Pre-teens learning about alcohol: drinking and family contexts

This study seeks to explore an understanding into the multi-actor resilient approach that was adapted as a response to the conflict-induced displacement situation that occurred in the West-Guji and Gedeo Zones of Ethiopia 2018. The study draws on semi-structured interviews, observations and some reports and proposals from aid workers, displaced people or returnees, government officials and traditional leaders. The study used and combined concepts like humanitarianism, resilience, peacebuilding, muilti-actor approach and local ownership as a framework to explore and interpret the data. The study findings indicate that, several other factors apart from the conflict led to a protracted displacement situation in the West-Guji and Gedeo Zones. The Ethiopian government and humanitarian partners came up with a resilient strategy to address the displacement situation. The local community also mobilised efforts together with the government and the humanitarian partners to respond to situation. Even though some progress was made, there were several challenges that impeded the desired resilient recovery. With regards to the dynamic nature of the displacement, the end is very uncertain. Analytically, the study projects the perspective that, humanitarian governance without a proper collaboration with the local actors seems to retard the resilient recovery. When the local is fully included in the projects, their self-mobilization skills would provoke an efficient process of recovery. The study contributes to the understanding that, the local ownership concept is a necessary tool for these communities to address the conflict and displacement and push ahead to build resilient local structures in the society. Again, when several actors are involved in a humanitarian response, it is necessary to form a humanitarian eco-system rather than just a humanitarian governance without any collaboration and dependence among the actors. if there is no collaboration among actors, there will be clashes of roles and these factors will mitigate against the recovery process

Pre-teens learning about alcohol: drinking and family contexts

Childhood experiences are crucial to forming future drinking habits. Much emphasis has been placed on understanding the impact of problem drinking within the family, yet much less is known about how children learn about alcohol in so-called 'ordinary families'. This UK study found that: • Children in the 7-12 age bracket have a fairly sophisticated knowledge of alcohol and its effects; • The home is an important source of learning about alcohol and young children anticipate modelling their future behaviour on parents' drinking styles; and • Parents often have limited belief in their ability to teach children to drink responsibly, in the face of external pressures

Searching for VHE gamma-ray emission associated with IceCube neutrino alerts using FACT, H.E.S.S., MAGIC, and VERITAS

The realtime follow-up of neutrino events is a promising approach to search for astrophysical neutrino sources. It has so far provided compelling evidence for a neutrino point source: the flaring gamma-ray blazar TXS 0506+056 observed in coincidence with the high-energy neutrino IceCube-170922A detected by IceCube. The detection of very-high-energy gamma rays (VHE, E>100GeV E > 100 G e V ) from this source helped establish the coincidence and constrained the modeling of the blazar emission at the time of the IceCube event. The four major imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope arrays (IACTs) - FACT, H.E.S.S., MAGIC, and VERITAS - operate an active follow-up program of target-of-opportunity observations of neutrino alerts sent by IceCube. This program has two main components. One are the observations of known gamma-ray sources around which a cluster of candidate neutrino events has been identified by IceCube (Gamma-ray Follow-Up, GFU). Second one is the follow-up of single high-energy neutrino candidate events of potential astrophysical origin such as IceCube-170922A. GFU has been recently upgraded by IceCube in collaboration with the IACT groups. We present here recent results from the IACT follow-up programs of IceCube neutrino alerts and a description of the upgraded IceCube GFU system