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Prevention of Homelessness on the European AgendaFEANTSA
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Technology Based Development Opportunity Within Dadaab Refugee Camp, KenyaMitchell Sipus
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The document discusses the environmental degradation and human inequity issues within the Dadaab refugee camps in Kenya. It notes that while literature exists on refugee camp planning, camps continue to threaten the environment and concentrate human inequity. The document examines the case study of Dadaab and analyzes the environmental and social consequences of the current camp plans. Specifically, it finds that poor physical planning strains the environment, which then demands more from aid agencies. The distribution of demands and resources is critical. The document concludes that creative solutions are needed for refugee settlement planning, such as engaging camps as community development projects rather than political issues.
With the heightened awareness of bullying in today's world, it's hard to know how to support our children. What is the difference between everyday conflict and bullying? How do boys and girls experience aggression differently? How do identifiers like sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, ability, and socioeconomic status affect aggression? Learn about different types of aggression and practical tools in responding to conflicts and bullying.
The document summarizes the history of maritime law and disputes over fishing rights and territorial waters. It discusses the Cod Wars between Iceland and the UK in the 1970s, where Iceland unilaterally expanded its fishing zone, leading to confrontations between Icelandic and British vessels. The disputes highlighted the need for an international agreement on maritime boundaries and rights. The document also examines ongoing territorial disputes in the South and East China Seas involving China, Vietnam, the Philippines, and other countries. These disputes are fueled by competition for oil and gas resources and have increased tensions, though organizations like ASEAN have tried to promote peaceful resolutions.
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The document summarizes the history of maritime law and disputes over fishing rights and territorial waters. It discusses the Cod Wars between Iceland and the UK in the 1970s, where Iceland unilaterally expanded its fishing zone, leading to confrontations between Icelandic and British vessels. The disputes highlighted the need for an international agreement on maritime boundaries and rights. The document also examines ongoing territorial disputes in the South and East China Seas involving China, Vietnam, the Philippines, and other countries. These disputes are fueled by competition for oil and gas resources and have increased tensions, though organizations like ASEAN have tried to promote peaceful resolutions.
This document discusses resolving conflicts and building better relationships in community associations. It defines conflict and disputes, and provides strategic methods for avoiding, neutralizing, and resolving conflicts between board members, residents, and in public forums. These include developing proper communication, rules, and alternative dispute resolution processes. The document also outlines different types of conflicts that may occur and stresses the importance of preventing and addressing conflicts to save time, money, and promote community harmony.
The document discusses the causes and stages of conflict. It defines conflict as an expressed struggle between parties with incompatible goals, scarce resources, or interference. The main causes of conflict discussed are conflicting resources, styles, perceptions, goals, pressures, roles, personality differences, and misunderstandings. The stages of conflict are analysis, confrontation, and resolution. In analysis, the best strategy is determined and sources identified. Confrontation involves storytelling. Resolution includes brainstorming solutions, choosing one, and agreeing to monitor changes.
Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Voluntary and Community Sector Voice and Influence - 'Very Small, Very Quiet, A Whisper'
Presentation by Phil Ware, TSRC Research Fellow.
First given June 2013, updated to this version January 2014.
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Presentation given by Sanna Tiivola during the "Redistributing the power: Key steps for mainstreaming participation of homeless people" seminar at the FEANTSA 2014 Policy Conference, "Confronting homelessness in the EU: Seeking out the next generation of best practices", 24-25 October 2014, Bergamo (Italy)
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This document summarizes research being conducted on the voice and influence of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) voluntary and community organizations in the UK. The research aims to understand BME influence on the community sector as a whole, local and national policymakers, and mainstream service providers. The methodology includes interviews with BME community groups in three UK cities and strategic organizations. Initial findings show BME groups influencing issues like equalities and campaigns, but facing challenges to their influence from larger national organizations and uncertainty within the broader voluntary sector.
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Policy responses to multiculturalism, integration and diversity - part 1MigrationPolicyCentre
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This workshop will engage participants in exploring what it takes to build partnerships, cross-cultural sensitivity and sustainable capacity for a culture of peace, drawing from case studies and Mediators Beyond Boders’ experience in countries around the world. Participants will learn how to bridge from being mediators to peacebuilders through elicitive practice, using trauma informed principles, appreciative inquiry and mediation techniques to transform local capacities for peace in a range of contexts, including in government institutions and universities, among tribal leaders and citizens, and in the practice of civil society organizations.
