Organization Tactics Research Articles

Improving the algorithm of organization and tactics in conducting separate investigative actions in the field of ecology

Studying the elements of organization algorithm and tactics in conducting separate investigative actions during crime detection in the computer information area, such as incident site inspection, assignin g criminalistic expertise and using the records of the criminalistic registration system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. In the process of studying the problem under consideration, the following general and particular methods of scientific cognition of real and objective reality were used: dialectical, logical-legal, statistical, system analysis and specific socio-professional research methods. The authors analyzed, summarized and synthesized the problems in preparing and conducting inspection of the incident site in cases of crimes committed using computer technologies. Characteristic features, main directions and possibilities to identify traces during the inspection, and, accordingly, the purpose based on the inspection results and other investigative actions, certain recommended types of court expertise were examined. Study of possibilities to use record keeping arrays of the criminalistic registration system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the course of work with traces and objects obtained was carried out. The authors studied the problems of organization and tactics in conducting investigatory inspection, appointment of court expertise, using the records of the criminalistic registration system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the course of investigating crimes in the computer information area; ways were suggested to improve preparation and conduct these actions indicating the elements that increase efficiency of this investigation algorithm in the considered category of crimes.

Strategic Sisterhood: The National Council of Negro Women in the Black Freedom Struggle by Rebecca Tuuri

Reviewed by: Strategic Sisterhood: The National Council of Negro Women in the Black Freedom Struggle by Rebecca Tuuri Amanda L. Higgins Strategic Sisterhood: The National Council of Negro Women in the Black Freedom Struggle. By Rebecca Tuuri. ( Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Pp. xiv, 313. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 978-1-4696-3890-4; cloth, $90.00, ISBN 978-1-4696-3889-8.) Founded in 1935 by Mary McLeod Bethune, the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) has worked for more than eighty years to improve the lives of black women in the United States. Bethune sought to "unite black women's sororities, professional organizations, and auxiliaries to act as a clearinghouse to augment the political and professional power of black women" (p. 2). For its first twenty-five years, the NCNW was a bourgeois philanthropic organization, sponsoring cotillions, high teas, and scholarships for young black women. By 1960, facing falling attendance at its social events, the NCNW began to shift its focus to more direct civil rights work, though, as Rebecca Tuuri argues in Strategic Sisterhood: The National Council of Negro Women in the Black Freedom Struggle, it did so always with an eye toward moderation, accommodation, and interracial cooperation. At the height of its membership and influence, the NCNW served as a pass-through organization for federal grants, corporate philanthropy, and foundation funds to support War on Poverty programs in the Mississippi Delta and community development projects in southern Africa. By the early 1980s, as Ronald Reagan–era austerity led to fewer federal dollars for social welfare programs, the NCNW embraced neoliberal corporate sponsorships and celebrity foundation money, shifting its [End Page 732] focus back to middle- and upper-class concerns of respectability, credentialing programs, and professionalization workshops. Tuuri traces the NCNW from Bethune's first meeting in Harlem in December 1935 through the death of Dorothy Height (the NCNW's longest-serving president) and her eulogy by President Barack Obama in 2010. The majority of the text centers on the NCNW's work in the 1960s and 1970s, especially in the Mississippi Delta and the partnerships the NCNW was able to broker with grassroots activists, including Fannie Lou Hamer and Unita Blackwell. Tuuri also explores the NCNW's international work in southern Africa and its ability to secure funding from the United States Agency for International Development. Strategic Sisterhood is as much a biography of Height as it is an institutional history of the NCNW. Height's political pragmatism and networking skills allowed the NCNW to adapt to changing social and economic realities throughout the second half of the twentieth century. Her willingness to take risks—allowing grassroots and local organizers to run the Wednesdays in Mississippi programs in the 1960s and 1970s; employing Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Council of Federated Organizations, and Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party alumni, even as the NCNW eschewed some of their freedom movement tactics; and speaking at the Million Man March at the request of Louis Farrakhan—kept the NCNW an influential organization in national politics. Tuuri uses an impressive collection of personal papers, oral histories, and government documents to build her argument. She situates her text within the established civil rights and Black Power historiography, though, at times, the argument relies too much on the supposed erasure of NCNW's middle-class activism in the popular understanding of the mid-twentieth-century freedom movement. Tuuri also misses an opportunity to fully analyze the consequences of some of the NCNW's decisions, especially the turn toward corporate and private donor money in the 1980s. Tuuri mostly consigns a limited engagement with Height's acceptance of money and support from Bill and Camille Cosby to a single discursive footnote. Moreover, because Tuuri's argument is focused on the moderate approaches of the NCNW, there is little exploration of critiques or criticisms of the NCNW or the organization's tactics. Strategic Sisterhood adds to the expanding narrative of mid- and late-twentieth-century struggles to fight racism, sexism, and poverty. The National Council of Negro Women's institutional history and, especially, Dorothy Height's ability to work behind the scenes to create change highlight the ways individuals and organizations worked together...

