Threats to Primal Identities: A Comparison of Nationalism and Religion as Impacts on Ethnic Protest and Rebellion

The post World War II world has witnessed a proliferation of conflicts based on ethnic differences. Religion and national identity are two dominant features of many of these ethnic struggles. The purpose of this study is to determine which of the two has a greater impact on protest and rebellion using large-n methodology, employing variables from the Minorities at Risk Phase 3 dataset as well as data collected independently. It was found that the simple answer is that nationalism has a greater impact on conflict than does religion. However, this simple answer is not an accurate answer. This is because the simple answer that nationalism has a greater influence is to a great extent due to the fact that the majority of ethnic conflicts are between groups that are not religiously different. If one looks only at those ethnic conflicts where religion can potentially be a factor, religious and national issues are involved in ethnic conflicts approximately as often. Also, while religious issues alone seem to have less of an influence on ethnic conflict than national issues, religious issues have a strong influence on the relationship between nationalism and ethnic conflict, to the extent that the relationship between nationalism and ethnic conflict can not be fully understood without accounting for the influence of religion.     

Resurgent religious terrorism: A study of some of the Lebanese Shi'a contemporary terrorism

Abstract

This study introduces the concept of geocultural immobility. A minority's geocultural immobility is identified as an imposed low geographic mobility within a nation with low cultural pluralism. It establishes the Lebanese Shi'a geocultural immobility, to which it attributes their religious resurgence. This Lebanese Shi'a religious resurgence is proven in this research to produce the zealots needed by religious terrorist organizations. This study also introduces and defines religious terrorism as violent acts performed by elements of religious organizations or sects, growing out of a commitment to communicate a divine message. It makes distinctions among religious terrorism, secular terrorism, and fighters for religious freedom, which are based on the actors' motives, affinities, and consciousness of the maliciousness of their acts. The primary and secondary data and the quasiexperiment in this research support its special hypotheses. They indicate a statistical correlation between eight Lebanese Shi ‘a cultural and religious attributes.     

试析非政府组织在城市社区建设中的作用及其发展

非政府组织在城市社区建设中的作用主要是体现在对社区参与渠道的拓宽、弥补现有社区组织服务能力不足以夏对社会就业、社会稳定产生的积极意义.但这些作用的充分发挥还有待于非政府组织自身的快速、健康发展。为此,要借鉴国外非政府组织的经验;倡导、动员社会的志愿精神,发展志愿者组织;筹集活动经费.     

志愿精神之于公共精神培育的逻辑与价值反思

志愿精神和公共精神在内容上体现了不同实践领域的各自内涵，具有内在的切合性。公共精神是志愿精神培育的内核，从个体间关系、责任伦理和实践模式三个方面促成了志愿精神的生成和深化，对于解决当前我国志愿精神生成过程中的现实问题起着重要作用。同时，我国志愿精神中蕴含的私德成分和工具理性思维对公共精神的培育具有一定的不利影响。     

在志愿服务中加强大学生思想政治教育工作

自中央16号文件颁布以来,我国大学生思想政治教育工作取得了长足的进步.随着时代的发展,大学生年龄结构、视野与生活环境发生了一定的改变,给当前的大学生思想政治教育工作带来了新的挑战.为此,提出基于大学生志愿服务加强对大学生进行思想政治教育的思路,强化志愿服务实践育人.     

草根志愿组织运行机制探析——以河南省平顶山志愿者协会为例

文章对志愿服务组织运行机制进行探析,以河南省平顶山志愿者协会作为个案,从组织目标、组织招募机制、项目设置机制、财务运作机制、评价机制、激励保障机制和协调机制七个方面,对组织的运行机制进行分析,并提出了通过明确组织目标,打造学习型组织;引进专业社会工作人员,提高服务专业性;建立与社区的联动机制,带动更多居民参与志愿服务;做好评估工作,不断提高组织效能;完善激励保障机制,充分保障志愿者权益等途径不断完善志愿者组织。     

“90后”志愿者在世博会志愿服务过程中的主体性收获研究

本文依据对30位世博会志愿者和志愿者领袖的深度访谈,以及通过482份调查问卷获得的第一手资料的分析,就“90后”志愿者在世博会志愿服务过程中的主体性收获展开了研究。发现世博会城市志愿服务经历给“90后”青年带来了极好的工具性收益、社会性收益和情感性收益,这无疑将有助于青年内化并保持志愿服务意识、提高其志愿服务的主动性,为城市在后世博时代开展日常性、社区性、长效性的志愿活动奠定良好的人力基础和意识支援。     

实践视域下的高校学生党员参与社会建设研究

作为社会建设的重要功能定位,当前我国高等教育进入了更加注重内涵发展的时期,服务于民生发展成为其更加凸显社会责任的内在发展要求。城乡社区是影响高校党建与德育育人的外源性、发展性、生成性环境,也是大学生全身步入社会之前实现其＂预社会化过程＂的重要实践空间。高校学生党组织要以核心价值体系为基点,推进党建工作格局从准行政化走向公益化,有效延伸高等学校的社会服务职能;要以党员义工基地等为载体,创新党员教育管理途径,将＂志愿、服务、奉献＂等公益教育精神嵌入并内化于党员大学生的成长成才体系,推进高校学生党建与社会工作的联动共建和长效发展,从而引领大学生党员系统完成从＂学校人＂到＂社会人＂的角色转型,并顺利地实现由＂精英毛坯＂到＂人才成品＂的社会化过程。     

浅谈我国社区矫正中的志愿服务

成熟社区的志愿者和志愿组织的参与是社区矫正发挥其功效的根本保障.倡导社区矫正中的志愿服务,首先在于纠正社区成员对志愿精神的理解偏差和对社区矫正的漠视;其次,需要完善相关立法和技术规范.如是,志愿服务才能夯实社区矫正内在要求的社区成员广泛参与的基石,其本身的发展更为社区成员参与社区治理,投身公民社会建设提供了广阔平台.     

论我国治安志愿者制度及其完善

我国治安志愿者制度正处于不断发展和完善过程中,当前存在制度保障不足,公众参与热情的深度和广度不够,政府支持不足等问题。限制我国治安志愿者制度推进的因素主要有:社会经济发展水平和受教育程度、治安志愿活动所处的初级阶段、公安机关认识不够、有效沟通平台缺乏、激励体系不完善等。对此,应加强对公众的宣传教育,支持、帮助治安志愿组织的发展,规范治安志愿者的招募、培训、管理制度,设立治安志愿者服务网站,构建多元激励机制。