The Effects of Permanency on Youth in Foster Care: The Successes They Achieve After Exiting the System

This study reported on the connection between the permanency a youth in the foster care system experienced and the success they achieved as they transitioned out of the system. Housing, education, and employment were factors addressed. Data was gathered through four interviews with youth who had recently transitioned out of the foster care system and 435 surveys were collected in the months of April and October 2010. Results revealed that youth often use state programs to supplement their needs during the treatment process. Youth that attained success created and maintained relationships with workers who become adult supporters for them. Implications of this research can address policy and practice, specifically in the areas of more support from state programs in the areas of employment and education

Responding to Sexual Discrimination: The effects of societal versus self-blame

While self-blame has been considered to be a useful coping tool for victims, its benefits within the context of group discrimination are equivocal. The present research hypothesized that women encouraged to engage in self-blame for sex discrimination would be more likely to endorse accepting their situation or endorse the use of individual, normative actions. In contrast, women encouraged to engage in societal blame for sex discrimination would be more likely to participate in non-normative actions aimed at enhancing the status of the group as a whole. Female students in Canada were subjected to a situation of discrimination and were encouraged to blame either themselves or social discrimination. They were then given the opportunity to respond to the discrimination by endorsing various actions. A profile analysis of the endorsed actions indicated that women encouraged to blame themselves were most likely to endorse accepting their situation, while women encouraged to blame society endorsed non-normative individual confrontation

Legitimacy and stability in the era of globalization: toward a political conception of human rights

The growing body of philosophical literature surrounding the topic of human rights aims to give conceptual clarity to this important normative concept. Traditionally philosophical theories of human rights have tended to explore the universal, moral nature of human rights and posit ways in which the human rights practice might be brought into conformity with universal moral ends. Recently, theorists have begun to take pragmatic approach to theorizing about human rights, arguing that considerations of the political and institutional reality of human rights should be given significant weight in philosophical discussions. This dissertation is a contribution to the political philosophy of human rights which follows the latter approach and is motivated by two observations. The first is that the processes of globalization have elicited the need for institutional human rights in a manner that the drafters of the treaties and covenants of international law most likely could have never imagined. Human rights doctrine was developed in the wake of the Second World War to foster peace and security in the international arena and address standard threats to individual well-being in a world of separate states. As globalization changes the landscape of the global order, and power increasingly escapes the confines of the state, the standard threats to individual interests now come from sources over which governments may have little control. In this time of transition, the international human rights regime could serve a vital role mitigating the social and economic threats to individual well-being that emerge in the interconnected global order. The second motivating observation is that if human rights are to effectively carry out this function, then they must be perceived as legitimate by the broadest set of individuals and groups possible. In light of these considerations I will argue that a political conception of human rights informed by the realities of the contemporary international order should foreground the matter of public justification\u2014an insight which many of the major political conceptions of human rights already take to heart. Where these theories tend to fall short however, is that their methodological and normative focus on the state compromises their philosophical and critical import in the global era. This project aims to move the political conception of human rights beyond the nation state

Towards a Minimal Conception of Transitional Justice

Transitional Justice (TJ) focuses on the processes of dealing with the legacy of large-scale past abuses (in the aftermath of traumatic experiences such as war or authoritarianism) with the aim of fostering domestic justice and creating the basis for a sustainable peace. TJ however also entails the problem of how a torn society may be able to become a self-determining member of a just international order. This paper presents a minimal conception of TJ, which departs from Rawls\u2019 conception of normative stability of the international order, which suggests disentangling the two goals of fostering democracy within torn societies and TJ itself. The scope of TJ is therefore limited to enabling these societies to create minimal internal conditions for joining a just international order on equal footing. This paper makes an original contribution to two different debates, namely normative research on TJ, and post-Rawlsian literature in general. First, it provides a new direction for normative theorizing about TJ which takes both its domestic and international dimensions seriously into consideration. Second, it extends Rawls\u2019 political liberal outlook to an area where it is not usually understood to appl

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