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The nucleus of society is situated at the local level: in the village, the neighborhood, the city district. This is where a community first develops collective rules that are intended to ensure its continued existence. The contributors look at such configurations in geographical areas and time periods that lie outside of the modern Western world with its particular development of society and statehood: in Antiquity and in the Global South of the present. Here states tend to be weak, with obvious challenges and opportunities for local communities. How does governance in this context work? Scholars from various disciplines (Classics, Theology, Political Science, Sociology, Social Anthropology,...
This title explores the reality of equality and non-discrimination within the EU. It includes case studies from the two main directives in relation to equality laws and shows how they have been implemented. This book also identifies indicators that facilitate compliance monitoring among Member States and candidate countries.
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For two decades Dublin working class communities, in the face of official neglect, fought to overcome an epidemic of heroin abuse that engulfed them. Led, variously, by the Concerned Parents Against Drugs (CPAD) and the Coalition of Communities Against Drugs (COCAD) organisations, the campaign captured headlines as a result of the policy of directly confronting drug pushers. At the same time pressure was continually applied to the government and statutory agencies for concerted action to address the drug crisis. While successful in mobilising communities and impacting on the heroin problem the campaign was marked by continuous conflict with the authorities and dogged by criticisms of vigilan...
The twelfth Congress on Catalysis was held in Granada (Spain) under the auspices of the International Association of Catalysis Societies and the Spanish Society of Catalysis. These four-volume Proceedings are the expression of the Scientific Sessions which constituted the main body of the Congress.They include 5 plenary lectures, 1 award lecture, 8 keynote lectures, 124 oral presentations and 495 posters. The oral and poster contributions have been selected on the basis of the reports of at least two international reviewers, according to standards comparable to those used for specialised journals.
The 4-volume sets LNCS 13507, 13508, 13509, 13510 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 42nd Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2022, which was held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in August 2022. The total of 100 papers included in the proceedings was reviewed and selected from 455 submissions. The papers were organized in the following topical sections: Cryptanalysis; randomness; quantum cryptography; advanced encryption systems; secure messaging; lattice-based zero knowledge; lattice-based signatures; blockchain; coding theory; public key cryptography; signatures, idealized models; lower bounds; secure hash functions; post-quantum cryptography; symmetric cryptanalysis; secret sharing and secure multiparty computation; unique topics; symmetric key theory; zero knowledge; and threshold signatures.