A case study of gender and security sector reform in Zimbabwe

This article explores gender and security sector reform (SSR) in Zimbabwe from 2008 to the present. It firstly postulates that the purpose of gender-sensitive SSR is to transform security services so as to enhance human security, as opposed to having an exclusive focus on state and territorial security. A comprehensive analysis of the policy and legislative framework governing gender and SSR at the global, continental, sub-regional and national levels will be presented, followed by the argument that efforts to reform the partisan and oftentimes non-professional tendencies of the security sector – especially the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, Zimbabwe Republic Police, Central Intelligence Organisation and Zimbabwe Prison Services – to promote democracy have met with firm resistance. However, gender-sensitive SSR has made significant headway in Zimbabwe since it is considered less threatening by the government. It should be noted, nevertheless, that gender-sensitive SSR has the potential to shift levels of professionalism and accountability within the sector as well as change attitudes to enhance security at the personal and communal levels. The process can gradually increase the percentage of women serving in the security sector. In conclusion, recommendations are made to broaden and deepen gender-sensitive SSR as the only viable alternative in the current political environment in Zimbabwe.     

Gender,feminism and food studies

Policy research and scholarship on food has rapidly increased in recent decades. The attention to ‘gender' within this work appears to signal important practical and academic efforts to mainstream gendered understandings of food consumption, distribution and production into expansive conceptualisations of human security. This article argues that the gender-related work on food has wide-ranging and often troubling political and theoretical foundations and implications. Often growing out of knowledge regimes for managing social crises and advancing neo-liberal solutions, much gender and food security work provides limited interventions into mainstream gender-blind work on the nexus of power struggles, food resources and globalisation. A careful analysis of knowledge production about gender and food is therefore crucial to understanding how and why feminist food studies often transcends and challenges dominant forms of scholarship and research on food security. This article's critical assessment of what food security studies in South Africa has entailed at the regional level and in global terms also focuses on the methodological and theoretical feminist interventions that can stimulate rigorous conceptual, research and practical attention to what has come to be understood as food sovereignty.     

敏捷C2组织鲁棒性研究

敏捷性的研究是信息时代的组织研究中的重要方面。设计一种敏捷的C2组织,以保证C2组织在执行任务时能够发挥最佳性能,以达到灵活应对任务、减少资源浪费和提升作战效能的目的,这样的组织称为敏捷C2组织。本文从敏捷C2组织形式化概念模型构建开始,对敏捷C2组织的敏捷性测度中的鲁棒性的含义及其测度方法进行详细的定义和阐述,并通过实验对方法进行分析研究验证。     

一种用于越肩发射截获区分析的方法

在越肩发射原理仿真 4进行后 ,提出了一种新的方法用于越肩发射的截获区分析。与传统的弹道处理方法相比 ,这种方法主要是把越肩发射作为一个物理过程考虑 ,而不是仅仅考虑是否命中 ,这样就可以综合考虑影响越肩发射整个过程的各个因素。通过采用这种方法分析越肩发射截获区 ,在最后得出一些有益且不同与过去弹道分析的结论。     

论网络舆情与高校思想政治教育的关联

随着互联网的普及,网络舆情对高校思想政治教育产生了广泛影响,二者之间存在密切关联。网络舆情蕴含思想政治教育功能,思想政治教育对网络舆情具有疏导作用。根据二者的密切关联,对大学生开展有针对性的教育已成为思想政治教育工作者面临的新课题。     

基于效用函数分析的消防部队人力资本激励机制设计

消防部队现代化离不开人才队伍建设,有效的人力资本激励机制是消防部队聚集和吸纳人才的必要手段。在对激励机制作用下的消防部队人力资本效用和消防部队人力资本特征进行分析的基础上,探讨了实现消防部队人力资本效用的激励机制设计。     

论警卫学学科建设

警卫工作是公安工作的重要组成部分,警卫学是公安学的分支学科,加强警卫学学科建设,对于推动公安警卫事业和公安现役院校建设与发展均具有十分重要的理论和现实意义。探讨警卫学研究领域和研究方向、警卫学理论体系和学科体系的构建、警卫学学科建设的思路和措施等问题。     

警卫战斗本质刍议

警卫战斗是一种特殊的战斗,既具有一般战斗激烈的暴力对抗特征,也具有鲜明的自身特色。界定了警卫战斗的概念,探讨了警卫战斗的一般本质和“保卫安全,避免侵害”的特殊本质。     

打造现代化公安消防铁军的理论与实践

分析了消防部队的职业特点,阐述了打造现代化公安消防铁军要把握的几个关键要素,提出打造现代化消防铁军就是要加快转变部队战斗力生成模式,着力提升部队整体战斗能力和水平。从指挥人才培养、业务训练、装备和信息化建设、战斗精神培育等四个方面对打造现代化公安消防铁军的理论与实践进行了深入探讨。     

水墨法在汽车火灾事故调查中的运用

近年来汽车火灾在全国各地均呈上升趋势,火灾损失不断加大,造成的损失与纠纷日趋复杂,给火灾调查工作提出了新的挑战。为科学、客观反映起火原因,更好地维护当事人合法权益,笔者通过多年来对多起汽车火灾事故调查的归纳、总结、研究,探索出一种新的火灾现场勘验方法——"水墨法"。"水墨法"在诸多火灾事故调查运用中,对于准确判断起火部位、起火点及起火原因成效显著,发挥了重要作用,具有一定探讨和推广价值,是火灾调查方法的继承、创新和发展。结合实际案例介绍以中国"水墨"绘画原理为分析框架,主要以"Microsoft Word"图片设置为分析手段的汽车火灾原因调查程序和方法。