125 p. / Submitted by Santiago Fabio (fabio.ssantiago@hotmail.com) on 2012-12-18T16:52:35Z No. of bitstreams: 1 paulo_simoes.pdf 1111.pdf: 1033237 bytes, checksum: 0e9cde04efc7677906ced2a1e5918f19 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-12-18T16:52:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 paulo_simoes.pdf 1111.pdf: 1033237 bytes, checksum: 0e9cde04efc7677906ced2a1e5918f19 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / A pesquisa, do tipo estudo de caso, visa analisar como as transformações nas políticas de cooperação internacional para o desenvolvimento repercutiram na atuação da Organização Holandesa de Cooperação para o Desenvolvimento Internacional – NOVIB no Brasil a partir dos anos 1990. O caminho percorrido nesta dissertação passa pelo estudo do ideário ocidental de desenvolvimento e da cooperação internacional. Neste particular, destaca-se o aprofundamento acerca da cooperação não governamental holandesa, reunindo informações necessárias para a compreensão do seu processo de consolidação. Os resultados obtidos revelaram que a partir da década de noventa, a NOVIB tornou-se cada vez mais dependente dos recursos governamentais de cooperação, bem como se manteve alinhada às orientações de organizações internacionais, no sentido de atuar em parceria com entidades empresariais. A pesquisa revelou ainda, que a decisão da agência holandesa de retirar o apoio ao desenvolvimento do Brasil está, intrinsecamente, relacionada com a recente agenda internacional de cooperação. / Salvador

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:28:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-03-07Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:57:19Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 divardin_dh_me_mar.pdf: 1028723 bytes, checksum: 1482777ee3857cca787432f51b1dfd4f (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O objetivo dessa pesquisa é o estudo da Cooperação Internacional no quadro das questões ambientais contemporâneas, voltado às relações Brasil – Estados Unidos e, em particular às iniciativas da Agência Norte-Americana para o Desenvolvimento Internacional (United States Agency for International Development - USAID), considerando seus programas, estratégias, prioridades e formas de ação no Programa Piloto para a Proteção das Florestas Tropicais do Brasil (PPG7). Em geral, os estudos relativos à USAID dedicaram-se a mostrar a ação da agência no contexto da Guerra Fria, no quadro de dependência e hegemonia norte-americana no continente, quando coincidiam regimes autoritários em grande parte dos países latinoamericanos. Trata-se de compreender se as mudanças ocorridas no cenário das relações internacionais, com a queda do Muro de Berlim e a realização da Rio-92, trouxeram modificações em suas estratégias, práticas e concepções. O trabalho conclui que não houve mudança na forma de estratégia da USAID desde a sua criação, em 1961, sendo utilizada, atualmente, para assegurar a liderança e os interesses dos Estados Unidos no sistema internacional. / The aim of this paper is to study the International Cooperation regarding the nowadays environment issues, connected to the relations between Brazil-USA and, particularly speaking, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) initiatives, taking into consideration its programs, strategies, priorities and ways of acting out in the main program for Pilot Program to Conserve the Brazilian Rain Forest (PPG7). Overall, the studies related to USAID are dedicated to show the Agency actions in the context of the Cold War, in the frame of American dependency and hegemony in the continent, when the authoritary governments ruled the most part of the latin american countries. It is a matter to understand how these changes in the international relations scenery, with the fall of the Berlim Wall and the realization of Rio-92 brought significant changes in the USAID strategies, practices and conceptions. This paper concludes that there were no changes in the USAID strategies since it was founded in 1961, thus this agency is the tool to assure the leadership of United States and their interests in the International System.

