Platform For Dialogue Research Articles

VALUE MEASUREMENTS: CONTENT ANALYSIS IN SOCIAL NETWORKS

Social media platforms are becoming important translators of values in modern society, where young people express political sentiments through the use of various types of content. Relatively free online communication platforms, as well as high Internet penetration among young people, make it particularly relevant to study political values through content analysis in social networks. In order to determine the political values of young people that they broadcast on social networks, a comprehensive study was conducted based on the use of case-study, event-analysis and content analysis methods. In total, 42 groups of neutral dialogue platforms were studied; 42 - opposition and 23 communities of the “Young Guard”. Such a sample allows us to identify the peculiarities of the transmission of political values depending on geography, local traditions, peculiarities of mentality, and the development of civic activism.

Implementation gaps of the Portuguese National Health Plan: a stakeholders’ perception analysis

Abstract Background The Portuguese National Health Plan (PNS) 2012-2016, extended to 2020, was the strategic health document shaping the direction of intervention within the Health System. The National Institute of Health Doutor Ricardo Jorge (INSA) is the institution responsible for carrying out its final evaluation. To underpin PNS final evaluation a multistep process was designed. Methods A mixed methods study using a convenience sample was implemented to assess stakeholders’ perception about five PNS dimensions: dissemination, communication, implementation, impact, and evaluation. For this purpose, two different tools were used. Semi-structured interviews with former health policy managers were conducted. In addition, an online survey was designed and widely distributed to additional stakeholders. From October 2019 to February 2020, data was collected using two separate instruments. Integral transcriptions of the interviews were made. Qualitative content analysis and quantitative descriptive analysis were used. Results A total of 12 interviews and 179 valid surveys were obtained. Regarding stakeholders’ perception about PNS implementation process, there was an overall positive recognition about the strategic and operational relevance of the PNS, as a common dialogue platform and a tool for health improvements both for health status and health system function in Portugal. Among pointed implementation barriers, management was mentioned as the major constraint, mainly due to shortage of human and financial resources to carry out the recommended interventions within the PNS timeline. Conclusions As part of the evaluation process the research team found relevant gain knowledge of the wider context in which PNS was developed and implemented, based on stakeholders’ perception. Their considerations are important not only to support the definition of the questions and criteria for PNS final evaluation, but also to highlight key issues for the future policy cycle. Key messages

Quantifying resilience of socio-ecological systems through dynamic Bayesian networks

Quantifying resilience of socio-ecological systems (SES) can be invaluable to delineate management strategies of natural resources and aid the resolution of socio-environmental conflicts. However, resilience is difficult to quantify and the factors contributing to it are often unknown. We provide a theoretical and conceptual framework to quantify resilience in a long-term context. Our approach uses elements from interdisciplinarity and network perspectives to establish links and causalities between social and ecological variables and resilience attributes. The evaluation and modeling of SES structure and function are established from the analysis of dynamic Bayesian networks (DBN). DBN models allow quantifying resilience through probabilities and offer a platform of interdisciplinary dialogue and an adaptive framework to address questions on ecosystem monitoring and management. The proposed DBN is tested in Monquentiva, a SES located in the high Andes of Colombia. We determined historical socio-ecological resilience from paleoecological evidence (palynological diversity, forest cover, fires, and precipitation) and social-economic factors (governance, social organization, and connectivity) between 1920 and 2019. We find that transformation processes in Monquentiva are mainly related to social change (e.g., social organization) and increased ecological diversity that in turn have fostered SES resilience between 1980 and 2019. The ability to predict the SES response over time and under cumulative, non-linear interactions across a complex ecosystem highlights the utility of DBNs for decision support and environmental management. We conclude with a series of management and policy-relevant applications of the DBN approach for SES resilience assessment.

Молодые исследователи: ориентиры и ограничения в научной политике (на примере первого Конгресса молодых ученых в Сочи, 2021 г.)