'Shared Solutions' as an Innovative, Collaborative, Policy-Making MethodFEANTSA
Presentation given by Maggie Brunjes during the "Redistributing the power: Key steps for mainstreaming participation of homeless people" seminar at the FEANTSA 2014 Policy Conference, "Confronting homelessness in the EU: Seeking out the next generation of best practices", 24-25 October 2014, Bergamo (Italy)
Opportunities and threats: a study on undocumented/unofficial migrants in the...Early Artis
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This document discusses the role and characteristics of think tanks. It provides examples of think tanks like Cogito, a Swedish Green think tank founded in 2005. Cogito aims to further sustainable development through broad public debate, constructive ideas, and exploring viable political alternatives. It seeks to critically examine dominant paradigms and power structures. The document also discusses how Cogito explores green political thought and praxis, addresses issues like peace and conflict resolution, and the intersection of environmental issues and social welfare systems.
Community health promotion in welfare institutions addresses the challenges faced by staff and users in these settings. The researchers aim to open a space for articulating holistic views of work and everyday life through sharing experiences from practice. Their work focuses on building community among staff and users. One project examined home-based care for vulnerable elderly citizens with complex needs. Through relationship-building, respecting citizens' competence and lives, and building community among care staff, the project was able to see users as individuals rather than cases and support them in a more health-promoting way.
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This document summarizes research being conducted on the voice and influence of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) voluntary and community organizations in the UK. The research aims to understand BME influence on the community sector as a whole, local and national policymakers, and mainstream service providers. The methodology includes interviews with BME community groups in three UK cities and strategic organizations. Initial findings show BME groups influencing issues like equalities and campaigns, but facing challenges to their influence from larger national organizations and uncertainty within the broader voluntary sector.
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Policy responses to multiculturalism, integration and diversity - part 1MigrationPolicyCentre
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Community health promotion in welfare institutions addresses the challenges faced by staff and users in these settings. The researchers aim to open a space for articulating holistic views of work and everyday life through sharing experiences from practice. Their work focuses on building community among staff and users. One project examined home-based care for vulnerable elderly citizens with complex needs. Through relationship-building, respecting citizens' competence and lives, and building community among care staff, the project was able to see users as individuals rather than cases and support them in a more health-promoting way.
Our Say Our Way Empowering Young People Ssjenstabler
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Peace Lab is the first educational incubator in Tunisia that helped create local and communal peace labs
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International and national donors should trust grassroots in their capability to make robust decisions and implement the sought theory of change
The document provides an introduction to critical discourse analysis (CDA). It discusses key concepts such as how language shapes and reflects social practices and power relations. CDA examines how discourse reproduces and challenges ideologies through a close analysis of text and consideration of wider social contexts. The document outlines some of the main approaches and theorists in CDA and contrasts it with traditional linguistics by noting CDA's focus on language in use and its aim to understand how discourse enacts social goals.
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The document discusses the transferability of social work knowledge between different practice contexts. It presents findings from interviews and case studies on how social workers transfer knowledge gained in their country of origin to their new practice context in Canada.
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Microbial interaction
Microorganisms interacts with each other and can be physically associated with another organisms in a variety of ways.
One organism can be located on the surface of another organism as an ectobiont or located within another organism as endobiont.
Microbial interaction may be positive such as mutualism, proto-cooperation, commensalism or may be negative such as parasitism, predation or competition
Types of microbial interaction
Positive interaction: mutualism, proto-cooperation, commensalism
Negative interaction: Ammensalism (antagonism), parasitism, predation, competition
I. Mutualism:
It is defined as the relationship in which each organism in interaction gets benefits from association. It is an obligatory relationship in which mutualist and host are metabolically dependent on each other.
Mutualistic relationship is very specific where one member of association cannot be replaced by another species.
Mutualism require close physical contact between interacting organisms.
Relationship of mutualism allows organisms to exist in habitat that could not occupied by either species alone.
Mutualistic relationship between organisms allows them to act as a single organism.
Examples of mutualism:
i. Lichens:
Lichens are excellent example of mutualism.
They are the association of specific fungi and certain genus of algae. In lichen, fungal partner is called mycobiont and algal partner is called
II. Syntrophism:
It is an association in which the growth of one organism either depends on or improved by the substrate provided by another organism.
In syntrophism both organism in association gets benefits.
Compound A
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Compound B
Utilized by population 2
Compound C
utilized by both Population 1+2
Products
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Examples of syntrophism:
i. Methanogenic ecosystem in sludge digester
Methane produced by methanogenic bacteria depends upon interspecies hydrogen transfer by other fermentative bacteria.
Anaerobic fermentative bacteria generate CO2 and H2 utilizing carbohydrates which is then utilized by methanogenic bacteria (Methanobacter) to produce methane.
ii. Lactobacillus arobinosus and Enterococcus faecalis:
In the minimal media, Lactobacillus arobinosus and Enterococcus faecalis are able to grow together but not alone.
