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Lived-experience-and-strengths-based strategies for persons with mental illness who offended and their family members
This essay describes lived-experience based strategies for persons with mental illness who offended (PMIO) and their families. These recommendations are derived from the results of a multidisciplinary research project which aimed to develop multidisciplinary strengths-based strategies for PMIO and their families. These recommendations can inspire a broad range of practitioners and policy makers from the criminal justice system as well as the mental health systems working with PMIO and their family.
Youth engagement and resilience against violent extremism in the Sahel
On the sidelines of the 74th session of UNGA on 24 September 2019 UNICRI the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) and the Global Center on Cooperative Security (the Global Centre) - in collaboration with the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Permanent Mission of Senegal to the United Nations - organised a panel on the critical role that youth play across the Sahel in preventing and countering violent extremism.
The process to radicalization and violentization
During these last years some countries around the world have been attacked by terrorists’ violence and the number of citizens who choose to become foreign fighters has increased.
Coronavirus: In Timbuktu youth is at the forefront of raising awareness against COVID-19
In its efforts to raise awareness against the coronavirus the association “The voice of the students of Timbuktu” has just trained around thirty young people in respect of measures to stop the contagion. The training can be recognized as a means to strengthen the prevention of COVID-19 in Timbuktu where nothing seems to worry the population.
The young people of Mali: Key players against COVID-19
The world is shaken by an unprecedented health crisis. Its multiple ravages are echoing all over the world and the media seem to revel in it as information concerning the situation becomes vital. Needless to say Covid-19 made its appearance at the end of 2019 in Wuhan the capital of the province of Hubei in China and at the start of 2020 continued to spread in an overpowering and dominant way not only characterized by its speed but also in its capacity of adaptation across all continents of the world. China has been overwhelmed. In France there are no longer yellow vest protests. Italy no longer sings and the art world present in the country has closed its doors. It would seem that America in tears suddenly forgot its superpower. The virus rapidly spread also in Latin America with more than 11 thousand cases in 24 hours in Brazil. All of this to show the very serious impact that Covid-19 has provoked on daily life around the world. In fact on March 11 it qualified as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) exceeding the number of 100 infected countries to all areas of the globe.
L’Argentine, pays champion des restitutions
Depuis 2004 lArgentine a rendu à leur pays dorigine près de 5 000 biens culturels saisis sur son sol. Une plus grande reconnaissance de lart des civilisations préhispaniques et ladoption dune loi protégeant le patrimoine archéologique et paléontologique sont à lorigine de cette nouvelle politique.
Zoom: Quand la fièvre du jazz gagnait les townships
Auteur dune chronique en images de lapartheid Jürgen Schadeberg (1931-2020) a aussi documenté lévolution du jazz sud-africain pendant près de 60 ans1. La rencontre de ce photographe exceptionnel avec une époque marquante et un milieu musical effervescent et contestataire a donné lieu à une série dimages riche et authentique qui a valeur de document historique.
Décryptage: Beyrouth : Se reconstruire grâce à l’éducation et la culture
Déjà ébranlé par la crise économique et la pandémie mondiale le Liban a été frappé par deux explosions meurtrières qui ont fait près de 200 victimes et détruit une partie de la capitale Beyrouth le 4 août 2020.
Itinéraire d’une antiquité volée
Cest lhistoire dune stèle funéraire grecque datant du ive siècle avant J.-C. mise en vente par une célèbre maison denchères en 2017. Malgré les mises en garde dun expert concernant sa provenance douteuse et les preuves avancées la pièce nest pas retirée du catalogue. Il faudra plus dun an et de nombreuses démarches pour que la stèle soit finalement restituée aux autorités grecques. Récit.
Aux Pays-Bas, le regard sans concession des musées sur le passé colonial.
Le Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen ou Musée national des cultures du monde fait figure de pionnier. Il a été lun des premiers musées dEurope à mettre en place des mécanismes de restitution des objets issus des anciennes colonies.
« Il faut aussi sanctionner les acquéreurs »
Le trafic dantiquités en provenance de zones de guerre du Moyen-Orient na cessé de prendre de lampleur au cours des vingt dernières années. Si la condamnation de ce trafic fait consensus à léchelle internationale il reste dans les faits difficile à combattre. Pour enrayer ce fléau il faut notamment alourdir les sanctions visant les acquéreurs explique Amr Al-Azm archéologue et professeur dhistoire et danthropologie du Moyen-Orient à luniversité de Shawnee State en Ohio aux États-Unis.
Convention de 1970 : la diversité culturelle avant la lettre
Instrument juridique de premier plan pour lutter contre le pillage et le trafic illicite la Convention de lUNESCO adoptée en 1970 en posant les principes de responsabilité partagée et déquité culturelle a aussi ouvert la voie au droit des peuples à disposer de leur culture.
