THE AU MISSION IN BURUNDI

Abstract

Even though the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, MPLA) managed to take firm control of the state as the war ended in 2002, this article contends that its hegemony is not absolute. At the fringes of the state administration, emerging regional elites have established associations that seek to provide a remedy against the centralised system, which essentially deprives regions of political influence and sufficient economic resources. As in many other countries on the African continent, political identities that were legally enforced and institutionally reproduced in colonial times have hardly been transcended in the post-colonial period. Even if the associations' influence today does not yet reach further than bringing some insecurity to an otherwise secure polity dominated by the MPLA, the associations could play a role in reinforcing strong regional solidarity and give political expression to feelings of exclusion. Such sentiments could in turn lead to an increase of exclusivity ideas about citizenship, or even xenophobic violence. Much will depend on the strategies of the MPLA, and to what extent it will accommodate these emergent forces in the post-war era, not the least through the current sub-national state reforms.     

通用装备保障训练集约化建设模式研究

着眼于提高通用装备保障训练的集约化水平,为信息化条件下体系作战通用装备保障能力生成提供支持,将平台的方法引入通用装备保障训练中,提出了通用装备保障专业综合训练平台的思想,建立了一个4层结构的通用装备保障基地化训练体系框架,并以某装备院校为例构设了一个通用装备（军械）保障专业综合训练平台框架．研究成果为实现通用装备保障训练资源的集约化整合探索了新的途径．     

分级智能化的武器平台——无人平台体系结构解析

通过对现有机器人体系结构的总结,结合任务需求和当前技术发展水平,构造了一种人机智能紧耦合的无人平台系统结构.该结构分为7层,具有3种导航模式,6种控制方式,能够实现从主从遥控到全自主不同智能层次的无人平台构建,为无人平台的设计提供了工程指导,并为无人平台的应用提供了方向.     

延安时期农村文化建设的基本经验

延安时期,中国共产党在农村文化建设方面创造了辉煌业绩,积累了大量宝贵经验,主要体现在：中国共产党的高度文化自觉和有力领导;突出农民的文化建设主体地位,引导农民自我表现、自我教育、自我服务;坚持“三贴近”原则,紧贴农村实际、农民生活和农民群众办文化,等等。回顾并总结延安时期农村文化建设的基本经验,无疑具有重要的现实指导意义。     

基于对抗的防空体系结构演化性概念建模

为定量研究空防体系对抗过程,基于对空防体系对抗相关研究方法分析,提出从体系结构角度研究空防体系对抗.通过阐述对抗条件下的防空体系结构演化性建模思想,提出空防体系对抗实质是一个防空体系结构“动态编成—对抗消耗—优化修复”动态循环演化过程.在此基础上,围绕其中3个环节进行防空体系结构演化性概念建模,以此为空防体系对抗定量建模研究提供一种新思路.     

飞机任务系统任务合成技术研究

针对复杂环境、复杂任务以及复杂作战过程的现状,首次提出了任务合成的概念、任务合成的运行架构并建立了验证环境,为提升未来飞机作战能力提供了理论基础和参考。任务合成技术分为任务态势感知模式合成、任务计划评估决策模式合成、任务执行与管理模式合成,通过构建任务模式和活动组织,依据任务目标和任务架构,确定系统任务能力、目标和状态组织结构,形成系统任务合成模式,从而达到提升任务系统响应、任务优化、任务执行的能力和品质的目的。     

武警部队“忠诚卫士文化”建设历程探析

以《武警年鉴》原始资料为基础,从三个阶段简述武警部队“忠诚卫士文化”建设的历程：以武警部队重新组建为标志,忠诚卫士文化建设进入自发发展时期;以“中国武警十大忠诚卫士”评选为标志,忠诚卫士文化建设进入迅速发展时期;以《武警部队先进军事文化建设纲要》颁发为标志,忠诚卫士文化建设进入有意识地打造品牌的时期。     

基于DoDAF的预警卫星系统作战体系结构建模

预警卫星系统在弹道导弹防御系统中处在最前沿,在战争中起着其他装备无法替代的作用。首先分析了Do DAF作战体系结构产品的内容和相互关系,提出了作战体系结构具体的设计步骤。依据预警卫星系统的作战流程,建立了部分作战体系结构模型,从不同侧面描述了预警卫星系统节点及节点间的信息关系。最后,对模型进行了语法和语义一致性验证,结果表明,建立的模型是正确的。     

Witchcraft and African development

Impressive investment and growth figures and commercial write-ups enthusing about ‘Africa rising up’, ‘the continent of the future’, and so on, obscure the poverty, illiteracy, poor health and other hardships afflicting the vast majority of African people. Why has massive so-called development and technical ‘aid’ not created the expected dynamic, autonomous economic progress? A blind eye is delicately being turned to the decisive role of people – more specifically, the cultural element. Notwithstanding good intentions, outsiders seeking to promote development assume that black Africans think and act like they only need more education, training and finance in order to ‘catch up’. Outsiders easily forget that since time immemorial, Africans have developed and cherished worldviews and cultures of their own. While these are by no means immutable and do adapt to changing needs and outside influences, Africans refuse to cast off overnight the heritage that makes them the people they are. This paper examines the impact of witchcraft as an integral feature of traditional culture on African existence, notably community life, religion, politics, the law, and economic practice. It stresses the significance of traditional society's powerful egalitarian impulses as well as its profound conviction that all things – goods, wealth, well-being and life force – are in a strictly limited supply that cannot be increased, but can only be redistributed by force or through magical manipulation. While modern life gradually weakens the influence of witchcraft beliefs – in Europe these flourished well into the 18th century – the exasperation associated with Africa's headlong urbanisation actually bolsters these beliefs.     

从小说《沙家浜》谈文学创作的底线

文学的严肃性和艺术性决定了不能认为“戏说”之作是文学手法的创新 ,文学创作应遵循一定的“度” :宣扬人性之美 ,尊重历史传统 ,坚守文化立场。