Climate resilience in fragile and conflict-affected societies: concepts and approaches

To understand resilience to climate and environmental changes in fragile and conflict-affected societies is particularly important but equally challenging. In this paper, we first develop a conceptual framework to explore the climate-fragility-conflict and climate-resilience-peace nexus. Second, we discuss approaches to promote pathways from climatic changes to peace. We draw on the relevant literature and International Alert's experience in fragile and conflict-affected societies to stress the key role of resilience. To build resilience, climate, development, peacebuilding, and government actors would have to overcome bureaucratic and institutional barriers and cooperate across thematic and regional silos.     

A New Paradigm of Customary International Criminal Law: The UN War Crimes Commission of 1943–1948 and its Associated Courts and Tribunals

This article focuses on the United Nations War Crimes Commission’s significant contribution to the development of customary international criminal law defined by the development of international legal standards and proceedings to combat impunity and promote justice. It draws on the Commission’s official history and its increasingly open archives in order to provide an overview of the UNWCC and its work, its members and its legacy for the contemporary era of international criminal law. The article firstly places the Commission in its historical context through the events and agreements that led to its creation and provided the legal character of the UNWCC. The defining characteristics of the Commission are afterwards described: the nations involved, the committee structure it formed and the sub-commission located in the Far East. Lastly, the accomplishments of the Commission are emphasised and criticisms of its work are presented. The article concludes with a discussion on the legacy of the Commission’s work and a possible future research agenda.     

The role of discourses in governing forests to combat climate change

Reducing emissions from forest degradation and deforestation, conserving and enhancing forest carbon stocks, and sustainably managing forests (REDD+) has emerged as one of the most anticipated climate change mitigation tools. This paper aims to understand and identify the underlying discourses that have dominated the emergence of REDD+, by identifying the key story lines in the policy and academic debates on REDD+. As such, this paper takes a step away from the “fine-tuning” of policy recommendations and instead studies REDD+ from a more theoretical approach with the intent to provide a critical analysis of the ideational structures that shape the policies that have emerged around REDD+. The analysis shows that ecological modernization and its accompanying story lines constitute a dominant notion of REDD+ as being able to manage the complexities of forest in a synergetic way, combining cost-efficient and effective mitigation with sustainable development. The paper also identifies the critical counter discourse of civic environmentalism, which criticizes this notion of REDD+ and instead promotes issues such as equity, the importance of local knowledge, and the participatory process. It argues that reducing deforestation involves trade-offs between economic, ecological, and social dimensions, also arguing that REDD+ fits overwhelmingly with the interest of the global North.     

Between a rock and a hard place – An international law perspective of the difficult position of globally active Internet intermediaries

With its ability to create a global legal risk exposure, combined with contradicting rights and duties, and limited enforcement possibilities, the Internet has created a unique environment where persons and corporations legitimately can question whether they should comply with all the laws that apply to them. Focussing on the role of globally active Internet intermediaries, this article attempts to tackle this issue by discussing the potential for, and potential features of, an international law doctrine of selective legal compliance.     

急性乙醇中毒和外伤在蛛网膜下腔出血致死机制中的作用

目的研究人脑在急性乙醇中毒状态下tPA、MMP-2、MMP-9及AEG-1表达水平与乙醇浓度的关系,分析乙醇与外伤在蛛网膜下腔出血死亡机制中的作用。方法选取15例实际案例,提取脑组织进行组织病理学检查、心血进行乙醇浓度检测,用免疫组织化学法观察人脑干、大脑、小脑tPA、MMP-2、MMP-9及AEG-1表达水平。结果急性乙醇中毒外伤组和急性乙醇中毒组的脑组织肿胀。除小脑tPA外,tPA、MMP-2、MMP-9及AEG-1表达水平在饮酒者较未饮酒者在脑干、大脑、小脑均有升高(P0.05),MMP-2、MMP-9和AEG-1表达水平与心血乙醇浓度存在正相关(P0.05,r0.6)。结论急性乙醇中毒状态下人脑tPA、MMP-2、MMP-9、AEG-1表达较未饮酒者均显著增强,MMP-2、MMP-9及AEG-1表达水平与乙醇浓度存在相关性,乙醇对脑细胞有毒性作用。     

岷江上游民族地区生态环境退化与整治研究

在过去几十年 ,由于人口超过环境承载量 ,人们生产方式和生活方式落后 ,以及生态脆弱等诸多因素 ,导致岷江上游民族地区生态环境退化 ,如植被 ,草场 ,土地的退化及自然灾害频繁发生等。目前 ,区域贫困和生态环境退化已形成了恶性循环。本文根据生态环境退化的现状和人为活动的特点 ,提出了生态环境恢复和整治的对策 ,为岷江上游民族地区生态屏障的构建提出新思路。     

新冠肺炎疫情对宏观经济的影响分析及政策建议

该文通过对比分析发现,由于疫情影响地域范围、停复工时间和经济结构等因素存在差异,新冠肺炎疫情对经济的短期影响会大于2003年非典疫情;而且,由于部分民企和居民等微观主体的抗风险能力更弱,存在传导形成次生风险的可能。因此,必须坚持疫情防控和经济托底相结合,发挥逆周期政策作用,切实降低此次疫情的负面经济影响。     

提高党的执政能力和领导水平制度的基本内涵、逻辑结构和健全路径

党的十九届四中全会首次明确提出"健全提高党的执政能力和领导水平制度"的战略议题,并将提高党的执政能力和领导水平制度定位为坚持和完善党的领导制度体系六个方面的重要制度之一。提高党的执政能力和领导水平制度具体包括发展党内民主和实行正确集中的制度、健全决策机制的制度、改进党的领导方式和执政方式的制度、全面增强执政本领的制度等,共同构成一个系统完备、相互支撑、有机协调的制度体系。不断推进制度理念的现代化,切实增强制度的科学化、规范化、体系化程度,优化制度运行机制以激发潜在的制度效能,充分发挥党员领导干部和广大党员在制度完善中的主体作用,是新时代健全提高党的执政能力和领导水平制度的战略路径。