Aujourd’hui, en tournant la page du chapitre sombre de la guerre civile au Liban qui a frappé le pays pendant quinze ans, et après toutes ces années de guerre, de mort et de destruction que le pays a vécu malgré ses conflits, le germe du confessionnalisme demeure présent dans sa mosaïque constitutionnelle. Une question se pose : une culture de l’après-guerre est-elle possible ? La guerre a laissé des traces profondes certes, mais la société civile se mobilise et c’est particulièrement dans le domaine artistique où elle trouve une issue. Par ailleurs, la diversité de la population libanaise, composée de différents groupes ethniques et religieux, a contribué au métissage culturel d’un pays en perpétuelle ébullition artistique. À l’heure actuelle où Internet et réseaux sociaux, applications du Web 2.0 et dispositifs numériques envahissent notre quotidien, et à l’avènement des TIC qui ont permis le développement d’une économie totalement nouvelle à savoir numérique, appelée aussi économie d’Internet, les producteurs et les consommateurs ont modifié leur comportement. Il est important de questionner le rôle et l’impact des nouvelles technologies d’information et de communication dans la culture virtuelle au Liban, en nous appuyant sur les pratiques d’artistes contemporains « engagés » et leur présence « en ligne ». Quels messages utilisent-ils pour promouvoir leurs idées et leur art ? Dans cette optique, nous recensons les principaux acteurs de la médiation numérique afin de faire émerger les pratiques culturelles les plus pertinentes des différentes institutions au Liban. Tels sont les enjeux auxquels, entre autres, nous nous intéressons dans notre réflexion. / Today, turning the dark page of lebanese civil war chapter that hit the country for fifteen years, and after all these years of war, death and destruction that the country has lived despite its conflicts, the germ of sectarianism remains present in its constitutional mosaic. Where is the question that arises : will there be a postwar period for culture ? The war left deep traces of course, but civil society is mobilising and it is particularly in the arts where it finds the outcome. Moreover, diversity of the Lebanese population, composed of different ethnic and religious groups, has contributed to the cultural melting pot of a country in its perpetual artistic boil. Currently, social medias and Internet network, Web 2.0 applications and digital devices invade our daily life, and the advent of ICTs which have enabled the development of a completely new economy that is one of the digital economy, called Internet economy also, producers and consumers have changed their behavior. It is important to question the role and impact of new ICT technologies of virtual culture in Lebanon, relying on contemporary artists practices who are "committed" with their "online" status. What messages do they use to promote their ideas and art ? In this context, we identify the key players of the digital mediation to bring out the most relevant cultural practices of different institutions in Lebanon. Such are the challenges, among others, in which we are interested in our thinking.

Could a work of revelation justify itself today as a viable theological project? The question is imperative especially when sceptics have questioned the validity of revelation as a doctrinal discipline. Colin Gunton traces the modern difficulty with revelation to the influence of Hegel in giving rise to immediacy, and suggests that attention should be given to mediation. It is in this light we argue that the distinctiveness of Thomas F. Torrance’s theology of revelation and mediation is able to contribute significantly to the debate and bring a fresh breeze to the theological landscape laden with a sense of revelation-weariness. Principally we are making two claims. First, divine self-disclosure in Torrance’s theological scheme instead of immediacy is the mediation of God in Jesus Christ. It is through the Mediator who bridges between God and humanity that the self-revelation of God is finally and fully mediated, and the normative pattern of the union and communion of divine and human action of revelation and mediation is set. We would argue that dualism is, to Torrance, the threat to Christ’s revelation and mediation, and the way of surmounting is to return to the scientific realism of understanding God appropriately in accordance with the compulsive nature of his self-disclosure. Our discussion of Torrance’s pneumatology and multiple mediations involves the second claim. Notwithstanding the intent to uphold the primacy of scriptural mediation, we argue that Torrance, in responding to dualistic peril, has made the unusual move to advocate the effacement of scripture in revelation. Such move is unjustifiable as it has adverse repercussion not only for the mediation of scripture, but other media of revelation as well. The move has subtly gravitated revelation from mediation to immediacy and subverted Torrance’s theological framework. What is required of Torrance to overcome the dualistic tension, as we claim in the discussion of the church, Word and sacraments, and contingent creation as media of revelation, is to remain in line with the normative pattern of revelation and mediation which he has built upon the foundation of the Mediator. Essentially revelation in Torrance’s scheme is the mediation of God’s self-disclosure in Christ, and the continuous unfolding of that revelation by the conjoint work of the divine and the human through multiple mediations in human history. Finally, we would engage Paul Tillich and Colin Gunton in providing Torrance with alternatives that affirm the validity of scriptural mediation.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Esta dissertação apresenta uma reflexão sobre os processos que levaram os artistas a atuarem em formações grupais e/ou coletivas e os desdobramentos que essas práticas produziram na arte. A partir de diferentes contextos, o estudo analisa algumas concepções sobre grupo e coletivo e em que medida a arte envolve-se em regras e organizações correlativas as que governam as estruturas de uma sociedade. Analisamos a produção dos artistas nos grupos, uns respondendo à lógica mercantil e outros se organizando em torno das questões sociais e políticas dos seus respectivos contextos a fim de produzir diferentes reflexões e intervenções. Ao pensarmos na cidade como território para essa discussão, analisamos o Coletivo Mesa que utiliza como método de trabalho a lógica da dispersão, assumindo a noção de coletivo como ação, movimento, fluxo de entrada e saída de diferentes saberes e concepções no espaço urbano. Apresentamos o projeto Percursos Urbanos que funciona como uma plataforma volante de investigação e convivência que se estrutura a partir de um ônibus comum, um mediador e passageiros que juntos realizam uma partilha de experiências e saberes, lançando novas descobertas e olhares sobre a cidade de Fortaleza/CE. Buscamos ampliar a partir da pesquisa, a possibilidade de incluir na história da cidade, aspectos que não obedeçam somente o caminho traçado pelos monumentos, mas o exercício da flânerie como experiência estética e o discurso como dispositivo mediático

