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Reaching The Oldest Population: Improving The Coverage Of Service For People Over 85 Years Old In Broome County, Xiaofei Jiang Apr 2012

Reaching The Oldest Population: Improving The Coverage Of Service For People Over 85 Years Old In Broome County, Xiaofei Jiang

MPA Capstone Projects 2006 - 2015

From 2000 to 2010, the population of those over 85 years old ( the oldest old) in Broome County has increased by 23.19%. However at the same time, the number of the oldest old who receive service from Broome County Office for Aging (BCOFA) has decreased by 10%. As the only department in Broome County government which provides services specifically targeting senior citizens, BCOFA may differ from the needs of those who do not and what strategies could be used to improve the service coverage for this problem.

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The Effects Of Tribal Governments On Reservation Poverty Rates, Heather Raisch Apr 2012

The Effects Of Tribal Governments On Reservation Poverty Rates, Heather Raisch

Political Science Theses and Capstones

Poverty rates on Indian reservations are far higher than the national average. Since Tribal Governments have at least some control over these reservations, to what extent are they to blame for these higher than average poverty rates? I look at each reservation and their type of government, constitution, policies and demographics to analyze the causes of their poverty as it relates to tribal government. There are many other pieces of research that are similar to this, but none looking specifically at the overall effects the government has on its community. My hypothesis is that communities with higher poverty rates tend …

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New Approaches To The Green Revolution: Successes, Failures And New Rice For Africa, Maia S. Woluchem Apr 2012

New Approaches To The Green Revolution: Successes, Failures And New Rice For Africa, Maia S. Woluchem

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

The nature of worldwide food insecurity is staggering, with thirteen percent of the world’s population currently malnourished. The situation is particularly dire in Sub- Saharan Africa, where 265 million people face hunger daily, with 30 to 50 million dying yearly. Solutions to the problem are often unsustainable, save a select few. Once such attempt, coined the Green Revolution, garnered both praise and notoriety through its relatively successful transformation of Southeast Asia in the 1960’s. Aimed at increasing food production, the project focused on small-holder farmers and their acquisition of more productive inputs such as high-yield seeds, fertilizers and pesticides. African …

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Universities Must Continue To Bargain, Thomas J. Kriger Mar 2012

Universities Must Continue To Bargain, Thomas J. Kriger

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Faculty with collective bargaining rights across the nation will—and should—agree with Daniel Julius’s conclusion that “College and university leaders should continue to honor collectively negotiated agreements maintaining relationships with faculty unions.” When implemented correctly, these agreements, as Julius points out, serve the interests of both faculty and administrators. Such agreements codify and protect due process rights for both sides. They also provide both faculty and administrators with a level of predictability and stability in labor relations that are necessary on today’s complex and hectic campuses. While I agree with almost everything Julius has written here, there are a number of …

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Civic Engagement In California: Why Do We Lag?, James Prieger, Kelly Faltis Mar 2012

Civic Engagement In California: Why Do We Lag?, James Prieger, Kelly Faltis

School of Public Policy Working Papers

Civic engagement is vital for liberal democracy, the proper functioning of social, civic, and governmental institutions, and economic growth. This report examines citizen participation in political and social civic life in California. We begin by comparing the state to the nation at large, and find that California lags the nation in most forms of civic engagement. The data show that, on average, Whites were more engaged than Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians, and native citizens born in the US are more engaged than citizens born elsewhere and non-citizens. To analyze whether these factors determine why civic engagement differs in California, we …

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Transfer Of Juveniles To Criminal Court Is Not Correlated With Falling Youth Violence, Jeffrey A. Butts Mar 2012

Transfer Of Juveniles To Criminal Court Is Not Correlated With Falling Youth Violence, Jeffrey A. Butts

Publications and Research

Though it may seem that transferring youth to criminal court should lower youth violent crime, this analysis shows no relationship. This databit looks at the transfer rate and violent crime declines in the six states that reported juvenile arrests to the FBI.

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Geneva International Centre For Humanitarian Demining, Cisr Journal Mar 2012

Geneva International Centre For Humanitarian Demining, Cisr Journal

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

The Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining’s mission is to serve as a leading center of mine-action excellence, and to help States Parties implement the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction (also known as the Anti-personnel Mine Ban Convention or APMBC), the Convention on Cluster Munitions and other relevant instruments of humanitarian law. GICHD bridges the gaps between research, lessons learned and practice. It promotes evidence-based policies and develops standards, making mine action faster, cheaper, safer, more effective, sustainable and inclusive.

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Norwegian People’S Aid, Cisr Journal Mar 2012

Norwegian People’S Aid, Cisr Journal

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Norwegian People’s Aid is the humanitarian organization of the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (also known as LO). NPA is a politically independent organization but often takes political stances internationally in an effort to meet its strategic goals of “the just distribution of power and resources” and “the protection of life and health for all.”