The synergistic relationship between E. faecalis and L. arobinosus occurs in which E. faecalis require folic acid
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Restorative approaches to community conflicts with an ethnic twist: An agenda for research and integration
1. Restorative approaches to
community conflicts with an
ethnic twist: An agenda for
research and integration
May 10, 2017 NSfK Research Seminar
Henrik Elonheimo & Tuuli Samela
Faculty of Law, University of Turku
Henrik.Elonheimo@utu.fi
2. • Traditionally, the Finnish society ethnically very homogenous
• Unforeseen migration flow in 2015: about 32,500 immigrants / asylum seekers entered the country
numerous reception centres were established quickly over the country – not without problems
• Media reports:
• worries of citizens’ fear that reception centers pose a threat to the safety of their neighborhoods
• violence between the locals and newcomers; reception centres attacked
• residents of the centers have had fights with each other
• Polarized public debate (tolerant vs. critical ones)
• Demonstrations for and against migration
• Researchers fear to comment, leading to self-cencorship
A new source of conflicts has emerged in the Finnish society
We need research data & good practices to alleviate tensions related to the clash of cultures &
to integrate newcomers into the Finnish society
Background
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9. How do we handle conflicts?
• Avoidance (of difficult situations / people)
• Violence (illegal, unmoral, uneffective)
• Negotiation (demads a power balance between the parties)
• Court (slow, expensive, formal, superficial, win-lose)
• Restorative Justice (can overcome the shortcomings of the other
approaches)
10. Restorative Justice (RJ)
• Alternative to punishment and rehabilitation
• Academic theory that underlies e.g. victim-offender mediation
(VOM), school mediation, Family Group Conferencing
• Creates a continuum; different programs can be more or less
restorative
• Definition: Parties of crime / conflict gather together, with the aid of a
neutral mediator, to discuss what has happened, how it has affected
them, and what should be done about it.
11. RJ is supported by
• Positive accounts by the stakeholders (see, e.g Wachtel 1997)
• Empirical science (see, e.g. Sherman et al. 2015)
• That the restorative theory forms a coherent whole, being in line with
various fields of science (see, e.g., Elonheimo 2010)
RJ sounds like a suitable way to resolve also multicultural conflicts.
However, we know from earlier research that the fine restorative ideals
are not always fully realised at the grass roots level.
12. Restorative Justice (RJ) in Finland
• The modern mediation movement covers various walks of life
• Over recent years, RJ has made huge progress in Finland in different fields:
• Crimes (VOM)
• Civil trials
• Family issues
• Work-related conflicts
• Schools (peer mediation)
• Environmental cases
• Street mediation
+ Restorative methods can also be used to prevent and mediate conflicts
between different population groups. One the latest applications of RJ is
neighborhood mediation & residence work in cases involving ethnic minorities.
13. The official status of RJ actors in Finland
• VOM is regulated by a special law (Act on Conciliation in Criminal and
Certain Civil Cases)
• Other fields of mediation are often projects conducted by NGO’s,
such as
• The Finnish Forum for Mediation (SSF; Suomen sovittelufoorumi)
• International Organization for Migration (IOM)
• Persons from immigrant backgrounds trained to act as mediators in a Let’s talk –project
• The Finnish Refugee Council (Suomen Pakolaisapu ry; an NGO specialised in
international refugee work)
14. Community mediation & residence work
• In 2006, the Finnish Refugee Council started to develop neighborhood mediation for the residence-related
problems of its customers
• Project “Kotilo” 2006-2014
• In 2015, the Council established the Centre for Community Mediation to provide community mediation
• = the main actor in the field ethnic mediation in Finland
• Unlike Kotilo project, the Centre is not based on unpaid volunteer mediators anymore. Furthermore, the focus is
more on the mediation process instead of just achieving an agreement.
• The Centre also developed residence work in the neighborhoods of new reception units to improve
relations between neighbors, feeling of safety, and homeliness of multicultural areas
• In autumn 2015, the Centre conducted residence work in 11 neighborhoods, organising meetings and finding out
the needs of people. Meetings were arranged either before or after the opening of a reception centre.
• Neigborhood mediation was initially motivated by the needs of the Refugee Council, and targeted at ethnic
cases. Today, neighborhood mediation is also being used in other cases. However, in this study, the focus is
on cases involving different cultures or ethnicities.
