This paper analyses the regional integration possibilities for MERCOSUR, which is a regional integration scheme in South America. The initial goal of MERCOSUR was the creation of a common market. However, MERCOSUR was not able to reach this goal and it created a customs union instead. This paper analyses …

Since its founding in 1948, North Korea has consistently been connected to committing crimes against humanity. The non-interventionist policies that were prevalent throughout the Cold War protected it from outside intervention. Indeed, any country could do as they pleased within its borders as state-sovereignty …

Hoofdstuk 20 Part II in Understanding Penal Practice van Ioan Durnescu en Fergus McNeill Criminological and penological scholarship has in recent years explored how and why institutions and systems of punishment change – and how and why these changes differ in different contexts. Important though these …

Innovation and entrepreneurship are considered to be renewal, revitalisation and growth engines. However, their impact is highly uncertain, unpredictable and frustrating managers, who are pushed outside their comfort zones. Growth through Innovation explores how organisations typically confront reality …

The main question for my work field in museum education is: How can a white rabbit-dynamic be initiated for interpretation in art education for museums? In order for that to make sense and to structure my quest I will try to find answers to the following sub-questions: Why does the White Rabbit have …

Paper presented at international symposium ‘Dementia and Music. Research and Practice’. University of Vechta, Vechta, Germany, 21/9/2013. Paper argues that working with dementia for musicians and music students is important because it demands them to focus on the 'other' rather then on themselves and …

The ambition to host mega sports events is (or can be) perfectly justifiable with various arguments. The most persistently used argument is the supposed financial or direct economic gain for the host economy, of which the compelling body of evidence is discouraging. This implies that the justification …

This research presents how the stop-think-do method can be adjusted, so it can be used with treating young mildly retarded people. Generally these young people act very impulsively. The stop-think-do method teaches impulsive children techniques on how to develop a better self-control. Mildly retarded …

In this research is examined why the elderly who are involved in “Driezorg” are motivated to be part of the moving groups. To research this, a BREQ-2 questionnaire was used. This questionnaire sounds out the motivation with regard to physical exercise. The BREQ-2 consist of 19 items which are related …

In this study the effect of the social skills training ‘i am i’ was measured with a pre- and post-test. There were five participants, with an age between 10 and 12 years. The social skills training consists of nine meetings, one meeting every week. Social skills are an important issue on elementary school …