Intergroup reconciliation between Flemings and Walloons : the predictive value of cognitive style, authoritarian ideology, and intergroup emotions

Testifying to the gap in fundamental research on positive intergroup outcomes, we investigated reconciliation attitudes in a non-violent intergroup context (i.e., the linguistic conflict in Belgium). By incorporating both important predictors of negative outgroup attitudes (i.e., individual differences in rigid cognitive styles and authoritarian ideologies), and important predictors of reconciliation (i.e., intergroup emotions), we aimed to contribute to a more comprehensive theoretical framework for the analysis of intergroup relations. We recruited one Flemish ('N' = 310) and one Walloon ('N' = 365) undergraduate students sample to test the proposed model. Structural equation analyses with maximum likelihood estimation were conducted using the Lavaan package. In both samples, similar patterns were found. More in particular, the need for cognitive closure appeared to be the basic predictor of right-wing attitudes (i.e., right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation) and essentialist thinking, which were then associated with less outgroup empathy and trust, and more outgroup anger. Furthermore, outgroup trust and empathy were positively related to reconciliation. Interestingly, some differences between the Flemish and Walloon sample were found, such as the direct effects of need for closure and social dominance orientation in the first sample, and the non-significant effects of essentialism in the latter sample. Considering the ongoing public and political debate about the linguistic conflict in Belgium, these findings shed a new light on how individual differences relate to specific outgroup emotions, and how these are associated with important intergroup outcomes in the face of intergroup conflict

Time, DNA and documents in family reckonings

In this paper, drawing on literature from both STS and the anthropology of kinship, we describe a political movement aimed at legal reparation for human rights violations perpetrated by the Brazilian government against children of the compulsorily institutionalized patients of Hansen’s disease. We conduct our investigation by exploring the action of intertwining technologies – narrated recollections, written documents, and the DNA test – employed by major actors to “reckon” the family connections at the core of this drama. The notion of technologies helps underline not only the materiality of certain processes, but also the complex temporalities at play. Responding to a challenge proposed by Janet Carsten, our ultimate aim is to show how political events as well as collective institutionalized structures – operating through the mediation of these diverse technologies – produce a particular kind of sociality, interwoven with perceptions of family and community.Neste artigo, com inspiração tanto nos estudos da ciência quanto na antropologia do parentesco, descrevemos um movimento político que exige do governo brasileiro reparação legal pela violação dos direitos humanos dos filhos de pessoas compulsoriamente internadas por causa da Hanseníase. Realizamos essa investigação através do exame de três tecnologias interconectadas – narrativas orais, documentos escritos e o teste de DNA – usadas pelos atores principais para “calcular” as conexões familiares no cerne desse drama. A noção de tecnologias permite destacar não só a materialidade de certos processos, mas também as temporalidades complexas em jogo. Ao responder a um desafio lançado por Janet Carsten, nosso objetivo último é demostrar como eventos políticos assim como estruturas institucionalizadas coletivas – mediadas por essas diversas tecnologias – produzem um tipo particular de socialidade, enredada em percepções novas de família e comunidade

Making Justice Work for Women: Summary of Democratic Republic of Congo Country Report

This report provides a summary of the Democratic Republic of Congo country report in the series, "Making Transitional Justice Work for Women: Rights, Resilience and Responses to Violence Against Women in Democratic Republic of Congo, Northern Uganda and Kenya". It outlines the full report's investigation of the efficacy of transitional justice efforts for women in conflict and post-conflict contexts in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo; in doing so, it identifies women's priorities for justice, their experiences when seeking justice, obstacles in justice processes, and recommendations for more effective policy responses.Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trad

Reflections About Decolonial Pedagogy as an Epistemic Rupture for the Teaching of Racial Ethnic Relations

The need to break with the monoculture of an epistemology of knowledge produced and transmitted within the Brazilian educational environment requires the urgency of an epistemic rupture that is dominant and has colonial bases Based on this this article proposes a change in practices based on an epistemic rupture with decoloniality as the educational principle to be addressed and incorporated in Brazilian education to overcome inequalities elucidating the need for and importance of this paradigm for the teaching of race-ethnic relations for the valorization of African history and culture For this this article at first deduces how the coloniality modernity was established to invalidate all knowledge not belonging to Europe advancing to the importance of educational policies aimed at education for ethno-racial relations exposing a criticism of the production of knowledge in the university leading to the notes towards the construction of a decolonial pedagogy based on transgression freedom and criticality The need to break with the monoculture of an epistemology of knowledge produced and transmitted within the Brazilian educational environment requires the urgency of an epistemic rupture that is dominant and has colonial bases Based on this this article proposes a change in practices based on an epistemic rupture with decoloniality as the educational principle to be addressed and incorporated in Brazilian education to overcome inequalities elucidating the need for and importance of this paradigm for the teaching of race-ethnic relations for the valorization of African history and culture For this this article at first deduces how the coloniality modernity was established to invalidate all knowledge not belonging to Europe advancing to the importance of educational policies aimed at education for ethno-racial relations exposing a criticism of the production of knowledge in the university leading to the notes towards the construction of a decolonial pedagogy based on transgression freedom and criticalit

A Plant Life Management Model Including Optimized MS&I Program - Safety and Economic Issues

This report collects the experience of the European Countries in the field of Plant Life Management (PLIM) and maintenance optimisation, as a background for the development of a new PLIM models, suitable for the European framework. The research highlights the the basic goal of PLiM in terms of support to a safe long-term supply of electricity in an economically competitive way. A PLIM model is proposed, validated with the experience of the SENUF research network members and with the essential contribution of managers and staff of a selected nuclear plant. The model addresses both technical and economic issues, as well as organizational and knowledge management issues and is now open for a broader validation by the research and engineering communities, to be carried out in the coming research steps.JRC.F.5-Nuclear operation safet

Getting Reparations for Slavery Right - Response to Posner and Vermeule

Ambiguity aversion is a person\u27s rational attitude towards the indeterminacy of the probability that attaches to his future prospects, both favorable and unfavorable. An ambiguity-averse person increases the probability of the unfavorable prospect, which is what criminal defendants typically do when they face a jury trial. The prosecution is not ambiguity averse. Being a repeat player interested in the overall rate of convictions, it can depend upon any probability, however indeterminate it may be. The criminal process therefore is systematically affected by asymmetric ambiguity aversion, which the prosecution can exploit by forcing defendants into harsh plea bargains. Professors Segal and Stein examine this issue theoretically, empirically, and doctrinally. They demonstrate that asymmetric ambiguity aversion foils criminal justice and propose a law reform that will fix this problem. Reprinted by permission of the publisher

Draft African Union transitional justice policy

Executive Council Thirty-Fourth Ordinary Session 7 – 8 February 2019 Addis Ababa, EthiopiaThe significance of human rights and transitional justice (TJ) cannot be overemphasized. This underscores why Aspiration three (3), “An Africa of good governance, democracy, respect for human rights, justice and the rule of law”,and Aspiration four (4), “A peaceful and secured Africa”, of Agenda 2063 – The Africa We Want – focus on human rights promotion, silencing the guns by 2020, peace, security and development. In order to accomplish these objectives of Africa’s Agenda 2063, a ten-year implementation plan was developed. The year 2015 was dedicated to Women’s empowerment and 2016 to human rights, with a special focus on the rights of wome