Ponentes: Prof. Rafael Casado Lezama (Perú) / Prof. Víctor Rodríguez Cedeño (Venezuela) / Prof. María Isabel Torres (España) / Prof. Luis Garcia-Corrochano Moyano (Perú) / Editorial UPC, presenta el libro: La controversia entre Venezuela y Guyana ante la Corte Internacional de Justicia: Fase Preliminar, la cual recoge la opinión de cinco prestigiosos juristas iberoamericanos, quienes disertan sobre la controversia en cuestión.

In regions of the world that experience a deficit of surgical care, educational initiatives can foster the development of a skilled surgical workforce. Implicit in training these health workers is the mandate to retain them in the country in order build capacity. Eyal’s framework presents ways in which locally relevant training can improve retention and outlines the ethical and pragmatic concerns of such initiatives. In 2006, Guyana established it’s first surgical training program, an example of locally relevant training. The University of Guyana Diploma of Surgery (UGDS) program was selected for this case study research. Consistent data collection, supported by a systemic procedure to analyze that data, is paramount to increase the effectiveness of the UGDS program. The purposes of this dissertation research were two-fold. Firstly, it sought to understand how the UGDS program influences retention and the ways in which the UGDS members contribute to capacity building and the program’s sustainability. Secondly, this program evaluation provides a useful context to inform Eyal’s framework. 8 graduates, 2 trainees, 4 faculty members and 2 persons identified as policy makers were interviewed. Interviews were conducted face to face, and then transcribed. Surveys were administered to graduates and trainees and reflective reports and presentations were coded and analyzed. Overall, the data mapped fairly well onto Eyal’s framework. The results of the study suggest that the benefits and concerns Eyal outlines would be better represented along a continuum rather than being classified as either advantageous or disadvantageous with respect to retention. While Eyal’s claims generalize across settings, he should acknowledge this limitation and consider the important role that context plays. Overall, the results suggest that the UGDS program has positively influenced retention and capacity building. Key recommendations were made to the UGDS program that aim to improve retention and capacity building. As regions continue to face challenges associated with providing adequate surgical care, fostering retention and capacity building is recommended so that a sustainable surgical workforce can meet surgical needs. / Thesis / Candidate in Philosophy

Improved technologies, increases in global demand for metals, and lax environmental policies and regulations are causing a shift of large-scale mining activities to the tropics. This shift of mining to the tropics has the potential to modify natural ecosystems and disrupt the social structures of rural and indigenous peoples in some of the most remote areas of the planet. This thesis encompasses research done in two villages of Guyana's Essequibo River basin after the 1995 Omai cyanide spill, and illustrates the local social consequences of a large-scale gold mining operation in the tropics. It documents not only the degradation of the local river ecology, but also the changes in local people's perceptions of their environment. That environment, once viewed as pristine, is now viewed as unsafe, leading to disrupted livelihoods and lifestyles. The finding of this study points to a direct link between international economic liberalization policies (which emphasize privatization, foreign direct investment, and economic growth) and the creation of disaster circumstances in developing countries. This thesis research is the result of a total of ten weeks of participant observer research in the area of the Essequibo River, Guyana. It utilizes the methodology of taped interviews of head-of-households. Interviews were conducted with approximately 85 percent of heads-of household of the villages of Rockstone and Riversview. Additionally, interviews were conducted with national and regional governmental officials, regional health officials, local and indigenous leaders, personnel of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission, and the Environmental Protection Agency in Guyana. Interviews were supplemented with archival research. The findings of this thesis research closely mirror those of other researchers who contend that the social impacts of technological disasters are long-term and more severe than those related to natural disasters. Seven years after the cyanide spill, disruptions in livelihood activities, diet, and household behaviors continued to be evident in the two villages. There is little indication that the high negative perceptions of the villagers as a result of the disaster will change in the near future. The research found that macroeconomic policies, crafted by national governments and overseen by international financial institutions without the involvement of local citizenry, disproportionately affected the poor and rural populations through the degradation of local ecosystems. The thesis also illustrates the usefulness of ethnographic research-in particular, interviews in disaster studies of developing countries. / Master of Science

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Typescript. / Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1981. / Bibliography: leaves 231-243. / Photocopy. / xvii, 243 leaves, bound 29 cm

Extrait de: Th. doct. / Bibliogr. p. 267-294. Index.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Esta dissertação tem como finalidade comparar as políticas indigenistas brasileiras e guyanenses voltadas à demarcação de terras, ao autossustento, à educação e à seguridade social. Tem o intuito de perceber a relação entre nacionalidade e acesso a essas políticas por indígenas tranfronteiriços, cujos territórios étnicos foram sobrepostos por uma fronteira nacional. Para tanto, procurou-se compreender as relações dos povos indígenas no contexto histórico de formação dos Estados nacionais brasileiro e guyanense e a delimitação da fronteira entre estes. Compreender, também, o contexto socioeconômico contemporâneo desses países no qual se ambientam as políticas indigenistas e as implicações de nacionalidade para acesso às políticas nacionais por indígenas transfronteiriços. / This dissertation aims to compare the Brazilian and Guyanese indigenous policies focused on land demarcation, self-sustain, education and social security. It has the intention of perceiving the relation between nationality and the access to these policies by transboundary indians, which ethnic territories has been overlapped by a national border. To do so, it was sought to comprehend the relations among the indigenous peoples in the historical context of Brazilian and Guyanese national State formation and the contemporary socioeconomic context of these countries in which take place the indigenous policies and the implications of nationality to access the national policies by transboundary indians.

This thesis engages with Wilson Harris's vision for the Caribbean in light of the processes of land settlement, appropriation, genocide and slave trafficking that have historically denied the region's population of human identity. Concerned primarily with Wilson Harris's first four published novels, Palace of the Peacock (1960), The Far Journey of Oudin (1961), The Whole Armour (1962), and The Secret Ladder (1963), which were then grouped together and republished as The Guyana Quartet (1985), the study of this quartet also focuses on Harris's critical essays, most notably "The Amerindian Legacy" (1990). Firstly, this thesis situates Wilson Harris within the context of postcolonial thought and Caribbean literature in the 20th century. Then, it focuses on the remnants of colonial conquest that appear continuously in Harris's four novels under the repeated motif of pursuit. By exploring the presence of Jungian thought in Harris's fictional writing and critical writing, as well as the immanent ontology of the Caribbean that underpins the author's vision, the thesis draws out Harris's response to the cycle of persecution that he believes to stagnate the Caribbean. Harris's mythopoetic revisioning of Caribbean identity in The Guyana Quartet proposes a form of rebirth that transforms the dialectic between...