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Sep 27, 2011

Call for proposals for crime prevention in Latin America and the Caribbean

Deadline extended until October 10, 2011

The Inter-American Development Bank, the Center for Public Safety Studies (CESC) of the Public Affairs Institute of the University of Chile and the Open Society Institute announce that the deadline has been extended to submit proposals to contribute to the prevention of crime and violence by promoting best practices in Latin America and the Caribbean.

This second call on Crime Prevention Best Practices in Latin America and the Caribbean opened on August 15 with an extended deadline until October 10, 2011. Its objective is to contribute to broadening and deepening the knowledge on strategies to prevent crime and violence in the region.

The purpose of this call for proposal is:

• Promote the design and implementation of effective crime prevention practices in Latin America and the Caribbean, considering the basic criteria that define a Best Practice.
• Create and promote a knowledge base, supported by empirical work, on the models or practices that increase the effectiveness of the crime prevention interventions in the regional context.
• Foster the use of assessment practices, as well as the adoption and development of rigorous design and assessment standards for prevention projects relevant to the specific situation being addressed.
• Recognize the teams that execute crime prevention initiatives in the context of the region.

The proposals must focus on the following matters:

• Prevention of problematic conduct related to crimes or violence in children and adolescents in the context of school, family, neighborhood and other social or institutional spaces.
• Prevention of domestic violence, violence against women and child abuse.
• Community policing.
• Situational prevention.
• Rehabilitation and social reintegration of adults and young adults.
• Dispute mediation.

Participants may be public institutions at any level of the State; private, not-for-profit agencies and agencies that are not government agencies (corporations, foundations, NGOs); social, community and/or neighborhood organizations. The participant must have legal standing recognized under the related national regulations.

All the proposals received will be evaluated by a jury of high-level international experts, as follows: Paula Miraglia (International Center for the Prevention of Crime), Heloisa Griggs (Open Society Institute), Elkin Velásquez (UN-HABITAT), Adriana Mejía (Organization of American States), Estela–Maris Deon (UNODC), Javiera Blanco (Fundación Paz Ciudadana [Citizen Peace Foundation, Chile]), Anthanas Mockus (Corporación Visionarios), Lawrence Sherman (Cambridge University), Hernando Paris (Costa Rican government), Michael Shifter (Interamerican Dialogue), Timothy M Shaw (University of the West Indies), Gustavo Beliz (IDB) and Hugo Frühling (CESC).

The awards will consist of financial support for the implementation of projects and/or fees for the teams; scholarships to participate in Diplomas in Crime Prevention at the Local Level and/or Supervision and Rendering of Accounts in Policing offered by the CESC as distance learning; a full scholarship to participate in the Seventh International Training Course in Crime Prevention offered by the CESC at its facilities; inclusion of the project as an example of a model initiative in the print edition of the Libro de Buenas Prácticas de Prevención del Delito en América Latina y el Caribe [Crime Prevention Best Practices Handbook for Latin America and the Caribbean] and publication in the online projects and best practices knowledge base.

The first call for proposal, issued in 2010, attracted 57 initiatives from 10 countries in the region, which contributed to the development of the online projects and best practices knowledge base, www.comunidadyprevencion.org, as a tool for exchanging experience and initiatives in the crime prevention field.

Entries must be submitted by October 10, 2011. To submit proposals, go to the portal www.comunidadyprevencion.org or to the IDB Web site.

Call for Papers

Dear All,

The Jamaica Youth Advocacy Network (JYAN) is pleased to announce its call for papers for its biannual conference YUTE X. Yute X 2010 Conference will be held at the Knutsford Court Hotel in New Kingston, Jamaica on November 24-26, 2010.

