INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND CUSTOMARY LAND RIGHTS： PUBLIC POLICY DISCOURSE OF LARGESCALE LAND ACQUISITIONS 1N EAST AFRICA

Land is a contested issue in the social, economic and political spheres. Although land has an embedded significance to indigenous peoples, it continues to be encroached and alienated. Customary land rights .     

Human Rights and the Regulation of Privatized Essential Services

Netherlands International Law Review - The privatization of essential services such as water and electricity has raised a number of questions with respect to the role of the state and how these...     

Editors note

As the African Peer Review Mechanism marks its fifth birthday in 2007, the authors take stock of the initiative's successes and challenges. The APRM can claim considerable achievements but the complexity of the process, its slow pace, and problems in some review countries raise questions which are highlighted in this detailed examination.     

Assessing reliability, validity, and clinical utility of the BEST-Index in measuring living skills among forensic inpatients

The assessment of behavioral change as a result of inpatient treatment in forensic psychiatry is an important precondition for violence risk prediction in forensic psychiatry. In relation to a multitude of diagnostically based risk assessment instruments, there is a shortage of appropriate instruments with which to carry out valid and reliable therapeutic assessments that are behaviorally based and therefore appropriate for use within varied psychiatric contexts. There is also a need for instruments which will offer assessors the opportunity to examine possible relationships between criteria of social risk and criteria of more general aspects of social functioning. Tapping the issues pointed out above, the authors present an overview of a normatively based social profiling instrument (the BEST-Index), and discuss evidence for its validity, reliability, and aspects of clinical utility.