15. Definitions
Community / neighborhood mediation
• Dialogue facilitated by a neutral mediator
• Aims to help resolve various kinds of residency and neighborhood disturbances, difficult social situations, and
outright conflicts
• E.g., damaging property, disturbing behavior, breaking house rules, conflicts related to the use of common areas, problems
between the tenant and the estate manager
• Meant for residents, housing officials, property companies, tenant committees, and real estate managers
• Has 2+ parties; cases may concern even the whole apartment house
Community / residence work
• Larger efforts to prevent conflicts and promote good neighborhood relations, the safety and homeliness of
multicultural areas by the methods of mediation
• May involve arranging social events e.g. in a situation when a reception centre has been planned or opened nearby
Both
• Based on restorative principles
• Enable structured encounter and dialogue between stakeholders in emerging or existing neighborhood conflicts
• Free and voluntary services for the parties
16. General principles of RJ
• Empowerment, participation
• Stakeholders are the experts in their own case
• They have almost unlimited power
• Facilitative and impartial working method of the mediator
• Voice
• Open speech, using own words enhances understanding and learning & commitment to the
process and outcome
• Respectful dialogue
• Responsibility, actively repairing the harm (material, social, psyhological, emotional)
• Meeting the victim makes it harder to neutralize the wrong and the harm
• The perpetrators often find it hard to meet the victims face to face without the possibility to hide
behind their lawyers
• Offenders are expected to make good for what they have damaged
• Shame caused by wrongdoing can be overcome only by acknowledging and addressing it, and
repairing the damages
• Social healing, sense of community
• Communities need to be strenghtened, not dispersed (like in retributive or rehabilitative justice)
17. Reintegrative shaming
• Mediation is inspired by John Braithwaite’s (1989) theory of
reintegrative shaming
• Only the wrongful act is condemned, not the person
• Unlike in court proceedings, after the session, the offender is closer to
the normal, law-abiding society than before
• A successful restorative session culminates with gestures of
acceptance, inclusion, reintegration to end the shaming
18. Reintegrative ceremony
In court: status degradation
• Disapproval of the crime & the offender exclusion
RJ:
• Disapproval of the crime human status not degraded inclusion
(Braithwaite & Mugford 1994)
19. RJ is informal justice but not “justice of the
Wild West”
• Mediators are educated
• RJ theory guides the action
• Process is structured and safe (non-violent)
• Mediation is voluntary
• Modern conception of human rights sets the
boundaries to the application of RJ
20. Why a new study? Other projects related ethnic
RJ in Finland
• Albrect (2010) investigated RJ in cases of migrant minorities in Finland and in Norway
• Huhtinen (2015) delivered questionnaires to participants of neighborhood mediation during 2014. However, the
Centre for Community Meditation did not exist then and mediation practices were somewhat different than today.
• Ministry of Justice: TRUST project (ongoing)
• Focuses on the relations between different ethnic groups in localities with reception units, e.g. on the mediation conducted by
the Centre for Community Meditation in the city of Forssa in 2016 between the unit residents and local youth
• A multidisciplinary Finnish Academy project “Naapuruuskiistat ja asuminen Suomessa 2011–2015” (Neighborhood
conflicts and living in Finland 2011-2015)
• However, the project focused on Neighborhood conflicts in general, not on ethnic aspects
• Neighborhood mediators have been interviewed in a project called KatuMetro (Kaupunkitutkimus- ja
metropolipolitiikka)
• Länsitie 2016: a Master thesis based on interviews with neigborhood mediators
However, we need more research to empirically study neigborhood mediation practices in the context
of RJ in the conflicts between reception units’ residents and the local inhabitants.
21. Research aims
1) To contact reception centres to map the practices they have to prevent
and handle the conflicts that may arise between the residents of the
centres and the locals
• The conflicts may be concrete such as damaging property, breaking norms,
quarrels, violence or the threat of it, or more general and abstract worries (in
residence work)
2) Ultimately, the aim of the study is to release tensions between different
ethnic groups & to offer tools for the work to integrate newcomers better
in the society
22. Research questions
1) Parties of a conflict:
How do they feel that the principles of RJ have been realised in mediation?
How does the mediation experience contribute to their feeling of safety?
2) Reception centres:
Are community mediation and residence work known and used in reception centres? Is there a need for those kinds of methods?
Have there been conflicts between the residents of the reception centre and the neighborhood? How have these conflicts been
treated and to what effect? Has it been possible to prevent conflicts with some kind of neighborhood work?
What kinds of practices do reception centres have for preventing and managing conflicts between the residents and neighbors?
3) Centre for Community Meditation:
What kind of work has the Centre for Community Meditation conducted in reception centers and their neighborhoods?
