Caribbean Youth Development: Issues and Policy Directions

Caribbean Youth Development
World Bank Publications | 2003-05 | ISBN: 082135518X | 152 pages | PDF | 8 MB

Young people are the basis for the future health and well being of their communities. Recognizing the critical role of young people to the security of sustainable development, this report brings attention to both the important contributions youth have made to Caribbean society and the critical challenges they face in assuming socially responsible and productive roles. The report uses an ‘ecological’ framework to consider negative behaviors and outcomes observed among Caribbean Youth, and also identify ways to enhance positive influences. Casting aside the often narrow view taken of ‘youth’ as a marginal issue, the report advocates the prioritization of youth development across all sectors, and identifies key principles and actions for moving forward.

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Improving Adult Literacy Outcomes: Lessons from Cognitive Research for Developing Countries

Improving Adult Literacy Outcomes
World Bank Publications | 2003-06-04 | ISBN: 0821354930 | 128 pages | PDF | 5,3 MB

There are approximately one billion adult illiterates in the world. Adult literacy programs in developing countries are often ineffectual and rather limited outcomes. To improve outcomes, much emphasis has been given to empowering nongovernmental organizations, increasing learner motivation, and reinforcing social benefits. This book summarizes the pertinent cognitive and neuropsychological research using layman terms and attempts to apply it to the acquisition of adult literacy. It presents issues and ideas on designing adult literacy programs that support human memory functions as understood in 2003.

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Building Confidence For Dummies

by Kate Burton and Brinley Platts, «Building Confidence For Dummies»
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd | 2006 | English | ISBN: 0470016698 | 289 pages | PDF | 5 Mb

Confidence is one of those odd things in life that turn out to be surprisingly difficult to tie down (beauty and quality belong to this strange group too). You may think you know what it is, and you may feel certain that you can recognise it when you see it, but you may struggle to define exactly what ‘it’ is. Confidence is an everyday experience, something you have quite often, except on those all important occasions when it seems to leave you and you could really use more of it – whatever ‘it’ is. In this book, you can clear up the confusion around confidence, and particularly what you may refer to as self-confidence. You dispel a lot of the mystique around how you can develop and build your self-confidence; perhaps to an extent you feared would never be possible for you. Every chapter of this book is designed to help you understand: where your personal confidence comes from, how you can generate an incredibly powerful type of confidence in your life on demand, and how you can do it more reliably with less stress. You will make the fastest progress by immediately putting what you learn into action, by trying out the advice and exercises as you go along, and achieving the deep and lasting personal confidence you were born to enjoy.

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Terrorism in Asymmetric Conflict: Ideological and Structural Aspects (Sipri Research Reports)

Terrorism in Asymmetric Conflict: Ideological and Structural Aspects (Sipri Research Reports)
Oxford University Press, USA | 2008-05-25 | ISBN: 0199533555 | 200 pages | PDF | 2 MB

The book’s main focus is on extremist ideologies and structural capabilities of violent non-state actors that employ terrorist means. Ideologies and organizational patterns are seen as the main comparative advantages of such groups in an asymmetrical confrontation at all levels, from the local to the global. Resolution of the key issues of the armed conflict is seen as essential, but this is not sufficient to undermine the foundations of terrorism generated by that conflict, unless the structural capabilities of militant groups are fully disrupted and the role of extremist ideologies in driving their terrorist activities is neutralized.
With its central focus on Islamist terrorism, the book argues that the quasi-religious, supra-national ideology of violent Islamism, especially in its most ambitious transnational forms, cannot be effectively counterbalanced at the ideological level either by Western democratic secularism or by the use of moderate versions of Islam itself. The author concludes that unless transnational violent Islamism is, first, ‘nationalized’ and, second, transformed in organizational terms through its being coopted into a more regular political process, it is unlikely to become amenable to persuasion or any external influence, let alone to be destroyed by the repression on which it thrives.

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Speaking of Events

Speaking of Events
Oxford University Press, USA | 2000-04-13 | ISBN: 0195128117 | 304 pages | PDF | 1.7 MB

In recent years the idea that an adequate semantics of ordinary language calls for some theory of events has sparked considerable debate among linguists and philosophers. Speaking of Events offers a vivid and up-to-date indication of this debate, with emphasis precisely on the interplay between linguistic applications and philosophical implications. Each chapter has been written expressly for this volume by leading authors in the field, including Nicholas Asher, Pier Marco Bertinetto, Johannes Brandl, Denis Delfitto, Regine Eckardt, James Higginbotham, Alessandro Lenci, Terence Parsons, Alice ter Meulen, and Henk Verkuyl.

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The Business of News: a Challenge for Journalism’s Next Generation

The Business of News: a Challenge for Journalism’s Next Generation
Carnegie Corporation of New York | 2008 | ISBN: 2008342206 | English | PDF | 70 pages | 1 MB

American journalists have a major responsibility: working on democracy’s free press to inform citizens and officials about local, national and world events as well as to provide a measure of public accountability for all institutions and their members. In June 2002, a number of prominent journalists, publishers, news executives and deans of journalism and communications schools came to a daylong Carnegie Corporation forum to discuss a concern raised by many of us; namely, that the nation’s truly admirable journalism profession currently lacks sufficient tools to do its work—and, hence, democracy’s work—in a competitive environment of parsimonious corporate support and expanding global complexity.
Globalization imposes on journalists the increasing burden of making sense of interlocking or interdependent histories, economies, laws, cultures and conflicts in a “news cycle” now spinning at Internet speed. The Information Revolution—and journalists are front and center in this revolution—makes it enormously easier for journalists to obtain information, but not correspondingly easier for them to separate the chaff from the wheat, subjectivity from objectivity, opinion from fact, private interests from public interests, manipulation from influence and corruption from “spin.” The Information Revolution, globalization and media industry trends—including corporate consolidations, ever-present commercialism and “infotainment”—make it more and more difficult for journalists to cover the news and provide sophisticated analysis, synthesis and context.

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