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Analysis of the Different Education Policy Reforms in Uganda (1922 – 2000)

Author(s): Kamya Bazilio / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: policy reforms; public value theory; human capital theory;

Since the colonial era, Uganda has instituted several commissions of inquiry aimed at reforming the education sector. Despite these commissions, the sector still faces multiple challenges ranging from financing, poorly trained teachers, high level of teacher and student absenteeism, inadequate learning materials and large class sizes. The paper argues that much as policy reforms on primary education development that were made during the colonial times were criticized because colonial education was seen as alien, Ugandanisation of education after independence and the reforms by the successive governments did not change the sector so much. As a result, it has failed to embrace the virtues of quality, equity and efficiency yet the successive policy reform commissions have among other things been tasked to ensure that the trio is achieved. The paper is guided by both the Public value management theory and the Human capital theory. The findings of the study will inform the government about the challenges of primary education in Uganda and what went wrong with the successive policy reforms with a view to rectifying the anomalies in the future policy reforms.

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Some Aspects Specific to the Investigation of Corruption Acts

Author(s): Nicoleta-Elena Heghes / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: crime scene investigation; corruption; flagrant; hearing; investigation; search;

Corruption can be considered the oldest form of crime that has accompanied the development of human society so far, and probably a long time from here on. The topicality of the approached topic has its roots in the urgent need to combat this dangerous reality by adopting a fair and stable legislation, without the existence of loopholes to encourage criminal perseverance. In this article we will emphasize the need for legal regulation of the facts and acts of corruption both internally and internationally, as well as the presentation of the methods or tactics that can prevent or, as the case may be, combat these antisocial facts if the function of prevention of the law did not produce the expected effects, such as the search, the hearing of the suspects, the accused and the witnesses, the flagrant or the spot investigation. With its sanction, corruption has also become a legal phenomenon, crossing purely social borders and becoming a source of criminal consequences. Thus, corruption becomes a legal fact, regulated by rules that attract the most serious form of liability in case of their violation.

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On Freedom in the Artificial Age

Author(s): Julia M. Puaschunder / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: AI; Artificial Intelligence; Climate change; Climate justice; Discrimination of excellence; Freedom;

The currently ongoing introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics and big data into our contemporary society causes a market transformation that heightens the need for ethics in the wake of an unprecedented outsourcing decision making to machines. Artificial Intelligence (AI) poses historically unique challenges for humankind. This chapter will address legal, economic and societal trends in the contemporary introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotics and Big Data derived inferences. In a world, where there is a currently ongoing blend between human beings and AI, the emerging autonomy of AI holds unique potentials of eternal life but also imposes pressing legal and ethical challenges in light of AI gaining citizenship, overpopulation concerns and international development gaps. The current legal status of AI and robotics will be outlined with special attention to consumer protection and ethics in the healthcare sector. The unprecedented economic market revolution of outsourced decision making to AI will be captured in macroeconomic trends outlining AI as corruption free market solution, which is yet only prevalent and efficient in some parts of the world. Finally, a future-oriented perspective on the use of AI for enhancing democracy and diplomacy will be granted but also ethical boundaries envisioned. The mentioned transition appears to hold novel and unprecedentedly-described freedom challenges in our contemporary world. In an homage to freedom, the following paper first lays open these freedom-threatened areas in order to then provide strategies to alleviate these potential freedom deficiencies but also set new freedom potential free.