The first Congress of Young Scientists was held on December 8–10, 2021, in Sochi, and bringing together talented young researchers, representatives of business and the Government of the Russian Federation. The event had several objectives: to demonstrate the achievements of Russian science over the past 20 years; outline the prospects for further scientific development; provide a platform for dialogue and interaction between young scientists and officials. Despite numerous efforts aimed at the implementation of the latter task, a constructive dialogue did not take place. However, the topics discussed at the Congress of Young Scientists make it possible to consider the main current directions in the formation of Russian scientific policy towards young researchers.

Youth Councils of the Heads of Local Governments in Leningradskaya Oblast’

The article is devoted to the analysis of youth councils under the heads of administrations of municipalities of the Leningrad region, both MO–1 (cities and towns) and MO–2 (districts of the Leningrad region). Information about the development, activities and problems of youth councils was obtained through semi-structured expert anonymous interviews, both with activists of these youth councils and with employees of municipalities overseeing their activities. Based on the research materials, we can identify three main options for the real activity of youth councils under the heads of district administrations: Option A – “Club of interested leaders of youth initiatives”, option B – “A communicative platform for dialogue with the interested head of the district”, option C – “A communicative platform without the participation of the head of the district”. An analysis of the development of youth councils in municipalities of the 1st level allows us to conclude that three factors are important conditions for success. The first is the presence in the settlements of at least a small group of young people with some expressed interests. The most frequent interests are sports and modern music. There is also an interest in volunteering, local history, etc. (as a result of the school's efforts). The second factor is the presence of an extensive network of youth policy specialists who will be able to see such young people and see the specifics of their interests in order to help them find themselves. These may be employees of both local administrations and other structures working with young people. And the third factor is the attention to initiative youth from the head of the settlement. The communication factor itself is important, as well as the opportunity to provide some financial support, starting with a room in which young people can meet.

Vaccine acceptance in rural India: Engaging faith leaders as vaccine ambassadors.

IntroductionReligious faith is a key marker of identity and shapes community perspectives and trust. Faith leader involvement in vaccine campaigns in India have been beneficial to counter misinformation regarding infectious diseases such as polio. Faith leaders are influential stakeholders who bear potential to enhance public confidence in vaccine campaigns.ContextWhile vaccine coverage has been increasing in India, inequities abound, especially in populations with historically low vaccine confidence. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to major disruptions in delivery of routine immunization services for children. To address these challenges, we co-designed interventions aimed at contextual communication strategies and peer support. Engaging faith leaders was an important part of this intervention. In this report we describe our experience and highlight the perspectives of faith leaders and their expectations of the outcomes for this intervention.Programmatic elementsThe CIVIC Project, conducted from January to December 2021 aimed to engage caregivers, community health workers and key stakeholders, particularly, faith leaders in co-designing interventions to address vaccine hesitancy in Mewat. The project, deeply rooted in community based participatory research, used a three-E approach (Exploration of community perspectives, Establishment of vaccine trust and awareness, Engagement in vaccine promotion activities) to successfully engage faith leaders in the design and dissemination of media messages advocating for vaccine acceptance and uptake.Lessons learnedThe involvement of faith leaders in the intervention benefited the community in two ways. First, faith leaders were spotlighted via videos, often disseminating advice and personal anecdotes about vaccines, thus reassuring caregivers and community members who previously expressed distrust in vaccines. Second, involvement of trusted faith leaders provided a platform for a two-way dialogue for the community to openly discuss and address myths and misconceptions regarding vaccines. This project provided the learning that co-creating interventions with faith leaders who are often gatekeepers of close-knit communities can lead to the development of vaccine positive messaging that community members relate with, motivating increased vaccine confidence.

