An International Chinese Contest for Peace

ON August 3, I was invited to attend the finale and closing ceremony of the 13th Chinese Bridge Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign College Students. This contest, organized jointly by the Confucious Institute Headquarters （Hanban）, the Hunan provincial government and Hunan TV, was held, unsurprisingly, in Changsha, capital of the province.     

公平正义与幸福辽宁——2013＇辽宁政法理论年会论文综述

2013’辽宁政法理论年会组织辽宁省政法部门的理论爱好者围绕“公平正义与幸福辽宁”这一主题对法治中国、政法机关提升维护社会公平正义能力、惩治司法腐败、不断提升司法公信力、新刑事诉讼法实施状况、微时代政法机关提升社会沟通能力、建立健全法律监督等多个问题进行了探讨并达成了共识,集中反映了我省政法界法学研究的新成果,体现了我省政法系统法学理论与司法实践相结合的新成就.     

Conviviality,ego, team and theme behavior in transrational peace education

ABSTRACT

The Innsbruck School of Peace Studies is known for its innovative academic teaching methods under the title Transrational Peace Philosophy. This essay introduces the epistemological fundament of this approach to peace education. It presents the didactic principles for its Strategic Capacity and Relationship Building, combined with Strategic Leadership Training. They are based on the conviviality of students and a curriculum that follows the stages of groups’ task behavior and individual learning by `peeling the onion´ of the Ego. It describes how the didactics are designed for the international, intercultural, interreligious and interdisciplinary groups of students. It demonstrates the five stages of Ego, Team and Theme Behavior during a semester and how the curriculum places courses for best learning results. It discusses the main presumptions on convivial learning processes for academics. The focus is on students who want to work later in a broader field of conflict transformation.     

Introduction: Unfolding transrational potential

ABSTRACT

This article presents peace education as a process of unfolding potential for peace and conflict transformation. It discusses how the different contributions to this special issue respond to challenges posed by a transrational understanding of peace education that engages with productive tensions present in research and practice. In this sense, the article asks how transrational perspectives can contribute to further understand and engage with these tensions through embracing complexity, contradictions and paradoxes as a field of transformative potentials. Finally, the article presents the objective of this special issue as exploring diverse ways in which transrational perspectives inform peace education - and are informed by it - in the challenging endeavor to facilitate the unfolding of both personal and collective potentials available for peace and conflict transformation.     

Kant's Perpetual Peace and Its Hidden Sources: A Textual Approach

The problem of Kantâ‐?s sources in Perpetual Peace has never before been dealt with in a systematic fashion. As some commentators have already noticed, Kant seldom quotes his sources in Perpetual Peace and in quite a number of other works. The purpose of the present research note is to analyze the Kantian text and to find philological traces of the various authors that we believe have been important to Kantâ‐?s work in the field of political philosophy. With this in mind, a methodology has been elaborated which includes three aspects: a textual and comparative analysis, a consistency analysis and a contextual analysis. These three approaches combined should allow us to systematically shed light on the key role played by Emer de Vattelâ‐?s famous book The Law of Nations (1758) and, more unexpectedly, by the Federalist Papers, in particular articles No. 10, 14 and 51 written by Madison.     

巴黎公社社会建设的逻辑蕴涵与当代价值

巴黎公社作为社会主义新制度的先驱，虽然存在的时间不长，但建立了人类历史上第一个无产阶级专政的国家政权，赋予了人民民主的真正内涵，给后人留下了诸多宝贵遗产。而最具有核心价值的遗产则是对社会建设方面的探索。这一遗产与我国在新世纪、新阶段构建社会主义和谐社会具有一定的关联。对当前和谐社会建设具有重要的指导意义和借鉴价值。     

《巴黎手稿》中精神生产思想的当代论域与实践路向

作为马克思唯物史观生成的出发点,《巴黎手稿》基于特定历史条件下的经济事实,分析"非物质生产领域中资本主义的表现",在生产资料所有制层面揭示精神生产的主体性本质和历史性特点,批判了资本主义条件下的劳动异化和精神生产主体性消解现象,明确私人财产占有制度是问题的根源,从而为彰显主体性的社会主义精神生产实践指明了制度建设的基本...     

现代化进程中的大都市治安防范

特定的自然、社会环境,使大都市成为人、财、物的集散地,也容易成为违法犯罪活动的高发区.大都市应根据其自身的特点,发挥其相对发达的科学技术和相对丰富的人力、物力资源,搞好治安防范.     

论犯罪信息收集机制的转换

以户籍管理为中心的犯罪信息收集机制的社会条件已经发生了实质性的变化,因而必须对之进行扬弃,建立实有人口管理、治安巡逻和计算机综合信息系统相结合的新机制,并实现组织职能、勤务方式、警务内容和警务手段四个转换.     

Mozambique’s post-war success story: Is it time to revisit the narrative?

Over the past years since the signing of the Rome peace Accords, Mozambique has generally been regarded as an exemplary African post war success story. However, events in the last four years illuminate something different. This article will show that the low intensity but violent clashes between FRELIMO government forces and former rebel group RENAMO are not just a mere manifestation of Mozambican’s government inability to consolidate post war gains. These clashes could be framed and located within the broader context of complexities associated with transforming a peace Accord into a genuine and sustainable postwar peace dividend. It seems the success was largely registered in terms of reducing direct violence by creating negative peace. Even though negative peace was good, it was unfortunately not adequate. This article also argues that the success narrative lulled many including Mozambicans into ignoring fissures in the area of structural violence which effectively limited the country’s ability to progress towards positive peace. Despite all this, however, this article will concur with the belief that an outright full scale war is still highly improbable, but not impossible because RENAMO is still capable of spoiling and eroding the registered post war gains.