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Beautiful Experiments in Teaching Freedom: Collectivist Conceptions of Interdependence in the Discussion of Liberatory Teacher-Student Trust

Author(s): Nirel JonesMitchell / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Ptahhotep; Jose Martí; political theory; education; inner-city youth;

Top researchers in the field of critical pedagogy signify that trust literally liberates the brain from fear. This allows for student creativity and higher-order thinking; without cultural awareness and empathy, researchers claim, educational apartheid in inner-city public schools will persist. American notions of ‘proper’ teacher-student dynamics are contextualized by the political philosopher John Locke who delineated a framework dismissive of relational interdependence. Thus, within domestic pedagogical scholarship, collectivist conceptions of teacher-student relationships, congruent with African American collectivist cultural understandings, remain largely unexplored. At first glance, consideration of political philosophy seems peculiar. This perspective, however, is not only compatible--but critical; interpretations of the intersections between political theory and pedagogical analysis are necessary to move beyond mediating the effects of marginalization towards addressing theories surrounding interrelationship and their exclusion from academia, throughout history and today. The following analysis briefly discusses Afro Cuban notions of collectivism, particularly relevant because of their ties to socialist ideologies--opposite of John Locke’s economic outlook. It then interprets texts from ancient KMT, “The Satire of the Trades” and “Instruction of Ptahhotep,” in order to articulate the specific definitions of connection that evade modern educational discourse. This research is imperative; effective pedagogy within classrooms will both reduce crime--as is indicated by the realities of the school to prison pipeline--and produce adults prepared and willing to eradicate other crises in American society.

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What If Soft Power Becomes the New “Weapon” for World Leadership? Considerations on the Debate in Relation to the New World Order

Author(s): Francesco Petrone / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: soft power; global order; BRICS; governance; neo-realism;

Currently, there is much debate among scholars about whether or not the global order is changing. Although the debate is open, it is undeniable that the growing presence of “new emerging powers”, such as the BRICS, has undoubtedly begun to reshape the international system. Based on realist and neo-realist theories, we believe that “soft power” will play an important role in the future as a driver of this global change. Indeed, The BRICS are devoting a lot of energy in order to instigate change, and above all they have been able to take advantage of the supposed "decline" of the West. In any event, it will be necessary to understand whether their interest in improving their "charm power" is real or if is only a means of claiming future world leadership.

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Education and Religion in Jerusalem and Babylon, Viewed through the Prism of the Book of Daniel

Author(s): Ioan-Gheorghe Rotaru / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: education; religion; Jerusalem; Babylon; symbol;

In this study we will analyze some key aspects of Jewish education as well as education in the Babylonian schools. This analysis is made in the light of the experiences related in the book of the prophet Daniel. Each type of school (Jerusalem or Babylon) had its own specifics and it is important to highlight which are the key elements of each. Daniel was an interesting character who went through both the Hebrew school and the Babylonian school. Regarding the school curriculum, it must be said that in the respective Jewish schools they studied the Law, in order to know all the laws, then they learned their history, the sacred history, about the way God guided them everywhere throughout their lives. Then they learned poetry, because poetry was a poem, an epic that conveyed the victory, the glory, the history of the people and the divine interventions in their lives and history. Fourthly, they studied music. They did not have many subjects, they only had four, but these four included a very wide range of information, and the school that Daniel attended included these elements, and in addition he also learned the Aramaic language, a language of universal circulation in those times, similar to the English language in our times. In the Babylonian School the study of languages, mathematics, astronomy, business were top fields of Babylonian science. But the Babylonian schools also had a negative side. Thus, starting from astronomy, the Babylonians created another science, namely astrology, which for them was a true science, and it could be called differently such as: futurology, riddle, astrology, zodiac, etc. Daniel, whether he liked it or not, faced this type of practice in Babylon.

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Code Switching in Selected Catholic Bishops’ Lenten Pastoral Letters in the Ecclesiastical Province of Onitsha, Nigeria

Author(s): Virginia C. Okafor / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Catholic bishops; code switching; discourse functions;

Language serves its users both as a means of communication and as an index of their culture and identity. The speaker not only communicates his ideas but also expresses his belonging to a group. Sometimes, this comes naturally and sometimes intentionally to achieve a particular purpose in a discourse. Catholic bishops in the Ecclesiastical Province of Onitsha have prominently employed code switching in their pastoral letters. The objective of this paper is to examine the bishops’ deployment of code switching in the letters with the aim of determining its discourse functions. The study is based on Howard Giles’ Communication Accommodation Theory in combination with Aristotle’s theory of persuasion, with particular emphasis on pathos and ethos. Data are obtained from selected pastoral letters ranging between 20 and 104 pages and published between 2000 and 2010 by the Catholic bishops in the ecclesiastical province of Onitsha, Nigeria. These are subjected to discourse analysis, which reveals that the bishops have deployed code switching from English to Igbo in order to accommodate to the audience to achieve solidarity and enlist their support, and from English to Latin in order to show off learning, maintain social status and present themselves positively to elicit admiration, all for the ultimate purpose of persuading the faithful to comply with their messages.

