De Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRT’s) zijn voor de NAVO het belangrijkste middel geweest om haar gebiedsuitbreiding naar geheel Afghanistan te realiseren. Daarnaast zijn PRT’S populair bij de media omdat ze veel met de lokale bevolking werken en projecten opzetten. De PRT’s zijn er in geslaagd de …

With the expanding participation of the armed forces in international operations, service members and their families are experiencing more military deployments. The frequent and lengthy separations and the risks involved can affect the well-­ being of service members and their families in diverse ways. …

Experts like Jouslin de Noray, Shiba and Hardjono discern three paradigms in quality management: control, continuous improvement and breakthrough. Van Kemenade argues that before being able to reach breakthrough you need another paradigm: commitment.

In a conceptual model presented earlier we showed the relationship between the basic values of trust, respect and commitment and social capital in an organization as a source of innovational power, moderated by leadership styles and decision-making models (Oteman 2008). In this paper we explore the relationship …

This article reports on qualitative research among 48 social professionals, managers and policymakers and their perceptions of activating citizenship, social work roles and responsibilities, carried out in Utrecht and Tartu. Professionals from both countries agreed to the idea of activating citizenship …

An authentic learning environment full of meaningful ‘pearls of inspiration’ for initiators, students and education experts. Working paper 2009.

conceptualizes the tension between autonomous dance and community dance in the light of the commitment of the state

In 2000 the European Union (EU) signed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a United Nations (UN) policy in order to reduce poverty until 2015 by half compared to the figures from 2000. The EU is fully committed to the achievement of these internationally established MDGs which aim to end poverty …

There are lots of definitions of quality, and also of quality in education. Garvin (1984)discerns five approaches: the transcendental approach, the product-oriented approach, the customeroriented approach, the manufacturing-oriented approach and the value-for-money approach. Harvey and Green (1993) give …

This article focuses on the theory put forward by Donald Caps in his The Depleted Self (Sin in a narcissis-tic age. Minneapolis: Fortress Pres, 1993) that there is a particular link between narcissisism and the commitment of particular deadly sins. The data in the research reported in this paper robustly …