Safe house fiction

John LeCarré: The Secret Pilgrim Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1991, 335 p., $21.95.     

试论我国少年收容教养制度建设

我国少年收容教养人员矫正教育的法治建设上存在一些不足之处,需要在立法、执法等方面进一步发展完善,以适应社会主义市场经济发展、社会全面进步和加入世贸组织的新形势。     

Saff professional competency strategy: a call for action

Staff units, e.g., budget offices, can be improved. This article recommends a comprehensive macro strategy to improve professional competency of Public Administration staff units. This represents a call for action among the Public Administration community.     

A call for critical reflection on the localisation agenda in humanitarian action

Abstract

Calls for a greater inclusion of local actors have featured for some time in debates on how to make humanitarian action more efficient and address unequal power relations within the humanitarian system. Though the localisation agenda is at the core of current reform efforts in the humanitarian sector, the debate lacks a critical discussion of underlying assumptions – most strikingly, the very conceptualisation of the local itself. It is argued that the current discourse is dominated by a problematic conceptualisation of the local in binary opposition to the international, leading to blind spots in the analysis of exclusionary practices of the humanitarian sector. As such the localisation agenda risks perpetuating the very issues it wants to redress. A critical localism is thus proposed as a framework for much needed research on the localisation agenda.