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Maritime Geopolitics in Indian Ocean: China’s Bid for Regional Dominance

Author(s): Samin Farhan Asef,Fahmida Alam / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: BRI; geopolitics; Indian Ocean; Gwadar;

In the contemporary world, China is one of the giants that intends to dominate the whole world. To achieve this enormous dream China took the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) which will connect most of the world through land and maritime routes. BRI’s geographical span is constantly expanding which comprises 3 continents, 68 countries covering 65% of the world’s population which will involve infrastructural development like ports, roads, railways, and airports costing over US$1 trillion in investments. The Indian Ocean has become a key strategic arena in maritime geopolitics due to its increasing importance in terms of global economic trade and security. This paper focuses on explaining the geopolitical dimension of BRI. Hambantota and Gwadar, two mammoth seaports, in the Indian Ocean play a crucial role in China’s plan to increase its maritime footprint in littoral South Asia. This paper also attempts to find out China’s emerging strategic security interests in this region by exercising soft power which is a key element in China’s national security. The objective of the paper is to trace China’s changing maritime stance towards the Indian Ocean, with the aim to improve regional dominance and integration by increasing trade and economic growth.

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Incurring the Jointly and Severally Liability and the Procedure of Insolvency. Compatibility or Exclusive Character

Author(s): Adina Georgeta Ponea / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: debtor; insolvability; insolvency; incurring joint and several liability;

The procedure for incurring the jointly and severally liability regulated by the provisions of art. 25 and 26 of the new Fiscal Procedure Code also applies if the debtor is in the insolvency procedure regulated by Law no. 85/2006 on insolvency prevention procedures and insolvency proceedings. The two distinct types of liabilities engaged in two different procedures do not overlap or exclude each other. Regarding the attraction of joint and several liability, according to Article 25 para. (3) of the Fiscal Procedure Code, the text of the law stipulates as a pre-existing condition the state of insolvability or insolvency of a legal person. Therefore, joint and several liability may be incurred, according to Article 25 para. (3) of the normative act specified above, if the (principal) debtor has been declared either in a state of insolvability or in a state of insolvency.

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Addressing Cambodia’s Clean Water Infrastructure

Author(s): JieYeon (Celes) Moon,Lewis Seagull / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Cambodian Economic Development; Clean Water;

Cambodia in the 21st century is an underdeveloped third-world nation that lacks the resources to address its economic problems. One of the principal problems is the lack of infrastructure for the delivery of clean, sanitary water. Lack of all types of infrastructure in Cambodia is the result of a series of unfortunate historical events—collateral damage from the Vietnam War, the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge, and difficulties establishing a stable government, each of which contributed to Cambodia losing its academic, professional, and business classes. Now, a majority of its citizens are under the age of 24; the country lacks leaders and role models on which to base social, political, and economic development. One of the major problems that cuts across all three of these sectors is the absence of access to clean, sanitary water for personal, agricultural, and industrial uses due to underdeveloped infrastructure for the delivery of clean water. Factors that contribute to the problem are government inefficiency, lack of coordination in allocating government resources, and lack of expertise to address these issues. For Cambodia to improve its economy, it must address its infrastructure for the delivery of sanitary water.

