The aim of the paper is to present and analyse the current state of perpetrator programmes in Eastern European and Baltic countries as this issue has barely been raised in the literature. It is connected to the fact that in described region such programmes are still relatively new phenomena and, compared to other European Union countries (mostly in Western and Northern Europe), the number of the programmes is still insufficient. Moreover, the number and character of the perpetrator programmes in Eastern European and Baltic countries is to a large extent determined by traditional gender relations, glorification of the traditional family and specific definitions of masculinities and femininities, as well as by the nature of the anti-violence legislation that exists in particular countries. The presented findings result from research on the specificity of work with perpetrators of domestic violence in the region. The analysis is based on the cases of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania and Poland. It is to a large extent the result of research conducted within the Daphne III project IMPACT: Evaluation of European Perpetrator Programmes (2013-2014) and of analysis of national reports delivered by country experts for a project conducted by the Work with Perpetrators - European Network in 2013., Katarzyna Wojnicka., and Obsahuje bibliografii
In the following translation, long-time East German dissident Wolfgang Harich presents his Marxist ecological perspective in a reflection on a 1991 report by the Club of Rome. Introduced by Andreas Heyer and translated by Julian Schoenfeld.
This study discusses the extent to which Goodman’s constructivist conception of worldmaking may serve the needs of scientific practice. I argue that worldmaking should help us retain a common methodological order and a basic framework for scientific pluralism. In this way it should provide us not only with better scientific knowledge but also with a greater understanding of the world in general that would be inclusive of both scientific and nonscientific disciplines. The main purpose of this paper is to show that, if revisited, Goodman’s idea of versions, including even mutually exclusive scientific theories, can aid the gradual progress of pluralistic science. Taking the prevailing criticism of Goodman’s conception into account, I argue that worldmaking can serve as a methodological apparatus for scientific disciplines because it presents a position of moderated constructivism which, thanks to the variable criterion of rightness, offers a way to maintain both relativism and skepticism. and Studie se zaměřuje na aplikovatelnost Goodmanovy konstruktivistické koncepce světatvorby pro potřeby vědecké praxe. Světatvorba, jakožto metodologický aparát, by měla sloužit k posílení vědeckého pluralismu a měla by vědám (i nevědám) poskytnout metodologický řád a strukturu. Tímto způsobem bychom měli dosáhnout nejen přesnějšího vědeckého popisu, ale i hlubšího všeobecného porozumění světu, které zahrnuje jak vědecké, tak i nevědecké disciplíny. Hlavním cílem studie je poukázat na to, že Goodmanova teorie verzí světa, která zahrnuje i vzájemně neslučitelné vědecké teorie, může podpořit pokrok pluralisticky pojaté vědy, je-li interpretovaná v umírněné formě. Po zhodnocení stávající kritiky a vypořádání se s námitkami, může světatvorba sloužit jako metodologický aparát pro vědecké disciplíny, protože díky pozici umírněného konstruktivismu poskytuje prostor vědeckému pluralismu, přičemž zabraňuje relativismu i skepticismu.