Transformation of the Museum Sphere in the Convention of the COVID-19 Pandemic

The article draws attention to the development of cultural and cognitive tourism in Ukraine in the context of the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The degree of information technologies introduction as an effective form of museum work in the conditions of lockdown is analyzed. The level of activity of “museumvisitor” communications in social networks as the main platform for dialogue and work was assessed. Attention is paid to the role of panoramic photos, virtual tours, online tours as an effective marketing tool for self-promotion and a mechanism for saving the internal visitors in order for them to return in the future.Based on the collected material on traffic congestion, in the number of visits, posts, reposts, and preferences, a cluster analysis of information activity of cultural and cognitive tourism facilities was conducted and four centers were identified: Central-Eastern; Western; Southern; Northern. It was stated that the dynamics of information technology dissemination was more active in the Central-Eastern and Northern regions. The presence of a big number of large museums facilitated the involvement of volunteers or investors to digitize exhibitions or create virtual tours, in contrast to small regional ones which were distributed in the western regions of Ukraine. The seasonality of bursts of interest in information resources during the New Year holidays or summer vacations has been revealed.Statistical analysis of visitors to the information resources of museums by age, sex, geography of residence helped to draw attention to the characteristics of visitors. The data showed that the majority of visitors (80 %) belonged to local users, which suggests the need to promote them, especially in other regions of Ukraine, in order to intensify domestic tourism. This practice will not only increase the tourist flow of Ukraine, but also the cultural and tourist integration of citizens. At the same time, women showed greater interest in information resources, which indicates the need to take into account these features in building the marketing strategy of museums in the information space.

Speech, Facial and Fine Motor Features for Conversation-Based Remote Assessment and Monitoring of Parkinson's Disease.

We present a cloud-based multimodal dialogue platform for the remote assessment and monitoring of speech, facial and fine motor function in Parkinson's Disease (PD) at scale, along with a preliminary investigation of the efficacy of the various metrics automatically extracted by the platform. 22 healthy controls and 38 people with Parkinson's Disease (pPD) were instructed to complete four interactive sessions, spaced a week apart, on the platform. Each session involved a battery of tasks designed to elicit speech, facial movements and finger movements. We find that speech, facial kinematic and finger movement dexterity metrics show statistically significant differences between controls and pPD. We further investigate the sensitivity, specificity, reliability and generalisability of these metrics. Our results offer encouraging evidence for the utility of automatically-extracted audiovisual analytics in remote mon-itoring of PD and other movement disorders.

The influence of elites on the choice of the vector of development of the region

The article deals with the issues of typology of regional elites in connection with their influence on the choice of models of political, state and socio-economic development of regions. The author singles out and describes the types of the regional elite (conservative, radical, progressive and colonial), proposes a methodical approach to classify representatives of the regional elite as a certain type based on their financial and property characteristics. For groups of regional elites, behavioral vectors (matrix of vectors) and targets (matrix of goals) are systematized, a scheme for the correlation of the «matrix of goals» (the goal of the elite in the region, an attractive system of power, attitude to the center, the landmark of the concept of change) and the «matrix of vectors» ( planning horizon, migration mobility, negotiability, escalation of violence) in the format of a “compass of elite behavior” (shows guidelines for socio-political development under the dominance of certain types of regional elite). The idea of developing «maps of spheres of influence and interests» of various elite groups has been put forward (it allows for the formalization of resources, motives and intentions, the creation of logical and mathematical models of the behavior of elite groups, monitoring and forecasting systems). The necessity of creating platforms for dialogue between groups of regional elites on the main guidelines for spatial development is substantiated.

Yeni Toplumsal Hareketlerde Kimlik Taleplerinin Dönüşümü

Kimlik konusu küreselleşme, ekonominin yapısal dönüşümü vb. süreçlerine paralel bir biçimde geniş kitlelerin farklı talepleri doğrultusunda yeniden şekillenmeye başlamıştır. Kimliğin evrensel ve özcü yaklaşımına karşılık farklılık temelinde ele alınması gerektiğine dair görüşler dillendirilmeye başlamıştır. Her kimliğin kendine özgü koşullar içerisinde ele alınması fikri, “öteki” olarak nitelendirilen kimliklerin de görünür olmasına imkân sağlamıştır. Bu minvalde kimlik geleneksel algısının ötesinde ve farklılıkları da içerecek şekilde daha kapsamlı bir şekilde ele alınmaya başlamıştır. Çevre hareketleri, barış hareketleri, kadın hareketleri vb. hareketler, ulus ötesine varan nitelikleri ile farklı coğrafya ve ideolojiden bireylerin ortak söylem, dil ve talepler doğrultusunda hareket ederek katılımcı diyalog zemininin oluşmasını sağlamıştır. Kimlik, yeni toplumsal hareketler ile birlikte siyasal bir talep şeklinde, kamusal hayatın merkezine yerleşmiştir.Bu çalışmada, eski ve yeni toplumsal hareketler kavramlarına yönelik literatür taraması yapılmış ve hareketler karşılaştırmalı olarak ele alınmıştır. Sonrasında kimliğin bu hareketler ile yaşadığı dönüşüme odaklanılmıştır. Yeni toplumsal hareketler ile yeniden şekillenen kimlik, farklılıklar ile birlikte ötekilik meselesini de gündeme getirmiş, kimliklerin homojen yapısından ziyade çok parçalılık ve çeşitlilik temelinde yeniden düşünülmesini gündeme getirmiştir. Kimliğin bu yapısı, taleplerin siyasallaşmasına ivme kazandıran bir gelişme olarak değerlendirilmektedir. Çevre ve kadın hareketleri, yeni toplumsal hareketler çerçevesinde farklı kimlik taleplerinin gündem olmasına zemin hazırlamıştır.