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Direct and Indirect Consequences of the Concept of Kingdom on the Life of the Believers

Author(s): Luca Samuel Leonte / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Kingdom of God; Kingdom of Heaven; king; faith; belief;

The concept of “Kingdom” is well-known on the pages of the Bible, especially in the New Testament. God, the Father, and the Son, Jesus, are called and behave as kings of the Universe. Jesus Christ was very interested in speaking about the kingdom and in explaining its concepts to his listeners. Due to their beliefs, according to the concept of kingdom, many times, Christians relate differently to the values vindicated by the majority of people in the society. Their faith guides the believers when speaking about loving, appreciating, approving, or disapproving things and events around them. In this article, the author presents both, what the Bible teaches about the concept of Kingdom and some direct and indirect consequences of the biblical concept in the life of the believers. The biblical concept about the Kingdom influences believers both in terms of personal and community. When it comes to interacting with others, believers' beliefs may conflict with those who struggle with worldly principles.

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The Implications of BRI in Djibouti: A Critical Geopolitical Analysis

Author(s): Fahmida Alam,Samin Farhan Asef / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Djibouti; Geopolitics; Narrative; Debt-trap;

Djibouti, located at the horn of Africa, is a part of China's multibillion-dollar program ‘Belt and Road Initiative’(BRI) which aims to achieve geostrategic and commercial objectives. An emerging market opportunity to fuel economic growth, the quest for raw material resources has drawn Chinese attention to the African region. Djibouti is situated on the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait which connects the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean and for China this will help to connect Africa with the Maritime Silk Route of BRI as an important dot. The strategic location has urged China to invest largely in this area to gain geopolitical advantage. Djibouti was lured into borrowing excessively from China for the sake of development, which pushed them towards a debt trap. The objective of the paper is to analyze the geopolitical importance of Djibouti as a part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. This paper will also attempt to explore the underlying reasons behind Chinese interests in Djibouti and explain the debt-trap narratives. Lastly it presents Djibouti government’s response to deal with the implications of BRI.

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Managing Supply Chains in a Post-COVID World

Author(s): John Rocha,Kruti Lehenbauer / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: COVID-19; Supply Chain disruptions; Logistics; SCM; Technology in SCM;

The COVID-19 disruption resulted in reactive and uncoordinated logistics behaviors creating a crisis that impacted the viability of many companies worldwide (Choi, Rogers, and Vakil 2020). The purpose of this study is to suggest how to resolve the issues facing supply chain logistics by first identifying the supply chain disruptions of the past and then analyzing the resulting consequences of these disruptions. We propose to show how fragile the supply chain system in the United States is by demonstrating how existing technologies have not yet been exploited to their full potential, which would help to reduce the vulnerability of supply chains in the United States to new and unprecedented disruptions. We conclude by offering some potential solutions to combat this vulnerability in the supply chain and related logistics by incorporating existing technologies to reduce the impact of future disruptions, whether they are created by policy, by possibility, or by pandemic!

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Familicide: Psychological and Social Characteristics of the Aggressors. A Case Study

Author(s): Andrei Armeanu / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: familicide; domestic violence; abusive relationship;

Generic defined as a multiple-victim homicide incident in which the killer’s spouse and one or more children are slain, familicide is an atypical crime, with little incidence compared to other acts of domestic violence. In the present article, we will list several psychological and social features identified in the literature as common to aggressors in familicide cases. Given the fact that familicide acts are almost exclusively committed by men, we will assume that the aggressor is a man and the victim a woman. We will analyze data on the age, social status of the author and the victim, and their relationships. We will also analyze the contextual factors, the characteristics of the crime (modus operandi, premeditation, place of the deed), and the prevalence of mental health problems, relationship problems, and financial difficulties. As the scientific literature on the topic is relatively scarce, due to the low number of cases and the fact that access to relevant information is often restricted because of the confidentiality of legal and health documents, we will carry out a case study of a familicide that took place in Romania in 2018, focusing on the analysis of motivational factors and the pre-existing conditions, without claim of a comprehensive conclusion.