EUROPEAN TRENDS IN JUDICIAL MEDIATION AND THEIR USE IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC Abstract This dissertation deals with the phenomenon of judicial mediation. In the first part, it defines the term of mediation as such and determines its essential and additional elements. Further, the text looks into the wide spectrum of cases in which this method of alternative dispute resolution can be applied. The author specifically points out that limiting its use to family matters is rather inappropriate. The following section systematically identifies the individual types, forms and methods of mediation so that each mediation can be customized for the respective case. Finally, the first part ends with a reflection on the current issues connected to criticism of mediation. These are the enforcement of international mediated settlement agreements, the potential conflict with access to justice and the binding nature as well as enforceability of mediation clauses including their stipulation in general terms and conditions. The second part is an analysis of the use of judicial mediation in selected European countries - Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia and Spain. Different approaches to the implementation of the mediation directive are described as well as techniques for the promotion of its use. The output of the...

This thesis examines how informal mediation is practiced in Brazil’s urban periphery communities, which are often associated with high levels of violence and insecurity. Based on ethnographic data from low-income neighborhoods in Florianópolis, my analysis of local people’s interventions offers insight into the way that non-state, unarmed actors exercise mediative agency in the midst of everyday violence and insecurity. While a growing body of research shows that state and non-state actors are guided by diverse conceptions, intentions and approaches when they attempt to mediate public and private conflict amongst residents, less attention has been paid to the symbiotic relationship between, or the social impact of, conflict intervention and the reproduction of violence. This thesis argues that interveners use their interactions with antagonists in a particular territory in order to cultivate nondominant power, which serves to obstruct and interrupt the way that violence reproduces and transmits into residents’ lives. As such, it suggests that mediators can enable social change because they have a very particular relationship with the different and interdependent types of violence present in the periphery. Interveners develop and deploy a repertoire of social mediative tactics in order to contend with the complexity of local tensions and the erosion of democratic citizenship that these tensions produce. Defining mediative practices as a source of power invites discussion into community mediation’s strategic potential in the project of urban peacebuilding and violence reduction, positing new directions for applied practices in Brazil and beyond.

There is growing concern over online privacy in today’s digital worlds, in part due to the nature of social media, which encourages the disclosure of personal information. Such concerns have resulted in a significant amount of research, so far focused on adults’ and teenagers’ perceptions of privacy and privacy management. This study aims to explore how children perceive online privacy. It addresses three research questions: RQ 1: What are children’s views of online privacy? RQ 2: What are parents’ views of online privacy? Do their views on privacy influence how they deal with their children’s privacy? RQ 3: What are the benefits and disadvantages of different Internet parental mediation strategies for children’s online privacy? Twenty-six semi-structured one-to-one interviews and ten focus group sessions were conducted with fifty-seven pupils aged 9 to 11 years old (Primary 6 and Primary 7), from one school in Scotland. Additionally, 8 parents were interviewed to understand how their perceptions of privacy influenced their Internet parenting strategies. This study has three overarching findings. The first overarching finding is related to children’s and parents’ views about the Internet as an unsafe place, occasionally leading parents to deploy restrictive and monitoring Internet parental mediation strategies. Second, children view privacy as more difficult to achieve online than offline for two main reasons: (1) the Internet is a ‘bigger space’ populated by a massive number of ‘people’, most of whom they do not know nor have they ever seen (‘strangers’), and (2) there are certain difficulties in managing the privacy settings of social networking sites. The third finding is that trust, autonomy and privacy are interrelated. Trust reduce privacy concerns, encouraged for two-way information sharing between children and parents, with an expectation that parents will be able to help identify potential and also unexpected online issues, and necessary advice and safety precautions can be taught to children. As a result, children will potentially be able to manage their online activities in an increasingly autonomous way. Trust is important not only in interpersonal relationships, but also for building confidence for contexts in which we do not have any prior knowledge, such as with strangers or with the providers of online platforms.

