The Decision Not to Furl the Confederate Flag in My Classroom

Over the last year and a half, a number of scholars, pundits, and journalists have criticized college campuses for coddling students by constructing environments that protect them from offensive opinions and evidence that disconfirms their prior attitudes. In this article, I suggest two pedagogical techniques that can help students encounter and digest evidence that may go against their preconceived worldviews and opinions: teaching rational versus irrational thought and quantitative research design and critique. Guiding undergraduates through empirical studies on sensitive topics and encouraging them to critique their findings in a rational, academic manner can help ease them into more reasoned and less reactionary discourse about race, gender, religion, politics, and any other controversial topic in today’s contentious climate. I use my own experience teaching students research design in the months following a race-related murder to illustrate the effectiveness of this method in an extreme circumstance.     

Building peace through education

ABSTRACT

Can we pave the way to world peace through education of the next generation? This paper focuses on how teaching social and emotional learning (SEL) skills in schools could promote the positive development of children and youth so that they can choose prosocial, nonviolent ways of building relationships with others. First, research on how belonging and fairness develop early in life is briefly reviewed. Then the authors introduce SEL and the research supporting its impact, and explain how it can be supported through various strategies in the classroom, including programs, teacher–student relationships, cooperative learning, approaches to discipline, and solving problems and dealing with conflict peacefully. Building peace by promoting social and emotional development through education offers hope for future generations.     

Inter-Rebel Alliances in the Shadow of Foreign Sponsors

From the Patriotic Front struggle against the minority rule in Rhodesia to the seven-party mujaheddin alliance in Afghanistan, inter-rebel alliances make the armed opposition more resilient and successful in the face of government repression. Why then do some rebel groups cooperate with each other while others do not? Drawing on the principal-agent theory, I argue that the presence of foreign sponsors is likely to encourage alliance formation in civil wars especially when two rebel outfits share a state sponsor. Shared sponsors may demand cooperation between their agents and credibly threaten to punish them for non-compliance. They may also insist on the establishment of umbrella institutions to improve their monitoring and sanctioning capacity, and to increase the legitimacy of their agents. I test this argument using the UCDP Actor dataset with new data on alliances between rebel groups. I find strong evidence that shared sponsors increase the probability of inter-rebel alliance.     

双重协调:中国的周边安全战略构建

自习近平同志担任中共中央总书记以来,中国对周边外交更加重视,推出了一系列周边外交新理念和新举措。不过如何更好地开展周边外交也日益面临着周边安全的掣肘,对于周边安全环境的评价也存在大量争议,这就使得建立周边安全的评价体系和构建整体性的周边安全战略很有必要。由于中国崛起的周边安全效应、全球战略重心东移亚太的地缘效应和周边国家转型的系统效应,中国的周边地区安全已变得日益重要。周边安全合作面临着大国权力竞争、制度竞争和观念竞争等主要障碍,中国在周边安全中应该发挥重要作用。从国家利益层次分析的视角,可以对中国周边地区存在的纷繁复杂的安全问题进行梳理,区分为核心利益、重要利益和一般利益三个层次,使得对于中国面临的诸多周边安全问题有着更为整体性的清晰认知,进而提出了“双重协调”的周边安全战略。针对涉及不同利益层次的周边安全问题,中国可以采用“大国协调”和“制度协调”并进的思路,单一或综合运用政治、经济、军事和社会等手段,最终推动中国周边地区形成较低程度的周边安全共同体。     

人工智能生成物法律保护模式探索与比较研究

目前,法律对人工智能生成物的保护并无明确规定.由于缺少法律保护机制,人工智能生成物承载的经济价值可能会引发各方主体无序使用,产生纠纷,最终影响文化市场的健康发展和良好运行.因此及早为人工智能生成物找出合理的保护路径,不仅可以起到定分止争的效果,还可以促进人工智能生成物的生产和传播,满足人们日益增长的文化需求.     

学习策略在高职高专英语教学中的探讨

学习策略在高职高专院校的学生英语学习中有着重要作用,英语教师应该通过课堂教学对学生进行系统明确地指导和训练,能够使学生积极主动地掌握各种有效的学习策略以提高英语学习的效率。     

合规顾问在有效合规整改中的作用

律师作为涉案企业聘请的合规顾问,在协助企业合规整改中可以充当三种角色：一是检察机关启动合规考察程序的申请者;二是第三方组织监督考察的应对者;三是检察机关合规验收听证的答辩者。为帮助企业实现有效合规整改的目标,合规顾问应通过积极工作,满足检察机关启动合规考察程序的基本条件,针对涉案企业发生犯罪的内生性结构原因,对其治理结构、业务类型、经营方式、商业模式、企业文化等做出有针对性的调整,消除那些容易导致犯罪发生的因素。在此基础上,合规顾问可以根据企业的规模、业务范围、行业特点、合规风险等情况,帮助企业建立一种体系化的专项合规计划,争取达到有效预防相关违法犯罪行为再次发生的效果。     

基于组织学习的公安机关能力建设研究

公安机关能力建设是当前公安管理研究的一个新领域,组织学习则是组织行为学研究的热点之一,并已经取得了丰富的成果。可以在公安机关中借鉴组织学习理论的研究成果,加强其能力建设,为警察组织的多个层次建立良好的学习环境与机制,采用合适的学习方式,促进组织知识的积累与开发利用,从而促进公安机关能力的较大提高。     

大学英语教学新模式下的自主学习研究

自《大学英语课程教学要求(试行)》颁布以来,国内众多高校利用现代教育技术,在构建学生自主学习模式等方面进行了一系列的改革探索。在新的时代要求下,自主学习的培养变得越来越重要,成为大学生学好英语的一项必要技能。有限的课时、充足的课余时间以及丰富的学习资源为大学生自主学习英语提出了要求也提供了条件。大学英语教师应当长期坚持不懈地努力,培养大学生的自主学习能力。     

Stem Cell Research and Technology in Iran—Window of Opportunity in the Midst of International Tension

This paper aims to explain how the key characteristics of “stem cell research” as an emerging technology facilitate the strategy of an Iranian organization, namely, “the Royan Institute” to learn by interaction and to generate knowledge. It argues that the Royan could take advantage of the window of opportunity that stem cell research and technology had temporarily opened up but its endeavors are now being hampered by unfavorable international factors and weak domestic infrastructure. The article substantiates the case by giving an objective account of networking and gatekeeping in the process of learning/innovation at the Royan and concludes by questioning the continuity of the actual learning strategy in order to sustain the Royan's knowledge production.