This research is an attempt to find an answer to the question “How can the EU and UN encourage de-escalation in the Korean Peninsula?”. Each chapter will be divided in a part on the European Union (EU hereafter) and a part on the United Nations (UN hereafter). During the first part, the research will …

Purpose: People have the right to freedom of opinion and expression, as defined in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Higher education plays a major role in helping students to develop and express their own opinions and, therefore, should be equally accessible to all. This article …

The Netherlands strives for an inclusive society. In order to achieve this, the United Nations Convention on Disability has been ratified. In this convention sport is explicitly named as a means towards inclusion. Still, it is not yet clear what the role of sport is in this. Extensive research has been …

Full text via link. The adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on December the 13th, 2006 during the General Assembly of the United Nations leads to efforts to enforce social inclusion in practice, in such a way that people with disabilities are able to participate equally …

Today’s military missions are often broad in scope and face a multitude of political, socio-economic, and security challenges. Enemy-centric intelligence is therefore no longer sufficient. Based on their experiences in Afghanistan, retired General Michael T. Flynn and his colleagues noted that U.S. …

Results of this survey indicate that there is a great degree of interaction between military and civilian personnel in defence organisations. In particular, approximately 90% of civilian personnel indicated that there are military personnel in their workplace, and similar percentages of military personnel …

This chapter links democracy promotion to soft power in order to highlight how the spread of democracy has changed the balance of power between the West and Russia. It considers Putins speech to the 2015 United Nations General Assembly as his intellectual response to democracy promotion and democratization. …

In this section, two proposed conceptual models related to military-civilian personnel collaboration in defence organisations are examined: the Organisational Factors Model and the Work Culture and Relations Model of military-civilian personnel integration. In particular, this section presents the results …

Understanding the nature of the war, and the broader strategic and operational environment is of great importance for effective decision-making. However, most of todays military missions are multidimensional having military, political, economic, and judicial aims. As a result, military organizations …

Several open-ended questions were included in the Military-Civilian Personnel Survey (MCPS) in order to complement the quantitative information gathered using the closed-ended survey items. These open-ended questions allowed personnel to express their attitudes, perceptions, and experiences related …