O objetivo do artigo apresentado é analisar dilemas de efetividade na atividade de Inteligência Governamental. Explorando a literatura sobre falhas de inteligência e surpresa estratégica, avançamos em um campo pouco explorado pelos Estudos de Inteligência no Brasil: os aspectos cognitivos dos analistas de inteligência e as relações entre a comunidade política e a comunidade de inteligência. Primeiramente discorremos sobre os desafios de se avaliar a Inteligência Governamental como política pública, em especial no que se refere à dimensão da efetividade. Na segunda sessão abordamos os principais vieses cognitivos e heurísticas possíveis de ocorrer durante a análise de inteligência. A terceira sessão trata das tensões relacionais características entre a esfera política e a comunidade de inteligência e como essa relação afeta no resultado final da atividade de inteligência. Nas considerações finais apontamos para os limites e possibilidades das reformas organizacionais e procedimentais no que se refere à efetividade dos sistemas de inteligência. / The objective of this paper is to analyze the effectiveness‟ dilemmas of government intelligence activities. Exploring the literature on intelligence failures and strategic surprise, we move towards a little explored field on Brazilian Intelligence Studies: the cognitive aspects of intelligence analysts and the relations between the political community and the intelligence community. First we balance the challenges of evaluating government intelligence as public policy, particularly regarding the effectiveness dimension. In the second session, we discuss the main cognitive biases and heuristics that can occur during intelligence analysis. The third section discusses the typical relational tensions between the political sphere and the intelligence community and how that relationship affects the final result of intelligence activity. In the concluding remarks, we point to the limits and possibilities of organizational and procedural reforms on the effectiveness of intelligence systems.

本研究旨在了解偏遠小校面臨整併危機時所實施的再生策略、遭遇的困境與其解決之道，因此乃選擇一所積極尋求再生的某小學進行個案研究，透過實地觀察、訪談與文件分析等方式，瞭解個案學校實際實施情形，並進而探尋置落於現今整併政策下，偏遠小校實施再生策略所展現的意義。本研究結果如下： 一、個案學校所實施的再生策略大致分為三層次，即：（一）以「回歸教育本質、展現辦學特色與績效」為再生策略的核心；（二）以「建立雙語特色學校、實施課後輔導」為再生策略的發展主軸；（三）以「學校走出去、資源引進來」為再生策略的手段，幫助主軸策略順利實施。 二、個案學校實施再生策略之影響因素有四面向並交互影響，即：（一）「官方部門」：政治承諾與整併政策方向，影響政策穩定性與再生策略之實施；（二）「家長與社區」：家長對保留學校的決心與對學校特色的認同，左右校方辦學態度與再生策略實施方向；（三）「校長」：校長危機感、校長辦學理念與其領導作風，影響再生策略之推動；（四）「教師」：教師的專長與興趣、教師參與意願，影響再生策略之實施成效與永續。 三、個案學校實施再生策略遭遇之困難與解決之道：（一）整併政策與學校再生策略有人去政息之慮，對此學校積極建立制度與組織文化，以增加再生策略的穩定性；（二）提供家長資源取捨間不易拿捏，因此學校提高篩選的嚴謹度並對學生、家長進行機會教育，以維護補助的品質；（三）偏遠地區學校本身的限制，因此學校向上級反應並增加與他校合作的機會。 四、個案學校實施再生策略之意義：（一）體現在地草根的意志與限制（二）解構中心，開展學校發展的多元視野；（三）重新省思教育部門齊頭式政策與消極角色。 由上述研究結果，針對三部分提出本研究建議如下： 一、行政部門而言：（一）應扮演積極角色，規劃長期偏遠小校發展方向與配套，並立法保障以保持政策的穩定性；（二）針對整併政策進行全面性研究。 二、個案學校而言：（一）雙向溝通、建立共識；（二）轉型為「理念型學校」或複合式的「英語村」模式，提供東部地區英語學習據點；（三）引進農會人力、物力資源，賦權地方以增加再生動能。 三、民間團體而言：（一）協助方式需切合學校所需；（二）提供學生多元表現與體驗的機會。 / The research aims to understand what problems remote small schools in Taiwan face and how they can resolve the problems by carrying out regeneration strategies. The selected case study is a remote elementary school . Through collected data from observation, interview, and document analyses, we not only understand the actual implementation of the regeneration strategy of Case School, but also realize the meanings of regeneration strategies under the threat of merger in Taiwan. The main findings of the study include as follows： 1. There are three levels of the regeneration strategies of Case School：1) “According to the essence of education” and ”lighting the specialist and performance up” is the core；2) “Showing the specialties by building a bilingual school” and “providing homework counseling” is the main；3) “Out of the wall” and “ bringing in the resources” is the means. 2. There are four factors that have influence on the strategy：1) Government affect policy stability；2) Parents & Community：3) Principal；4) Teacher. Factors interact each other to affect policy stability, attitude, the direction and implementation of the regeneration strategy. 3. There are two difficult situations, and following strategies may overcome them：1) It’s difficult to keep the merge policy and the strategies sustainable, so the principal establishes a system and organizational culture to enhance stability；2) Due to the limit of the remote school, principal should report to the executive authority and increase the opportunity to cooperate with other schools. 4. There are three meanings of the regeneration strategies：1) Express the willpower and the limitation of the local place；2) Deconstruct the center explore the pluralism and possibilities of school development.；3) Rethink the negative role of the government. According to the results of this research, three suggestions were proposed as follows： 1. Case School：1)Two-way communication& Consensus-building；2) Transform to the Charter School or the model of English Village；3) Bring in the resources of Famers’ Association to empower the local vitality. 2. Administration：1) Be a positive role to plan the direction of the long-term development of remote small schools and set laws to maintain the stability of the policies；2) Carry on comprehensive researches. 3. The public：1) Correspond to the needs of remote small schools；2) Give various opportunities to let students show themselves off.