We invite you to submit papers or encourage young people to do so. Please assist us to get the word out through your various networks and youth groups.
Cheers,Jaevion
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Jaevion Nelson
Director of Policy, Advocacy & International AffairsJamaica Youth Advocacy Network (JYAN)Ministry of Health & Environment2-4 King Street, KingstonT: (876) 922 9477jaevion@j-yan.org www.j-yan.org

Caribbean Mothering

We are seeking submissions for an edited collection on Caribbean Mothering, Editors : Dorsía Smith Silva and Simone A. James AlexanderPublication Date : Fall 2012

This anthology will examine the diverse and complex experiences of motherhood and mothering from a broad, interdisciplinary perspective. We welcome submissions that explore the major cultural, political, historical, and economic factors such as migration and transnationalism that influence the lives of Caribbean mothers.

Further, we encourage writings that represent the relationships between Caribbean mothers and their children, perspectives of single Caribbean mothers, relationships of extended motherhood in Caribbean communities ; and colonial, post-colonial, and modern representations of Caribbean motherhood from literary, historical, biological, sociological, political, socioeconomic, ethnic, and media perspectives.

This incorporation of a variety of disciplines and methodologies will give insight to the issues on mothering within the Caribbean context and provide a space that recognizes the significance of Caribbean mothering.

The aim of this volume is to foster work on mothering that integrates the disciplines of feminist ideologies, literary criticism, and cultural analysis as well as represent the diversity of the Caribbean islands and Caribbean diaspora. We hope to include a range of academic writing and some narrative essays.

Topics can include (but are not limited to) :gender, transgender, cultural, family, communication, and Diasporic studies ; sociology ; Caribbean Studies ; Postcolonial Studies ; feminist theories ; personal and reflective essays ; ethnographies ; mothering done by nannies, siblings, aunts, grandparents, co-parents, fathers, non-biological parents, stepmothering ; surrogate mothering ; literary representation ; mother activists and activism ; constructions of identity ; queer mothering ; childcare ; Caribbean/mothering in global and transnational contexts-i.e. migration, diaspora, citizenship, national identity, embodiment theories ; feminist philosophies of mothers and mothering ; film and media representations ; mothering issues, especially as related to gender, family, economics, sexuality, race, nation, employment, community, education, law, activism, and politics and public policy ; ideological and social debates and tensions ; mothering critiques ; health, health care, reproduction/reproductive rights ; the role of web communities and technology ; spiritual, cultural, emotional, communal, or social influences ; support services and institutions for Caribbean mothers ; ideologies in Caribbean communities Submission guidelines:

Papers of 4000-5000 words (15-20 pages) (includes notes and sources) will be due by September 15, 2010 and should conform to the ModernLanguage Association style.

Please also include a 50-word biography.Please send the documents to Dorsía Smith Silva and Simone A. James Alexander at caribbeanmothering@yahoo.com

Caribbean Child Research Conference 2010

The theme of the Conference is “Five years before 2015: The MDGs and child rights in the Caribbean.”.

The deadline for the submission of papers has been extended to August 16, 2010

Information on the conference may be obtained by emailing childconference10@gmail.com

http://www.mona.uwi.edu/notices/2010/CCRC10finalcallforpapers21.pdf

JUNE 2-4, 2011

GLOBAL SUMMIT ON ENDING CORPORAL PUNISHMENT AND PROMOTING POSITIVE DISCIPLINE

The Global Summit will bring together, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and researchers from multiple disciplines (anthropology, criminology, history, medicine, psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children. The goals of the conference are: a) to raise public awareness about the problems associated with corporal punishment, b) to bring together individuals from different walks of life and professionals who are committed to ending corporal punishment of children, and c) to develop strategies for advancing the worldwide movement to end all corporal punishment of children from all venues in all parts of the world.

Location: The Fairmont Hotel Dallas, Texas
For more information, contact:
George W. Holden, Ph.D.Professor of PsychologySouthern Methodist University
gholden@smu.edu
214-768-4696

Children and Youth in Changing Societies

There is an extension in the deadlines for the conference "Children and Youth in Changing Societies".


