(Between the Streets) In Worcester : Redefining Professional Education in Community Development to Cultivate Empathy Through a Community Theatrical Framework

This research paper presents an alternative form of conducing Community Development Research. It highlights the gaps that currently exist in professional education with the community development and planning program at Clark University. The research paper employs a theatrical framework to encourage practitioners to ask more illuminating questions that informs the ‘human work’ that sometimes gets overlooked. In order to be authentic in the field of Community Development, practitioners need to be in touch with a less scientifically rational side of themselves, to truly embrace the complexities of the human condition. Drawing from my personal experiences, I wrote a play based on my field observations, conversations and interactions that I’ve had during my time in the program. This will hopefully provide both students and practitioners an alternative way to see their world and their encounters with people around them. By engaging with a theatrical framework, it is my hope that both students and practitioners also discover new ways of conducing research, and new ways of Being, both inside and outside the classroom

Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Violence in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta: Key Results from the 2012 Alaska Victimization Survey

This document is a two-page summary of the key results from the 2012 Alaska Victimization Survey for the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta of Alaska (Bethel Census Area and Kusilvak (formerly Wade Hampton) Census Area), which was conducted from March to May 2012, with results released on October 22, 2012 in Bethel. Findings include: * Over half of adult women in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta have experienced intimate partner violence, sexual violence or both, in their lifetime; * Nearly 17% have experienced intimate partner violence, sexual violence or both, in the past year; * One out of every four adult women in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta have experienced sexual violence in their lifetime; and * More than four out of every 10 have experienced intimate partner violence in their lifetime.Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, Alaska Department of Public SafetyPurpose of the Survey / Methodology / Acknowledgments / Key Estimates / Intimate Partner Violence Estimates / Sexual Violence Estimates / Important Limitation

Review of From the Klondike to Berlin: The Yukon in World War I by Michael Gates

Review of From the Klondike to Berlin: The Yukon in World War I by Michael Gate

Preferences, Perceptions, and Veto Players: Explaining Devolution Negotiation Outcomes in the Canadian Territorial North

Since the early part of the 20th century, the federal government has engaged in a long and slow process of devolution in the Canadian Arctic. Although the range of powers devolved to the territorial governments has been substantial over the years, the federal government still maintains control over the single most important jurisdiction in the region, territorial lands and resources, which it controls in two of the three territories, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. This fact is significant for territorial governments because gaining jurisdiction over their lands and resources is seen as necessary for dramatically improving the lives of residents and governments in the Canadian north. Relying on archival materials, secondary sources, and 33 elite interviews, this paper uses a rational choice framework to explain why the Yukon territorial government was able to complete a final devolution agreement relating to lands and resources in 2001 and why the governments of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut have not. It finds that the nature and distance of federal-territorial preferences, combined with government perceptions of aboriginal consent and federal perceptions of territorial capacity and maturity, explain the divergent outcomes experienced by the three territorial governments in the Canadian arctic. The following acronyms are employed: AIP: Agreement-in-Principle; DTA: Devolution Transfer Agreement; GEB: gross expenditure base; GN: Government of Nunavut; GNWT: Government of Northwest Territories; NCLA: Nunavut Land Claims Agreement; NTI: Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated; NWT; Northwest Territories; ON: Ontario; TFF: Territorial Formula Financing; UFA: Umbrella Final Agreement; YDTA: Yukon Devolution Transfer Agreement; YTG: Yukon Territorial Government; YK: Yukon

Procedure for estimating tourism benefits

Mineral Industry Research laboratory Report No. 29, "Optimum Transportation Systems to Serve the Mineral Industry North of the Yukon Basin in Alaska", considers the transportation needs of the area north of the Yukon. The only industries that can be established there within the foreseeable future are minerals production, recreation, reindeer husbandry, and trapping. The present paper, M.I. R. L. Report No. 29A was originally written as an appendix to Report No. 29. After some consideration, if was decided that al though it is. too detai Ied an analysis of tourism tobe included in M.I.R.L. Report No. 29, it also is too valuable a contribution to not be published at all. Therefore, it has been published in its present form as a separate report. It is recommended that M. I. R. L. Report No. 29 be consulted, especially Chapter 6

Claiming the City: Co-operation and Making the Deal in Urban Comprehensive Land Claims Negotiations in Canada

Since their introduction in 1973, comprehensive land claims (CLC) agreements have become important mechanisms for Aboriginal peoples to achieve their political, social, cultural, and economic goals. Although the literature on CLC negotiations is a rich and varied one, it has tended to ignore the role that municipal governments have on influencing negotiation outcomes. This lacuna is surprising since a number of treaty negotiations in the Yukon Territory and BC involve lands located in major municipalities. This paper develops a theoretical framework for understanding the influence that municipal governments can have on treaty negotiation outcomes. Using a case study of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation treaty negotiations in the Yukon Territory, we find that institutional and milieu factors are important. However, leadership was the most important and decisive factor