Through geopolitical theory this thesis explores how conflicts within states can be read and understood according to an analytical model determining one or several possible causes for the conflict.  The model is created by the author and reflects geopolitical theory by giving three possible explanations to an intrastate conflict: culture, economy or territorial construction. The aim of the thesis is testing this model on two selectively chosen case studies – i.e. two intrastate conflicts – namely: the upcoming referendum in Scotland and the terror attack at Tiananmen Square in China. These conflicts are compared by applying the model on each case and then providing a qualitative analysis through it. This comparison has shown that the geopolitical model of conflicts can be used in determining the cause or several possible causes for an intrastate conflict, and by doing so determining the need for geopolitical perspective to better understand states as actors in international relations.

Rather than the expression of mystical Je^ire tor unity with God, Ignatius' letters are interpreted (using Weber's charismatic type) as the efforts of an 3 ut ho r-ity using his extraordinary position to protect communities from divisive house-church meetings. Protection from false teaching was initiated by reinforcing the position of bishops (the hosts of the common euchanstic assembly).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Reformed Theological Seminary, 2004. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 295-307).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Reformed Theological Seminary, 2004. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 295-307).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Reformed Theological Seminary, 2004. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 295-307).

O objetivo do artigo apresentado é analisar dilemas de efetividade na atividade de Inteligência Governamental. Explorando a literatura sobre falhas de inteligência e surpresa estratégica, avançamos em um campo pouco explorado pelos Estudos de Inteligência no Brasil: os aspectos cognitivos dos analistas de inteligência e as relações entre a comunidade política e a comunidade de inteligência. Primeiramente discorremos sobre os desafios de se avaliar a Inteligência Governamental como política pública, em especial no que se refere à dimensão da efetividade. Na segunda sessão abordamos os principais vieses cognitivos e heurísticas possíveis de ocorrer durante a análise de inteligência. A terceira sessão trata das tensões relacionais características entre a esfera política e a comunidade de inteligência e como essa relação afeta no resultado final da atividade de inteligência. Nas considerações finais apontamos para os limites e possibilidades das reformas organizacionais e procedimentais no que se refere à efetividade dos sistemas de inteligência. / The objective of this paper is to analyze the effectiveness‟ dilemmas of government intelligence activities. Exploring the literature on intelligence failures and strategic surprise, we move towards a little explored field on Brazilian Intelligence Studies: the cognitive aspects of intelligence analysts and the relations between the political community and the intelligence community. First we balance the challenges of evaluating government intelligence as public policy, particularly regarding the effectiveness dimension. In the second session, we discuss the main cognitive biases and heuristics that can occur during intelligence analysis. The third section discusses the typical relational tensions between the political sphere and the intelligence community and how that relationship affects the final result of intelligence activity. In the concluding remarks, we point to the limits and possibilities of organizational and procedural reforms on the effectiveness of intelligence systems.