Orientador: Eliana M. Zanata / Banca: José Misael Ferreira Vale / Banca: José Carlos Miguel / Resumo: Frente aos resultados dos estudos científicos e a partir de relatos de experiência em salas de aula de alfabetização de jovens e adultos, entende-se que o trabalho referente à prática pedagógica precisa ter sentido e significado para o educando. Assim, torna-se necessário para o letramento, uma mediação pedagógica que seja direcionada às práticas sociais da leitura e da escrita, considerando a dimensão afetiva nas relações educador-educando no processo de ensino-aprendizagem. Com intenção de planejar e propor materiais pedagógicos, que atendam às especificidades dos educandos jovens e adultos, esta pesquisa tem como objetivo gearl explorar, empiricamente, como tem ocorrido e pode vir a ocorrer a mediação pedagógica do educador atuante na Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA), propondo um material didático específico. Nessa direção, apresenta como objetivos específicos: a) observar, relatar e analisar o contexto em que se dá a mediação pedagógica em três classes de alfabetização de jovens e adultos; b) realizar, com os educadores, o levantamento prévio das palavras gerados (em ordem alfabética) mais trabalhadas em suas salas de alfabetização de jovens e adultos; c) produzir um material didático para alfabetização contando com imagens representativas das palavras geradoras, frases significativas e algumas possibilidades de atividades. Sob a abordagem qualitativa, a pesquisa foi realizada em uma escola de jovens e adultos, da qual participaram trinta e oito educadores e dezoito educandos. Contou com os seguintes instrumentos de coleta de dados: diário de campo para registro das observações em sala de aula; formulário de apontamento para palavras geradoras e técnica de imagem digital para produção e seleção de fotografias representativas das palavras geradoras apontadas. Os resultados obtidos, pela observação sistemática nas salas, apontam que a práxis pedagógica atual da unidade escolar faz uso... / Abstract: In face of the results of scientific studies and based on experience reports on literacy classroons of youth and adult education, the work related to teaching practice needs to have meaning and significance to the student. Therefore, for that purpose, it becomes necessary to realize a pedagogical mediation which is directed towards the social practices of reading and writing, considering the affective dimension in teacher-student and teaching-learning relationships. Intending to plan and propose pedagogical matearials that meet the specific characteristics of young and adult learners, this research generally strives to empirically to empirically explore how has the working teacher's mediation on youth and adult education (EJA) occurred and how it may occur, proposing a specific course material. In this direction, it presents as specific goals; a) to observe, report and analyze the context in which the mediation in three literacy classes for youth and adults occurs; b) through educators, carry the previous survey of the generative words (in alphabetical order) that have been the most worked on in their literacy classes for youth and adults; c) to produce didactic material meant for alphabetization, containing representative images of generator words, meaningful phrases, and some possible activities. Under the qualitative approach, the research was carried on in a school of youth and adults, in which thirty-eight educators and eighteen learning students took part of. It has included the following data-collecting tools: field diary meant for registering the classroom observations; appointment form for generator words, and digital image techniques for production and selection of representative photographs of the cited generator words. The obtained results, under the systematic observation of classrooms, show that the current pedagogical praxis of the schooling unit makes use of multiple methodologies, based on the historical-cultural... / Mestre