Thesis (MTech (Business Administration))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2018. / Service delivery is one of the most important aspects of the Higher Education sector not only when dealing with international students. It is imperative that higher education institutions should monitor and evaluate its administrative and academic employees. There is a need for a good performance system, which includes standards that define whether staff performances have merits or shortcomings. This will encourage staff to be proficient in their work environment. It is also important to equip staff with service delivery training. This research project examines staff and students’ experiences of internationalisation at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. The researcher identified problems that international students encountered at CPUT, subsequently made recommendations, which deal with how to improve CPUT services to international students. The researcher undertook a quantitative research approach by administering a closed-ended questionnaire, which was compiled by a registered statistician. The study found that most of the participants did not understand or were not aware of internationalisation at CPUT. A majority of the participants did not understand their role when it came to assisting international students. They perceived that whatever international students required had to be sought from the international office. They understood their role within CPUT in terms of meeting the university’s objectives, as being that, which is set out in the university’s Vision and Mission.

Orientador: Suzeley Kalil Mathias / Banca: Samuel Alves Soares / Banca: Alcides Costa Vaz / O Programa de Pós-Graduação em Relações Internacionais é instituído em parceria com a Unesp/Unicamp/PUC-SP, em projeto subsidiado pela CAPES, intitulado "Programa San Tiago Dantas" / Resumo: Nos últimos anos observou-se uma mudança de comportamento entre os países da América do Sul, ao passo que há 30 anos a tônica da política externa era dominada pelas desconfianças, hodiernamente os países aprofundam e incrementam as agendas de cooperação em defesa e segurança. Neste contexto, surge a União das Nações Sul-Americanas (Unasul), e como órgão desta, o Conselho de Defesa Sul-americano (CDS), responsável pela regionalização da cooperação em defesa e segurança na América do Sul, em oposição ao tratamento em âmbito hemisférico até então levado a cabo. Os diversos planos e perspectivas que os países sul-americanos possuem originaram um conflito de agendas dentro do CDS, que vão desde a bolivariana, impulsionada pelo presidente venezuelano Hugo Chávez, até a agenda dos países do Mercosul, chamada mercosulina, objeto da presente pesquisa. / Abstract: In recent years there has been a shift in behavior among South American countries, whereas 30 years ago the tone of foreign policy was dominated by mistrust, in our times the countries deepen and increase the agendas of cooperation in defense and security. In such context, arises the Union of South American Nations (Unasul), and as part of it, the South American Defense Council (CDS), responsible for the organization and cooperation in defense and security in South America, in opposition to the treatment in the hemispheric scope pursued until then. The various plans and perspectives that South Americans countries have created an agenda conflict within the CDS, from the Bolivarian agenda driven by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, to the agenda of Mercosul countries, called mercosulina, the subject of this research. / Mestre

Orientador: Héctor Luís Saint-Pierre / Banca: Suzeley Kalil Mathias / Banca: Samuel Alves Soares / Banca: Eduardo Mei / O Programa de Pós-Graduação em Relações Internacionais é instituído em parceria com a Unesp/Unicamp/PUC-SP, em projeto subsidiado pela CAPES, intitulado "Programa San Tiago Dantas" / Resumo: O Conselho de Defesa Sul-americano (CDS) é uma das iniciativas regionais mais novas para fomentar a integração em defesa na América do Sul. Ele surge no marco de um organismo multilateral de alcance regional, a UNASUR, que exemplifica muitas das características distintivas dos processos de integração do regionalismo pós-liberal e pós-hegemônico. O CDS aponta a consolidar uma série de objetivos em matéria de defesa correspondentes com esta etapa do regionalismo, que quebra com paradigmas tradicionais de importação e/ou imposição de modelos extra-regionais e procura implementar soluções próprias baseadas na idiossincrasia regional. No marco da criação do CDS analisamos os mecanismos de integração em matéria de defesa e as estruturas que estão sendo desenvolvidas em América do Sul no contexto das experiências regionais e sub-regionais que incidem na configuração particular deste conselho. / Resumen: El Consejo de Defensa Suramericano (CDS) es una de las iniciativas regionales más recientes para fomentar la integración en defensa en América del Sur. Surge en el marco de un organismo multilateral de alcance regional, UNASUR, que ejemplifica muchas de las características distintivas de los procesos de integración del regionalismo postliberal y/o posthegemónico. El CDS apunta a consolidar una serie de objetivos en materia de defensa correspondientes con esta etapa del regionalismo, que quiebra con paradigmas tradicionales de importación y/o imposición de modelos extra regionales y busca implementar soluciones propias basadas en la idiosincrasia regional. En el marco de la creación del CDS analizamos los mecanismos de integración en materia de defensa y las estructuras que se están desarrollando en América del Sur en el contexto de experiencias regionales y subregionales que inciden sobre la configuración particular de este consejo. / Abstract: The Southamerican Defense Council (CDS) is one of the most recent regional initiatives aimed at fostering defense integration in South America. It arises in the context of a multilateral organization of regional reach, UNASUR, that exemplifies many of the distinctive characteristics of the integration processes of the postliberal and/or posthegemonic regionalism period. The CDS aims at consolidating a series of objectives in matters of defense that correspond with this phase of regionalism, breaks traditional paradigms of importing and/or imposing extraregional models and seeks to implement solutions based on regional idiosyncrasy. In the framework of the creation of the CDS we analyze the integration mechanisms in matters of defense and the structures being developed in South America in the context of regional and subregional experiences that impact on the configuration of this particular council. / Mestre

