Questions of value: an evaluative study of self-defense theory and practice in Germany, England, and the United States by Funk, TM

“…While some favor ‘tough-on-crime’ approaches according broader leeway to defenders, others advocate for a more empathetic, ‘humanitarian’ construction of the law.</p> <p>By way of illustration of such polarities of perspective, consider the 20th century German case allowing a farmer to shoot a youthful fruit thief in the back because the ‘right need never yield to the wrong.’ …”

The macro effect of foreign capital and aid on the economic growth in Malaysia by Caroline Geetha B. Arokiadasan

“…The government of the developed countries for political and humanitarian reasons also offers foreign aid. Foreign aid should be paired well with the stages of the economic development of a country to create increasing returns. …”
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Japan’s Advocacy for Human Security in Global Politics: Case Study of Japan’s Grant Assistance for Grass-Roots Human Security Projects (GGP) in the State of Sabah, Malaysia, 2000–2... by Ramli Dollah, Diana Peters, Wan Shawaluddin Wan Hassan, Marja Azlima Omar, Md Safe Abdul Rahim, Adi Jafar

“…This commitment continued into the 1990s when Japan, as one of the leading proponents of the concept of human security, began providing humanitarian aid to more countries across the globe. …”
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Sovereignty, internal displacement and right of intervention: perspectives from the African Union’s constitutive act and the convention for the protection and assistance of interna... by Ekpa, Shedrack, Md Dahlan, Nuarrual Hilal

“…This article examines briefly the historical evolution of the concept of sovereignty and the right of intervention and their implications in the African context, and being conceptual and doctrinal in approach it analyses the context and legality of the African Union’s right of intervention arising from the regional treaties vis-à-vis the United Nations Charter with a view to vindicating the much celebrated ‘decisive break from the past’.It concludes that African Union’s current stance represents a bold and grandiose expression that is sincerely tailored towards ensuring effective human rights protection and humanitarian assistance for over 13 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Africa. …”
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The pandemic toll and post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 in healthcare workers at a Swiss University Hospital by Mayssam Nehme, Laure Vieux, Delphine S. Courvoisier, Olivia Braillard, Hervé Spechbach, Frederique Jacquerioz, Julien Salamun, Frederic Assal, Frederic Lador, Matteo Coen, Thomas Agoritsas, Jean-Luc Reny, Christophe Graf, Lamyae Benzakour, Riccardo Favale, Paola M. Soccal, Guido Bondolfi, Aglaé Tardin, Dina Zekry, Silvia Stringhini, Stéphanie Baggio, Stéphane Genevay, Kim Lauper, Philippe Meyer, Nana Kwabena Poku, Basile N. Landis, Marwène Grira, José Sandoval, Julien Ehrsam, Simon Regard, Camille Genecand, Garance Kopp, Ivan Guerreiro, Gilles Allali, Pauline Vetter, Laurent Kaiser, François Chappuis, Catherine Chenaud, Idris Guessous

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Artificial Intelligence and Problematization of National Security Topics by Seyed jalal Dehghani Firozabadi, Saeed Chehrazad

“…In response to these concerns, several human rights and humanitarian organizations have launched the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, aiming to establish an international ban on the development and deployment of fully automated and autonomous weapon systems. …”
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Using Artificial Intelligence in Education by Vasyl Shuliar, Valentyna Shkurko, Tetiana Polukhtovych, Yuliia Semeniako, Liudmyla Shanaieva-Tsymbal, Lesia Koltok

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Prevalence, Distribution, and Histopathological Features of Malignant Tumors Reported at Tertiary Level in Afghanistan: A 3-Year Study by Malakzai HA, Haidary AM, Gulzar S, Haidari M, Ibrahimkhil AS, Saadaat R, Hakimi A, Sadat Hofiani SM, Rahmani S, Abdul-Ghafar J

“…Haider Ali Malakzai,1 Ahmed Maseh Haidary,1 Saleema Gulzar,2 Mujtaba Haidari,1 Abdul Sami Ibrahimkhil,3 Ramin Saadaat,1 Ahmadullah Hakimi,1 Sayed Murtaza Sadat Hofiani,4 Soma Rahmani,5 Jamshid Abdul-Ghafar1 1Department of Pathology and Clinical Laboratory, French Medical Institute for Mothers and Children (FMIC), Kabul, Afghanistan; 2School of Nursing and Midwifery, Aga Khan University (AKU), Karachi, Pakistan; 3Central Public Health Laboratories (CPHL), Kabul, Afghanistan; 4Department of Academics and Research, Postgraduate Medical Education (PGME), French Medical Institute for Mothers and Children (FMIC), Kabul, Afghanistan; 5World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian and Economic Assistance Programmes Relating to Afghanistan (UNOCA) Compound, Kabul, AfghanistanCorrespondence: Jamshid Abdul-Ghafar, Tel +93 792827287, Email jamshid.jalal@fmic.org.afPurpose: Cancer is one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity, and therefore, tremendous research work is continuously being done around the world with consideration of etiopathogenesis as well as identification of therapeutic targets. …”
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Role of hospitals in recovery from COVID-19: Reflections from hospital managers and frontliners in the Eastern Mediterranean Region on strengthening hospital resilience by Hamid Ravaghi, Merette Khalil, Jehan Al-Badri, Antoinette Vanessa Naidoo, Ali Ardalan, Hamidreza Khankeh, Hamidreza Khankeh