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At Issue: Weapons Of War, Cisr Journal Mar 2012

At Issue: Weapons Of War, Cisr Journal

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

The methodology of war has changed throughout history, from the trench warfare of World War I and the use of nuclear weapons in World War II to the drone technology of today.

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Director's Letter, Cisr Journal Mar 2012

Director's Letter, Cisr Journal

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

I don’t believe in sitting still. When you work with survivors and leaders from the global landmine-action community, how could you? I’m inspired on a daily basis by their courage, fortitude and resilience—characteristics I saw recently during a trip to Iraqi Kurdistan.

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Azerbaijan National Agency For Mine Action, Cisr Journal Mar 2012

Azerbaijan National Agency For Mine Action, Cisr Journal

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

In 1994, hostilities between Armenian forces and the Azerbaijani military ceased. Although a lasting peace agreement is still being negotiated, this ending marked the beginning of a long process of landmine and unexploded-ordnance removal in the region bordering Armenia. In 1999, the Government of Azerbaijan and the United Nations Development Programme signed an agreement that established the Azerbaijan Mine Action Programme to deal with landmine and unexploded ordnance clearance. The implementing agency of the Azerbaijan Mine Action Programme is the Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action, which is responsible for the planning, coordination, management and monitoring of all mine-action activities …

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Organization Of American States, Cisr Journal Mar 2012

Organization Of American States, Cisr Journal

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

The Organization of American States was established in 1948 with the signing of the Charter of the OAS in Bogotá, Colombia. The OAS was created to help the member states attain “an order of peace and justice, to promote their solidarity, to strengthen their collaboration, and to defend their sovereignty, their territorial integrity, and their independence.”

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The Halo Trust, Cisr Journal Mar 2012

The Halo Trust, Cisr Journal

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

In 1988, following the withdrawal of Soviet Forces from Afghanistan, Guy Willoughby established The Hazardous Area Life-support Organization Trust—commonly known as The HALO Trust—a nonprofit organization dedicated to clearing explosive and hazardous remnants of war.

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The Humpty Dumpty Institute, Cisr Journal Mar 2012

The Humpty Dumpty Institute, Cisr Journal

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

In 1998, a group of business entrepreneurs came together with a desire to tackle some of the world’s leading humanitarian problems. They developed the Humpty Dumpty Institute as a way to find creative solutions to global issues, such as explosive remnants of war and food security.

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The Marshall Legacy Institute, Cisr Journal Mar 2012

The Marshall Legacy Institute, Cisr Journal

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

The Marshall Legacy Institute is a Virginia-based nonprofit organization formed in 1997 to extend the vision of Nobel Peace Prize laureate George C. Marshall by alleviating suffering and promoting hope, growth and stability in war-torn countries. For many nations, a primary obstacle to achieving sustainable progress is the deadly legacy of landmines that halt agricultural production, slow development, impede the return of refugees, and kill and injure innocent citizens.

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Life Line Consultancy And Rehabilitation, Cisr Journal Mar 2012

Life Line Consultancy And Rehabilitation, Cisr Journal

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

At the age of 14, Kamel Saadi became a landmine survivor and amputee. On 16 March 1979, Saadi was enjoying a barbecue picnic with family and friends near Umm Qais, an area along the Jordanian-Israeli border contaminated with landmines from Jordan’s conflicts with Israel during the 1960s and 1970s. While walking along a hilly pathway, he stepped on a rock concealing a landmine that caused severe damage to his foot; eight hours later, doctors amputated his left foot.

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Peacetrees Vietnam, Cisr Journal Mar 2012

Peacetrees Vietnam, Cisr Journal

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

In 1969, Jerilyn Brusseau’s brother, American Daniel Cheney, died when his helicopter was shot down over Vietnam’s southern provinces. Brusseau vowed that when the war was over she would work for reconciliation. Gathered with friends around the breakfast table one Sunday morning, the group decided on an avenue to build bridges of reconciliation between the United States and Vietnam: “We wanted to take the spirit of ‘citizen diplomacy’ fostered by 18 previous international PeaceTrees programs in other countries to a deeper level, by working with the Vietnamese people in removing landmines and planting trees.”

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Peer-Support Training For Nonliterate And Semiliterate Female Ex-Combatants: Experience In Burundi, Cameron Macauley, Monica Onyango, Eric Niragira Mar 2012

Peer-Support Training For Nonliterate And Semiliterate Female Ex-Combatants: Experience In Burundi, Cameron Macauley, Monica Onyango, Eric Niragira

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

In September 2011, 25 female veterans of Burundi’s civil war were trained to become peer-support workers. The five-day training, funded under a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and conducted by James Madison University’s Center for International Stabilization and Recovery, was the first of its kind to offer peer-counseling skills to nonliterate and semiliterate women.