Community Justice Initiatives in the Galena District Court

This article examines a community outreach program in rural Alaska whereby an Alaska Court System judge uses restorative justice principles in village sentencing hearings.[Introduction] / Community Involvement / Restorative Community Outreach in the Yukon-Koyukuk Region / Using Talking Circles to Generate Community Recommendations / ConclusionYe

Grasslands of the Aishihik-Sekulmun Lakes Area, Yukon Territory, Canada

Grassland communities found on dry, steep, south-facing slopes in the Aishihik-Sekulmun Lakes area, southwest Yukon Territory, are dominated by Artemisia frigida and Carex filifolia, with Calamagrostis purpurascens, Poa glauca, Penstemon gormanii, Phlox hoodii, and Potentilla nivea subdominant. The grasslands are similar in terms of dominants and subdominants to other grasslands in southwest Yukon, but twelve species that have not been recorded at other sites were found in the Aishihik-Sekulmun area. The composite species list from southwest Yukon grasslands was compared to those from grasslands found in Alaska and in the boreal forest on the northern Great Plains. These three regions share a number of species; however, at least 25% of the species in each region are restricted to that region alone and absent from the other two. The southwest Yukon grasslands flora contains the following groups: species restricted to southwest Yukon, species found in both southwest Yukon and Great Plains grasslands, species found in both southwest Yukon and Alaska grasslands, and species found in grasslands in all three regions. Further work is needed to more fully characterize the floristic components of southwest Yukon grasslands and variations among them.Les communautés herbeuses qui se trouvent sur les versants secs, abrupts et exposés du sud de la région des lacs Aishihik-Sekulmun, au sud-ouest du Yukon, sont dominées par Artemisia frigida et Carex filifolia, avec comme espèces sous-dominantes, Calamagrostis purpurascens, Poa glauca, Penstemon gormanii, Phlox hoodii et Potentilla nivea. Ces prairies sont semblables en termes d'espèces dominantes et sous-dominantes à d'autres prairies du sud-ouest du Yukon, mais, dans la région d'Aishihik-Sekulmun, on a trouvé douze espèces qui n'ont pas été relevées ailleurs. On a comparé la liste combinée des espèces présentes dans les prairies du sud-ouest du Yukon aux listes établies pour des prairies se trouvant en Alaska et dans la forêt boréale des grandes plaines septentrionales. Ces trois régions ont un certain nombre d'espèces en commun, même si dans chaque région, au moins 25 p. cent des espèces présentes ne se retrouvent absolument pas dans les deux autres régions. La flore des prairies du sud-ouest du Yukon contient les groupes suivants: les espèces qui se limitent au sud-ouest du Yukon, les espèces présentes à la fois dans les prairies du sud-ouest du Yukon et des grandes plaines, les espèces présentes à la fois dans les prairies du sud-ouest du Yukon et de l'Alaska, et les espèces présentes dans les prairies de ces trois régions. De plus amples travaux sont nécessaires pour mieux établir les caractéristiques des composantes floristiques des prairies du sud-ouest du Yukon ainsi que des variations qui y existent

Descriptive Analysis of Sexual Assault Nurse Examinations in Bethel: 2005-2006

This project examined the characteristics of 105 sexual assault victimizations recorded by sexual assault nurse examiners in Bethel, Alaska in 2005 and 2006. The report documents the demographic characteristics of patients, pre-assault characteristics, assault characteristics, post-assault characteristics, exam characteristics and findings, suspect characteristics, and legal resolutions.National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Grant No. 2004-WB-GX-0003Index of Tables and Figures / Acknowledgments \ Executive Summary Descriptive Analysis / Sexual Assaults in Anchorage: 1996-2004 / Sexual Assault Nurse Examinations / Purpose of this Study / Methodology / Sample and Data Limitations / Demographic Characteristics of Patients / Pre-Assault Characteristics / Assault Characteristics / Post-Assault Characteristics / Exam Characteristics and Findings / Suspect Characteristics / Legal Resolutions / Appendix A – Data Collection Instrumen

2005 population status of the Peregrine Falcon in the Yukon Territory

This survey was the Yukon section of the Canada-wide periodic monitoring of the status of the Peregrine Falcon, a requirement of the Canadian Recovery Plan for the species. The Yukon, through the Northern Research Institute at Yukon College maintains a database spanning three decades tracking the fortunes of Yukon’s peregrines. Historically, this effort began in the 1960’s when a population of the interior race of peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus anatum) was first described breeding on the riparian cliffs of the rivers draining the central Yukon (Cade and Fyfe 1970). The birds’ numbers subsequently crashed and more recently have been recovering. The Yukon Government has funded this effort in large part over the years; most recently as part of a biodiversity assessment partnership with Yukon College.Peer reviewe