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Gender Gap in Digital Skills in Greece

Author(s): Maria PERIFANOU,Anastasios A. Economides / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: digital skills; digital competence; employment initiatives; equality policies;

Inequalities between men and women exist not only in economy and society but also in education all over the world. Many initiatives are launched to empower women with advanced skills in many countries. This paper describes the policies and initiatives to foster gender equality in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)-related education and employment in Greece. National and European Union (EU) statistics show that there exists a wide gender gap in ICT-related higher education participation, employment, and salaries in Greece. Various policies and initiatives aim at empowering women with digital skills. The paper suggests a framework to fight gender discrimination in ICT across four (4) dimensions (ICT education & training, digital tools & infrastructure, people networking, ICT jobs) and three (3) axes (access, use & participate, create). The resulting framework consists of twelve (12) areas. The paper gives example strategies for some of the areas. Finally, the paper present conclusions and suggestions for future research.

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A Strategy for Teaching Carrying in the Mathematical Operation of Addition to Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

Author(s): Mohammed Alajlan / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: single subject design; deaf and hard of hearing students

This study investigated the effectiveness of using manipulative items for teaching the process of carrying in the mathematical operation of addition with a third-grade student with hearing loss. A single subject reversal design protocol was used. The subject student had low achievement in addition of two-digit numbers with regrouping. When visual aids, concrete materials, and practice were implemented with the student, he was eventually able to achieve a top score of 90% on a 10-item quiz. The strategy was found to be very effective in this setting. Further research is needed to investigate whether the student would be able to implement this strategy successfully with three-digit numbers. The use of the intervention should also be explored with more than a single student and with younger students who are deaf or hard of hearing.

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Green Bonds and Diversified Interest Rates

Author(s): Julia M. Puaschunder / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Climate Change; Economics of the Environment; Environmental Justice; Environmental Governance

The climate change crisis has gained unprecedented urgency in the most recent decade. Overall, climate change has already led to and will continuously lead to irreversible tipping points and lock-ins that will degrade the common welfare. When taking a closer look at the macroeconomic growth prospects as measured in Gross Domestic Product (GDP), climate change gains and losses will be distributed fairly unequally throughout the world. A climate change winners and losers index generated the economic prospects under climate change around the world. The index attributed economic gain and loss prospects based on the medium temperature per country in relation to the optimum temperature for economic productivity and the GDP composition per country in order to determine how far countries are deviating from their optimum productivity levels on a time scale. As economic gains and losses from a warming earth are distributed unequally around the globe, ethical imperatives lead to the pledge to redistribute gains to losing territories in the quest for climate justice. Climate justice comprises fairness between countries but also over generations in a unique and unprecedented tax-and-bonds climate change gains and losses distribution strategy. Climate change winning countries are advised to use taxation to raise revenues to offset the losses incurred by climate change. Climate change losers could raise revenues by issuing bonds that have to be paid back by taxing future generations. Regarding taxation, within the winning countries, foremost the gaining GDP sectors should be taxed. Climate justice within a country should also pay tribute to the fact that low- and high-income households share the same burden proportional to their dispensable income, for instance enabled through a progressive carbon taxation. Those who caused climate change could be regulated to bear a higher cost through carbon tax in combination with retroactive billing through inheritance tax to map benefits from past wealth accumulation that potentially contributed to global warming. A novel policy recommendation for enacting climate justice entails diversified interest rate regimes for climate bonds repayment based on the country’s initial position on the climate change gains and losses index spectrum. Diversified repayment of bonds is a new method aimed at ensuring to share the burden but also the benefits of climate change within society in an economically efficient, legally equitable and practically feasible way.

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Payroll Protection Plan Epilogue

Author(s): David Douglas Klein / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Paycheck Protection Program; effectiveness; fraud;

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), part of the CARES Act passed by the United States Congress in 2020, was instituted as a response to social distancing restrictions during the COVID pandemic that shut down large parts of the American economy. The purpose of PPP was to provide small businesses (and corporations with 500 employees and less) with easy-access loans to help make essential operating payments such as rent, utilities and payroll. If PPP funds were properly used as promised, then the amount borrowed would be forgiven - meaning the loan would be converted to a grant and the borrowed funds would never have to be repaid. The PPP was rolled out in two phases: April 2020 and January 2021. This paper will address if the program worked as envisioned - what was the PPP’s ultimate effectiveness? Did it really save jobs and businesses from failing? This paper will also research the percentage of fraudulent or criminal PPP loans - was there widespread fraud, abuse and misuse of the easy-access funds?

