Protection Of Honor Research Articles

“I felt so hurt and lonely”: Suicidal behavior in South Asian-Surinamese, Turkish, and Moroccan women in the Netherlands

Young immigrant women in the Netherlands demonstrate disproportionate rates of suicidal behavior. This study investigated the origins of suicidal behavior in South Asian-Surinamese, Turkish, and Moroccan immigrant young women in order to identify ethnic- and gender-specific patterns of suicidal behavior. Based on life story interviews of women who had been enrolled in mental health care, we constructed five typical patterns in which social, cultural, and personal factors were interconnected. Suicidal behavior was influenced by the ability and right to act autonomously with regard to strategic life choices, as well as by the questioning of cultural values of self-sacrifice and protection of honor.

Implications of Honor and Dignity Culture for Negotiations: A Comparative Study of Middle Easterners and Americans

Researchers long have assumed that negotiators give priority to economic outcomes over relational outcomes such as satisfaction with negotiation process and desire for future interactions with the counterpart. However the relational structure of a negotiation may be more or less attended to depending on the importance of relationships within a culture. In this paper, we argue that in negotiations conducted in Middle Eastern culture – which can be considered a culture of honor – relational concerns, processes, and outcomes are more important than in Western cultures. We used a role-playing negotiation exercise with both economic and relational issues at stake to examine the impact of culture and relational context on Middle Eastern and American negotiators’ plans, tactics, insight and economic and subjective outcomes. Results indicate of several relational challenges that Middle Easterners face in negotiations, as compared to Americans, including too much emphasis on face-saving and conflict avoidance when negotiating with familiar others, and too much concern about protection of honor and status leading to misunderstandings, and escalation of emotional conflict when negotiating with unfamiliar others. These relational challenges (concerning face and honor) also had economic consequences by leading Middle Eastern participants to set higher aspirations, be more competitive, exchange information less effectively, and obtain lower joint gains than American dyads. Furthermore we found the economic and social outcomes were not as strongly related for the Middle Eastern negotiators as for the Americans. Unlike the American negotiators, the Middle Eastern negotiators seemed to evaluate their satisfaction with a negotiation only in the light of their subjective experiences such as self-image and quality of relationship built, and their satisfaction was very weakly related to the economic gains of the negotiators.

Outcomes of Human Resource Development Interventions

Media law is a relatively new trend in the field of law, the importance of which is growing rapidly. The civilized world unanimously recognized the freedom of the press as the foundation of a democratic society. Equal importance is to ensure freedom of speech and expression as eternal and supreme human values and provide appropriate standards for their implementation. However, like most of the fundamental rights, freedom of expression is not absolute. It can be restricted, if it is necessary to protect the rights and dignity of others. The purpose of this paper is to examine the general legal principles of freedom of expression in Georgia and analysis of judicial practice in this area. Of particular importance is the conflict between the values between freedom of expression and the protection of honor and dignity of others. Specifically, the issue is where the boundary between these two fundamental rights.