Many young men struggle with mental health issues including depression, anxiety, substance abuse and suicide. Further research has shown that many men have an aversion to help seeking, placing them at greater risk for unresolved mental health issues. In the past thirty years, the Gender Role Conflict framework and related research has emphasized the impact of societal gender roles on men’s psychological problems. Higher education counselors who are familiar with Gender Role Conflict theory and related research will have a potentially useful skill set in counseling male students. This document overviews the Gender Role Conflict paradigm and highlights the most relevant literature for college counselors. Further, practical ideas are offered to help guide counselors in their work with college males, and suggestions for future research are also provided. / text

Yes / Sida requested the Helpdesk to present a ‘snapshot’ and analysis of the problem of conflict minerals in the Great Lakes region, and particularly of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In anticipation of instructions in the forthcoming country/results strategy for the DRC, Sida will use the report in order to identify possible Swedish efforts in the field. Sida requested that report should be presented with both a perspective on the Great Lakes region in general, as well as a more detailed analysis of the situation in DRC in a regional perspective.

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Dans les dernières décennies, les Discours sur la première décade de Tite-Live ont été lus comme le traité dans lequel Machiavel livre sa théorie de la liberté politique en tant que résultat du conflit social. Un nombre toujours grandissant de chercheurs estime en effet que c'est en cela que consiste la contribution la plus importante du Florentin à la pensée politique. Notre thèse essaie de démontrer que cette position exégétique ne dispose pas de réels fondements dans l’œuvre machiavélienne. Une lecture ponctuelle des Discours atteste bien que la pensée machiavélienne est tout sauf univoque à ce sujet et le nombre de contradictions dans lesquelles l’auteur s’engouffre finit par rendre impossible la constitution d’une quelconque théorie. / In the last decades or so, Discourses on Livy has become the book where Machiavelli theorizes that political freedom is a result of social conflict. An increasing number of scholars have argued, and argue, that this issue has to be taken as one of Machiavelli’s major contributions to political thought. What our thesis tries to demonstrate is that this statement has no real textual basis. And the reason is – we argue - that when you have a very close and deep look on the Discourses, you have to recognize that it’s not clear at all what Machiavelli thinks about social conflict, as he comes out with so many contradictory statements on the subject that make it impossible to talk of any kind of a theory.