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Becoming resilient: Community‐driven change and the Civic Capacity Index

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract One of the principal features of successful community governance is that it is collaborative and thus dependent on a community's ability to work together. However, there are no valid, comprehensive means to assess a community's capacity to respond to civic challenges in collaborative ways, and that are predictive of community resilience and ...
David MacPhee, David Chrislip, Patti Schmitt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Civil Law Reform Toward Substantive Justice: A Comparative Study Between Indonesia and Spain

Batulis Civil Law Review
Introduction: Civil law reform increasingly grapples with a persistent dilemma: how to preserve doctrinal coherence while ensuring outcomes that realise substantive justice in concrete disputes.
Martinus Guntur Ohoiwutun, Ali Rahman, Antonio Gutierrez Pozo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Duty of Agent to look after the interests of Principal in General Agency and Legal Nature of Agent's Transactions: A Crticial-Anlytical Examination of Suprme Court Preceding-Making Judgment No. 847 Dated 14/5/2024 [PDF]

Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i Khuṣūṣī
Critical and analytical view of the procedural unity verdict no. 805, dated 1403/02/25 by Iran’s supreme court general assembly, focusing on legal doctrine, jurisprudential teachings, and judicial precedent, reveals the following conclusions:One of the ...
Mohammad Hadi Javaherkalam
doaj   +1 more source

“It's Not Deterministic and It Will Never Be Deterministic”: A Qualitative Study on Stakeholder Perspectives of Polygenic Risk Score Testing for Post‐Traumatic Stress Disorder

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) causes significant mental and physical distress, yet only a small subset of individuals exposed to trauma develop the disorder. Scientists and clinicians are still unable to predict who will get the disorder or how it will manifest.
Brandy M. Fox
wiley   +1 more source

Abuse of Process in Extreme Grace Period Clauses in Debt Suspension Settlements

Jurnal USM Law Review
This study aims to analyze the legal construction of extreme grace period clauses in Suspension of Debt Payment Obligations (PKPU) settlement proposals and to assess whether such clauses constitute abuse of process despite formal procedural compliance ...
Norman David
doaj   +1 more source

‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
wiley   +1 more source

The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton, Tania Signal, Jenni A. Judd   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi, Casianus Gemoh, Denise Chapman, Edmund Hypolite, Simon Angok, Melanie Baak, Joel Windle   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

Plaintiff-Controlled Jurisdiction through Claim Valuation? A Critique of the Iranian Supreme Court's Unification Judgment No. 865 with a Comparative Perspective on French and American Law [PDF]

Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i Khuṣūṣī
The division of judicial bodies and the establishment of monetary thresholds as a criterion for determining value-based jurisdiction (ratione valoris) are fundamental tools of judicial policy aimed at enhancing the efficiency of the justice system and ...
Badie Fathi
doaj   +1 more source