Submitted by Suelen Reis (suziy.ellen@gmail.com) on 2013-04-29T12:48:28Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese_Cleide Rodrigues.pdf: 3825164 bytes, checksum: 955341aa68a65850e702f92866a6f62f (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Rodrigo Meirelles(rodrigomei@ufba.br) on 2013-06-06T18:51:02Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese_Cleide Rodrigues.pdf: 3825164 bytes, checksum: 955341aa68a65850e702f92866a6f62f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-06-06T18:51:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese_Cleide Rodrigues.pdf: 3825164 bytes, checksum: 955341aa68a65850e702f92866a6f62f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Este trabalho é fruto de uma investigação acerca da prática pedagógica desenvolvida em curso de formação a distância de professores. O campo empírico escolhido foi o curso de extensão intitulado ?TV na Escola e os Desafios de Hoje?, oferecido pelo Ministério da Educação brasileiro e destinado a professores que atuam na da rede pública de ensino. Com o objetivo de analisar as mediações comunicacionais presentes na prática pedagógica de cursos a distância ofertados a professores, foram selecionados quatro Núcleos onde se desenvolveu essa formação, todos situados Região Centro-Oeste. Com apoio em Paulo Freire (1996, 1998), Otto Peters (2001, 2003) e tendo como referencial mediações comunicacionais construídas com base na Teoria da Recepção, apresentada por Jesus Martín-Barbero (1995) e Guillermo Orozco (1998), a metodologia de pesquisa qualitativa (BOGDAN & BIKLEN 1994; ANDRÉ & LUDKE 1986), norteou os caminhos para coleta de dados por meio de análise documental, entrevistas individuais e grupo focal. Com esta investigação, constatou que há limites e potencialidades na educação a distância, os quais precisam ser considerados para que haja um efetivo desempenho nesta modalidade de ensino. Apontados pelos dados coletados, os conceitos de autonomia, comunicação, tempo e espaço apareceram como fundamentais para apreender as mediações comunicacionais do processo de formação. As vozes dos sujeitos indicaram que a construção das abordagens pedagógicas, bem como diferentes concepções de educação a distância e de formação docente são repercutem cotidianamente nas formas de gestão e nas mediações comunicativas e espaço temporal. Outro resultado deste trabalho foi a apreensão da necessidade de investir em favor de uma política e de um sistema de EAD, neste País. Além disso, os dados revelaram que a gestão de um sistema de educação a distância apresenta especificidades distintas da educação presencial, bem como linguagens, formas de organização do trabalho pedagógico, materiais didáticos e processos avaliativos, singulares. / Salvador

Cette thèse explore le rôle de multiculturels dans les multinationales. Les multiculturels sont connus pour leur compétence et leur potentiel culturels susceptibles de contribuer à l’efficacité d’une organisation. Peu d’études à ce jour ont examiné les multiculturels dans les multinationales et pratiquement aucune recherche n’a essayé de comprendre le rôle des multiculturels dans la facilitation d’un processus de travail d’équipe efficace. En vue d’étudier un phénomène qui n’a pas été suffisamment scruté, cette dissertation a mobilisé un travail de terrain ethnographique dans deux multinationales importantes sur une période de 10 mois. Elle étudie les rôles de multiculturels dans des équipes mondiales en se référant à trois contextes : (1) la compétence multiculturelle et son impact sur l’efficacité de l’équipe ; (2) comment les multiculturels influencent les processus de travail d’équipe ; (3) en quoi et comment des facteurs liés au contexte affectent l’aptitude des multiculturels à jouer des rôles. / This dissertation explores multiculturals in global corporations. To date, limited research helps us understand the role of multicultural individuals in facilitating the effective functioning of global teams. To investigate this under-examined phenomenon, this dissertation presents the first empirical study of the roles of multiculturals in organizations by facilitating 10-month ethnographic field work in two MNCs: a leading cosmetic MNC and an auditing and consulting MNC. This dissertation comprises three papers. The first paper develops the theoretical model of bicultural competence and its impact on multicultural team effectiveness. I define bicultural competence, determine its antecedents, and identify two roles that bi/multiculturals might play in promoting multicultural team effectiveness: boundary spanner and conflict mediator. The second paper examines multiculturals’ cultural brokerage role for team work processes in global new product development teams: how multiculturals influence teams’ knowledge processes and handle cross-cultural conflicts (not only collocated but also virtual between corporate headquarters and local subsidiaries). Multiculturals play a critical role that influence knowledge processes and cross-cultural conflict management within global teams where cultural and national heterogeneity seems more complicated than organizational researchers have recognized to date. The third paper investigates boundary conditions and how they impact multiculturals to enact their roles. I compare and contrast multiculturals in two MNCs in different industries. In particular, I identify boundary conditions that have impact on multiculturals in three levels of analysis: organizational; team; individual. Furthermore, I propose what factors challenge or enable multiculturals and accordingly, how multiculturals overcome challenges and use given opportunities in order to perform effectively or yield such challenges in organizations

Perspectives of out-of-court settlement of family (civil) disputes in the Czech Republic Abstract The dissertation thesis focuses on the latest instruments of out-of-court dispute resolution in the Czech Republic. I explain the concept of ADR, which traditionally involves reconciliation, mediation, and arbitration, and I outline other possible methods emerging from innovative approaches to working with families. The dissertation thesis focuses on the right of collaboration (CL/CP method) and complementary and integrative practice in the sphere of private law. I analyze the approaches of the German "Cochem model" promoted by the Office for International Legal Protection of Children, and I present an example of good practice at the District Court in Nový Jičín. I analyze these methods of out-of-court dispute resolution from the point of view of current legislation in the Czech Republic, and I note the influence of international documents on their existence and application in practice. I consider the role of law and lawyers in solving family disputes and, above all, the importance of new legislation of private law in out-of-court dispute resolution. I address the issue of the need for public power to intervene into family life in cases of children at risk due to parental conflict as well as the role of bodies...