O objetivo do artigo apresentado é analisar dilemas de efetividade na atividade de Inteligência Governamental. Explorando a literatura sobre falhas de inteligência e surpresa estratégica, avançamos em um campo pouco explorado pelos Estudos de Inteligência no Brasil: os aspectos cognitivos dos analistas de inteligência e as relações entre a comunidade política e a comunidade de inteligência. Primeiramente discorremos sobre os desafios de se avaliar a Inteligência Governamental como política pública, em especial no que se refere à dimensão da efetividade. Na segunda sessão abordamos os principais vieses cognitivos e heurísticas possíveis de ocorrer durante a análise de inteligência. A terceira sessão trata das tensões relacionais características entre a esfera política e a comunidade de inteligência e como essa relação afeta no resultado final da atividade de inteligência. Nas considerações finais apontamos para os limites e possibilidades das reformas organizacionais e procedimentais no que se refere à efetividade dos sistemas de inteligência. / The objective of this paper is to analyze the effectiveness‟ dilemmas of government intelligence activities. Exploring the literature on intelligence failures and strategic surprise, we move towards a little explored field on Brazilian Intelligence Studies: the cognitive aspects of intelligence analysts and the relations between the political community and the intelligence community. First we balance the challenges of evaluating government intelligence as public policy, particularly regarding the effectiveness dimension. In the second session, we discuss the main cognitive biases and heuristics that can occur during intelligence analysis. The third section discusses the typical relational tensions between the political sphere and the intelligence community and how that relationship affects the final result of intelligence activity. In the concluding remarks, we point to the limits and possibilities of organizational and procedural reforms on the effectiveness of intelligence systems.

Thesis (DTh (Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Dutch Reformed Mission Church (DRMC) and the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA) was established in 1881 and 1910 respectively. As pointed out in this study both these churches grew from the mission endeavours of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC). In April 1994 the DRMC and the DRCA united in forming the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA). This church has as confessional base the Belgic Confession of Faith, the Canons of Dordt and the Heidelberg Catechism as well as the Belhar Confession. The church order of the URCSA is built on these Confessions and in particular on the Belhar Confession. In this study I argue that it was only after the unification of the mentioned churches that a history characterised by guardianship, subordination and semi-autonomy came to an end. However this may be the histories of the DRMC and the DRCA point out that, on a church juridical level, these churches where subordinate and to a large extent directly governed by the DRC. Here the model for the church planting as followed by the DRC will receive attention. By looking into the primary documents through which these churches were governed as well as the documents that formed the church orderly backbone of the mentioned churches in that, through their principles and stipulations, the DRMC and DRCA were organised internally, I attempt to evaluate these documents. These documents include the initial constitutions for the governance of the DRMC and the DRCA, the deeds of agreement between the regional synods of the DRC and the regional synods of the DRCA as well as the Deeds of Agreement between the DRC in South Africa (the Western and Southern Cape Synod of the DRC) the Synod of the DRMC, the first church orders of the DRMC and the DRCA and, to a lesser extent, the church order of the URCSA. Through their histories these churches were granted church juridical liberties. These liberties form the foundation for the initial development in the polity of these churches. The content of the abovementioned documents highlights these liberties as well as the effect it had on the theological identities of the DRMC and the DRCA. As the histories of these churches depict a strong strive towards reaching a position of ecclesial autonomy and the acknowledgment of their autonomy by the DRC, special attention is given to the concept and interpretation of ecclesial autonomy. In this regard I remark on the historical interpretation of ecclesial autonomy as it played out in the histories of the DRMC and the DRCA. Through the works of renowned Reformed theologians, I further look into historical interpretations of this theological principle, which is ecclesial autonomy. In doing this I attempt to formulate a specific understanding of ecclesial autonomy based on a particular interpretation of the Lordship of Christ. As outcome this interpretation shows towards the interdependant relation between churches. It can be argued that this impacts directly on the relation between the DRC, the DRMC and the DRCA, specifically in the ongoing processes of church re-unification. In a final turn in which I affirm vi the interdependent and interrelatedness between churches, I argue towards the building of a vulnerable ecclesiology which impacts directly on an understanding of ecclesial autonomy, the specific polity of a church, as well as on the structures embodied by a community of believers. Some of the tenets and convictions of Reformed church polity, as