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The European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) was launched in 2008 as the largest civilian mission under the Common Security and Defence Policy of the European Union. The book presents a personal and professional story told by an EULEX-Kosovo International judge. V. S. Kanev is a Bulgarian magistrate who worked (2008 - 2016) for the EU Rule of Law Mission. His Narration is both memoir and documentary. Main part of the storyline is conveyed from a personal angle. The author has shared his diary, and the narrative is focused on the author's personal actions and duties. The book also contains useful information on the reasons leading to deployment of the mission, the mission's mandate as well as political and social difficulties of its day-to-day performance. The description of political conflicts and legal problems may be helpful for studies of modern nation building and rule of law evolution. Stories of the ethnic and religious conflicts portray a post-conflict society struggling to salvage their future from the dooms of the past.

This anthology presents the Nordic folk high school teacher through thirteen research articles combined under three themes: identity, work, and education, each part capped by overarching summary chapters. The folk high schools are given a central role in the democratic development of the Nordic region and are described as a significant influence on adult education globally, but there have been few regional research projects describing the schools. The inclusion of research covering five Nordic countries in a peer reviewed anthology makes this publication a unique portrayal, both of the schools' common identity and their national variations.

This volume is the result of an international research project that drew together perspectives from three countries in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe: Croatia, Lithuania, and Poland. It explores the under-researched phenomenon of immaterial values and resources that returning migrants bring with them, as they have the potential to contribute to economic development, together with the social, political, and cultural change in their countries of origin. The authors explore the mechanisms, challenges, and successes of the process of social remitting by returnees to these countries.

What is Philosophy for/with Children and its challenges around the world today? This book contributes to the discussion about the main issues regarding Philosophy for/with Children. Among them: Communication Discourse and Education Discourse; Philosophy for/with Children in an Inevitable Conflict; The "Shadow Adults Cast over Childhood" and the "Pedagogy of Fear"; Philosophy for/with children as a social activism encourager; Self-Determined Learning in Philosophy with Children; Philosophical Inquiry Concepts in Teacher Education/Training and Philosophical Inquiry in Virtual Communities.

Since the beginning of the Doi Moi reforms, Vietnam's economy and society have been profoundly transformed. While in 1986 less than 13 million of Vietnam's inhabitants lived in areas classified as urban (20%), the number has risen to more than 30 million inhabitants today (35% of the total population). This massive urbanisation was made possible by the rapid transformation of the former agricultural state into an industrial and service state and extensive migration processes from rural areas to the fast growing cities and megacities. Fifteen articles analyse the current situation.Frauke Kraas is Professor (Chair) of Urban and Social Geography, Institute of Geography, University of Cologne, GermanyMatthias Garschagen is Professor (Chair) of Human Environment Relations, Department of Geography, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, GermanyLe Thu Hoa is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Environmental, Climate Change and Urban Studies, National Economics University, Hanoi, VietnamJavier Revilla Diez is Professor (Chair) of Economic Geography, Institute of Geography, University of Cologne, Germany

Navigating institutions and donor requirements to successfully access international climate finance is challenging for many countries. Establishing national climate funds can be a way to meet these challenges, ensuring the targeted use of funds and strengthening ownership. This book examines the establishment of two national climate funds in Brazil, the Low Carbon Agriculture Programme and the Amazon Fund. Their establishment must be seen against the background of a drastic shift in Brazilian climate policy, enabled by discursive changes, during the administration of the Workers' Party 2003 - 2016. Dr. Ursula Flossmann-Kraus is a climate finance specialist and has led and implemented projects and programmes for GIZ and the Commonwealth Secretariat.

The book describes a number of Rwandan post-genocide initiatives aiming at developing a common sense of identity in the population and addressing social, cultural and economic issues. This proactive approach indicates the will of the Rwandan government with the cooperation of social actors to resort to traditional - and in some cases precolonial - cultural practices to resolve the problems of nation-building. The essays are well documented; many of them based on empirical studies. Philippe Denis, Professor of History of Christianity, University of KwaZulu-Natal. Today Rwanda is widely acclaimed as a success story and a model for post-conflict reconstruction. And yet, Rwanda has not finished to surprise. This publication focuses on a specific home-grown solution, whether it be Gacaca, Ndi Umunyarwanda, Agakiriro and more. Rwanda tells its story, its experience in overcoming apparently unsurmountable challenges. The book will serve as an essential reference for any future and deeper analyses of these solutions. Joseph Gafaranga, Professor in linguistics, University of Edinburgh, UK. Tharcisse Gatwa is Research professor of Ethics and consultant for research and publications at the Protestant Institute of Arts and Social Sicences [PIASS], Butare, Rwanda. Deo Mbonyinkebe is Social and cultural anthropologist in Rwanda. He is currently focusing on peace building; social programs and inclusion.

This book explained the position, behavior, and role of the Small Powers (states) in theinternational system since Westphalia Treaty via historical prospect. By analyzing EuropeanSmall Powers, there have been attempting to generalize and optimize within the theoreticalframework possible ways for foreign policy activities of the former Soviet Union republics onthe examples of Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia. This book is the first attempt to explainformer Soviet states foreign policy as Small Power theoretically and to propose the most possibleoptimal behavior for them.Prof. Dr. Rovshan Ibrahimov, is a Professor at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (South Korea), College of Oriental Studies.

