Publications
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Towards an International Code of Conduct for Private Security Providers:
(2015)
The use of private security companies (PSCs) to perform services that are traditionally associated with the state presents a challenge to regulatory and oversight frameworks. Analyzing developments leading to the International ...
The "Democratic Soldier"
(2013)
Since the end of the Cold War almost all European countries have reformed their armed forces, focusing on downsizing, internationalization and professionalization. This paper examines how these changes in security sector ...
Money Matters
(2015)
Although the financial sustainability of United Nations (UN) support to institutional capacity building in post-conflict contexts may be the least analysed topic on the peacebuilding agenda, understanding the costs of ...
The Rule of Law and Security Sector Reform
(2012)
There is a clear need to better understand the relationship between two concepts at the heart of peacebuilding: the Rule of Law (RoL), and Security Sector Reform (SSR). If it is acknowledged in principle that they are ...
Thinking Beyond Sectors for Sustainable Development
(2015)
"This book brings together a series of working papers, produced by interdisciplinary groups of academics within the project, on progress made under the Millennium Development Goals and introduces current debates surrounding ...
Business and Security Sector Reform
(2015)
Challenges to security and human rights involving extractive and other industries are addressed in a framework known as business and human rights (BHR), which shares many challenges and goals with SSR. This paper describes ...
Text- und Data-Mining in den digitalen Geisteswissenschaften
(2023)
The legal opinion was developed in the context of the ""XSample"" project funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of the State of Baden-Württemberg. The aim of the project was to examine the copyright ...
Variance in Approach Toward a ‘Sustainable’ Coffee Industry in Costa Rica
(2019)
"The monograph considers influence over time of Fairtrade and Rainforest Alliance in 10 Costa Rican coffee farming communities. In-country perspectives and relevant historic and contemporary literature inform findings.
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Conversations with Kenelm
(2013)
In a celebratory moment of the Paradiso, Dante has Thomas go round the circle of sage spirits identifying each in turn in point of proper calling and confirming how it is that self is everywhere present to the other-than-self ...
Mobile Research Methods
(2015)
Daily activity sees data constantly flowing through cameras, the internet, satellites, radio frequencies, sensors, private appliances, cars, smartphones, tablets and the like. Among all the tools currently used, mobile ...
Garden Learning: A Study on European Botanic Gardens' Collaborative Learning Processes
(2015)
"From 2007-2013 the European 7th Framework Program Science in Society (FP7) funded a multitude of formal and informal educational institutions to join forces and engage in alternative ways to teach science—inside and outside ...
European Handbook of Crowdsourced Geographic Information
(2016)
"This book focuses on the study of the remarkable new source of geographic information that has become available in the form of user-generated content accessible over the Internet through mobile and Web applications. The ...
Dealing with the Past in Security Sector Reform
(2013)
Security sector reform (SSR) and transitional justice processes often occur alongside each other in societies emerging from conflict or authoritarian rule, involve many of the same actors, are supported by some of the same ...
Gouvernance du secteur de la Sécurité
(2015)
"Many efforts have been undertaken to address dysfunctional security sector governance in West Africa. However, security sector reform (SSR) has fallen short of radical – transformational – change to the fundamental ...
"Production Ergonomics
(2017)
"Production ergonomics – the science and practice of designing industrial workplaces to optimize human well-being and system performance – is a complex challenge for a designer. Humans are a valuable and flexible resource ...
Publishing Addiction Science
(2017)
"Publishing Addiction Science is a comprehensive guide for addiction scientists facing the complex process of contributing to scholarly journals. Written by an international group of addiction journal editors and their ...
Open
(2017)
"Affordable education. Transparent science. Accessible scholarship. These ideals are slowly becoming a reality thanks to the open education, open science, and open access movements. Running separate—if parallel—courses, ...
Innovative Language Teaching Practices in Higher Education in a Post-COVID Era
(2024)
Innovative Language Teaching Practices in Higher Education in a Post-COVID Era is a comprehensive and timely exploration of how the COVID-19 pandemic, technological advancements, and socio-economic shifts have dramatically ...
Communicating the Past in the Digital Age
(2020)
"Recent developments in the field of archaeology are not only progressing archaeological fieldwork but also changing the way we practise and present archaeology today. As these digital technologies are being used more and ...