they are relevant to this study, are discussed in detail. In turn I use these principles in evaluating the church juridical position of the DRMC and the DRCA in the mentioned period. As such I point towards the strong deviations in Reformed church polity as it played out in the history of the churches within the family of Dutch Reformed Churches. In this regard I also point towards the interrelatedness of these churches within the broader social context of South(-ern) Africa. I argue that these unique deviations are to a large extent distinct from the ecclesial context of South(-ern) Africa. Concluding remarks are made in this regard. Through the unpacked notion of what is termed an ecclesiology of vulnerability, built on the interdependent relation between churches, I make brief suggestions regarding the ongoing process of church re-unification between the churches within the family of Dutch Reformed Churches. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Sendingkerk (NGSK) en die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk in Afrika (NGKA) het onderskeidelik in 1881 en 1910 tot stand gekom. Soos wat hierdie studie uitwys, het beide hierdie kerke gegroei vanuit die sendingaktiwiteite van die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk (NGK). In April 1994 het die NGSK en die NGKA verenig in die Verenigende Gereformeerde Kerk in Suider-Afrika (VGKSA). Hierdie kerk het as konfessionele basis die Nederlandse Geloofsbelydenis, die Dordtse Leerreëls, die Heidelbergse Kategismus sowel as die Belydenis van Belhar. Die kerkorde van die VGKSA is dan ook gebou op hierdie belydenisskrifte en dan in besonder op die Belydenis van Belhar. In hierdie studie redeneer ek dat dit eers ná die eenwording van die vermelde kerke was dat ’n geskiedenis gekenmerk deur voogdyskap, ondergeskiktheid en semi-outonomie agterweë gelaat is. Dit kan vermeld word dat die geskiedenis van die NGSK en die NGKA duidelik uitwys dat hierdie kerke, op ’n kerkregtelike vlak, ondergeskik was aan, en tot ’n groot mate regeer is deur die NGK. Die model vir die planting van kerke soos gevolg deur die NGK geniet in hierdie verband in die studie aandag. Verder het ek probeer om die inhoud van die primêre dokumente waardeur die NGSK en die NGKA regeer is, sowel as die dokumente wat as kerkordelike basis vir die interne organisering van hierdie kerke gebruik is, te evalueer. Die vermelde dokumentasie sluit in die oorspronklike Grondwette vir die regering van die NGSK en die NGKA, die Aktes van Ooreenkoms tussen die streeksinodes van die NGK en die streeksinodes van die NGKA sowel as die Aktes van Ooreenkoms tussen die NGK in Suid- Afrika (die sogenaamde Kaapse Kerk) en die sinode van die NGSK, die eerste kerkordes van die NGSK en die NGKA, en, tot ’n mindere mate ook die kerkorde van die VGKSA. Deur die verloop van die geskiedenis is daar sekere kerkregtelike vryhede aan die NGSK en die NGKA toegestaan. Hierdie vryhede vorm, myns insiens, die basis van die oorspronklike kerkregtelike ontwikkeling(-e) in die vermelde kerke. Die inhoud van die bovermelde dokumente wys juis hierdie vryhede uit sowel as die effek wat dit op die teologiese identiteite van die NGSK en die NGKA gehad het. Aangesien die geskiedenis van die NGSK en die NGKA ’n sterk strewe na kerklike outonomie en die erkenning van hierdie outonomie deur die NGK uitwys, word spesiale aandag gegee aan die bespreking van die konsep en interpretasie van kerklike outonomie. Die historiese begrip van hierdie term word verduidelik en spesifiek hoe dit uitgespeel het in die geskiedenis van die NGSK en die NGKA. Deur te verwys na die werke van welbekende Gereformeerde teoloë, word daar ook aandag gegee aan die historiese interpretasie van kerklike outonomie as teologiese beginsel. Daarvolgens probeer ek om ’n spesifieke begrip vir kerklike outonomie te formuleer. ’n Bepaalde interpretasie van Christus se heerskappy is hier as basis gebruik. As uitkoms dui hierdie geformuleerde interpretasie van kerklike outonomie op inter-afhanklike verhoudinge tussen kerke. Myns insiens impakteer dit direk op die verhouding tussen die NGK, die NGSK en die NGKA en hier spesifiek dan op die proses van kerklike hereniging tussen hierdie kerke. In ’n finale rondte gaan my argument oor die bou van wat genoem word ‘n kwesbare ekklesiologie. Hierdie argument is gebou op ‘n verstaan van kerklike outonomie wat wys op die inter-afhanklike verhouding tussen kerke. Myns insiens impakteer hierdie argument direk op ’n spesifieke begrip van kerklike outonomie, die spesifieke kerkreg wat uitspeel in ’n kerk, sowel as op die strukture wat beliggaam word in ’n gemeenskap van gelowiges. Van die oortuigings van die Gereformeerde Kerkreg komend vanuit ‘n spesifieke konteks, soos wat dit betrekking het op hierdie studie, word gedetailleerd bespreek. Ek het ook hierdie oortuigings gebruik om die kerkregtelike posisie van die NGSK en die NGKA in die vermelde periode te evalueer. In hierdie verband wys ek op hoe daar in die geskiedenis van hierdie kerke sterk afgewyk was van die Gereformeerde Kerkreg. Melding word in hierdie verband gemaak van die inter-afhanklikheid van hierdie kerke en die breër sosiale konteks van Suid(-er)-Afrika. Myns insiens is hierdie vermelde eiesoortige afwykings tot ’n groot mate uniek aan die kerklike konteks van Suid(-er)-Afrika. Slotopmerkings word in hierdie verband gemaak. Wanneer die konsep van ’n kwesbare ekklesiologie, gebou op ‘n verstaan van die inter-afhaklike verhouding tussen kerke, beskryf word, maak ek kort opmerkings rakende die aangegaande proses van kerkhereniging tussen die kerke binne die familie van NG Kerke.