Lem Readings: A Summary of the Regular International Scientific Conference on Science Fiction

The article reviews the regular international scientific conference on science fiction – Stanisław Lem Readings. The conference is held since 2007 by the Department of Philosophy in collaboration with the Department of Russian and Foreign Literature and Public Relations of the Samara National Research University. The summary shows the history of the conference, formulates the main definitions of the category of science fiction, proposed by its participants, demonstrates the topics, genres, and key approaches that make up the problem field, lists its most eminent speakers. Lem Readings are currently an international platform for a regular interdisciplinary dialogue between philosophers of technology and futurologists, active engineers and scientists, anthropologists and sociologists. The basic principles of the conference – freedom of expression, professionalism, striving for the synthesis of heterogeneous systems – remain unchanged during the years, and they correspond to the idea of the science fictional as a possibility that can be realized.

Inter-doubt dialogue in Slimane Benaïssa’s Prophètes sans dieu

Slimane Benaïssa is a Franco-Algerian playwright and novelist of Ibadi Muslim and Chaoui Amazigh (Berber) heritage. In his play Prophètes sans dieu (1998), written and staged in France during the 1990s conflict in Algeria, Benaïssa provides a platform for an imaginary dialogue between an actor playing Moses, an actor playing Jesus, and the author who refuses to represent the prophet Mohammed, out of reverence for sacred texts and respect for (fellow) Muslims. In this way, Benaïssa attempts to straddle the sacrilegious and the sublime through a philosophical, quasi-theological debate interrogating the potential of the Abrahamic connection to both unify and divide. Through an analysis of counterfactual mise-en-scène, role play, and word play, this article reveals that, behind the apparent humor in Benaïssa’s play, there is a sharp indictment of the instrumentalization of religion, an openness to (self-)questioning, and a sensibility to doubt. The playwright challenges assumptions and invites interfaith dialogue, while remaining wary of organized religion and advocating an inclusive laïcité. Moreover, Benaïssa poses a double critique of French colonization and theocratic dictatorship, arguing that with independence must come freedom of conscience alongside freedom of speech. In this way, the stage becomes a site of inter-doubt dialogue, questioning the limits of representation, faith, and freedom.

Universalising colonial law principles on land law and land registration: the role of the Institut Colonial International (1894)

ABSTRACT In 1894, the Institut Colonial International was founded in Brussels, with the aim to engage and promote transnational exchanges between jurists, scholars, politicians, colonial administrators and experts, comparing different colonial experiences. As the Institut Colonial International’s founders had hoped, its publications promoted legal debates, discussions and the prospects of specific legislation, decrees or norms to be adapted and used in entirely different colonial systems. This paper will show that the Institut Colonial International encouraged the exchange of ideas about the various colonial experiences in order to create common and universal principles. International law and domestic law, or national law concerning land register systems and land law were part of the colonial discourse as it endeavoured to create and adopt universal principles of law, trying to establish a platform of common dialogue, with common premises, concerning different colonies, different colonial experiences and ultimately different cultural, social and political contexts.