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Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) – Regulation Vacuum and Challenges for Romania

Author(s): Bogdan Radu / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Non-fungible tokens; NFT; cryptocurrency; DLT; blockchain;

This article aims at presenting the strengths and weaknesses of the Romanian legislation towards non-fungible tokens (NFTs). We start by recognizing that there is no active legislation that deals with cryptocurrency, NFTs or any other digital asset using a digital ledger of transactions (DLT). The starting point is the analysis of the legal characteristics of an NFT through the classical qualification and distinction made for goods by the Romanian Civil code. Further, we raise some issues regarding establishing a clear tax regime and the correlation between NFTs and intellectual property rights, and finally conclude that when it comes to qualifying crypto-assets, we need to adopt a ‘substance over form' approach, in order to avoid regulatory unpredictability.

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Music on the Wrong Side of Art

Author(s): Goranka Stanić / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: prejudice; music; hatred; discrimination; misuse of music

Music and dance follow human development. The beginnings of music spontaneously hit various kinds of behaving that accompanied free movement (dance) within the community. In addition to relaxation and enjoyment, music has often been used in some undesirable behavior forms by today's standards. Music encourages soldiers to raise the morale and willingness of the army to win. This act intimidated opponents—the first example of using musical instruments in the best-selling Christian book of the Bible (Jericho). Today, music is wide-ranging and classified into different categories; this happens freely in other performers who may encounter hate speech. Music is used as a means of provoking and intimidating certain target groups. Depending on the country and the area, we come across numerous music examples on the "wrong side." The examination refers to how to use music that should inspire and raise the values of human beings in a strange way that causes fear, panic, hiding, discrimination in some groups. These people are primarily in the minority: nationality, religion, skin color, sexual orientation, or any other isolation and mockingly aggressive attitude towards selected people. Music began to use for ideological purposes during the French Revolution, and this firefighting practice spread to Europe in the 19th century. Music by manipulation became the music of hatred towards differents and others. Beautiful and sublime, placed in the proper context, music can evoke strong emotions. The desired effect is achieved by the synergy of music and text, its persistent appearance within a particular ideology, and asocial.

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Analysis of the Different Education Policy Reforms in Uganda (1922 – 2000)

Some Aspects Specific to the Investigation of Corruption Acts

On Freedom in the Artificial Age

Beautiful Experiments in Teaching Freedom: Collectivist Conceptions of Interdependence in the Discussion of Liberatory Teacher-Student Trust

What If Soft Power Becomes the New “Weapon” for World Leadership? Considerations on the Debate in Relation to the New World Order

Education and Religion in Jerusalem and Babylon, Viewed through the Prism of the Book of Daniel

Code Switching in Selected Catholic Bishops’ Lenten Pastoral Letters in the Ecclesiastical Province of Onitsha, Nigeria

Maritime Geopolitics in Indian Ocean: China’s Bid for Regional Dominance

Incurring the Jointly and Severally Liability and the Procedure of Insolvency. Compatibility or Exclusive Character

Addressing Cambodia’s Clean Water Infrastructure

Direct and Indirect Consequences of the Concept of Kingdom on the Life of the Believers

The Implications of BRI in Djibouti: A Critical Geopolitical Analysis

Managing Supply Chains in a Post-COVID World

Familicide: Psychological and Social Characteristics of the Aggressors. A Case Study

Gender Gap in Digital Skills in Greece

A Strategy for Teaching Carrying in the Mathematical Operation of Addition to Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

Green Bonds and Diversified Interest Rates

Payroll Protection Plan Epilogue

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) – Regulation Vacuum and Challenges for Romania

Music on the Wrong Side of Art