LL.M. (International Law) / After witnessing the catastrophic effects of the First World War, the pursuit of a global regulatory body charged with the responsibility of maintaining global peace and security was the talk of the day and a body which became known as the League of Nations soon surfaced. However, with the manifestation of the Second World War the essential failure of the League of Nations was evident and led to the creation of a new body along with a dream to prevent the same kind of disastrous conflict the world had just witnessed for a second time from occurring again. The idea that a single body would in essence control the fate of world security matters was brought to life and the United Nations Security Council essentially emerged, reflecting the power balance that ensued at the end of World War 2 – the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, China and France suddenly became the most powerful nations in the world. With the existence of regional organisations pre-dating that of both the League and the United Nations, the debate as to the ideal relationship between the global body and regional bodies developed. Despite the fact that the UN Charter essentially instilled a hierarchy, with the Security Council holding primacy over matters of security governance4 whilst allowing regional organisations to act unilaterally only in limited circumstances,5 this debate has continued to the present day. Since the conception of the United Nations, the traditional role of regional organisations in matters of security governance were mostly limited to peacekeeping and preventative diplomacy and the inaction of the Security Council during the Cold War saw an increase in the activity of these bodies, albeit in these forms.

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Magister Legum - LLM / The underlying rational behind the protection of intellectual property rights is to strike a balance between the interests of intellectual property rights holders on the one hand and users of protected knowledge on the other hand. This thesis sought to achieve the following objectives: to create a good understanding of the historical development of the primary and secondary legal instruments related to the intellectual property rights/public health debate; to determine to what extent a balance is struck by the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights with reference to the flexibilities provided for in the Treaty, read together with the subsequent World Trade Organization Ministerial Declarations and TRIPS Council Decisions; to evaluate the extent to which selected developing and least developed country members of the World Trade Organization have taken measures to implement the said flexibilities, taking cognizance of their relevant strengths and weaknesses; to suggest ways in which select countries in the developing world specifically India and Zambia can take greater advantage of the flexibilities to promote better access to medicines which taking into consideration various opportunities and threats that are foreseeable; to identify public health aspects of TRIPS that the developing country and least developed countries World Trade Organization members would do well to address in further negotiations. / South Africa

