beneficial for peace-building The paper concludes that trade is not unconditionally helpful to the establishment of a peaceful environment for everyone.

Implementing the Peace: The Aggregate Implementation of Comprehensive Peace Agreements and Peace Duration after Intrastate Armed Conflict

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 869-892 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madhav Joshi ◽  
Jason Michael Quinn
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Civil Conflict ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Conflict Behavior ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
National Politics ◽  
Peace Agreement ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
The Government

The signing of a comprehensive peace agreement (CPA) is often seen as a historic milestone in a peace process, and its implementation takes a highly legitimized set of reforms and puts it front and center in national politics. This article examines the aggregate implementation of CPAs signed since 1989 and future conflict behavior between the negotiating parties and between the government and non-signatory groups. It argues that implementation is both a peace-building process and an outcome that normalizes political relations between hostile groups, solves commitment problems and addresses the root causes of civil conflict. Statistical tests utilizing new data on the implementation of CPAs support the argument. The extent to which an agreement is implemented is shown to have significant long-term effects on how long peace lasts – an effect that applies not only to the signatories of the agreement, but also to the government and non-signatory groups.

scholarly journals The importance of mentorship and collaboration for scientific capacity-building and capacity-sharing: perspectives of African scientists

F1000Research ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
Heather E. Burgess ◽  
Joanna Chataway
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
Capacity Sharing ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Modes Of Interaction ◽  
The Impact

Long-term goals for capacity-building in Africa centres around building a self-sufficient scientific community, however there is a lack of research on the interactions that are needed to make up a thriving academic community or the steps needed to realise such a goal. Through interviews with researchers supported by a capacity-building initiative, we have characterised their interactions with other scientists and the impact that these have on capacity-building. This has revealed a wide range of interactions that have not been captured by traditional bibliometric studies of collaboration and shown that a substantial amount of intra-African collaboration is taking place. This collaboration allowed the researchers to share capacity with their colleagues and this could provide an alternative to, or supplement, traditional North-South capacity-building. We have shown that this capacity-sharing can enable capacity to spill over from capacity-building programmes to the broader scientific community. Furthermore, researchers are deliberately hastening this capacity-sharing through training or mentoring others outside of their capacity-building initiative, including those from more resource-poor groups. To understand how capacity-building initiatives can harness the power of these interactions, we investigated how interactions between researchers originated, and found that collaborations tended to be formed around pre-existing networks, with researchers collaborating with previous colleagues, or contacts formed through their mentors or consortium activities. Capacity-building organisations could capitalise on this through actions such as expanding mentorship schemes but should also ensure that researchers are not limited to pre-established networks but have exposure to a changing and growing pool of expertise. As interactions continue to move online since the appearance of COVID-19 this will present opportunities for new interaction patterns to develop. This study highlights the need to develop new metrics for collaboration that will take into account these new modes of interaction and the full range of interactions that make up a scientific community.

Toward a New Phase of Guerrilla Warfare in Colombia? The Reconstitution of the FARC-EP in Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 227-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Antonio Gutiérrez D.
Keyword(s):  
Peace Building ◽  
Guerrilla Warfare ◽  
Peace Agreement ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
La Paz ◽  
Armed Struggle ◽  
Middle Term ◽  
Colombian Government ◽  
The Government ◽  
New Phase

The August 2019 announcement by some top former commanders of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia–Ejército del Pueblo guerrillas in Colombia that they were resuming armed struggle was a major shock after the peace agreement between the rebels and the Colombian government in 2016. It was the clearest symptom of the current crisis of the peace process. It was not, however, an unforeseeable development. The government had brazenly attacked the content and the spirit of the peace agreement, and the systematic murders of ex-combatants and social leaders remained unpunished. As a result, increasing numbers of ex-combatants had decided to resume armed struggle. To regard these groups as mere criminals underestimates the political content of their statements and overlooks the reasons for this growing phenomenon. An exploration of the causes of the growing FARC-EP dissidences sets the stage for a discussion of the likely scenarios for conflict and peace building in the middle term. El anuncio de algunos ex comandantes de la guerrilla de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército del Pueblo en agosto de 2019 sobre su reanudación de la lucha armada causó gran conmoción después del acuerdo de paz de 2016 entre los rebeldes y el gobierno. Este fue el síntoma más claro de la actual crisis del proceso de paz, pero no se trató de un acontecimiento imprevisible. El gobierno ya había atacado descaradamente el contenido y espíritu los acuerdos, y los asesinatos sistemáticos de excombatientes y líderes sociales seguían impunes. Como resultado, un número cada vez mayor de excombatientes se decidían por reanudar la lucha armada. Considerar a estos grupos como meros delincuentes subestima el contenido político de sus declaraciones y pasa por alto las razones de este fenómeno creciente. Una exploración de las causas de las progresivas disidencias de las FARC-EP sienta las bases para una discusión sobre escenarios probables en torno la construcción tanto de conflictos como de la paz a mediano plazo.

