Empowerment from Within: Supporting Palestinian Women’s Struggle Against Violence

Recent reports by the United Nations and local non-governmental organizations present a troubling increase in incidents of violence against Palestinian women in Palestine. These are cases of domestic violence, where the attackers are Palestinians, and political violence, where the attackers are Israeli settlers and soldiers. These violent incidents include attacks on body and property. Most incidents are neither dealt with by the Palestinian authorities nor by the Israeli government and judicial system. There is not sufficient international pressure to enforce justice. The purpose of this study is to offer alternative ways to prevent violent crimes, enforce relevant laws, and provide redress to victims. I compare the struggle of Palestinian women against violence with struggles of other marginal women around the world, especially Aboriginal women in Australia. I am using Aboriginal women as a comparison to Palestinian women based on the premise that the problem of violence against them is a result of discrimination that is based on gender, race, culture, nationality, and class, all factors that make them marginal. I present recommendations for remedies expected to be executed by Israel, the Palestinian society, the Palestinian Authority, and the United Nations as the authority to enforce international law. To achieve my goals for this study, I conducted interdisciplinary research, drawing from feminist, racist, criminal justice, international law, social and political science and legal frameworks

Good offices for others, bad offices for us?

How can we fix the patriarchal organisational culture that still dominates the peace and security field? Miriam Bensky looks at how we can first dismantle and then re-build a field to create a sector where women want to join, stay, and lead

Breaking up is hard to do: Identity Work in the HR Department

The purpose of this paper is to explore overarching themes regarding identity and the HR department. Our aim is to address some of the more recent developments in HR identity issues, such as dis-identification and how it relates to the changes that have occurred of late within the HR department

Optimizing inhomogeneous spin ensembles for quantum memory

We propose a general method to maximize the fidelity of writing, storage and reading of quantum information (QI) in a spectrally inhomogeneous spin ensemble used as quantum memory. The method is based on preselecting the optimal spectral portion of the ensemble by a judiciously designed pulse. It allows drastic improvement of quantum memory realized by spin ensembles that store QI from a resonator or an optical beam.Comment: Corrected m

Pharmacy Student Stress and Time Use in Pre-Clinical and Clinical Students

Literature has identified high levels of stress in pharmacy students; however, more information is needed to understand how student stress relates to time use. This mixed-methods study explored causes of stress and its relationship to time use in pre-clinical and clinical pharmacy students, which were compared, as previous literature has found differences in time management and stress in these groups.Doctor of Pharmac

Dynamical control of quantum state transfer within hybrid open systems

We analyze quantum state-transfer optimization within hybrid open systems, from a "noisy" (write-in) qubit to its "quiet" counterpart (storage qubit). Intriguing interplay is revealed between our ability to avoid bath-induced errors that profoundly depend on the bath-memory time and the limitations imposed by leakage out of the operational subspace. Counterintuitively, under no circumstances is the fastest transfer optimal (for a given transfer energy)