If you need further information please check the conference website:
http://www.psy.auth.gr/childrenandyouth2010/

Children, Youth and Environments

Children, Youth and Environments just published a special issue on the "Everyday Environments of Children's Poverty." Guest edited by Sheridan Bartlett and Alberto Minujin, it contains 14 original papers by leading researchers on the measurement of poverty, impacts on children, and implications for policy and practice.

Articles focus on the USA, Bangla Desh, India, Nepal, Vietnam, Iran, Congo, South Africa, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda, Peru, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The issue is available at: http://www.colorado.edu/journals/cye/

International Perspectives on Children's Participation

New Publication Presents International Perspectives on Children's Participation

A Handbook of Children and Young People's Participation, edited by Barry Percy-Smith and Nigel Thomas, includes discussions on challenges facing issues of participation, contextual aspects, as well as theoretical and methodological reflections about projects and practice. The book includes chapters by prominent members of the Childwatch International Research Network.
READ MORE ON www.childwatch.uio.no

Caribbean Counter-Trafficking Newsletter.

Dear Partners,

Please find attached the June edition of IOM’s Caribbean Counter-Trafficking Newsletter. As part of our effort to strengthen the regional network through information-sharing, IOM Washington is pleased to circulate this newsletter, showcasing the initiatives undertaken by our Caribbean partners to counter trafficking in persons. The newsletter creates a forum for governments, non-governmental organizations, and law enforcement agencies in the region to update each other about national activities that address human trafficking. In addition to sharing the newsletter with more than 500 Caribbean partners, it will be available on IOM Washington’s website (http://www.iom.int/unitedstates/ct/ctRegionalCollaboration.htm) and distributed through IOM’s global counter-trafficking network. At this time, IOM welcomes your Caribbean counter-trafficking coalition to submit a short article (250-300 words) for the September edition. Suggested topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: The national counter-trafficking strategy for 2010Counter-trafficking trainings and legislative initiatives Establishing a national referral mechanismSuccess stories On behalf of IOM, please allow me to express our appreciation of your involvement in the Caribbean’s response to combat human trafficking.

Sincerely, Chissey Mueller
The Counter-Trafficking Unit
The International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Regional Office for North America and the Caribbean
1752 N Street NW, Suite 700Washington, DC 20036
TEL: +1 202 862 1826 ext. 236FAX: +1 202 862 1879
Email: cmueller@iom.intwww.iom.int/unitedstates

IFLA newsletter

Dear Colleagues
The IFLA IT Section newsletter is released twice yearly with news, articlesand information news pertaining to innovations in library informationtechnology and the activities of the section.
The July 2009 issue has been published and is available at:http://www.ifla.org/files/information-technology/IFLANewsletterJuly2009.pdf
As well as news and book reviews, this issue contains the following featurearticles:* Digital Libraries: A Leading Library of the Digital Age* Web 2.0: Creating and Using Personas for Digital Library Service in Web2.0era* Technology in Africa: Experimenting Automation in The University Of UyoLibrary, Nigeria
In case you missed the December issue, it has the following articles:* Digitizing and archiving information resources in libraries: reactions toglobal initiatives from Nigeria* Videoconferencing and Teleconferencing* RFID & Privacy
The December 2008 issue is also available at:http://www.ifla.org/files/information-technology/IFLANewsletterDec2008.pdf
You can find all previous newsletters for the section athttp://www.ifla.org/en/publications/information-technology-section-newsletters
Regards
Dr Edmund Balnavesejb@prosentient.com.auInformation OfficerInformation Technology Section

