Youth Federation Research Articles

Praktyczna szkoła dziennikarstwa. Środowisko niezależnych wydawnictw na przykładzie podziemnych pism Federacji Młodzieży Walczącej w Trójmieście

Fighting Youth Federation in Gdansk belonged to the most important anti-communist resistance organizations in the second half of the twentieth century. It was established in 1984 in Warsaw and until 1990 it developed its activities in over a dozen centers throughout Poland. One of the most vigorous centers of the organization operated in Tri-city. Among many dimensions of its independent activities, publishing comes to the fore. Two regional Fighting Youth Federation’s press titles and several dozens of school magazines were published in Gdansk, Sopot, Gdynia and throughout the region. The activation process of the youth environment in this regard, an attempt of its assessment and evaluation of the impact which involvement in the underground publishing movement had on the journalistic activities of some Fighting Youth Federation activists after 1990, were all presented in this paper.

Inquiry of the Practice of Leadership in Chengguan: A Study Based on the Ethnographic Research of Z City

Chengguan, the Urban Administrative Law Enforcement Bureau, has been criticized for its dismal public image and poor job performance. Based on an ethnographic case study in Z City, we analyzed the type of leadership that results in passive work performance in Chengguan, and we examined whether any leadership style can be used to improve Chengguan's image and performance. We developed a new leadership ontology of CNP (Cognition–Normalization–Performance) on this foundation, and ethnographic research was conducted in three phases: leader's cognition, followers' normalization, and organization performance. Several implications were drawn. Leader selection should be cautious and can be improved by studying the leader's traits and behavior. This is done by investigating candidates' leadership career paths, trait characteristics, motive profiles, and other qualities. It is useful to change leaders by strengthening followers' unity and cohesion by setting up a labor union, youth federation, women's federation, and other groups. A leader should be selected among individuals who have completed leadership training as opposed to appointing one from outside the organization. On the one hand, the superior should help to improve the leadership environment (context), supervise problems in the organization's operation and performance, and track changes over time. On the other hand, the leader can also provide the followers with a flexible and adaptive place of work.

Institutional support in alternative care: Foster care and COVID-19 pandemics

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has generated new challenges in the work of social welfare institutions, particularly in the area of providing support in alternative forms of care, such as foster care. The need for support during the pandemic was very significant and necessary because foster families fall into the category of vulnerable groups, especially because they provide care for children displaced from their primary (biological) family. In addition to insufficient institutional support during the pandemic, communication with primary families was aggravated, which has had a negative impact on foster children and their needs. The Faculty of Law in Osijek is a partner institution in the Project "Zajedno do doma" (Foster Home for Children), funded by the EU and organized by the World Youth Federation Croatia. For the project purposes, a survey on institutional support to foster families was conducted from August to October 2021. The collected data will be presented and analyzed in this paper, in order to identify the needs of foster families, the relevant forms of institutional support, and the difficulties that foster families experience in case of insufficient support. This pilot research on the attitudes of experts and foster careers is a quantitative basis for further qualitative research on foster care in direct contact with foster carers. Based on this research, the authors have developed foster care guidelines, with special emphasis on the challenges of providing support during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Feasibility of Intersectoral Collaboration in Epidemic Preparedness and Response at Grassroots Levels in the Threat of COVID-19 Pandemic in Vietnam.

To effectively control the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) outbreak in later stages in Vietnam requires addressing the existing gaps in the national health emergency framework, consolidate, and inform its structure, we conducted this study to evaluate the importance and collaborative mechanism between health and community service workers with intersectional organizations at grassroots levels in Vietnam. A cross-sectional, web-based survey was conducted from 12/2019 to 02/2020 on 581 participants (37 health workers, 473 medical students, and 71 community service workers). The snowball sampling technique was used to recruit participants. We used exploratory factor analysis to test the construct validity of the questionnaire measuring the perceived efficiency of involving community service workers in health care–related activities and Tobit models to examine its associated factors. The results showed the importance of local organizations in epidemic preparedness and response at grassroots levels, with scores ranging from 6.4 to 7.1, in which the Vietnam Youth Federation played the most important role (mean = 7.1, SD = 2.2). Of note, community service workers were viewed as performing well in health communication and education at agencies, schools, and other localities. Medical students perceived higher efficiency of involving community service workers in health care–related activities at grassroots levels as compared to health workers. We encourage the government to promote intersectoral collaboration in epidemic preparedness and response, giving attention to scale up throughout training as well as interdistrict and interprovincial governance mechanisms.

