In deze bijdrage staan we stil bij de kracht van de term ‘femicide’ in het aanjagen van het maatschappelijke en politieke debat over geweld tegen vrouwen. De centrale vraag is kortom: Wat zijn voor- en nadelen van de term ‘femicide’? Daarbij besteden we ook aandacht aan risico’s die aan het gebruik van …

The experience of living and working on intellectual projects in Africa often brings forth a sense of despair. For individuals educated in Western biased education systems, a constant struggle persists within their minds, questioning which perspective to adopt and how to evaluate different situations. …

Sociaal en emotioneel leren is het proces waarin jonge mensen de vaardigheden verwerven die ze nodig hebben om deel te nemen en een positieve bijdrage te leveren aan de contexten waarin ze leven en leren (Zins & Elias, 2007). Dit leren wordt geassocieerd met hun toekomstige (psychosociale) gezondheid …

Het boek biedt een overzicht van kennis en methoden voor hbo-professionals die in een gedwongen kader werken met volwassenen die delicten plegen.

Probation services in the Netherlands are private nonprofit organizations that are fully financed by the national Government and perform three main tasks: advise, supervision, and community services. The focus is on preventing recidivism and supporting people under supervision to live a crime-free life. …

A Europe-wide revival of the idea of bildung as a goal for education has been gaining momentum for a couple of decades. The main idea is that bildung enables teachers, researchers and policy makers “… to explore the ways in which education might be about something more than simply the transmission of …

Digital surveillance technologies using artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as computer vision and facial recognition are becoming cheaper and easier to integrate into governance practices worldwide. Morocco serves as an example of how such technologies are becoming key tools of governance in authoritarian …

The Middle East and North Africa region has been absent form stocktaking exercises on social accountability initiatives (SAI), an umbrella term to designate citizen-led tools aimed at socio-political change. We argue that this sidelining is unwarranted, given the proliferation of participatory governance …

This chapter offers a working definition of social accountability as any citizen-led action beyond elections that aims to enhance the accountability of state actors. We view social accountability as a broad array of predominantly bottom-up initiatives, aimed at improving the quality of governance (especially …

In this chapter, we first summarise the findings from the country chapters on the multiple meanings of SA, documenting terms, translations and contrasting understandings between citizens and public officials. Second, we highlight how civil mobilisation tends to be cyclical over time and is often mediated …