REBEL GOVERNMENT AND CIVILIAN RESISTANCE

Cañón de las Hermosas is located in a buffer zone of the Páramos Complex of the National Natural Park of the same name, located on the eastern flank of the Cordillera Central, in the Andean Region of Colombia. Several of the most recurrent symptoms in the diagnosis of civil war in the country were concentrated there: poverty and inequality, state precariousness-weakness, social and territorial control by armed groups, disputes over illegal rents derived from the cultivation and trafficking of illicit drugs (ECHANDÍA CASTILLA, 1996, 2000; APONTE GONZÁLEZ, 2019; OBSERVATORIO DE PAZ Y DERECHOS HUMANOS, 2020a, 2020b). This extensive zone was catalogued as one of the sanctuaries of the FARC guerrillas, which guaranteed security, collected taxes, administered justice and regulated coexistence efficiently and effectively through punishments, fines and executions. This happened, particularly with the protection of the environment, a phenomenon that comes close to what DÁVALOS calls "conservation at gunpoint" (DÁVALOS, 2001; CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS REGIONALES, 2020b). After the weakening of the guerrilla by the pacification operations during the 2000s, this conservation work was left in the hands of the civilian population, who denounced the destruction of fragile ecosystems due to the militarization of the territory, and particularly, the construction of a hydroelectric dam in the Amoyá river, in the heart of the Hermosas Canyon. In my work I argue that the Observatorio de Derechos Humanos para la Protección del Medio Ambiente and Mesa de la Transparencia del Cañón de las Hermosas can be characterized as civil resistance mechanisms, conceived with the objective of protecting the population and the environment (TAFUR VILLAREAL, 2021). Community preferences are explained by the degree of social cooperation expressed from the mobilization (protest) and organization capacities, which allowed them to join all the autonomous community spaces of the village of Las Hermosas in a social platform for direct and indirect dialogue with institutional and political actors (among which are included the armed, legal and illegal ones). At the methodological level, the research design and methods integrated fieldwork and archival review with qualitative analysis, and included field interviews, documentary and archival review.

Democracy and Sustainable Development

The democratic discourse on climate change and sustainable development is becoming increasingly polarized. While some voters are pushing back against the movement to wean the world economy away from fossil fuels, others are questioning the huge costs that the transition to a green economy will impose and whether such attempts will have the required impact. This essay discusses the relationship between democracy and sustainable development by comparing the records of China and India in relation to the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It argues that the politics of sustainable development has not received the attention it deserves. With a growing number of actors involved at various levels of society, the sustainable development narrative has often focused on a win–win narrative while glossing over areas where political agreement is more difficult to reach. While autocracies can achieve good results, democracy provides the best platform and guarantees for difficult negotiations and deliberations that are required for the achievement of sustainable development.

The Hispanic International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF-H). A platform for dialogue between urban planners and urban form researchers in Spanish-speaking countries

ABSTRACT This paper is aimed at introducing the readers of Planning Perspectives to the Hispanic International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF-H), a network for urban studies from morphological perspectives in Spanish-speaking countries. The platform is framed within the context of the research carried out at ISUF and its relationships with other schools and traditions of urban forms. The paper considers the themes and approaches presented at the ISUF-H conferences in Toledo (2016), Zaragoza (2018), Guadalajara-Mexico (2019), Barcelona (2020) and San José-Costa Rica (2021). In general, the diversity and vitality of research in the Spanish language is confirmed with the emergence and renewal of the themes and methodologies of analysis and eclectic approaches – with those of architects and urban planners dominating over those of geographers and specialists from other disciplines; this, in turn, demonstrates that barriers in the multidisciplinary dialogue remain and are an important challenge. Retrospective views and diagnoses based on the analysis of urban forms coexist with forward-looking views that consider current urban processes. The challenges of the ISUF-H are, therefore, akin to those of the ISUF, but also complementary, since they acknowledge the need to promote inclusive and multidisciplinary views over sectorial ones and to expand the anglophone field to include research carried out in Spanish-speaking countries.

Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption: Opportunities for International Cooperation and Results of Activities

The format of international cooperation of the Conference of the Countries Participating in the UN Convention against Corruption, on the one hand, continues the traditions of international intergovernmental organizations, and on the other hand, represents a new format of interaction between states in the fi eld of anti-corruption activities, which has distinctive features. The Conference has a pivotal role in international cooperation on the prevention and combating of corruption due to the wide area of activities and the number of participants. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the features of the functioning of the Conference of the Countries Participating in the UN Convention against Corruption and the results of its activities since 2006. Using the analysis of documents and scientifi c publications, the author concludes that despite the importance of the Conference as a platform for multilateral dialogue, the countries participating in the United Nations Convention against Corruption failed to achieve signifi cant progress in the declared areas of activity. The author highlights the main diffi culties faced by states in implementing anti-corruption measures based on the norms of international law.

Особенности арктической политики США и Канады и вклад их северных университетов в её реализацию

The United States and Canada, along with Russia, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Finland and Sweden, are the so-called "official" Arctic countries. In the 21st century, The United States and Canada have begun to implement national Arctic strategies and updated them. The accepted documents have both similarities and differences. The United States and Canada are active members of the Arctic Council and view it as a platform for negotiations on a wide range of issues related to the development of the Arctic. The United States has come a long way in the Arctic, including in terms of regulation. Unlike other Arctic countries, the United States has a minimal area of access to the Arctic Ocean, their strategy as a whole is turned “outward”. The first Canadian strategy for the development of the Northern Territories (2013) is addressed directly to the development of the northern periphery of the country, formulates tasks for its sustainable socio-economic development, the development of indigenous peoples, and the support of sovereignty. In 2019, the updated strategy presented already combined national and international goals for the development of the Arctic and the North. To advance national interests in the Arctic, the US and Canada have developed and funded a geographically, infrastructure, stakeholder, and thematically differentiated Arctic research policy in which higher education institutions play an important role and are used to reinforce their geopolitical aspirations. The purpose of the article is to characterize the features of the Arctic strategies of the USA and Canada, as well as to analyze the contribution of universities and colleges in Alaska (USA) and the northern territories and provinces of Canada to the implementation of research policy in the Far North and the Arctic. The practical significance of the paper is in the possibility of its use in the educational process, as well as for the analysis and updating of international aspects of research activities by universities in the Arctic zone of Russia.

Community-Based Long-Term Care in Taiwan: The Service Experiences of Tier B Centers

This qualitative study explored the community-based long-term care in Taiwan, examining the service experiences of Taiwan’s Tier B centers. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven Tier B service centers managers. The interview transcripts were analyzed by comparing the participants’ responses to find similarities and inducted into three themes. It was found that the adversities encountered include frequent policy revisions, the lack of systematized training programs, the high turnover rate among service providers, as well as differing perceptions between family members and service providers. They tried to solve problems and suggested policy improvement, including establishing platforms for government-citizen dialogue as well as creating supervision and evaluation mechanisms. Consequently, Tier B service centers benefit the community and the long-term care industry as elderly people can age in place and reduce families’ caregiving burden. Also, the practical experiences provide the real situation of differences between policies, training, and social service promotion. For future research, it is suggested to use this study’s results as a blueprint and conduct a questionnaire survey on all Tier B service centers in the country to understand the overall service outcomes. And propose suggestions for policy revision and formulating training programs for service providers.

The Politics of Stability in Kazakhstan: Depoliticising Participation Through Consultative Ideology?

Kazakhstan’s National Council for Public Trust was created in response to the protests before and after the 2019 presidential elections and was promoted by the regime as a platform for dialogue between state and society. Such consultative institutions have been studied primarily through institutional–functional perspectives, which remain, however, unclear about the motives for setting up such councils and their effects. Based on an analysis of official narratives, this essay argues that Kazakhstan’s National Council was established to promote a consultative ideology that advocates for state-organised dialogue between citizens and the government. As part of Kazakhstan’s politics of stability, consultative ideology aimed at depoliticising requests for democratisation and civil society participation. However, as the regime did not fully deliver on its promise to involve relevant stakeholders and allow an open debate, official narratives were rejected by the protest movement and thus had limited depoliticising effects. It thus remains doubtful that consultative ideology will be effective and accepted by the general population.