“…Yet, there is limited evidence related to hospitals in the recovery stage, particularly capturing the perspectives of hospital managers and frontliners in resource-restrained and humanitarian settings.ObjectiveThis paper aims to capture the perspectives of hospital managers and frontliners across the Eastern Mediterranean Region on (1) the role of hospitals in recovering from COVID-19, (2) Hospitals' expectations from public health institutions to enable recovery from COVID-19, (3) the Evaluation of hospital resilience before and through COVID-19, and (4) lessons to strengthen hospital resilience throughout the COVID-19 recovery.MethodsA multi-methods approach, triangulating a scoping review with qualitative findings from 64 semi-structured key-informant interviews and survey responses (n = 252), was used to gain a deeper context-specific understanding. …”
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Personal data governance and privacy in digital reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health initiatives in Palestine and Jordan: a mapping exercise by Maysaa Nemer, Yousef S. Khader, Mohammad S. Alyahya, Alexandrine Pirlot de Corbion, Sundeep Sahay, Sundeep Sahay, Niveen M. E. Abu-Rmeileh

“…Mitigating these risks requires effective governance, especially in humanitarian and low-resourced settings. The issue of governing digital personal data in RMNCH services has to date been inadequately considered in the context of low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs). …”
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The myth of the journey of the soul and Bronze Age funerary sites of the Sintashta and Petrovka type in the Southern Trans-Urals by N.B. Vinogradov

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Analysis of Nighttime Light Changes and Trends in the 1-Year Anniversary of the Russia&#x2013;Ukraine Conflict by Lin Wang, Henggang Lei, Hanqiu Xu

“…Overall, NTL reflects critical moments at the national scale and provides insights into military intentions and humanitarian measures at the state scale. Therefore, NTL can effectively serve as a tool for observation and assessment in military conflicts.…”
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New Concept of Teaching English to Students from Non-English Speaking Countries by Ratna Rintaningrum, Aleksandar Kavgić, Marina Garaeva, Lyudmila Shcherbatykh, Mikhail Kosov, Próspero Morán, Kundharu Saddhono, Olga Shalina, Larisa Vatutina, Olesya Dudnik

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Performance of a safe and dignified burial intervention during an Ebola epidemic in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2018–2019 by Abdihamid Warsame, Gwendolen Eamer, Alaria Kai, Lucia Robles Dios, Hana Rohan, Patrick Keating, Jacques Katshishi, Francesco Checchi

“…Burial teams that are managed by community actors and operate locally, and supported rather than owned by the Red Cross or other humanitarian organisations, are a promising modality of delivering this pillar of EVD control.…”
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Examining MEmory Training for Recovery-Adolescent among Afghan adolescent boys: a pilot randomised controlled trial by Sayed Jafar Ahmadi, Zeinab Musavi, Sumia Ahmadi, Sakina Masha, Nasima Muradi, Nasrat Ullah Samim, Sayed Abbas Sarwary, Sayed Ali Akbar Sarwary, Shamila Shahinzada, Daniel McAvoy, Arul Earnest, Laura Jobson

“…Conclusions: With some modifications, METRA appears a feasible intervention for adolescent boys in humanitarian contexts in the aftermath of a terrorist attack.…”
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“American Talks” – Educational and Scientific Project of the Ukrainian Association for American Studies and the Faculty of History of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv... by Oleh Mashevskyi, Olga Sukhobokova

“…Ukrainian-American Educational Dialogue – a discussion about university-based humanitarian education in Ukraine and the USA between students and teachers of the American and European Studies program at the Taras Shevchenko National University and Nazareth College (State of New York, USA), aimed at informing US colleagues about the history and current development of Ukrainian university education, sharing experience in higher education in the humanities and discussing prospects for cooperation.…”
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A Critical and Semiotic Approach to the Wonderful, Horrible Life Cycle of the Kony 2012 Viral Video by Fernando Andacht

“…Through the case study of a visual media narrative that gathered an audience as large as a populous nation in less than a week, and an equally impressive array of biting critical views in both traditional and new media, the article aims to account for its remarkable success and its ulterior proclaimed failure as a humanitarian campaign in the streets. I will do so by revisiting the early functionalist critique of mass media effects within the analytical framework of the action of indexical-iconic signs in the age of YouTube.…”
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Assessment of a Healthy Lifestyle and Quality of Life of Men and Women in Modern Society Based on SF-36 by Tatiana Krutsevich, Sergii Trachuk, Oksana Ivanik, Natalia Panhelova, Mariia Brychuk, Halyna Kedrych

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“How long have the priests been fooling us!” Blasphemy, sacrilege, and violence in Soviet Russia by N. A. Beliakova

“…For example, they declared all church property to be “national patrimony” and presented the forcible seizure of the church property as a humanitarian project of “famine relief”. Accordingly, the declaration by church leadership of such actions as “sacrilegious” was devoid of any normative basis and could be interpreted as anti-state. …”
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Spatial Distribution of Displaced Population Estimated Using Mobile Phone Data to Support Disaster Response Activities by Silvino Pedro Cumbane, Győző Gidófalvi

“…Knowing the spatial distribution of total displaced people (including people in shelters and other places) is very important for the success of the response activities which, among other measures, aims to provide for the basic humanitarian needs of affected people. Traditional methods of people displacement estimation are based on population surveys in the shelters. …”
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