scholarly journals Comprehensive Peace Agreement and Challenges February 2020: A Case of United States and Taliban

2020 ◽  
Vol V (II) ◽  
pp. 39-47
Author(s):  
Shehnaz Bibi ◽  
Noor Fatima
Keyword(s):  
Peace Process ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Military Force ◽  
Peace Agreement ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Time Period ◽  
The Us ◽  
Inclusive Approach ◽  
Long Time ◽  
External Forces

Afghanistan remained the battleground for a long time period for number of strategic wars by external forces. Diverse and multifaceted Afghan society paved the way for external forces. Several negotiations were held for making the peace in country. Many peace agreements failed because the conflict was not addressed. There is a need to reach beyond the use of military force and to apply inclusive approach by involving the civil society in peace building. It is recognized as a crucial factor in the success of peace process. After more than 18 years of war, the US and the Taliban have reached an agreement to end the war. The central deal for the agreement is to withdrawal of US troops and counter terrorism assurance from Taliban. This study digs out, the factors involved in Afghan conflict and their demands from the peace process. The study relies on secondary sources to develop arguments.

scholarly journals Analisis Peran Rusia sebagai Mediator dalam Penyelesaian Konflik Nagorno Karabakh Periode 2008-2016

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 64
Author(s):  
Andhika Dewantara ◽  
Muhammad Yamin
Keyword(s):  
Active Role ◽  
The State ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Territorial Disputes ◽  
Peace Agreement ◽  
Sustainable Peace ◽  
Building Process

The Nagorno Karabakh conflict is a conflict over territorial disputes that is synonymous with inter-Azerbaijan strife that adheres to the principle of integrating its territory in Nagorno Karabakh and Armenia which support the Nagorno Karabakh region and ethnic Armenians who are in it for independence from Azerbaijan. The dynamics of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia continue to unfold, and there has never been a sustainable peace agreement between the two parties in dispute since the peace agreement Bishkek (Bishkek Protocol) 1994. Along with the dynamics of the battle, Russia has a very active role in the mediation and peace-building process between the two parties in conflict. Russia's position as mediator is carried out within the official framework of the OSCE Minsk Group and in the personal initiation of the state in the medium of the trilateral meeting. This research will describe the dynamics of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict in the period 2008-2016 along with efforts to resolve disputes under the Russian role. Keywords : Nagorno Karabakh Conflict, Russia, Mediation, and Contigency Model

scholarly journals PARTISIPASI PUBLIK DAN KETERBUKAAN INFORMASI DALAM PENYUSUNAN KEBIJAKAN

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-96
Author(s):  
Ida Rahma
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Policy Formation ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Peace Agreement ◽  
Wide Range

Public participation can be understood as activities undertaken to affect public policy formation process. Public participation is important to ensure that any policy that produced not only benefit certain people, but also a positive impact on society. The process can be performed through the stages of agenda setting, policy formulation and implementation. This paper is about to describe the transformation of society prevailing in Aceh after the peace agreement. Review of the literature of choice in this paper, which is supported by a wide range of documents related to public participation, freedom of public information, and peace building. The results of this study indicate that public participation in policy formation in Aceh have ups and downs. Post-signatories to the peace agreement, the level of public participation is very good especially in the establishment of the Law on Governing Aceh and Aceh Qanun number. Next, in 2009-2014 public participation in policy formation decreased. Furthermore, the level of public participation in policy formation is determined by freedom of public information.

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