School strike for climate are leading the way: how their people power strategies are generating distinctive pathways for leadership development

Since November 2018, Australian high school climate strikers have become leaders in the movement for climate action, giving rise to a new generation of young people who have learnt how to lead change. This article focuses on the question of leadership across social movements and in global youth movements. It then investigates the different forms of leadership emerging in School Striker for Climate (SS4C) through a qualitative survey of its leaders. We argue that leadership is multifaceted, shaped by the different strategies that movements use to engage people in collective action. We present three different people power strategies – mobilising, organising and playing by the rules – and explore how these different strategies generate varied pathways for leadership development. We identify the strengths and limits of each strategy, and we find that peer learning, mentoring, learning by doing, confrontation, reflective spaces and training are important leadership development tools. This article’s greatest strength comes from the positionally of us as researchers – two of us are student strikers, and the third is an active supporter, giving us a distinctively engaged perspective on a powerful movement for change.

Istirātijiyāt Ibtikār Manhaj Ta`līm Al-Lugah Al-`Arabiyyah bi Jāmi`ah Sunan Gunung Djati Al-Islāmiyyah Al-Ḥukūmiyyah Bandung

Pendidikan berubah sebagai respon terhadap perubahan itu sendiri, maka kurikulum yang menjadi "kitab sucinya" pendidikan pun berubah pula. Perubahan kurikulum memang menjadi suatu keniscayaan, dan tidak bisa ditawar lagi. Perubahan tersebeut baik pada ide, konten, maupun proses agar kurikulum selalu aktual dan konstektual. Inovasi kurikulum adalah suatu perubahan kurikulum menuju ke arah yang lebih baik untuk mencapai tujuan dan mengatasi perubahan-perubahan yang terjadi. Tujuan penelitian adalah untuk mengetahui bagaimana strategi inovasi kurikulum Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Arab Fakultas Tarbiyah dan Keguruan UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung. Sesuai dengan metode penelitian yang digunakan, maka teknik pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui kegiatan wawancara, observasi langsung, dan studi dokumentasi. Pelaksanaan inovasi kurikulum dilakukan dengna menerapkan model yakni top-down dan model bottom-up. Sedangkan strategi inovasi kurikulum dapat dilakukan melalui fasilitative strategies, reeducative strategies, persuasive strategies, dan power strategies. Para kurikulum perguruan tinggi berbasis Kerangka Kualifikasi Nasional Indonesia (KKNI), program sutid memiliki otoritas dalam melakukan inovasi kurikulum. Hal tersebut didasari dua hal, yaitu (1) program studi lebih mengetahui tentang potensi dan kebutuhannya, (2) program studi menjadi basis pengembangan ilmu yang sesuai dengan karakteristiknya.

The Key Components of South Korea’s Soft Power: Challenges and Trends

To this day political processes are less and less impacted by military force. States are increasingly resorting to the use of means of latent influence or relying on cultural attraction. Such phenomena have led to the emergence of soft power in international relations. Many countries, including the Republic of Korea, effectively use soft power tools in implementing policies at various levels. This manuscript seeks to analyze the main soft power components and tools of the Republic of Korea in foreign policy. The paper examines the background of the formation and development of soft power strategies. Many factors have predetermined the growing popularity of Korean culture, a phenomenon subsequently called the Korean Wave (Hallyu). This paper identifies the main elements of the Hallyu, including public diplomacy and South Koreas cultural economy exporting pop culture, entertainment, music, TV dramas, and movies, and examines how these elements complement each other.

Understanding South Korea’s Use of Sports Mega-Events for Domestic, Regional and International Soft Power

This paper seeks to contribute to the growing literature on ‘soft power’ by focusing on East Asia as a region gaining in political and economic significance; equally, we highlight the role sports mega-events play in the region’s most powerful states’ soft power strategies. For the purpose of this paper, we focus on South Korea’s soft power strategy and how the hosting of major sporting events has become a central part of this. We introduce both a novel tripartite approach to the study of the motives behind hosting sports mega-events, along with new, empirical data on the chosen case of South Korea. Our findings strengthen the notion that an explanation of why states seek to host major sports events can be better understood by considering the domestic, regional and international dimensions to capture the complexities behind such decisions.

Universalism and uniqueness in contemporary soft power strategies

The author analyses the principles and regularities of the competition of soft power strategies of different states as an actual problem of comparative politics. The article addresses the question of determining principles and key elements of competing soft power strategies in the system of international relations, which is of current interest in comparative political science. As a methodological foundation of the analysis is used the H. Hotelling’s law of spatial competition and its political implications, formulated by A. Downs. The author examines two contrasting tendencies: drift of the content and strategies of soft power of different states towards unification and convergence of communicated values and standards or on the contrary increase of ideological and value polarization in the wake of escalating international and global tensions. The principles and rules of spatial competition of H. Hotelling and A. Downs have been applied for typology of national strategies of soft power to evaluate their effectiveness and segmentation of potential audience for maximum impact. It was concluded that, due to the polymodality and civilizational diversity of the world, universalist soft-power projects today can only have limited success, with significant costs and reputational losses, while attracting value-close countries and pushing away the others. This division provides the basis for the international clustering by interests and values

The Early Global Vocation of Rome. Worship, Culture and Beyond

In all likelihood, Rome was the first global city, holding such primacy for around two thousand years since the time when the Empire built strong integration and interdependence relationships with the whole oecumene. Against the backdrop of long-term beliefs powered by the Papacy, this paper highlights the main features of the global Rome as the very core of Christianity and, after several disruptive events from the Early Renaissance onwards, as a main destination of the Grand Tour. Making use of primary and secondary literature sources as well as of a substantial iconography, the paper investigates the interplay between power strategies and urban morphology—permanence/change—through two main lenses: (i) the ‘inertia’ over time of the radiocentric pattern of the Forma Urbis citywide, according to the old saying all roads lead to Rome; and, (ii) the relentless reuse processes over built-up areas and sense-making dynamics coupling tangible and intangible assets. Accordingly, the Città Antica and the Città Moderna would be intertwined in residents’ and visitors’ everyday experiences until the Age of Enlightenment, when a new sense of history was to require protection measures setting antiquities apart from city life. However, this is another story.