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Focusing on hope rather than challenges, this edited collection presents a powerful evocation of ongoing opportunities for building a better future in the Global South and beyond.
The application of foresight to address the challenges of uncertainty and rapid change has grown dramatically in the past decade. In that period, the techniques have been greatly refined and the scope has been broadened to encompass future-oriented technology analysis (FTA) and more recently, the concept and practice of strategic intelligence. FTA addresses directly the longer-term future through the active and continuous development of visions, and pathways to realise these visions. It is increasingly seen as a valuable management and policy tool complementing, and extending further into the future, classical strategy, planning, and decision-making approaches. This book charts the developme...
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This volume aims to document the most important worldwide accomplishments in converging knowledge and technology, including converging platforms, methods of convergence, societal implications, and governance in the last ten years. Convergence in knowledge, technology, and society is the accelerating, transformative interaction among seemingly distinct scientific disciplines, technologies, and communities to achieve mutual compatibility, synergism, and integration, and through this process to create added value for societal benefit. It is a movement that is recognized by scientists and thought leaders around the world as having the potential to provide far-reaching solutions to many of todayâ...
An international journal focusing on third world development problems.
This report examines the role that national institutional and governance innovations and changes that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic can play in advancing progress towards the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The consequences of the pandemic threaten to derail progress and make the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) more difficult to achieve. Yet the pandemic also sparked rapid innovation in government institutions and public administration that could be capitalized on. Against this backdrop, the report focuses on how governments can reshape their relationship with people and other actors to enhance trust and promote the changes required for more sustainable and peaceful societies. How they can assess competing priorities and address difficult policy trade-offs that have emerged since 2020. And what assets and innovations they can mobilize to transform the public sector and achieve the SDGs. The e-book for this publication has been converted into an accessible format for the visually impaired and people with print reading disabilities. It is fully compatible with leading screen-reader technologies such as JAWS and NVDA.
Much has been written about globalization as an economic and political concept. The academic debate looks forward for explanations about the historical roots and development of this emerging phenomenon where the Nation-State’s evolved into a system where nations are ruled by the dynamics of global interdependence. Globalization in the new era is characterized as a process where geographical, political and cultural borders tend to dissolve. The Westphalia notion of sovereignty capitulates against the principle of political subordination as integration of local power ensuring national legitimacy.
Nadie es eterno es una novela densa que aborda uno de los problemas fundamentales de nuestra sociedad colombiana y, en alguna medida, latinoamericana de las últimas décadas. En este texto de estudio, que se publica ahora, confluyen varias realidades: Óscar Osorio, experto en el trato de la violencia en la narrativa colombiana y narrador a su vez de esta misma violencia, se enfrenta a la novela de Alejandro José López, en la cual este se adentra en uno de los fenómenos que, como ya decÃa, habitan insistentemente la realidad colombiana. Igualmente, Carlos-Germán van der Linde, lector atento a las últimas construcciones literarias, se detiene en la ubicación de la novela respecto al desarrollo que la figura del sicario ha tenido en los últimos años. Manuel Arango Rojas, por su parte, reflexiona sobre los problemas éticos derivados del narcotráfico y su cultura. La novela en sà misma no es ni mucho menos una mirada simple o maniquea del universo narco y sicarial, de sus atropellos y vericuetos
¿Existe, funciona, un campo conceptual de la pedagogÃa? ¿En Colombia? ¿Es legÃtimo, viable, o incluso útil, hablar de ello como profesores e intelectuales, pero también como ciudadanos? Estos resultados del proyecto Paradigmas y Conceptos en Educación y PedagogÃa ofrecen unas respuestas, no sólo paradójicas, sino contradictorias. Mientras que para algunos investigadores del proyecto la respuesta está cercana al no, para otros, el sà tampoco ha sido unÃvoco, pues el concepto guÃa de Campo Conceptual de la PedagogÃa (CCP) –esbozado en un principio por los investigadores Olga LucÃa Zuluaga y Alberto Echeverri, luego reelaborado ampliamente como Campo Conceptual y Narrativo de...
Este libro es un intento por explorar algunas implicaciones teóricas, empÃricas y prácticas de la exclusión psicosocial en psicologÃa. Para ello toma como punto de partida una paradoja en la que, siendo reconocida como el principal factor de riesgo en salud mental, la atención a la exclusión psicosocial ha sido más bien periférica en la agenda de la disciplina, lo que ofrece una oportunidad para explorar no solo su importancia prioritaria en la actualidad de los paÃses de América Latina y el mundo, sino también su potencial para repensar algunos importantes problemas teóricos y prácticos. Para ello, la primera parte explora diversos elementos de la tradición occidental ante la...