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Over 200 health journals call on the United Nations, political leaders, and health professionals to recognise that climate change and biodiversity loss are one ... powerful advocates for both restoring biodiversity and tackling climate change for the good of health. Political leaders must recognise both the severe threats to health from the planetary crisis as well as
lowest priorities for those who operate there. In humanitarian crises, interests and preferences of decision-makers are driven by their original languages, cultures, education, religions, and political ... political affiliations. Therefore, imposing a universal solution upon them might be difficult, if not impossible. The shortage in machine-based reasoning techniques that could be applied to humanitarian data
spellout . Dordrecht: Springer. Baker , Mark. 1988 . Incorporation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Bale , Alan. 2008 . A universal scale of comparison . Linguistics and Philosophy 31 : 1 - 55 . https ... : Indefiniteness and islands . Linguistics and Philosophy 43 : 427 - 472 . Chierchia , Gennaro. 1998 . Reference to kinds across language . Natural Language Semantics 6 ( 4 ): 339 - 405 . Chomsky , Noam. 1957
internal and external capacities, inherent characteristics of new financial technology (fintech), and a wider social, political, and regulatory context. According to the cyclical model of technological ... political context (Dearing and Cox 2018) . Innovators can be represented by an organization if the diffusion is a system-wide effort across the organization or a selected individual within an organization
structural relations of power that are deeply rooted in cultural, social, economic, and political systems of the different societies and communities assisted by humanitarian organisations. The term ... , Europe, and Central Asia region; but also supporting and expanding helplines in Malawi, Uganda, and Kenya; and supporting emergency legal assistance services in Malawi, Uganda, and Kenya. Driving political
power over refugees in paternalistic ways (Verdirame and Harrell-Bond 2005) . Humanitarian assistance often de-emphasizes the agency of refugees, treating refugees as if they are detached from political ... belonging because they are not treated as political beings that have the capacity to belong to a polity. In this way, paternalism can lead to what Agamben (1998) called “bare life” and what Malkki (2002
The World Humanitarian Summit of 2016 was an attempt to elevate humanitarian organisations more completely into the international political domain. Humanitarian organisations are agencies which ... conflict or man-made disasters and use the humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence to guide their work. However, humanitarian organisations have always been political
Massacre of the early 1990s, in which Riek Machar mobilized local herders to mount a devastating attack against the heartland of Sudan People’s Liberation Army Leader John Garang, political leaders have ... order to mobilize armed herders for their political movements. Political leaders' systematic exploitation of customary raiding practices gravely inflames the current conflict, but the role of
Sutton 1 Emily Paddon Rhoads 0 0 Associate Professor, Department of Political Science , Swarthmore College, PA, Swarthmore , USA 1 Senior Lecturer in International Law, School of Law, University of ... politics . American Political Science Association, Task Force Report , Washington, DC. McGinley M , Opal D , Richaud MC , and Mesurado B ( 2014 ) ' Cross-cultural evidence of multidimensional prosocial
. Giannakidou , Anastasia, and Alda Mari . 2018 . The semantic roots of positive polarity: Epistemic modal verbs and adverbs . Linguistics and Philosophy 41 : 623 - 664 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-018- 9235 ... . Hans J. Eikmeyer and Hannes Rieser , 38 - 74 . Berlin: de Gruyter. Kratzer , Angelika. 1989 . An investigation of the lumps of thought . Linguistics and Philosophy 12 : 607 - 653 . Kratzer , Angelika
is that when local people take a leading role in community-based aid, they have the opportunity to enhance their skillset, improve their (political) position, strengthen local relationships, establish ... on whether they constitute political critiques of the status quo or ‘purely technical’ solutions to delivering social change. Collectively, these theories form the basis for the legitimacy criteria of
This paper draws attention to various environments in Greek which show that imperatives convey possibility and not necessity as widely assumed in the literature. The interaction of imperatives with other operators reveals the presence of an existential operator. At the same time, however, it is shown that imperatives cannot be analysed as invariably conveying possibility. Instead...
. The paper presents the wider socio-political context of Turkey to analyze the motivations of the Islamic humanitarian sector in exercising education facilities for a linguistically and culturally ... as a part of AKP’s wider political project, Islamic NGOs have flourished since 2002 (Ünsaldi, 2013, Morvaridi 2013, Kaya 2015) . Today, a great many humanitarian NGOs in Turkey have also religious
, Universitätsstr. 150, 44801 Bochum, Germany Abusch , Dorit. 1997 . Sequence of tense and temporal de re. Linguistics and Philosophy 20 ( 1 ): 1 - 50 . Altshuler , Daniel. 2008 . Narrative effects in Russian ... . Ryan . 2016 . Past time reference in a language with optional tense . Linguistics and Philosophy 39 ( 4 ): 247 - 294 . Bochnak , M. Ryan , Vera Hohaus, and Anne Mucha . 2019 . Variation in tense and
, which is the assurance of security and freedom from violence; and agency, which is an individual’s ability to make decisions about strategic life outcomes and to have voice in governance and political ... potentially transformational approach in fragile and conflict settings (Andrews et al. 2021) . so is perceived to violate existing political and social structures.8 Moreover, as (Santos, 2020) argues
: policies, principles, and ‘burdens of conscience’. In: Laborde C, Bardon A (eds) Religion in Liberal Political Philosophy. Oxford University Press, Oxford https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso ... established a privileged relationship—going beyond their formal links under the law—between the National Society and the economic, political and military powers that be” (1991: 362–363). The lacking separation
This paper presents a novel account for the optionality of negative concord observed with neither...nor coordinations, in an otherwise strict negative concord language—Turkish. I argue that the apparently optional negative concord is a surface phenomenon that can be traced back to a structural ambiguity arising from the type-flexibility of coordination operators. The semantic...
stakeholders—including the Jordanian Armed Forces (JAF)—weighed humanitarian considerations alongside political and security interests. A key HMR issue has been international humanitarian access negotiations ... humanitarian principles: humanity (addressing human suffering wherever found), neutrality (refraining from participating in hostilities or taking sides in political, religious, or ideological controversies), and
We examine three constructions across several languages in which a mass noun is embedded in what appears to be a count environment, but the construction as a whole remains mass. We argue that the discussed phenomena—“Q-noun” constructions like lots of water, bare measure constructions like kilos of sugar, and pluralised mass nouns in languages like Greek and Persian—all involve...
Studies, Bielefeld University , Universitätsstraße 25, 33615 Bielefeld , Germany 1 Linguistics & English Language, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh , 3