23. Methods
1) E-mail survey to reception centres in operation
• Probably enables a low treshold for answering
• The informants are advised to write their replies between the questions
• The reception centre staff can choose who of them answers the survey
• In case of non-response, the researcher calls to the center to minimise attrition
2) Interviews of key actors (mediators, parties, Centre for Community
Meditation, authorities in municipalities with reception centres)
• The Centre of Community Mediation will aid in reaching those who have participated
community mediation and ask if they are willing to be interviewed
• The exact amount of the inteviews needed will become clear as the study proceeds
3) Observation of community mediation sessions (?)
24. Timetable
• Applying for the research permission from the Finnish Immigration
Service (now)
E-mail questionnaire to reception centres (summer 2017)
Follow-up by phone to decrease attrition
Interviews of those who have participated in mediation (August?)
The dissertation to be completed by the end of the year
25. A pilot study
• In spring 2016, those 9 reception centres were contacted where community mediation and
neighbourhood work were being used
• The aim was to map the practices related to conflict management between the reception centres and
the locals
• Only two centres replied, however…
• In the first unit, 3 sessions had been arranged of which one before starting the operation. In another,
one session had been held before opening and another as the unit was extended.
• At most, the sessions had included 20 neighbours
• The purpose of the sessions had been to introduce the units to the neighborhood and enable free
discussion. Instead of actual mediation, the aim was to prevent problems through openness and
collaboration.
26. Preliminary observations
• In the sessions, neighbours’ worries had surfaced, and remedies to them were jointly found
• The repondents assessed that the sessions had succeeded in calming down the atmosphere among the
locals, as they were given the chance to present their questions and discharge their worries
• In one unit, a common gardening project to grow food, and even a harvest festival, was being planned
between the locals and the unit residents
• Mediators’ skills to facilitate sessions with multiple participants need to be secured and improved
• Some sessions (by other organisers than Centre for Community Meditation) had been arranged poorly:
Facilitators had lacked skills necessary for guiding the session; the atmosphere had not been ideal; not
everyone dared to talk; the facilitator had not delivered enough information
The principles of RJ are imporant to keep in mind
• Each centre creates it’s on ways to resolve conflicts and the possibilities of mediation are largely
unknown
• Residence work was welcomed as a helpful tool when establishing new units
• The informants called for a national operations model for mediation in the reception units
27. Discussion
• Important to offer low treshold service to avoid conflict escalation
• Violence or doing nothing can lead to long-lasting tensions between different
population groups
• Mediation can secure access to justice
• Not based on SES, not demanded legal knowledge
• Mediation has the potential to reduce human suffering & economic burden
on courts, apartment house companies, etc.
• RJ is actually better suited for community mediation than for the usual one-
on-one cases (VOM), because at the heart of the restorative theory is
activating a larger community than just the victim and the offender
28. Professional mediation?
• Organising and facilitating encounters between the conflicting parties is demanding
• Community mediation cannot rely on unpaid volunteer work
• In cases involving multiple stakeholders, mediators needs special skills to pay attention to
each participant
• Mediators need skills to
• support the ones in less advantageous position, such as migrants, so that they are not being exploited
• make everyone engage in social discussions; for some cultures, it might be harder, for the utmost
importance of saving face and not admitting guilt
• Also demanded from the mediators of ethnic conflicts: cultural sensitivity?
• How decisive the role of cultural background really is regarding the birth of the conflict and the way to
conduct mediation?
• Everybody should be treated equally in mediation and cultural backgrounds should not play a role?
29. RJ and resourcing
• The potential of RJ depends on how it is resourced
• How much can we reasonably require from mediation that does not enjoy the
institutional status and resources of formal litigation?
• The cost-benefit ratio of mediation is arguably good, and there are such intangible
benefits to mediation that contribute to empowerment and psychological and
emotional wellbeing of the parties that are unlikely to be reached by formal
proceedings
• Centre for Community Meditation offers neighborhood mediation and residence work
only in the biggest cities and the metropolitan area
• Like VOM, these restorative methods should be available throughout the country
• There is no reason assume that the relevance of “mediation with an ethnic twist” would
diminish in the future
30. Mediation as a human right
• Mediation is a tool to fulfill constitutional rights of participation
• CONSTITUTION OF FINLAND: The authorities need to promote
individual’s chances to participate in societal activities and influence
decision-making that concerns him or herself.
31. A tool for integration?
• How can we secure the integration of newcomers?
• In mediation, people can learn about each other’s cultures,
enhancing tolerance of cultural diversity, and breaking
down stereotypes & prejudice
• RJ can strenghten communities and enliven social ties
Mediation can be utilized as a tool for integrative work,
giving voice, empowerment, and participation rights to all
alike