The wedding planner company "Tropical Weddings" will be a new company on the market and will be a one-woman business. The wedding planner company will arrange weddings of Dutch couples who would like to marry in Curacao. The wedding planner will provide a full service wedding. The wedding planner's mission …

This thesis aims to test the credibility of the Responsibility to Protect principle ("R2P") by looking at how the principle was applied in Libya and addressing the question of why R2P was not applied in Syria. The first part of the thesis is about the origins and definition of R2P. The second part compares …

A refugee is a person who, for reasons of persecution (or fear hereto), is forced to leave his home and is outside of his home country. Although the great majority of the world's refugees find themselves in third world countries, also wealthier countries are dealing with considerable numbers of migrants …

This paper describes a study into consumers' reasons for buying socially responsible (SR) products, such as Fair Trade products and organic meat. As opposed to other studies, we use a qualitative approach based on 25 in-depth interviews and include several different products in the research. This leads …

Freedom of speech, plurality and self-regulation characterize the Dutch media system. With fading political parallelism, strong public service broadcasting and a fair level of professionalization the Dutch media system fits the model of Democratic Corporatist media system. Continuous debates on journalistic …

Samen voetballen is een van de mogelijkheden om incidenten te voorkomen en de verhoudingen tussen groepen te verbeteren. Voetbal leidt echter niet automatisch tot verbeteringen. Escalaties op het veld, ouders langs de lijn die hun kinderen wat al te luidruchtig aanmoedigen en "autochtone" en "allochtone" …

Because dental health and oral pathology may affect forensic psychiatric patients' well being, it is important to be able to assess oral health related quality of life (OH-QoL) in these patients. Two studies were conducted among Dutch forensic psychiatric male patients to assess the psychometric properties …

De Tweede Kamer parlementaire commissie van SP-er J. de Wit doet onderzoek naar de oorzaken van de financiële crisis. In de openbare hoorzittingen wordt duidelijk dat alle betrokkenen de scguld bij andere partijen leggen. We hebben echter een grondige herziening van het financiële stelsel nodig zoals …

Medio januari 2010 organiseert het platform solidaire en duurzame Economie onder leiding van Lou Keune aan de Universiteit van Tilburg de 3e conferentie onder de titel Fair & Green Deal. Hoofdspreker zal zijn David Korten, voormalig hoogleraar aan de Harvard Business School en auteur van het boek "Agenda …

The objective of this paper is to examine how a combination of the concepts of Fair Trade, CrossBorderProsperity (CBP), Yunus' microcredit and social business could strengthen the producers' socio-economic situation and position in the free market. Small-scale producers in developing countries are being …