“ Like we don’t have enough on our hands already!”: the story of the Kenyan slum youth federation

Slum dweller federations, like many other social movements, cater for the youth in their constituencies. This is critical to their relevance as agents of change and contributes to the sustainability of the movements. However, the youth formations are not merely scaled-down versions of the movements and often grapple with a set of dynamics unique to that transitory period in life. This story is a case study of the youth federation that is aligned to Kenya’s slum dwellers federation.

Mercy Corps in China: Combining Global Experience with Successful Chinese Models

Abstract Mercy Corps’ collaborative work with Chinese organizations demonstrates an emerging paradigm of global humanitarian partnership where a connection between regional wisdom and international expertise is applied to address local poverty. Mercy Corps, a global relief and development agency known for innovative programming, implements disaster management capacity building projects, migrant youth trainings, exchange programs, and young leader development activities in China through partnerships with institutions and NPOs including the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation and the All China Youth Federation. These joint activities have illustrated how much organizations like Mercy Corps can learn from the Chinese approach to development, which has been inspired and made possible by enormous Chinese-led efforts toward poverty alleviation over the past three decades and also supported by the emergence of socially innovative ideas and leaders. Through these partnerships, Mercy Corps’ deep level of global technical expertise and track record of impact-focused programming has served as a necessary ingredient to further support and enhance China’s development goals. This article explores the history and values of Mercy Corps’ work in China; China’s unique perspective and influence as a humanitarian development player; and the opportunity that international NPOs have to work with China to jointly address the most urgent humanitarian challenges around the world.

Editorial: Responding to urban youth’s own perspectives

The challenges facing urban youth in terms of both livelihoods and their involvement in local governance are increasingly recognized as some of the most important development issues worldwide. We also have remarkably few effective precedents on how to address these issues. And yet, for perhaps the first time ever in Environment and Urbanization, we have fewer themed papers in this issue than we do papers that provide feedback on themes in previous issues. We are disappointed and not a little chagrined at our failure to produce the bumper number on urban youth that was contemplated. The five papers we have certainly make an important contribution and we are delighted to be publishing them. However, some equally strong papers came in too late to be included (although these will feature in the April 2011 issue); also some research reports, while pointing in very interesting directions, were still too preliminary to be publishable; and in some cases, people who had been committed to contributing their rich experiences and strongly felt opinions turned out to be too busy to produce. We are looking forward to publishing in the next issue an overview by Richard Mabala on youth and livelihoods in Africa; an account of the youth federation in Nairobi that, in a sense, has grown up under the wing of the federation of the urban poor there but that has gone very much in its own direction; a discussion of deaf youth in large cities; an evaluation of a programme seeking to provide safe spaces and savings accounts for young girls in a Nairobi slum; and a description of the development of the Technical Training Resource Centre in Karachi, set up by a young engineering student and providing practical training for youth in construction, design and neighbourhood level mapping and documentation. There are some powerful narratives shaping the discourse around youth. On the one hand, they are seen as the problem – the unemployed, disaffected, irresponsible generation, a “ticking time bomb”, the ugly “bulge” that is likely to burst, spreading violence and chaos.(1) On the other hand, young people, and young women in particular, are seen as victims – victims of HIV, of violence, of sexual abuse, of discrimination, unemployment, exploitation. Yet another perspective is a vision of youth as the answer, a repository of knowledge, energy and vision that has only to be tapped to solve the world’s problems. This does not cover all the stereotypes around youth – in our next issue Richard Mabala will discuss a more complex typology. But these particular narratives, contradictory and simplistic as they are, can have a powerful influence on the ways in which young people are responded to, with often disappointing results. These papers offer a more thoughtful, nuanced middle ground, an area that clearly needs to be explored if the complex realities facing urban youth are to be more effectively addressed.