The target of a crime under the Article 330 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine

From the standpoint of philosophical ontology the author has determined the notion and nature of information constituting official information gathered in the course of operative and search or counterintelligence operations and in the defense sphere of the country as the target of a crime under the Art. 330 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The place of this information has been specified in the list of information types determined by the current legislation of Ukraine.
 The author has outlined the differences of the official information gathered in the process of operative and search, counterintelligence operations and in the defense field of the country, starting from homogeneous objects, in particular, the target of a crime, stipulated in the Art. 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. They are as follows: 1) this information is obtained by authorized subjects in specific areas of social activity – within operative and search, counterintelligence operations, in the defense field of the country; 2) such information has limited access; 3) its disclosure may harm the public interest in the field of counteracting crime or within intelligence activities to the detriment of the state security of Ukraine and the country’s defense capabilities; 4) the assignment of information to such that constitutes official information, is carried out by the state authorities, which conduct operative and search or counterintelligence operations, as well as state agencies, local self-government agencies, enterprises, institutions and organizations in the defense field of the country; it is approved by their regulatory act; 5) documents or other material carriers containing official information are assigned the stamp “For official use”.
 The author has outlined the range of subjects defining the lists of official information, which is the target of this crime; and has specified the sub-legal acts defining such lists. The author has grounded the expediency of expanding its content by supplementing other types of official information, namely, disclosing the organization procedure, tactics and methods of conducting operative and search, counterintelligence operations, the number of employees of these units, their technical provision, etc.

Urban Contestation in a Feminist Register

Approaches to urban contestation that challenge the dichotomy between institutionalization and opposition, and understand contestation as including engagement, are explored. The emphasis is on how recent forms of feminist analysis and critical scholarship open up a conceptual terrain for such thinking, and the discussion is grounded using further details of City for All Women Initiative/Initiative: une ville pour toutes les femmes (CAWI-IVTF), which is seen to be a concrete, successful case. Its tactics and strategies are noteworthy because of the manner in which ideas drawn from feminist and progressive organizing in other (including non-urban and non-Western) contexts have been incorporated. CAWI-IVTF's successes are most striking in relation to women who previously felt alienated from local politics. The organization's rationale, strategies, and tactics provide insights into how women active in this network create new spatialities, and how their interactions in space are producing new political subjects.

Cloud Security Issues that Impact BCM

Business continuity management today is undergoing a transformation as all parts of the enterprise assess their future with the new promises of better, faster, cheaper from cloud service providers. For now central IT management probably still controls the lion's share of BCM because of the dependency on centrally managed IT and communications. But the ubiquitous growth of cloud services and the pressure to control and reduce information management and processing costs can lead managers who have sufficient authority and budget to adopt cloud-based services that may be inconsistent with the organization's overall business continuity strategy and tactics. One of the most significant elements of information and IT reliability and continuity is information security management (ISM). Threats to information security can easily create risks with a higher potential cost than the organization can absorb. As cloud based services are adopted, it is crucial that BCM and ISM exercise ongoing controls over all changes to infrastructure, architecture, processes, and services that involve sensitive information and/or business-critical functions. Cloud service buyers must beware of promises that processes will be simplified and costs will be decreased. While such goals may be attainable, it is the buyer's responsibility to ensure new service models do not introduce unacceptable security risks or hidden costs that can have an opposite effect from what was intended and promised. This article identifies several areas that must be examined and provides remedies for potential problems in those areas in ensuring the integrity of ISM and BCM.

Framing Peace Policies: The Competition for Resonant Themes

Political organizations make use of culturally resonant symbols to bring their message to the public. In response to a political organization's use of a culturally resonant symbol, competing political organizations attack the connection between that organization's message and the symbol. Rochon and Wolfsfeld propose a process for the movement of policy justification symbols from interest groups and social movements to governments. This article examines this process in the context of the struggle among the Israeli nationalist movement, the Israeli peace movement, and the Israeli government, identifying a typology of tactical frames applicable to research beyond the Israeli context: denial, incorporation, and end run. Press releases by these political competitors show a specialization of tactical frames by social organization. Nationalists prefer to deny the validity of competing resonant symbols. Peace activists prefer to invent or search for new symbols, in an end run. Governments tend to absorb and redirect symbols initially used by the competing movements to justify government actions. An analysis of the political opportunity structures and organizational conditions that determine a political organization's tactics for attacking resonant frames is conducted.