UNESCO Policy Brief on Early Childhood

Dear Friends and Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the release of issue No. 46 of the UNESCO Policy Brief on Early Childhood series entitled " Inclusion of Children with Disabilities: The Early Childhood Imperative". The article is available in English, French and Spanish and can be downloaded from the links below: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001831/183156E.pdf (English)http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001831/183156F.pdf (French)http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001831/183156S.pdf (Spanish) Previous publications of the Policy Brief series can also be accessed at UNESCO's new web portal for Early Childhood at http://www.unesco.org/en/early-childhood/unesco-policy-briefs-on-early-childhood/ We would like to take this opportunity to inform you that UNESCO is seeking candidates for the Senior Expert position in Early Childhood Care and Education to coordinate the preparation and organisation of the 2010 World Conference on ECCE. Please see the vacancy information: http://www.unesco.org/education/vacancy/ALDP5.pdf Regards, Yoshie KagaSection for Inclusion and Quality EnhancementDivision of Basic EducationUNESCO Parisy.kaga@unesco.org

Consortium for Social Development and Research Teleconference

The powerpoints from the Consortium for Social Development andResearch teleconference on June 30th are now on the Open Campus site:
http://www.open.uwi.edu/academics/ResearchUnit/CSDR_Conferences.php

Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents:

On the conference website (http://www.ecpat.net/WorldCongressIII/index.php)

Caribbean HIV Conference

Dear All:
The Caribbean Cytology and Analytical Society (CCAS), based at the Chronic Disease Research Centre, UWI, Barbados, is collaborating with the CHART Network to stage a Caribbean HIV Conference under the theme, “Multidisciplinary team approaches to monitoring and treating persons living with HIV: Challenges for Caribbean small island states”.The dates of the conference are August 23-28, 2009 and the venue is the Marriott Hotel in St Kitts. Registration is now open and must be done via the CCAS website at http://www.caribcas.org/. Please find attached a draft of the near final programme. Additional information can be obtained either from Dr Clive Landis, President of CCAS (clive.landis@cavehill.uwi.edu) or from Natalie Irving-Mattocks at the CHART Regional Coordinating Unit office (nataliemattocks@chartcaribbean.org)

With best regards,
Brendan

Children, Youth and Environments

Children, Youth and Environments has just published a special issue on "Children and Technological Environments."

The issue is available online at
http://www.colorado.edu/journals/cye/19_1/index.htm

Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research (CCGHR)

Spring issue of CONNECTIONS. Please click on the link provided below to open a copy of the newsletter in portable document format (pdf).
http://ccghr.ca/docs/newsletters/Connections_May09_e.pdf

CCDC's Forum

check out the forum at http://uwi.edu/ccdc/forum/_default.aspx?g=forum

14th Off-Campus Library Service

The 14th Off-Campus Library Services Conference has begun accepting proposals for the upcoming conference in 2010. The Off-Campus Library Services Conference is extending a formal invitation to librarians, administrators, and educators to present their research and share their knowledge with their peers. Individuals who provide library resources and services to students and faculty participating in instruction either away from a main campus or in the online environment are invited to submit a proposal. Through formal proceedings and the publication of Conference papers in the Journal of Library Administration, this information is made available to all who have an interest in this field. Deadline for submitting a proposal is September 15, 2009! For more information, please visit the conference website

Cleveland, Ohio

April 28-30, 2010

Conference URL: https://ocls.cmich.edu/conf2010/

What is a librarian?

from: weedcute <weedcute@yahoo.com>
to: LIAJA-Members@yahoogroups.com
Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:09 PM

I found this blog entry published at Library Journal on June 17, 2009 and thought it rather interesting.
This is the Link http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/580000658/post/1120045712.html
In summary, the author questions the criteria required for someone to call themselves a librarian. Is it the MLIS? Would someone with an MLS, but who didn't work in a library or as a librarian, still be considered a librarian? The author concluded that just having an MLS doesn't make someone a librarian. One has to actually work as a librarian or in a library to be a "librarian."

Quotes
"And what about that tiny minority of people with a bachelor's degree in library science who don't have MLS degrees. Can they ever be librarians?"
"Is a librarian anyone with an MLS? No. I have a degree in art and I can assure you I am not an artist."
"If you know the difference between LC, MARC, cataloging, and classifying,
....you might be a librarian."

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