Law, economics, social sciences

The Special Court for Sierra Leone was established in Freetown, Sierra Leone in 2002 after eleven years of civil war. It is part of an international strategy to overcome impunity for international crimes and leaves a great legacy with its extremely multifaceted case law. He was given worldwide attention in particular by the condemnation of the then incumbent head of state of Liberia, Charles Taylor. The author appreciates the case law in the light of the overall development of international...

This dissertation examines emergency care by public and private rescue services in Namibia. The research focuses on the structure, allocation and location of rescue workers and the resulting behavior of the population. The investigation should enable a description and explanation of the system design at the time of the survey and the emergence of the system by means of a policy field analysis. In addition, the procedures of the rescue services, in particular existing strengths and weaknesses, were examined. This...

The focus of this work is the transfer of conventional learning and teaching models or common teaching methods from classroom teaching to the virtual area. In addition to the theoretical examination of this topic, which includes a closer look at the concept of virtuality, a possible form of such a transfer from conventional to virtual learning environments from practice is presented using a case study from the museum sector. The basis for this is the Virtual Museum of Antiquities in...

Members of "Generation Y" are highly educated, flexible, demanding - and few and far between. In the "war for talents" it will therefore be crucial as an employer to get into the mindsets of these high potentials and to stay there. Two suitable measures are the HR management disciplines of Employer Branding (EB) and Talent Relationship Management (TRM). Ideally combined. Surprisingly, the topic is still neglected or even completely ignored in the specialist literature. The present work closes this gap....

The idea of ​​striving for growth and maximizing profits can no longer be seen as the key to a healthy and sustainable market economy. Many people and companies already recognize that the current way of doing business is at the expense of resources, both in terms of raw materials and human labor. Increasingly, unworthy working conditions and other aspects that fail to take human rights into account can be identified. In order to counteract this development and to preserve the...

The psychotherapy of alcohol dependence requires the therapist to classify the individual case in the phenomenological heterogeneity and to consider the individual addictive substance functionality in the relationship design and treatment planning. To this end, the author brings together the strands of typological alcoholism and consistency research according to Grawe. Empirically, the needs-based differentiation of five indicative subtypes of alcohol dependents and the prognosis of the therapy outcome is successful, although generally stable characteristics are more suitable than clinically fluctuating...

The work is dedicated to the administrative organization and the constitutional foundations of the administrative and organizational law of the film funding agency. Administrative structures that effect fundamental rights as well as their democratic legitimacy and the admissibility of the existing financing structures are examined. The results of the work provide, among other things, approaches to answering political questions that arose in the context of the discussion about the seventh amendment to the Film Funding Act with regard to future...

At the Bilderberg Conferences, representatives of the transatlantic power elite have been discussing the major issues of world politics every year since 1954. To this day, the Bilderberg Group is primarily made a public issue by conspiracy theorists. In the political public, the mass media and science, the event was noted only in rare cases. This article examines the construction of knowledge about the power of the legendary Bilderberg group, which is anchored in the journalistic, political, conspiracy theory and...

At the Bilderberg Conferences, representatives of the transatlantic power elite have been discussing the major issues of world politics every year since 1954. To this day, the Bilderberg Group is primarily made a public issue by conspiracy theorists. In the political public, the mass media and science, the event was noted only in rare cases. This article examines the construction of knowledge about the power of the legendary Bilderberg group, which is anchored in the journalistic, political, conspiracy theory and...

The working group on international criminal law was founded in 2005. It offers a forum for the exchange of ideas between German-speaking international criminal law experts from practice and academia. The working group meets once a year. Details Title: 10 years working group on international criminal law Subtitle: Birthday gifts from science and practice Author: Prof. Dr. Claus Kress Series: Cologne writings on peacekeeping law Edition: 1st edition Band: 5 Publisher: Prof. Dr. Claus Kress Released: 1st edition 04/27/2015 Subject:...

Private military and security companies (PMSUs) like Blackwater (now Xe Services, now Academi) have increasingly participated in military operations for over twenty years. Such companies operate all over the world. The range of clients is correspondingly wide: in addition to states, individual armed groups, private companies, the United Nations and other international organizations, non-governmental organizations and the International Committee of the Red Cross also use the services of PMSU. The military services provided by private companies in such operations range...

In modern working life, "leadership through appreciation" is considered an indispensable aspect of all human resources work, personnel and organizational development. Appreciation is also an integral part of modern occupational safety. It is considered the basic element of a holistic company health management system. Appreciation plays an important role in the area of ​​"healthy leadership". In fact, the desire for recognition, love and attention or appreciation is the leitmotif of people for their actions (sensing, thinking, deciding and acting). Appreciation...