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World Education, Inc., Cisr Journal Mar 2012

World Education, Inc., Cisr Journal

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

After nearly a lifetime of work as an educator in China and throughout the world, Welthy Honsinger Fisher returned to India to continue her work in education at the request of Mahatma Gandhi in 1947. She founded the Literacy House, a small school providing basic education and agricultural training for disadvantaged adults. Observing that literacy training was needed to empower men and women worldwide, in 1951, she and others founded World Education, an international nonprofit dedicated to world literacy.

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Somalia Famine: Terrorism And Landmines Hinder Aid, Cisr Journal Mar 2012

Somalia Famine: Terrorism And Landmines Hinder Aid, Cisr Journal

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Drought, rising food prices, famine and conflict have forced thousands of Somalis to flee to neighboring countries or become internally displaced. Aid agencies continue delivering food, but the ongoing conflict between al-Shabab and Somali government forces makes additional help difficult. The landmine threat further exacerbates the crisis, contributing to food insecurity, endangering refugees and threatening aid agencies trying to reach those in need.

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Second Conference On Psychosocial Rehabilitation For Landmine Survivors And Persons With Disabilities, Reykhan Muminova Mar 2012

Second Conference On Psychosocial Rehabilitation For Landmine Survivors And Persons With Disabilities, Reykhan Muminova

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Population of the Republic of Tajikistan, the Tajikistan Mine Action Centre and the Afghanistan Disability Support Programme hosted the second Regional Psychosocial Rehabilitation Conference in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 19–20 October 2011. This conference attracted high-level officials from key Afghan, Iranian and Tajik ministries and departments, as well as organizations working with landmine survivors, persons with disabilities and in psychosocial rehabilitation programs.

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A Holistic Approach: Vvaf’S Work To Improve Lives In Vietnam, Joseph House Mar 2012

A Holistic Approach: Vvaf’S Work To Improve Lives In Vietnam, Joseph House

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Transferred to the International Center in 2008, the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation conducts a multitude of projects aiming to protect the health and welfare of the Vietnamese people. VVAF approaches the security and well-being of Vietnamese citizens with a holistic mindset. Projects include demining, rehabilitation, vocational training, Agent Orange and dioxin mitigation, community-based mental health training and school construction projects.

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Spirit Of Soccer, Mike Geddes Mar 2012

Spirit Of Soccer, Mike Geddes

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

No abstract provided.

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New Online Tool Links Landmine, Cluster-Bomb And Disability Treaties, Erin Hunt Mar 2012

New Online Tool Links Landmine, Cluster-Bomb And Disability Treaties, Erin Hunt

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Mines Action Canada has launched a new interactive online tool to explain and make connections among three groundbreaking international humanitarian treaties: the 1997 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and Their Destruction (also known at the Anti-personnel Mine Ban Convention or APMBC), the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions and the 2006 Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities.

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Replicating The Cambodia Trust Model, Carson Harte Mar 2012

Replicating The Cambodia Trust Model, Carson Harte

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Cambodia Trust was established in 1989 to assist those affected by disaster, conflict and poverty. It provides prosthetic-orthotic training, physical rehabilitation for persons with disabilities, assistance programs that enable children and adults with disabilities to secure general or higher education, vocational training and employment.

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Anti-Tank Mines Kill Eight Cambodian Farmers, Cisr Journal Mar 2012

Anti-Tank Mines Kill Eight Cambodian Farmers, Cisr Journal

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Eight Cambodian farmers were killed and one was critically injured Friday, 3 February 2012, after their truck hit two anti-tank mines in Banteay Meanchey province in northwestern Cambodia.

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Ddg Aid Workers Rescued, Cisr Journal Mar 2012

Ddg Aid Workers Rescued, Cisr Journal

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

No abstract provided.

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Country Profile: Laos, Cisr Journal Mar 2012

Country Profile: Laos, Cisr Journal

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

The landlocked country of Laos borders Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, China, Thailand and Vietnam.

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Food Security Emerges As A Complex Global Challenge, Bryan Mcdonald Mar 2012

Food Security Emerges As A Complex Global Challenge, Bryan Mcdonald

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Measures are being taken toward land restoration and explosive remnants of war clearance to aid in worldwide food security. Global demining and ordnance removal efforts are contribiting to health improvements and land availability for sustainable crop growth. This article discusses the problem of food security in the twenty-first century and briefly reviews three sets of concerns that are converging to amplify, disrupt and transform efforts to ensure that all people have the food they need to lead active and healthy lives.

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A New Name And Mission For The International Trust Fund For Demining And Mine Victims Assistance, Cisr Journal Mar 2012

A New Name And Mission For The International Trust Fund For Demining And Mine Victims Assistance, Cisr Journal

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Since its formation in 1998 by the Slovenian Government, the International Trust Fund for Demining and Mine Victims Assistance has continuously expanded and enhanced its mission, widening its scope of activities to reflect the changing human-security environment, needs of beneficiary countries and priorities of the donor community. Now it has a new name to reflect its broader mission: ITF Enhancing Human Security.

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