构建我国污染损害赔偿基金制度的若干思考

目前我国主要通过民事诉讼和行政调解两种方式对环境污染进行救济,但由于环境侵权的特殊性在实践中也暴露出了其中存在的不足,因此需要建立一种新的社会化救济方式——污染损害赔偿基金制度。     

The Impact of Gender and Department Climate on Job Satisfaction and Intentions to Quit for Faculty in Science and Engineering Fields

This study investigates whether gender and the perceptions of department climate affects faculty job satisfaction and intentions to quit (work outcomes) with surveys responses from 308 faculty members in science and engineering fields. The study finds that both gender and department climate are related to work outcomes and that two facets of department climate (affective and instrumental) mediate the relationship between gender and both job satisfaction and intention to quit. This finding suggests that universities can benefit from improving department climate, which then may improve the retention of both male and female faculty, but may have an even greater impact on improving job satisfaction and reducing intentions to quit of female faculty.     

纠纷解决与和谐社会

和谐社会并不是没有纠纷的社会,而是要从法律的角度把不和谐的纠纷控制在最小的范围内,使社会呈现出稳定而有序的状态。诉讼虽然是现代社会中纠纷解决机制中的最主要的纠纷解决方式,但其并不是唯一的纠纷解决机制。通过诉讼与人民调解等非诉讼纠纷解决机制的科学配置及时的化解社会矛盾是实现和建构和谐社会的关键所在。     

The Short‐Term Effects of Mediation on Low‐Intensity Civil Wars

International diplomacy, to the extent it is effective, should not only prevent escalation of low‐intensity conflict, but should also facilitate de‐escalation. This article focuses on the short‐term effects of managing low‐intensity civil wars through third‐party mediation. Specifically, we compare the efficacy of third party‐mediated direct (face‐to‐face) and indirect talks in low‐intensity civil wars from 1993 to 2004 using the Managing Intrastate Low‐Intensity Conflict data set. We argue that a focus on short‐term success is valid because of the relationship among mediation, short‐term success, humanitarian aid access, and peacebuilding. We also assess the roles of mediator identity, mediation strategy (behavior focus versus incompatibility focus), peace agreements, war type, per capita gross domestic product, level of democracy, and conflict duration. Our overarching finding is that direct forms of mediation in which all parties meet face to face were the most likely to yield short‐term success in the sample of civil wars that we analyzed.     

强制调解模式研究

通过搭建“强制调解的主导者”和“强制调解的适用阶段”两个维度所形成的框架,可以对强制调解进行类型化分析并提炼出四种模式。一国或地区选择何种强制调解模式,要受到程序正义理念、传统法律程序等因素的综合影响。基于我国实际,未来有必要引入司法性诉前强制调解模式,实现从程序保障提高、调解人适格和制裁措施到位三方面确保诉前强制调解优势的发挥,同时有必要对我国原有的司法性诉中强制调解模式进行改造,实现调解者与审判者身份的分离和调解程序与审判程序时空的分离,并在立法中明确赋予法官动态裁量调解启动的权力以及启动调解时应当考虑的基准。     

澳大利亚劳动关系调整机制研究

澳大利亚调整劳动关系的第一部法律是 190 4年出台的《联邦调解仲裁法》 ,其后随社会的变化 ,该法几经修改 ,甚至二易其名 ,对劳动关系的确立、调整起到了关键性的作用。澳国调整劳动关系的政府职能部门是联邦和州的工作场所关系、就业及小企业部、“就业代言”及准政府机构———产业关系委员会。另外 ,由劳、资、政三方代表组成的国家劳资调解委员会从高层面上促进了劳资和谐。工会组织和雇主组织是澳大利亚劳动关系调整机制中的两大主体组织 ,法律要求劳资双方要通过集体谈判及签定协议 ,协商解决劳动纠纷 ,而劳动争议则由产业关系委员会负责处理。近年来 ,澳大利亚劳动关系调整机制日臻完善 ,劳动争议明显下降 ,劳动关系基本稳定和谐     

A mob for hire? Unpacking older women’s political activism in Kyrgyzstan

This article explores the politics of older women in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan, who have emerged as informal leaders in urban neighbourhoods to ‘speak for the poor’ to the state. Their mediating role is crucial for understanding community micro-politics, women’s political agency and more broadly state–society relations in the post-Soviet context. Drawing on in-depth interviews with older female informal leaders, the paper examines their political legitimacy and modes of mediation with the state and elites. Using Bourdieu’s concepts of political capital and ‘double dealings’, the paper argues that older women are important informal mediators, whose representational practices involve communal leadership, protest activism, bargaining and vote mobilization. Their multitasking roles are necessitated by their legitimation struggles and elites’ strategies of state capture. The article challenges the dominant media representation of older women activists as ‘a mob for hire’ and offers a more nuanced account of older women’s politics, addressing a blind spot in the literature on politics in Central Asia.     

刑事附带民事诉讼调解新路径

刑事附带民事诉讼是指司法机关在刑事诉讼过程中,在解决被告人刑事责任的同时,附带解决因被告人的犯罪行为所造成的物质损失的赔偿问题而进行的诉讼活动。在司法实践中,调解在刑事附带民事诉讼中已被广泛运用,在处理刑事附带民事案件中发挥了特殊的作用。调解作为解决民事纠纷的一种特殊制度,是促使双方当事人和解的一种结案方式和诉讼活动,具有方便、快捷、灵活、成本低廉和对抗性弱的特点。     

论民事立案调解机制

立案调解制度是为构建社会主义和谐社会,探索并实施的一项重要司法制度,在我国审判制度中有着极其重要的作用。加强立案调解,促进诉讼调解与社会矛盾纠纷的大调解机制相结合,对于和谐社会建设和保持社会稳定具有非常重要的意义。和谐司法只有起点,没有终点。目前民事调解制度的运行现状并不乐观,在今后的工作中,我们要继续完善立案调解的法律法规,加强对立案调解工作的重视,建立立案调解的激励机制,并且创新立案庭机构模式,进一步深化立案调解认识,主动站位,能动调解,深入推进大调解工作,为和谐社会构建做出积极贡献。     

The European Union in Sudan: A Missed Opportunity?

Abstract

International organisations active in Africa are often criticised for their ineffectiveness. So too is the European Union (EU), which is also accused of failing to assume a more prominent conflict management role in war-torn countries. This article examines the EU’s capacity and readiness to take on such a role in one such country, the former Republic of Sudan, home to Africa’s longest-running civil wars and the first ‘genocide’ of the 21st century. It begins by outlining the EU’s record in Darfur and the North–South Peace Process. Drawing upon 25 interviews and Hill’s ‘capabilities–expectations model’, it then questions whether the EU’s ‘capabilities’ (resources, instruments, unity) were ‘fit for purpose’ in Sudan’s hostile target setting. It concludes by identifying settings that have been more propitious for a conflict-related management function and by suggesting that the EU should better manage expectations about future security roles.