Reevaluating Peacekeeping Effectiveness: Does Gender Neutrality Inhibit Progress?

Since the adoption of UNSCR 1325, more female peacekeepers are participating in peacekeeping missions than ever before. Nevertheless, the current literature on peacekeeping effectiveness is largely gender neutral, discounting the unique role female peacekeepers may play in peacekeeping operations. This article addresses this missing piece in the literature by assessing how female peacekeepers and locals view the role of women in peacekeeping operations. Using interviews and focus groups conducted with peacekeepers in the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) and original surveys conducted in Liberian communities, it finds that there is an “access gap” that prevents female peacekeepers from fully contributing to the mission’s operations and therefore prevents the peacekeeping mission from reaching its full potential. The findings have broader implications for how to improve peacekeeping missions’ effectiveness moving forward.     

浅谈中职学校越南语专业《会话》课程改革应注意的几个问题

随着中国—东盟博览会永久落户南宁,中国与越南的经济贸易合作日益频繁。近几年来中国大力发展职业教育,中职学校的越南语专业不断地得到发展,越南语专业学生数量不断增长,但是文化水平参差不齐,理解和应用知识的能力较差,而用人单位对该专业的人才需求主要集中在口语技能的应用上,这就要求中职学校对一些专业课程进行改革,尤其是《会话》课程。本文将就中职学校越南语专业《会话》课程改革应注意的几个问题进行简单的讨论。     

城市设计中的政府行为分析

随着城市市场经济的不断发展和公众参与意识的不断增强,城市设计无论在思想观念上还是在管理体系及制度等方面都不同程度地遇到了前所未有的新问题。本文强调了政府在城市设计中应尽的职责,从公共政策与社会学视角对规范城市设计的政府行为路径选择进行了思考,阐述了政府通过完善城市设计相关法规制度、行政机制来完善政府在城市设计中的主导作用,以期实现政府行为的有效性来引导城市设计,塑造高品质的城市公共空间。     

坚持科学发展观 统筹解决人口问题

人口问题始终是制约我国经济社会全面协调发展的重大问题，贯彻落实科学发展观，必须坚持计划生育基本国策，集中力量解决好人口和计划生育工作面临的突出矛盾和问题，坚持与时俱进，解放思想，综合治理，关注民生，加强领导，用科学发展观为统领，统筹解决人口问题。     

构建我国土地规划资格制度

近年来,我国违法用地的现象严重,土地规划的编制缺乏科学性是导致人为随意修改规划造成违法用地的重要原因之一。目前我国土地规划的现状、土地规划机构的规划能力和水平对规划质量的提高有一定影响,构建我国土地规划资格制度具有重要的理论和现实意义,建立我国专业化的土地规划队伍即土地规划资格制度应参考城市规划师执业资格的模式。     

冷战后联合国维和行动发展评析

联合国维和行动是联合国维护世界和平与安全的重要手段.在美苏对峙的冷战时期,联合国维和行动的发展受到极大的抑制.冷战结束后,新的国际政治与安全形势为联合国维和行动的开展提供了前提条件和机遇,国际社会对维和行动提出了新的要求,因此联合国维和行动得到了迅速发展并表现出许多新的特点和发展趋势.但是,由于国际环境的变化和日趋复杂,冷战后的联合国维和行动也面临着一些问题与挑战,这些问题和挑战对联合国维和行动的未来发展将产生重要影响.     

如何提高网络新闻专题的影响力

网络新闻专题具有传统媒体专题不可比拟的优势,它既具集成性又具延展性,既具共时性又具延时性,还具有数据库的作用,所以在引导社会舆论方面应承担更多的社会责任。网络媒体可以通过实施策划、利用品牌优势、名人效应、实行媒体联动提高网络新闻专题在受众中的影响力。     

Improving Policy Effectiveness: Land Use Planning in a Devolved Polity

Improving public policy efficiency and effectiveness in land use planning is an established priority on the prevailing political agenda in the UK. Practical measures to enhance policy formulation in local land use development plans in Scotland offer an interesting case study of an attempt to improve policy consistency, and to secure efficiency gains in policy authorship. This article considers the specific focus on the drafting stage of public policy‐making drawing on insights provided by research into the production of model policies in Scotland. It questions the extent to which such an initiative will promote a more robust public policy‐making discipline in light of the policy cycle. The discussion of the case study illustrates a practical attempt by central government to enhance public policy‐making at the local level, while raising questions about the dangers of invoking a technocratic and instrumentalist approach to policy analysis.     

The Universal Adversary will attack: pigs,pirates, zombies,Satan and the class war

This article explores a category to have recently emerged out of the national security state: the Universal Adversary. The category appears in emergency planning documents and suggests a new way of thinking about the enemy that is becoming embedded in the logic of security and emergency. However, the radical expansiveness of the category offers new possibilities for thinking about the “universality” with which the enemy of bourgeois order has historically been considered and offers new ways of connecting this universality with a particular figure: the disgruntled worker.     

公众参与理念在美国土地规划票决中的实践及启示

美国的投票式分区管制将票决制度运用于土地规划,是一种最强程度的公众参与。实践表明,土地规划领域有适用票决制度的必要,票决制度体现的公众参与特征包括决策者与参与者之间的双向沟通关系,决策结果对公众参与具有高度的依赖性。在信息公开制度健全、议题限制、平等保护审查等条件下,居民投票不会沦为"愚众政治",与专业机构判断的对立也会缓解,而且也不会"压迫少数人的意见"。我国应在涉及健康、生命安全的公共项目选址决策中引入票决制度,并同时完善信息公开配套机制,以及加强对居民投票决策不违反公益要求的程序管控。