“TRUTH” AND “RECONCILIATION” AS SOCIAL INDICATORS

Countries throughout the world are trying to move toward a more democratic future through truth and reconciliation processes, under the assumption that truth causes reconciliation and that reconciliation contributes to democratization. But are “truth” and “reconciliation” concepts that can be measured rigorously and reliability? I present evidence in this article that each can be measured as an attribute of individuals, based on a large survey conducted in South Africa. My findings indicate that truth does indeed contribute to reconciliation. But because reconciliation is quite capable of changing (and likely to change) over time, efforts must be made to track levels of reconciliation as an important social indicator. Many countries in transition would profit greatly from implementing a Reconciliation Barometer to measure movement toward or away from the consolidation of democratic reform.     

加强高校廉政文化建设 构建校园和谐干群关系

推进高校廉政文化建设、构建和谐干群关系是促进高校健康发展的有力保障,也是践行科学发展观、构建和谐校园乃至构建和谐社会的必然要求。其路径主要是以科学发展观为指导,通过建立健全管理制度、加强宣传以扩大廉政文化阵地,增强民主监督意识等来实现,其中校园文化是载体,营造廉政文化氛围,提高师德修养是保证。     

池田大作环境正义观

从正义的视角来审视当今世界的环境问题是当代环境伦理学的新进展。池田的环境正义观认为,必须从世界范围来看待当今世界的环境危机,应当为提高发展中国家的幸福作出贡献;要把消除全球贫困与拯救世界环境危机联系起来解决;要充分发挥妇女的独特作用,提升女性的地位,绝对是解决地球环境问题的关键;要把享用环境作为一种新的人权来看待,从生命尊严的高度来审视环境问题。     

Conflict Resolution,Restorative Justice Approaches and Bullying in Young People’s Residential Units

Restorative justice has been an increasing feature in the discourses within adult and youth justice criminal justice systems in recent years. This article examines interpersonal conflicts arising from crime, bullying and antisocial behaviour in residential care, and the advantages and disadvantages of utilising such approaches in relation to these forms of conflict, based upon an evaluation of restorative principles and approaches from the perspectives of young people, residential workers and managers. The article sets out how the staff in the units studied modified restorative justice approaches to take into account the specific relationships within group care settings.     

论残疾人的价值实现:基于制度伦理视角的考察

作为人的存在,残疾人需要实现自身的价值。残疾人的价值实现与制度伦理之间存在着一种内在关联。以制度伦理的视角来看,残疾人的价值不仅要求个人价值实现,而且要求社会价值的实现。残疾人平等参与社会生活既是残疾人个人价值和社会价值交互作用的结果,也是残疾人价值实现的最终归属。要达成这一点,就需要以公平和正义为特征的合目的的制度安排为保障。     

商标权正当性的伦理学分析

劳动并不必然产生商标权,不能作为商标权产生的直接依据.商标权是个人意志与社会公共意志相结合的产物;社会公共意志对取得商标权的个人意志的认可,对于商标权的产生起着决定性的作用.社会公共意志对取得商标权的个人意志予以认可的根源,可以从伦理学的视角进行分析.赋予商标专有权是保障社会公共利益的必要手段,符合正义要求,具有深厚伦理基础.     

Mobilizing motherhood: The gendered burden of environmental protection

Maternalist framing has been a consistent part of a long history of powerful, often successful organizing for environmental protection and justice. Yet today's calls on individuals to simultaneously engage in proenvironmental behavior and to protect themselves from environmental threats through consumption have mobilized maternal discourse in a way that is likely demobilizing in the long run. Indeed, the increasing individualization of the environmental movement is intersecting with persistent, unequal gendered structures of labor in a way that places the burden of environmentalism and environmental risk management on women and mothers. I argue that precautionary consumption and other forms of individualized environmental risk management add to the “third shift,” on top of the disproportionate burden of household labor and care work that women already face. This phenomenon is concerning because it has the potential to (1) limit women's engagement in other forms of environmental advocacy and leadership, and to (2) reproduce existing gender inequalities not only between men and women but also among women of different levels of race and class privilege. Thus, the increasing individualization of the environmental movement also potentially exacerbates environmental injustice at the household level. Despite such emerging concerns, the domestic scale remains an often overlooked site of environmental harm and gendered burden.     

Appraisals and de/legitimation of classroom well-being: A study based on Chilean students' voices

This study analysed, from a social justice perspective, how students from two Chilean public schools evaluate, legitimise and delegitimise processes and social actors associated with classroom well-being. Using a participatory qualitative design, fifty-nine (59) seventh grade students were asked to take and then select photographs about their school experience, and later participated in semi-structured interviews and a group workshop. Findings regarding the classroom context showed that children legitimised active learning methodologies, teachers to whom they feel close, and the use of technology for learning. They delegitimised punishment and teachers who ignored minority students or those with learning difficulties.     

Extending health care coverage: Potential linkages between statutory social security and community-based social protection

Abstract   The extension of social health protection in developing countries is widely recognized as a priority. Various financing and institutional methods can be used in pursuing this objective, but none of them can achieve universal coverage in the short term. Based on an analysis of the respective strengths and weaknesses of social health insurance and community-based health care schemes, this article demonstrates the high potential of coverage extension strategies that use a pluralistic institutional approach to establish linkages and exploit complementarities optimally. A typology of potential linkages among different methods is presented and their value added illustrated using country examples.     

The over-representation of indigenous children in the Australian child welfare system

Similar to other wealthy countries with colonised indigenous populations, Australia's indigenous children, those of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, are seriously over-represented in the child welfare system. The specific dimensions of this problem warrant detailed examination. It is useful to consider factors such as rates of entry to care, length of stay and the nature of services provided in order to understand the problem more fully. This article uses child protection, out-of-home care and juvenile justice administrative data to examine the levels of disproportionality at key decision points in the child welfare system. The data show that child welfare interventions are persistently more intrusive for indigenous children, and that levels of disproportionality have not improved over time. More comprehensive child and family welfare policies are needed to address indigenous disadvantage. Despite calls by indigenous community agencies for more input to decision-making, their participation in the Australian child welfare system remains marginal.