This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to the field of language contact and multilingualism in ancient Egypt before the Greco-Roman period (4th millennium BCE¿4th c. BCE). It gives a survey of the historical evidence of linguistic interference of Egyptian with languages in Africa, the Near East and the Mediterranean, discusses the different attested phenomena of language contact and offers a case study of foreign language communities in ancient Egypt. Detailed indexes makes this book a rich source of linguistic information for general linguistics and neighboring disciplines. Thomas Schneider is Professor of Egyptology and Near Eastern Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

This volume includes cutting-edge research on the spread of Syrian Christianity along the Silk Road from the 6th to the 14th century. Recent archaeological discoveries and excavations of ancient and medieval Christian sites in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and China shed new light on Christian communities in Central Asia, China and Mongolia. Scholars from such fields as archaeology, manuscript studies, history and theology have contributed, offering new insights into the influence of Syriac Christianity along the Silk Roads. Li Tang is Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Christian East (ZECO), University of Salzburg/Austria.Dietmar W. Winkler is Head of the Department of Biblical Studies and Ecclesiastical History, and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of the Christian East (ZECO), University of Salzburg/Austria

Although modern racism was fully developed by their time,Marx (and Engels) did not engage in a theoretical discussionof its essential features. This analytical silence isinvestigated in the chapter Marx and Haiti: Notes ona Blank Space. At the same time, the chapters of thisvolume demonstrate that and why the principles of ahistorical materialist analysis of society present links fora critical theory of racism. In the chapter Dehumanization and Social Death: Fundamentals ofRacism, this is shown concerning the various historicalshapes of racisms caused by different forms of classrelations. The chapter Racismflq: Birth of aConcept connects the conceptual history of racism with thesocio-historical conflicts of differently affected socialgroups. Finally, the chapter A HistoricalMaterialist Theory of Racism: Introduction addresses basicelements of a Marxist analysis of racism. It elucidates thenecessity of a theoretical conjunction of classist andracist discrimination as well as the historicaldifferentiation of racisms.

This volume presents the Pulitzer Prize coverage ofimportant economical and financial occurrences since theFirst World War. There are, among others, articles about theGerman post-war Reparations Problems, the Great Depression,the Russian Five Year Plan, Canada's upcoming Economy, TheFinancial Crisis of post-Communist Russia, the debacle ofthe American Bank crashes, China's economical successes, andthe Panama Papers exposing the hidden infrastructure andglobal scale of offshore tax havens.Heinz-Dietrich Fischer, EdD, PhD, isProfessor Emeritus at the Ruhr-University of Bochum,Germany.

The collection of papers in this anthology represents whatmay be a broad exploration of the role of philosophicalinquiry in the classroom and in mathematics teachereducation, a topos characterized by multiple, intersectingthemes, all of which converge on a central question: what isthe role of mathematics in the construction of the realitieswe live by, and could that role be different if we becameaware of its invisible power? In the age of the Anthropocene- an era in which technological intervention plays an evermore central role in the way we build, develop and attemptto maintain our increasingly fragile and risk-prone humanand natural world, what are the implications of thehegemonic epistemic status of mathematics in thoseprocesses? Does mathematics define the conditions ofpossibility of all knowledge, whether expressed in a theoryor silently invested in a practice? Does or can mathematicsand its presumed value-neutrality serve to limit, constrain,suppress, and even preclude other, perhaps more valuableforms of knowledge? Alternatively, can philosophicaldialogue about mathematics serve to clarify, unmask, reframeand recreate our understanding of mathematics and itssymbolic power in the human and material world, and act asan emancipatory form of knowledge in culture and society?What would such dialogues look like in the mathematicsclassroom? The papers in this volume address these questionsin various contexts and registers, and provide prospectiveand in-service teachers with compelling and suggestive waysof responding to them. A must-read for math educatorseverywhere.Nadia Stoyanova Kennedy, Associate Professorof Mathematics Education, City University of New York, USA.Eva Marsal, Professor of Philosophy, University ofEducation, Karlsruhe, Germany & University of Warsaw,Poland.

This volume concentrates on the history of the acclaimed`New York Herald-Tribune' (1924 - 1966) and its twoforerunners - the `New York Herald' (1835 - 1924) andthe `New York Tribune' (1841 - 1924), and the PulitzerPrizes won by them. In addition, a look is also given to the`International Herald-Tribune', the newspaper's EuropeanEdition, published in Paris.Heinz-Dietrich Fischer, EdD, PhD, isProfessor Emeritus at the Ruhr-University of Bochum,Germany

Cultural heritage and national identity have been significant themes in debates concerning Central Asia following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, not only in academic circles, but more importantly among the general public in the newly independent Central Asian states. Inspired by insights from a popular form of traditional cultural performance in Kyrgyzstan, this book goes beyond cultural revival discourse to explore these themes from a historically informed anthropological perspective. Based on fourteen months of fieldwork and archival research in Kyrgyzstan, this historical ethnography analyses the ways in which political elite in Central Asia attempts to exercise power over its citizens through cultural production from early twentieth century to the present.

This handbook presents precise yet accessible up-to-date information about the geography, history, culture, politics, and economy of 49 Asian states, ranging from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and China to India, Russia, and Yemen. The targeted readership consists primarily of scholars, students, teachers, journalists, and other mediators of political education as well as anyone interested in politics. It is a basic work that contributes to comparative assessments of this hugely important and diverse region.

Ever since HBO's slogan "It's Not TV, It's HBO" launched in 1996, so-called quality television has reached a new level of marketing, recognition, and indeed quality. With other networks imitating the formula, the "HBO effect" triggered a wave of creative output. This turn to quality set off two shifts: (a) Contemporary television staged an international resurgence of the auteur, and (b) America transformed into an "on-demand nation." The chapters in this volume analyze new television lifestyles including marginalized perspectives, fan participation, and an emerging nostalgia correlated with trash aesthetics.