How do practitioners in early years provision promote Fundamental British Values?

In 2015, the United Kingdom government harnessed Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) providers to its anti-terrorism strategy by placing them within the scope of the Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015. They became subject to the ‘Prevent Duty’ which requires them to have due regard to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism. However, the promotion of Fundamental British Values (FBV), as a specific measure to prevent young children being drawn into terrorism, has raised questions about the role of the ECEC sector as an instrument of counter terrorism policy. This paper analyses the ways in which early childhood practitioners mediated the requirement to promote FBV through their pedagogical practice. Although practitioners are commissioned to mediate specific values formulated in the political arena their response was complex and multi-layered. Whilst a public display of compliance to FBV was performative values education was an everyday pedagogical practice unconstrained by the instituted definitions of FBV. Practitioners deployed a contextual moral pedagogy where children construct understandings of moral values and practices characterised by rich democratic dialogues.     

Does Private Schooling Affect National Stability?

I employ a year and country-level fixed-effects analytical technique to examine how private schooling could impact national stability using five different measures. I examine 177 different countries across the globe from 1999 to 2014. Most importantly, this technique allows me to conduct a quasi-experimental analysis by controlling for otherwise unobservable and relatively time-invariant characteristics of nation-states such as culture, language, religiosity, and racial diversity. I do not find that contemporaneous changes in private schooling influence perceived control of corruption, stability, or rule of law within a nation-state. Moreover, I do not find any evidence indicating that private schooling fluctuations influence actual terrorist activity or the likelihood of a coup d’état within a country. However, I find evidence indicating that private schooling improves perceived control of corruption and rule of law when students become adults.     

The media–terrorism symbiosis: a case study of Mumbai attacks, 2008

There has been a long-standing debate among scholars, policy-makers, politicians and journalists about the relationship between terrorism and the news media for whom terrorism is usually a newsworthy story. A primary focus of the debate is to investigate the media–terrorism symbiotic relationship. This paper explores this relationship through a qualitative, thematic analysis of how British TV news channels covered a major terrorist incident after the 9/11 – Mumbai attacks 2008. It examines the interpretive theme of ‘awe, terror and chaos’, and how it is selected, prioritized and developed in the presentation of the events which spread over a period of more than 72 hours. Additionally, it considers the kind of political and organizational factors that might shape or modify the editorial decision-making processes and ideological assumptions that may lie behind such coverage. Ultimately, the study maintains that British TV news outlets play an important role in mediating terrorist messages and focus primarily on images of terror and violence during the coverage of Mumbai attacks. While there are key differences between public and commercial TV news in the style and presentation of coverage, with the former being more careful in approach, the news channels concentrate on televising death and injury and the propagation of chaos and confusion in the affected city.     

暴力电子游戏与青少年攻击性

随着现代技术的发展,电子游戏渐渐进入人们的生活,暴力电子游戏与青少年攻击性关系密切。本文介绍了该领域的研究进展,暴力电子游戏对青少年攻击性的影响,以及四种阐明作用机制的理论,着重用一般攻击模型（GAM）对该现象作出解释,并提出了建议措施与展望。     

2004年国际安全形势综述

2004年,国际恐怖主义依然猖獗,全球一些热点地区的危机继续升温,美国深陷伊拉克的战后乱局,俄罗斯大幅度改革国家权力机构,欧盟接纳了10个新成员并通过《欧盟宪法条约》,日本出台新防卫计划大纲,印度继续向军事大国迈进。     

汶川大地震对我国公共信息公开制度发展的启示

四川汶川大地震灾难后,公共信息的公开受到了空前的关注.公共信息公开制度的发展关系到重大灾难发生后的灾情预告、灾后防范、公民信息权、知情权等种种问题.本文通过对我国公共信息制度的发展历程的回顾以及汶川大地震与唐山大地震公共信息公开程度的对比分析.对汶川大地震后公共信息公开程度进行了全面的分析,拟对我国公共信息公开制度的发展提供依据.     

基于GM(1,1)模型的恐怖活动发展趋势预测 ——以东南亚和撒哈拉以南非洲地区为例

[目的/意义]旨在为地区反恐工作提供参考.[方法/过程]以全球恐怖主义数据库(GTD)为基础,对2015—2019年全球恐怖主义发展趋势进行分析,并运用GM(1,1)模型对东南亚和撒哈拉以南非洲地区未来几年的恐怖活动态势进行预测分析.[结果/结论]反恐工作效果显著,预测未来几年东南亚和撒哈拉以南非洲地区的恐怖活动次数将...     

暴力图片对大学生攻击性思维的启动效应

以暴力图片为启动刺激,以大学生为被试,采用评价词对关联程度的方式,研究暴力图片对攻击性思维的启动效应,同时考虑图片中施暴者的性别、施暴动机及被试的攻击特质水平对这一启动效果的影响。结果表明：（1）暴力图片启动了被试的攻击性思维;（2）攻击特质水平越高,启动效应越明显;（3）女性出于报复动机施暴对被试的影响要大于男性出于报复动机施暴;（4）在大多数情况下,男女被试的攻击性思维没有显著差异,但当图片信息为女性出于报复动机施暴时,女被试对攻击词的记忆倾向要高于男被试。     

非传统安全威胁上升与国家安全观念的演变

安全观念是一个国家建立有效安全机制的基础。传统的国家安全观念是以国家间相互对抗与冲突为前提的。冷战后全球化时代的到来 ,国家之间相互依赖加深 ,国家之间的冲突将逐渐淡化。从全球范围看 ,传统安全问题对世界和平的威胁已大大减弱 ,而非传统安全问题却变得越来越突出。随着非传统安全威胁上升 ,国家安全观念、国家安全机制在原有基础上将随之发生重大转变 ,以适应新的安全形势的发展     

An Ethics of (not) Showing: Citizen Witnessing,Journalism and Visualizations of a Terror Attack

ABSTRACT

This paper explores how news organizations visualize crises in a digital media ecology shaped by citizen witnessing and widespread image circulation on social media. Empirically, the paper draws on the events of 7 April 2017 in Stockholm when a hijacked truck plowed into crowds, killing five and injuring several others. The study is informed by theoretical perspectives and research on citizen photojournalism and witnessing, and examines the function of visual citizen contributions, degrees of explicitness in visual coverage and the impact of proximity on visualizations of crises. Qualitative analyses of visual content and text in digital and print editions of four Swedish newspapers showed both enhancing and featured positioning of visual eyewitness contributions from the public, few examples of explicit imagery, and journalistic commentary foregrounding ethical dimensions of showing and seeing. Based on the findings, the author considers journalism’s civic response as a strategy for staking a claim to credibility and ethics at a moment when the journalistic gatekeeping position is called into question.