Conflict in Africa remains one of the continent’s principal development challenges. The human, economic and development costs of conflict are immense. A peaceful and secure environment remains the greatest priority for ordinary Africans across the continent. However, this often remains a mirage for many as violent armed conflicts continue to take its toll on many ordinary citizens, often, displacing them as refugees. Some refugees remain in very a deplorable refugee camps that offer them no prospects of decent livelihood for many years. With fear that they would be persecuted upon return to their countries of origin and often the delays in finding solutions to political violence, refugees remain in a protracted situation. A Protracted refugee situation means that refugees have lived in exile for more than five years with no immediate prospect of finding a durable solution to their plight by means of voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement. Thousands of refugees who fled violent conflicts in the West Africa and other parts of Africa have lived for more than a decade in the Krisan and Buduburam refugee camps in Ghana. A situation that can be termed protracted. This paper investigated the perceptions of local Ghanaians, Refugees of Krisan Refugee Camp and Government Official on the integration of refugees in Ghana. Krisan Refugee Camp which was built in 1996, particularly, houses about 1,700 refugees from nine countries: The Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo Brazzaville, Côte d’Ivoire, Chad, Liberia, Sierra Leone and The Sudan. The refugees have lived with the indigenous people of Krisan village for more than a decade and thus offered the best case for the investigation. The researcher used qualitative triangulation method to collect data. That is, he observed the refugees, the local people and supervisors of the refugee camp who made up the sample population. The researcher was able to conduct a face to face in-depth interview and studied necessary documents that informed the study immensely. Thematic data analysis revealed economic and employment opportunities, security, cultural and social networking and finally good counselling on the three traditional durable solutions as the themes greatly impacting on the integration of refugees in Ghana. A number of recommendations are made to inform the management and integration of refugees in Ghana and in Africa in general.

This thesis explores the relevance of international law in the multilateral protection and promotion of public health in a world sharply divided by poverty and underdevelopment. In this endeavour, the thesis predominantly uses the concept of "mutual vulnerability" to discuss the globalisation of diseases and health hazards in the emergent global neighbourhood. Because pathogens do not respect geo-political boundaries, this thesis argues that the world has become one single germ pool where there is no health sanctuary. The concept of mutual vulnerability postulates that the irrelevance or obsolescence of national boundaries to microbial threats has created the capability to immerse all of humanity in a single microbial sea. It follows, therefore, that neither protectionism nor isolationism offers any effective defences against advancing microbial forces. As a result, the thesis argues that contemporary multilateral health initiatives should be driven primarily by enlightened self-interest as opposed to parochial protectionist policy. This study is primarily situated within the discipline of international law. Nonetheless, it draws on the social sciences in its analysis of traditional medicine in Africa. It also makes overtures to medical historians in its discussion of the attitudes of societies to diseases and to the evolution of public health diplomacy, to international relations in its analysis of international regime theories, and to a number of other disciplines interested in the phenomenon of globalisation. This interdisciplinary framework for analysis offers a holistic approach to public health policy-making and scholarship to counter the segmented approaches of the present era. Thus, this thesis is concerned with four related projects. First, it explores the relevance of legal interventions in the promotion and protection of public health. If health is a public good, legal interventions are indispensable intermediate strategies to deliver the final dividends of good health to the vulnerable and the poor in all societies. Second, it explores multicultural approaches to health promotion and protection and argues for a humane health order based on multicultural inclusiveness and multi-stakeholder participation in health-policy making. Using African traditional malaria therapies as a case study, the thesis urges an animation of transnational civil society networks to evolve a humane health order, one that fulfils the desired vision of harmony and fairness. Third, it makes an argument for increased collaboration among lawyers, epidemiologists and scholars of other disciplines related to public health. Using the tenets of health promotion and primary health care, the thesis urges an inter-disciplinary dialogue to facilitate the needed "epidemiological transition" across societies, especially in the developing world. Fourth, the thesis makes modest proposals towards the reduction of unequal disease burdens within and among nation-states. The thesis articulates these proposals genetically under the rubric of communitarian globalism, a paradigm that strives to meet the lofty ideals of the "law of humanity". In sum, it projects a humane world where all of humanity is inexorably tied in a global compact, where the health of one person rises and falls with the health of every other person, and where every country sees the health problems of other countries as its own. Arduous as these tasks may be, they are achievable only if damaged trust of past decades is rebuilt. Because the Westphalian sovereign states lack the full capacity to exhaustively pursue all the dynamics of communitarian globalism, multilateral governance structures must necessarily extend to both state and non-state actors. In this quest, the thesis concludes, international law - with its bold claims to universal protection of human rights and the enhancement of human dignity - is indispensable as a mechanism for reconstructing the public health trust in the relations of nations and of peoples. / Law, Peter A. Allard School of / Graduate