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Yearly Archives: 2018

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  • 3 Dec 2018
    Joseph A. Allen, Roni Reiter-Palmon

    The Need has Never Been Greater!: The Cambridge Handbook of Organizational Community Engagement and Outreach

    When browsing through the pages of the handbook or stumbling across an abstract on the book online, one might wonder why we decided to write and organize this volume at this time. The answer is pretty simple. It is needed!

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  • 3 Dec 2018
    Hammer and Silicon
    Daniel J. McCarthy

    Immigration Matters

    Immigration is, needless to say, a very hot topic in today’s charged political climate. Still, little attention has been paid in the popular press to immigration of highly educated technological professionals. One quick fact is that around two-thirds of the professionals working in Silicon Valley are foreign born. Another is that in 2017, just over […]

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  • 29 Nov 2018
    Extensions of f(R) Gravity
    Tiberiu Harko

    Are dark energy and dark matter really dark?

    by Tiberiu Harko, author of Extensions of f(R) Gravity, 2018

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  • 22 Nov 2018
    Russia and the European Court of Human Rights
    Lauri Mälksoo

    The European Court of Human Rights and Russia: Quo Vadis?

    There is an ongoing crisis in the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) regarding the relations between Russia and Strasbourg. In 2015, The Russian Constitutional Court decided that the implementation of judgments of the ECtHR concerning Russia will not be automatic; such judgments must conform to the Russian constitution. In these instances, Russia has claimed […]

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  • 19 Nov 2018
    Clive Gabay

    Imagining Africa

    The most common response I get when I tell a distant cousin or new acquaintance that I teach African politics remains the pithy one-liner, “Oh, I didn’t realise Africa had any politics!” Several centuries of Henry Stanley, Joseph Conrad and Band Aid (Bono, Bob Geldof, et al: African Christians and probably most other people living […]

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  • 14 Nov 2018
    Tracy Waasdorp, Elise Pas, Catherine Bradshaw

    Flipping the switch: How technology can help to prevent and address bullying

    Bullying during childhood and adolescence has captured the attention of policymakers, practitioners, researchers, and citizens around the globe, bringing increased attention to this important issue. As a result, there has been an uptick in policies, research, and school-based programming related to its prevention. While research provides some clear guidance about how schools can better prevent […]

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  • 13 Nov 2018
    Jemima Kang, Fiona Kate Barlow, Chris G. Sibley

    Instead of focusing on how to cope with bullying, we need to think about how to end it

    People around the world face discrimination based on their gender, race, sexuality, weight or age, among other characteristics. Being a victim of discrimination is associated with a range of negative outcomes. For example, sexual minorities (e.g., lesbian, gay, and bisexual people) are at higher risk of suicidality, substance misuse and self-harm compared to heterosexual individuals […]

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  • 11 Nov 2018
    Daniel Perlman, Anita L. Vangelisti

    Bullying, Social Exclusion, and Intimate Partner Violence

    Editors of the Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships, Anita L. Vangelisti and Daniel Perlman, discuss the effects of bullying in intimate relationships for Anti-Bullying week.

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