The fight against fiscal colonialism: The OECD and small jurisdictions

The twenty-first century unfolded to a strong belief in small states that the world was returning to a system of governance based on power and force rather than fairness and justice. This belief was re-enforced by the actions of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in launching its 'Harmful Tax Competition Initiative' in the late 1990s under which it targeted 41 small jurisdictions, mostly in the Caribbean and the Pacific, characterizing them as havens for 'tax cheats' and demanding that they comply with rules, unilaterally established by the OECD, to change their systems of taxation and tax administration or face sanctions from its thirty rich and powerful member states. For three years, between 1999 and 2001, thirty-five of the small jurisdictions resisted the OECD, describing the organization's tactics as dictatorial and bullying. The OECD eventually modified its Initiative but only after the intervention of the new US Republican administration of George W. Bush came to office in January 2001. The atrocities of September 11th in the United States subsequently caused the US Treasury Department to soften its opposition to the Initiative as it launched a world-wide seasrch for terrorist financing, most of which was found in OECD countries. In an atmosphere of profound bitterness, all of the small jurisdictions eventually complied with the OECD's demands on the condition that the OECD would establish a level playing field between its member states and non-OECD jurisdictions in cross border tax matters. It remains to be seen whether this commitment will be honoured. What is certain is that the principle of multilateralism was dealt a massive blow by the OECD's failure to consult meaningfully with smaller jurisdictions, and undesirable precedents may have been set not only for the future of international tax setting and compliance but for internationalism itself.

'National revolutionary' groupuscules and the resurgence of 'left-wing' fascism: the case of France's Nouvelle Résistance

Nouvelle Résistance (NR) was a left-leaning national revolutionary groupuscule founded by long-time French activist Christian Bouchet in 1991. In contrast to the generally 'nostalgic' neo-fascist grouplets of the 1960s (such as Occident), which tended to adopt intransigent pro-western, anti-communist and pro-colonial platforms during the height of the Cold War, NR adopted a much more radical political programme characterized by pan-Europeanism, anti-Americanism and Third Worldism, the proclaimed goal of which was the unification of all 'anti-system' forces, rightist and leftist, in a common struggle against the globalist New World Order. In that sense, it was in certain ways representative of the ongoing radicalization of younger generations of European neo-fascists, who increasingly sought to jettison the parochial nationalism, vulgar racism and cultural conservatism of the past and forge a new, 'hipper' rightist youth (counter-)culture. A detailed examination of NR's history, organization, ideology and political tactics therefore serves to illuminate many broader topics, including the nature and significance of the 'groupuscular' form of organization, the cultural transformation of the post-war radical right, the increasingly close interaction between certain types of right- and left-wing extremists, and the complex ideological bases of fascism itself.

Improve Your Marketing Effectiveness and Net Income Through Better Prospecting

Prospecting is the process of finding customers who are ready to buy and can generate high net income for an organization. Leads for prospects come from three categories of sources: (1) organization-initiated; (2) acquired leads; and (3) marketing activity-initiated leads. Findings from a study of academic medical organizations showed a modest use of effective prospecting by hospitals surveyed and that there are opportunities to increase database marketing efforts. The data suggests that prospecting and its companion concept of qualifying are not fully integrated into many healthcare organization's marketing strategies and tactics.

Community Organization to Enhance the Delivery of Preventive Health Services

Preventive health services are most effective when provided to large groups, but health care professionals often are limited to provision to individuals or small groups. As recent studies show, the effects of preventive services can be enhanced through the use of community organization, which mobilizes a community's energies and resources to define and address a problem in a way that promotes local ownership and generates increasing effects over time. We pragmatically adapt community organization for health care practitioners. There are three guiding principles: (1) the community of interest must be clearly defined; (2) existing community structures should be used to reach and stimulate community members; and (3) the organizer's role is temporary. We discuss four tactics of community organization: (1) use of community analysis to understand the community; (2) stimulation of community activity; (3) provision of concrete assistance to accomplish community change; and (4) reinforcement of structures that will remain to carry on the programs. Use of these community organization tactics will allow delivery of preventive health services in a way that promotes widespread and lasting effects.