Designing a Court-Annexed Mediation Program for Civil Cases in Brazil: Challenges and Opportunities

In this article, I demonstrate that mediation is an important form of dispute resolution, displaying benefits when compared with adjudication. I try to refine what mediation is by contrasting it with judicial settlement conferences and conciliation. Regarding the ongoing process in Brazil, I state that every society should adapt a mediation program that is attainable for its social-economic and cultural reality. Criticizing the current Brazilian policies, I present the positive and negative aspects of the Resolution No. 125 of the National Council of Justice (CNJ), analyzing a possible program design feasible for the country, focusing on the issues of funding, referral system, and the selection and training of possible mediators

Contos de uma insurreição. A Batalha do Rio Nedao e a Revolta Fictícia dos Povos Germanos

The aim of this paper is to explore and call into question the account of the insurrection of a number of Germanic tribes against the Huns, in the so called Battle of Nedao River (second half of the fifth century). The testimony of this battle, recorded by Jordanes, represents the end of the submission of many Germanic and nomadic groups and the end of the excessive oppression of Attila’s sons, Elac, Hernac and Dengzic. According to Jordanes, after the death of the famous Hunnic king, his sons started treating their subject nations as slaves, which led Ardaric, the Gepid king, to foment a revolt that claimed Elac’s life and ended the Hunnic hegemony in the Balkans. I believe that this battle is a rhetorical creation of Jordanes: as the only author who mentions this fact, Jordanes wanted to create a historiographical explanation to delimit the end of real Hunnic authority and, at the same, to elucidate the social and political chaos in the Balkans during the end of the fifth and most of the sixth centuries

As If From This People I Traced my Origin: Hypotheses on the Life of Jordanes

The aim of this paper is to discuss the authorial persona of Jordanes: who he was, what was his religious/political position and how he identified himself. With this information, frequently overlooked or glossed over by Late Antique and Early Medieval scholarship, I intend to bring his famous work, called Getica, under updated scrutiny. By increasing awareness of the author, we can look at the Getica and perceive different goals and a different agenda. By leaving the “Gothic” identity behind and assuming that his ethnic background was more fluid or mixed, the Getica ceases to be just a history of the Goths and becomes an analysis of the historical development of Eastern regions and how different people, from Goths to Huns, tried to shape the fate of the place

Songs of the reahu: an anthropological reflection on the Yanomami songs of the Marauiá and Maturacá rivers

Neste texto iremos abordar os cantos noturnos denominados amõamõu dos grupos yanonami do rio Marauiá e do rio Maturacá, os quais, juntamente com a dança praiai, acontecem durante a festa ritual dos mortos, chamada na língua Yanomami de Reahu. Procurando determinar as dinâmicas dos cantos e seus contextos no estabelecimento das relações sociais do grupo, a base teórico-metodológica dar-se-á pelos escritos da Antropologia da Performance, alicerçados pelos trabalhos de campo realizados durante o doutoramento dos autores.In this text, we will address the nocturnal chants called amõamõu of the yanonami groups from the Marauiá and Maturacá rivers, which, together with the praiai dance, take place during the ritual feast of the dead, called Reahu in the Yanomami language. Seeking to determine the dynamics of the songs and their contexts in the establishment of the group’s social relations, the theoretical-methodological basis will be given by the writings of Anthropology of Performance, supported by fieldwork carried out during the authors’ doctoral studies

Portfolio selection models: comparative analysis and applications to the Brazilian stock market

This paper presents a comparison of three portfolio selection models, Mean-Variance (MV), Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD), and Minimax, as applied to the Brazilian Stock Market (BOVESPA). For this comparison, we used BOVESPA data from three different 12 month time periods: 1999 to 2000, 2001, and 2002 to 2003. Each model generated three optimal portfolios for each period, with performance determined by monthly returns over the period. In general, the accumulated returns from the Minimax modeled portfolios were superior to the BOVESPA’s principal index, the IBOVESPA. The MV model was the least efficient for portfolio selection.Portfolio selection, Stock market, Brazil, Financial Economics,