Idées: Racisme : Affronter nos impensés
Les violences policières survenues au printemps dernier aux États-Unis ont suscité un mouvement de protestation qui a largement dépassé les frontières américaines. Quil soit ordinaire ou systémique le racisme reste profondément ancré dans les esprits et les rouages des sociétés contemporaines insiste la romancière Véronique Tadjo.
L’Inde au défi du pillage
Confronté à un engouement mondial pour ses antiquités le pays a adopté des lois strictes pour juguler lexportation illicite de son patrimoine archéologique et culturel. Mais la mise en oeuvre de ces lois reste un défi majeur en raison de la pauvreté qui alimente le pillage et de linsuffisance du personnel de surveillance des sites.
Grand angle: Trafic illicite des biens culturels, 50 ans de lutte
50 ans après son adoption la Convention de lUNESCO sur le trafic illicite des biens culturels est toujours linstrument majeur pour endiguer ce fléau. En un demi-siècle la lutte contre ce commerce souterrain sest intensifiée et la prise de conscience du préjudice moral que constituent les pillages a progressé. Mais lengouement pour des objets dont le prix sest envolé la modération des sanctions et la vulnérabilité des sites se trouvant dans les zones de conflit sont autant de défis à relever pour faire reculer le trafic de ce que certains désignent comme « les antiquités de sang ».
Les réseaux sociaux, nouvel eldorado des trafiquants
Les sites de ventes aux enchères et les réseaux sociaux sont devenus en quelques années des plaques tournantes du trafic illicite des biens culturels. Si Facebook a récemment proscrit le commerce des antiquités sur sa plateforme il reste beaucoup à faire pour juguler ce commerce qui offre aux trafiquants une vitrine planétaire.
Des bronzes chinois du monde entier réunis dans un musée virtuel.
À Tongling en Chine orientale un musée dun genre nouveau présente virtuellement des objets de cuivre et des bronzes millénaires datant de la dynastie Han dont beaucoup se trouvent à létranger. Il préfigure ce que pourraient être les musées numériques de demain : des acteurs capables de partager leurs ressources et doffrir un accès sans précédent à leurs collections.
No place for young people
In this very moment there are young people who are leaving home to build a future in the best universities of the world but there are also young people crossing the desert to join groups of fighters and young people trying to cross the sea in small boats to escape their harsh circumstances and hope to find something better.
Coronavirus as a burning glass for digital risks?
The digital space represents a global interaction and communication sphere for all people. In this sphere children connect with young people and adults across almost all countries cultures and age groups. The constant improvement and implementation of automatic translation programs for example in social media also means that language barriers in the digital space are becoming increasingly blurred. This evolution which is actually to be welcomed promises at best the emergence of a kind of Internet-based global society but it also presents a dark side. Criminology assumes that many forms of crime - regardless of the respective national criminal law - typically arise from interaction between people. There are few arguments to argue against the fact that this is not the case on the Internet - which actually makes it the first truly widespread and global crime scene in the world. Children too are a natural part of this educated global scene (or space) and are thus exposed to the digital forms of crime that go hand in hand with it. At the European level children aged 9-16 spend an average of 167 minutes each day online (Smahel et al. 2019). In Germany alone 97 percent of minors aged 12 and over use the Internet several times a week (Feierabend et al. 2020). Children are also intrinsically confronted with the digital risks of this area. These risks range from cybergrooming and sexual harassment in social media and online games to the confrontation with extremism and violent content to risks such as cyberbullying and stalking (cf. Bötticher 2020; Gabriel 2020; Rüdiger 2020). Almost 25 percent of children in the European Union who use the Internet have already reported having had at least one negative online experience in the past year (Smahel et al. 2019). The U-25 study from Germany even speaks of minors perceiving the Internet as a culture of injustice (Borchard et al. 2018).
Gender in the digital age: Exploring innovative practices and Women’s involvement
In our contemporary globalized world women and adolescent girls in various countries across the globe continue to face constant hardships and obstacles ranging from gender-based violence to prevalent gender inequalities and deeply rooted gendered socio-cultural norms which hinder their emancipation and development and negatively impact the implementation of gender equality and rights. Despite these circumstances different advancements such as emerging innovative solutions and technologies can play a significant role in relation to the development and empowerment of women in various sectors of society globally. It thus becomes ever more necessary to apply cross-cutting approaches such as a critical gender lens and a rights-based approach1 to a wide range of development sectors and issue areas including but not limited to education political participation and economic development while considering at the same time the role that technology can have in these domains and analyzing its socio-cultural global implications.