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Reconsidering the Role of Conflict in the Lives of Refugees: The Case of Somalis in Europe
Based upon qualitative research with Somali refugees in two European host countries â the UK and the Netherlands - this paper explores the micro-level experiences and ongoing effects of the Somali conflict on their lives in exile. Challenging predominant macro-level framings of refugees in these settings, it supports a micro-level analysis of their experiences and lives. It analyses their ongoing connections with the conflict in Somalia, and reveals how this can affect aspects of their integration and emotional health while in exile, alongside social problems such as poverty, drug use and divorce.
Linking teaching and research in disciplines and departments
This paper supports the effective links between teaching and discipline-based research in disciplinary communities and in academic departments. It is authored by Alan Jenkins, Mick Healey and Roger Zetter
Constraining Attacker Capabilities Through Actuator Saturation
For LTI control systems, we provide mathematical tools - in terms of Linear
Matrix Inequalities - for computing outer ellipsoidal bounds on the reachable
sets that attacks can induce in the system when they are subject to the
physical limits of the actuators. Next, for a given set of dangerous states,
states that (if reached) compromise the integrity or safe operation of the
system, we provide tools for designing new artificial limits on the actuators
(smaller than their physical bounds) such that the new ellipsoidal bounds (and
thus the new reachable sets) are as large as possible (in terms of volume)
while guaranteeing that the dangerous states are not reachable. This guarantees
that the new bounds cut as little as possible from the original reachable set
to minimize the loss of system performance. Computer simulations using a
platoon of vehicles are presented to illustrate the performance of our tools
Contestation and reconstruction: natural capital and post-conflict development in borderland regions
Though often remote and underdeveloped, borderlands are contested territories. The incorporation of borderlands into the post-conflict state highlights many important land-related paradigms, including the conversion of natural resources for economic, political, and civic purposes. This article explores the relationship between the natural resources of borderlands and their post-conflict development, management, and sustainability. Based on case study data and secondary material drawn from Croatia and Cyprus, the paper seeks to establish how the interplay of cross-border, national, and sub-national interests in post-conflict settings may contribute to the creation of new opportunities for economic development and the reconstruction of borderlands. It considers how the exploitation of natural resources may advance the agendas for the political development and incorporation of previous sites of contestation; and equally how their incorporation may constrain policies of sustainability, potentially giving rise to new conflicts. The paper sheds light on issues such as: the conversion of borderland natural capital to political capital as post-conflict states assert sovereignty claims and consolidate territorial identity; the ways in which the non-monetary value of natural capital is reconceived as commercial use value in post-conflict reconstruction; and the involvement of non-state actors and civil society in promoting environmental agendas, often as a counterbalance to state power
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Perception and Periodization: Video Game Perspective as Symbolic Form
This is the final version of the article. It first appeared from Studies in Control Societies via http://studiesincontrolsocieties.org/perception-and-periodization/
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Cybernetic melancholia: Chris Wareâs Building Stories and cultural informatics
Chris Wareâs formal and stylistic inventiveness in his 2012 graphic narrative, Building Stories, presents a challenge to traditional theories of the form. This essay argues, however, that Wareâs experimentation can be understood through the descriptive language of cybernetic thought. Whilst the use of informatics may suggest a neutral or affectless register, Building Stories in fact presents a convergence between cybernetics and the affect of melancholia. Indeed, this is a convergence already suggested by Freudâs model of the melancholic, which functions analogously to a reflexive feedback system. Having located Wareâs graphic narrative within a longer trajectory of the exchanges between informatics and post-war literature, this essay identifies three concepts from that tradition â homeostasis, autopoiesis, and digitality â to understand Building Storiesâ formal properties. The term, âcybernetic melancholiaâ, is proposed to describe the convergence between such properties and the register of melancholic affect; a convergence which, it is argued, represents a significant means of expressing the experience of a contemporary moment in which information systems are an epistemic ubiquity and melancholia is a prevalent affective register
Los desafĂos de desarrollo y protecciĂłn de la crisis de refugiados sirios
El Plan de Respuesta Regional para Siria 6 (RRP6, por sus siglas en inglés) de 2014 brinda un mayor enfoque en la recuperación temprana, las intervenciones de cohesión social y una transición desde la asistencia hacia las intervenciones dirigidas al desarrollo, junto con el actual programa a gran escala de asistencia humanitaria y protección
La tensiĂłn ambiental, el desplazamiento y el reto de los derechos de protecciĂłn
El examen de los historiales migratorios y de las actuales polĂticas en Kenia, Bangladesh, Vietnam, EtiopĂa y Ghana arroja luz sobre el modo en que estĂĄn articulados los derechos para los colectivos e individuos desplazados en un contexto de tensiĂłn ambiental y de cambio climĂĄtico. Tanto la migraciĂłn como los derechos son cuestiones sensibles en los paĂses objeto de nuestro estudio, y la conjunciĂłn de ambos resulta especialmente delicada
Contestation and reconstruction: natural capital and post-conflict development in borderland regions
Though often remote and underdeveloped, borderlands are contested territories. The incorporation of borderlands into the post-conflict state highlights many important land-related paradigms, including the conversion of natural resources for economic, political, and civic purposes. This article explores the relationship between the natural resources of borderlands and their post-conflict development, management, and sustainability. Based on case study data and secondary material drawn from Croatia and Cyprus, the paper seeks to establish how the interplay of cross-border, national, and sub-national interests in post-conflict settings may contribute to the creation of new opportunities for economic development and the reconstruction of borderlands. It considers how the exploitation of natural resources may advance the agendas for the political development and incorporation of previous sites of contestation; and equally how their incorporation may constrain policies of sustainability, potentially giving rise to new conflicts. The paper sheds light on issues such as: the conversion of borderland natural capital to political capital as post-conflict states assert sovereignty claims and consolidate territorial identity; the ways in which the non-monetary value of natural capital is reconceived as commercial use value in post-conflict reconstruction; and the involvement of non-state actors and civil society in promoting environmental agendas, often as a counterbalance to state power
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