Sri Lanka National Mine Action Strategy 2016-2020

This national mine action strategy was developed with the active participation of all relevant stakeholders in Sri Lanka’s mine action programme, including: • representatives from the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL); • Sri Lankan Army Humanitarian Demining Units (SLA HDUs); • national and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs); and • civil society organisations. The Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) assisted with facilitating a four-day strategy and prioritisation workshop in Colombo in June 2015, bringing all key stakeholders together. The strategy is based on information gathered during that workshop as well as on follow-on meetings and discussions on specific topics. The GICHD further conducted a follow-on mission to Sri Lanka in October 2015, to meet with stakeholders, gather additional information and finalise certain sections of the strategy. The participant list, workshop programme and a list of meetings during the October mission are available in Annexes I, II and III. As part of the June 2015 strategic planning exercise, workshop participants carried out a; ‘strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats’ (SWOT) analysis. The results from this exercise are available in Annex IV

Conspiracy theory as spatial practice: the case of the Sivas arson attack, Turkey

This article discusses the relationship between conspiratorial thinking and physical space by focusing on the ways conspiracy theories regarding political violence shape and are shaped by the environments in which it is commemorated. Conspiratorial thinking features space as a significant element, but is taken to do so mainly figuratively. In blaming external powers and foreign actors for social ills, conspiracy theorists employ the spatial metaphor of inside versus outside. In perceiving discourses of transparency as the concealment rather than revelation of mechanisms of governance, conspiracy theorists engage the trope of a façade separating the space of power’s formulations from that of its operations. Studying the case of an arson attack dating from 1990s Turkey and its recent commemorations, this article argues that space mediates conspiracy theory not just figuratively but also physically and as such serves to catalyze two of its deadliest characteristics: anonymity and non-linear causality. Attending to this mediation requires a shift of focus from what conspiracy theory is to what it does as a spatial practice

Pornography consumption and non-marital sexual behaviour in a sample of young Indonesian university students

Using a sample of Indonesian university students and a cross sectional design, this study investigated prevalence rates and patterns of pornography consumption in Indonesia, a religious, sexually conservative, Muslim-majority nation with strict antipornography laws. Further, the association between pornography consumption and common non-marital sexual behaviours was explored. The study found that in this sample, pornography is as widely and readily consumed as in comparable international studies predominantly utilising Western background samples from more sexually liberal and less religious countries with very few laws on pornography. Gender differences in patterns of pornography consumption were pronounced and comparable with findings in international counterpart studies. For men only, pornography consumption was found to significantly predict common sexual behaviours in nonmarital relations. The study is the first to provide insights into prevalence rates and patterns of pornography consumption and its association with common non-marital sexual behaviours in a sexually conservative, Muslim-majority nation with strict antipornography laws

The Immortals

The Immortals: The World War II Story of Five Fearless Heroes, the Sinking of the Dorchester, and an Awe-inspiring Rescue by Steven Collis The Notre Dame Law School Religious Liberty Initiative will host a book discussion featuring Professor Steven T. Collis, Director of the Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center and Law and Religion Clinic at the University of Texas at Austin, author of the recently published The Immortals: The World War II Story of Five Fearless Heroes, the Sinking of the Dorchester, and an Awe-inspiring Rescue (Shadow Mountain, 2021),which tells the story of four military chaplains who made the ultimate sacrifice to save the lives of fellow passengers on the S.S. Dorchester after a Nazi U-boat torpedoed it. Told in an engrossing non-fiction narrative, the book alternates between accounts told from the perspective of the Nazi U-boat captain and his crew, as found in their journals and later interviews, and the men of the American convoy, and reflects on the role of religion in the United States at wartime.https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndls_posters/1670/thumbnail.jp

Modernisation of islamic law : counter legal draft-the compilation of Indonesian Islamic law/ Team For Gender Mainstreaming Ministry for Religious Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia

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The Immortals

The Immortals: The World War II Story of Five Fearless Heroes, the Sinking of the Dorchester, and an Awe-inspiring Rescue by Steven Collis The Notre Dame Law School Religious Liberty Initiative will host a book discussion featuring Professor Steven T. Collis, Director of the Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center and Law and Religion Clinic at the University of Texas at Austin, author of the recently published The Immortals: The World War II Story of Five Fearless Heroes, the Sinking of the Dorchester, and an Awe-inspiring Rescue (Shadow Mountain, 2021),which tells the story of four military chaplains who made the ultimate sacrifice to save the lives of fellow passengers on the S.S. Dorchester after a Nazi U-boat torpedoed it. Told in an engrossing non-fiction narrative, the book alternates between accounts told from the perspective of the Nazi U-boat captain and his crew, as found in their journals and later interviews, and the men of the American convoy, and reflects on the role of religion in the United States at wartime.https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndls_posters/1670/thumbnail.jp