Articles
Opinion
Eduard Vinyamata, Director of the Campus for Peace, reflects on, analyses and shares his opinions and positions on current affairs from the perspective of conflict resolution.
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[07/05/2012]
[Eduard Vinyamata]
The laws on mediation represent more of a problem than a solution. They have had a negative effect on the training and professionalising of mediators. They have led to overlapping legislation that is often incompatible. They have affected mediation practice when lawyers have acted as mediators: the very thing that was meant to be avoided when mediation was created, leading to further personal conflicts in the legal field.
[02/12/2011]
[Eduard Vinyamata]
Crises, like pain or illness, serve to help us reflect on what we have being doing wrong and how to act to remedy this.
[25/03/2011]
Youth and street gangs: prevention or repression?
[Farid Benavides]
Over the last few days, the presence of youth and street gangs in Spain and, in particular, Catalonia has once again made the headlines. In Madrid, in the last week of February, the leader of the city’s Latin Kings was sentenced to four years in prison. The court found him guilty of directing a criminal conspiracy and ordered the ‘gang’ be broken up.
[15/02/2011]
[Xaro Sánchez]
Nothing has changed since the American Psychological Association’s Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls released its 2007 report sounding the alarm on the growing problem of ‘sexualisation’ and its negative consequences.
[12/01/2011]
The Campus for Peace website of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya is beginning a phase of renewal. The Journal of Conflictology website, the EcoUniversitat digital journal, the International Graduate Institute Humanitarian Cooperation, Peace and Sustainability, the Conflict Resolution, and the section in the UOC's in-house newsletter, the WOK!, comprise the communicative resources, together with the annual report journal of the Campus for Peace and the audiovisual materials that are produced and the presentations that we give of our activities in person.
[12/01/2011]
The holidays, a time for breaking up?
The Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spanish National Statistics Institute, INE) has presented the statistics for annulments, separations and divorces for the year 2009. Since 1982, the year in which divorce was legalized, Spanish society has moved from the “till death do we part” (for well-known causes) toward a couple model in which breaking up is included.
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