Sikh Militant Movements in Canada1

ABSTRACT This article analyzes the historical formation of three of the most influential Sikh militant movements operating in Canada: the World Sikh Organization (WSO), the International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF), and the Babbar Khalsa (BK). It traces the historical formation of these three factions, paying particular attention to the mandates and ideological philosophies to which these groups subscribe, as well as their current activities. In addition, it focuses on how the infighting over the mandates of the organizations, the tensions between diaspora and homeland politics, and conflicts within groups shape the character of the organizations. Although moderate members of Canada's Sikh community have regained ownership of gurdwaras, the existence of several militant Sikh movements has raised important security questions for Canadian authorities.

Sovereign rights and territorial space in Sino-Japanese relations: irredentism and the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands

In September 1996, members of the Japan Youth Federation repaired a lighthouse on one of the Diaoyu (J. Senkaku) Islands, a small group of uninhabited islets north of Taiwan in the Liuqiu (J. Ryukyu) chain, known today as Okinawa. For months, outraged ethnic Chinese in Hong Kong and Taiwan protested Japan's presence in the islands, and violent confrontations between protesters and Japanese forces resulted. This is an investigation of the highly topical issues involved in the Diaoyu/Senkaku confrontation. It begins by addressing the historical development of the dispute. Other issues centre on Chinese views of sovereignty and their methods of delimiting territorial boundaries during the Ming and Qing periods, the Chinese concept of hegemony, and the history behind the deep mistrust that permeates Sino-Japanese relations.

Say No to Jesus!

Abstract According to a report from Comrade Ma Ran, of the Youth Federation of Heilongjiang, Department Stores Nos. 4, 7, and 8 of the city of Harbin as well as the arts and crafts factory retail departments have been selling "crucifix" necklaces. Some market stalls also display such necklaces for sale. In addition, some young people are going around with these necklaces in their hands and hawking them. Some of the crucifixes are cast with representations of Jesus Christ, others with representations of the Virgin Mary; some are gold-plated, others, silver-plated; some are manufactured locally, others come from places such as Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Suzhou. These crucifixes attract many people, and young people in particular fall over each other in their eagerness to buy them. Most of the young people buying the crucifixes do so not out of religious conviction, but because it is the fashion, or they want to look nice. Many young people on the streets already have crucifixes hanging around their necks.

Political Recruitment and Socialization in Syria: The case of the Revolutionary Youth Federation

Over the last fifteen years the Syrian Ba'th Party has succeeded-in a country previously known for weak governments and military coups-not only in entrenching a strong relatively stable system of single party rule, but also in launching its own variety of socialist and modernizing revolution. The explanation of this transformation in the nature of Syrian political life is one of the interesting problems of contemporary Syrian and Middle Eastern politics. What accounts for it? This essay will explore one approach to a partial explanation: a study of party recruitment and socialization practices.

International youth federation for environmental studies and conservation

International youth federation for environmental studies and conservation

Italys New Communists

When the Central Committee of the Italian Communist Party met in February, 1973, PCI Secretary Enrico Berlinguer reported that “membership in the party and, to a less satisfactory extent, in the Youth Federation (FGCI), shows a constant increase.” During the past several years the PCI has again become a point of reference for an increasingly high number of people who either join the Party or at least gravitate around it. Such a “return”— to be understood literally in some cases—is particularly interesting because it involves a high proportion of Italian youth, especially students, and some prestigious representatives of the Italian cultural world.

International Youth Federation for the Study and Conservation of Nature (IYF)

International Youth Federation for the Study and Conservation of Nature (IYF)

Ukrainian Folk Dance; A Symposium, No. 1. Compiled by Bohdan Klimash. (Ukrainian National Youth Federation of Canada, Box 1081, Winnipeg, 1961.) 58 pp.

Ukrainian Folk Dance; A Symposium, No. 1. Compiled by Bohdan Klimash. (Ukrainian National Youth Federation of Canada, Box 1081, Winnipeg, 1961.) 58 pp.

Belgian Youth Federation for the Study and Protection of Nature

Belgian Youth Federation for the Study and Protection of Nature