Reimagining Catholic Peacebuilding Through Pope Francis's "Culture of Encounter": The Case of Nigeria's Niger Delta Region by Martin Owhorchukwu Ejiowhor

“…This article argues that Pope Francis’s “culture of encounter” (CoE) significantly advances this moral obligation, which it conceives as constitutive of the church’s evangelizing mission, to contribute to sustainable just peace through social dialogue and active nonviolence incorporating well-coordinated peace advocacy while reimagining the conceptualization of conflict and peacebuilding processes. …”
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Formal Comparison of Spatial Socioeconomic Units Based on their Typological Properties by Athanasia Darra

“… Spatial units often serve as a reference to socioeconomic phenomena constituting what is known as spatial socioeconomic units (SSEUs). …”
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Questão fundiária: posse tradicional versus propriedade da terra entre Brasil e Cabo Verde by Carolina dos Anjos de Borba

“…The debate raised intends to discuss the relations that produce truth discourses, in which the old leasers (Cape Verde) and quilombolas (Brazil) do not easily constitute themselves as land owners. The state of emergency theories understand these phenomena of political oscillation as a peculiar way of safeguarding the public security in an arbitrary paradigm of government. …”
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What are Sub-National Island Jurisdictions? by Steffen Eriksen, Bert Scholtens, Stephanie Werleman

“…This shows it may be helpful to arrive at common ground as to what might constitute an SNIJ. We suggest to define an SNIJ as a non-sovereign populated island territory that possesses some degree of autonomy in a partnership with a parent state. …”
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Adverse Environmental Impact: A Consultant’s Perspective by Alan W. Wells, Thomas L. Englert

“…In our work with the electric utility industry, attorneys, and regulatory agencies, we have encountered numerous and sometimes conflicting interpretations as to what constitutes AEI. In our over 30 years of experience, we have applied most of the approaches suggested for addressing this issue, including biostatistical methods, trend analysis, time series methods, conditional mortality rate models, stock-recruitment models, equivalent adult models, and ecosystem models. …”
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Les historiens tunisiens face à la justice transitionnelle : autopsie d’un conflit by Nessim Znaien

“…First of all, from 2014, the IVD entered into competition with the National Archives for the recovery and the constitution of a fund of documents concerning the years of the dictatorship. …”
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“Others sat murmuring and idle upon the deck”: The Poetics of English Voyage Narratives from the South Sea c. 1700 by Johan HEINSEN

“…In this regard they read as instructional texts for the constitution of either shipboard authority or scientific observation. …”
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Design and Experiment Research of Static Strength Test Benches for Small Modulus Plastic Gears by Cui Xing, Xin Dong, Yu Bo, Shi Zhaoyao

“…The working principle, constitution and the design of tooling parts of the test bed are mainly introduced. …”
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Itinérances politiques et éducatives franco-espagnoles. « Voir ce qui doit être vu » : les trois voyages d'Henri Wallon en Espagne républicaine de 1936 à 1938 by Mari Carmen Rodriguez

“…Actually, this territory constitutes a laboratory of «new education», inherited from a long period of exchanges between liberal elites since the 18th century, for whom education is a founding and emancipatory sharing. …”
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Les contextes de l’obligation de reclassement by Serge Frossard

“…Even if it would be renewed, the reclassification obligation can be based on an invaluable constitutional right, the right to obtain employment, more than on an analysis of contract law. …”
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La maison et le jardin de Maurice Ravel à Montfort-l’Amaury (Yvelines) by Agnès Chauvin, Marie-Hélène Didier

“…For specialists, they constitute a real exhibition about the artist. The house and its garden are filled with souvenirs, dreams and music that make them all the more interesting, a remarkable universe which subjugates all the visitors. …”
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Seismic Performance Evaluation of Prefabricated Shear Wall Structure with Rabbet-Unbonded Horizontal Connection by Chongfang Sun, Zhiqiang Zhao

“…The rabbets are used to improve the shear capacity and prevent slippage of connection, and the unbonded rebar segments are used to improve the ductility and energy dissipation. The constitutive relation of unbonded region is put forward and verified, which is applied in RHC shear wall structure model. …”
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How It’s Made: Behind the scenes of Public Art production at Public Art Agency Sweden by Irene Ruzzier

“…This problem is also stoked by a relative scarcity of scholarship regarding procedures and methods to develop public art projects: the present contribution constitutes a first attempt to start filling this gap, outlining both the bright and dark sides of Public Art Agency Sweden’s model. …”
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Bagnards, « arabes » et porte-clefs en Guyane : Naissance et usages d’un rôle pénal et colonial (1869-1938) by Marine Coquet

“…Far from constituting a homogeneous category, the entity of the “convict” is fragmented according to administrative categorizations which organize social relations inside and outside camp walls. …”
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IDENTIFICATION DE RÉGIONS HOMOGÈNES DU POINT DE VUE HYDROLOGIQUE. ÉTUDE DE CAS: LA RÉGION DE LA COURBURE DE L’ARC CARPATIQUE by LILIANA ZAHARIA

“…The identification of homogeneous regions of the hydrological point of view constitutes a preliminary stage for certain methods of hydrological regionalization used in the practice (for example the method of the “index flood”) to estimate a hydrological variable of interest. …”
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Information campaigns and local authorities by Mariekie Burger

“… The new constitution links the duties of local governments to development, implying that the financial dilemma of local authorities caused by the culture of non~payment for municipal services, should be seen in the light of the deve/opment~rientated situation in South Africa. …”
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Residential vulnerability and the housing question: a social and spatial-oriented analysis for the Andalusia metropolitan areas by Andrea Andújar Llosa

“…These shortcomings should constitute a priority for sustainable housing policies and urban plans. …”
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Interpretação do espaço social da Região Histórica das Missões Jesuítico-Guarani: uma dialética com as reflexões do francês Guy Di Méo by Muriel Pinto

“…The article focused on analyzing the missionary identity construction from the interpretation of regional landscapes, to reflect on the Constitution of social spaces. It was used as a theoretical matrix reflections of the french thinker Guy Di Méo. …”
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Le lieutenant Camille Pierre, un passeur des innovations criminalistiques policières dans les pratiques judiciaires des gendarmes à la Belle Époque by Laurent LÓPEZ

“…From the 1880s onwards, some new identification processes worked out by Alphonse Bertillon at the Préfecture de Police de Paris (Paris Police Headquarters) have constituted modern and efficient means used by the police criminal investigation department to fight a fast-rising crime rate. …”
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Nomination Violence in Uganda's National Resistance Movement by Anne, Mette Kjaer, Mesharch, W. Katusiimeh

“…We argue that the violence is a constitutive part of Uganda’s political settlement under the NRM. …”
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