Journal of Mediation & Social Welfare

Temporary Separation – A Form of Remedy versus a Step Towards Dissolution

Iulian Apostu — 2020-12-21

In the common mentality, the conjugal conflict is seen as being similar to scandal, but the scientific literature describes it as the moment that highlights the differences between partners. Therefore, the conflict can invite mediation or, on the contrary, scandal. Fear of the other's reactions, the sustained challenges that define a conflict framework make some partners create strategies to avoid or postpone discussions on marital issues. For a certain category of couples, one of the strategies used to escalate the conflict is temporary separation. The study aims to analyze what the general causes that stimulate temporary separation are and, of course, what the consequences that the decision of temporary separation had on the conjugal couple.

Prescription of Criminal Liability in International Law

Dumitrita Florea — 2020-12-21

The particular extent of the phenomenon of crime in modern society, the increasingly frequent violations of values that interest the international community as a whole or target the interests of a large number of states, as well as the emergence of organised crime which transcends national borders through criminal networks operating in the territory of several states, are the basis for the establishment and development of international criminal law as an expression of the coordination of efforts to ban and repress antisocial acts detrimental to the legality and progress of the entire contemporary human society. Attempts to define international criminal law have been made over the years, but it should be pointed out that international criminal law is a relatively new branch of law and is still in the process of being codified, i.e. through international agreements in the form of conventions or treaties establishing general rules with binding legal force. Its content is developing day by day, and is becoming more and more deeply embedded in the legal consciousness of nations, which is only to be expected if we consider the dynamics of international society in recent times. Its importance is constantly growing as the development of military technology, the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons and the threat of the use of atomic weapons require the legal protection of international security and peace.

Glocalization Practices of Supermarket Chains. Case Study: Food Retailers in Romania

Adina Palea — 2020-12-21

Glocalization has continuously gained popularity over the past 20 years. The rise of nationalism and other trends in political radicalization have strengthen the need for retailers to find local solutions to their globally distributed products. In some cases, the adaptation has happened smoothly and naturally, in other situations it was imposed by the local judicial context. The paper focuses on European supermarket chains, like Kaufland, Lidl or Penny, giving special attention to their glocalization strategies used in Romania. The research has revealed that the retailers have become quite versatile and that they are currently developing products tailored to satisfy Romanians’ expectations regarding traditional tastes, recipes, and design.

Ability to Overcome Border Guards’ Psychological Barriers During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Dmytro Oleshko — 2020-12-21

The article reveals an analysis of the ability of border guards to overcome psychological barriers during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the last few months, the psychological strain in the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic has increased significantly, which has affected the ability of border guards to overcome psychological barriers. The article examines the impact of such psychological support in the form of online classes and provides recommendations for the applied use of the program to develop the ability to overcome border guards’ psychological barriers, developed by the authors. The authors suggested a number of methods to test the ability in order to overcome the psychological barriers of border guards in difficult working conditions, and also tested these methods. To examine the ability of border guards to overcome psychological barriers during the COVID-19 pandemic, an online survey of respondents was conducted. The results of the survey were compared with the results in 2014. The study also included the testing of online training programs, which provided for the simulation of service situations in order to correct the errors that are most common done by officers. A constructive part of the study was the research and analysis of psychoregulation and correction of negative, uncomfortable states, emotional, affective and sensory spheres. At the final stage there was a consolidation of the positive results achieved in the process of classes, discussion by the students of the group of experience, emotions, own states.

Towards a Welfare of Reproduction - Technology and Art's

Loredana Terec- Vlad — 2020-12-21

We are in the 21st century, a century (Lipovetsky, 1996) a century that marks new directions in terms of research, information transfer, economic exchanges, and so on. The new fields that have emerged, for example the neuroscience, the medical fields, and so forthare at the intersection of several disciplines, which leads us to believe that they are not only interdisciplinary fields, but also trans-disciplinary fields.Today we are faced with new discoveries that lead us to ask, as we did in the past, what is the purpose of life and man on earth: the immortality or the enlightenment?

Review of the Volume ”Ipostaze ale simbolului în lumea tradițională” [Hypostases of the Symbol in the Traditional World], Author: Daniel Cojanu, Lumen Publishing House, 2019

Amalia Dragulanescu — 2020-12-21

Restoring the need of contemporary man for certain signs and symbols, the book ” Ipostaze ale simbolului în lumea tradițională” [Hypostases of the symbol in the traditional world], second edition, written by Daniel Cojanu and published by Lumen Publishing House from Iasi, Romania, in 2019, invites to the apparent conciliation between consecrated values and the condition of postmodernity. Structured in two macro-chapters, “Reductionist Hermeneutics” and “Restorative Hermeneutics. Hypostases and Exemplary Functions of the Symbol in the Traditional World ”, the volume especially follows “the epistemological and axiological mutations that occurred at the level of fundamental presuppositions and attitudes towards the world” (Cojanu, 2019, p. 9).

Review of the Volume ” Studies and Current Trends in Science of Education, ICSED 2017”, Editor: Otilia Clipa, Lumen Publishing House, 2018

Mirela Liliana Lazăr (Munteanu) — 2020-12-21

The volume “Studies and Current Trends in the Science of Education”, coordinated by Assoc. Prof. PhD Otilia CLIPA, published by LUMEN Publishing House, from Iași, Romania, in 2018, addresses all specialists in the educational system and readers who intend to work in this field. The volume was published following the 15th edition of the International Scientific Conference on Sciences of Education, Studies and Current Trends in Science of Education, which took place between June 9-10, 2017 in Suceava, Romania, organized by Ştefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Romania.

Review of the Volume ”O scurtă istorie a bibliotecilor bizantine” [A Brief History of Byzantine Libraries], Author: Silviu – Constantin Nedelcu, Lumen Publishing House, 2020

Edith Adriana UNCU — 2020-12-21

The volume, “A brief history of Byzantine libraries”, published by Lumen Publishing House, from Iași, Romania, in 2020, is authored by Silviu-Constantin Nedelcu, a librarian at the Library of the Romanian Academy within the National Bibliography Service. He has two bachelor degrees, one issued by the Faculty of Orthodox Theology "Justinian Patriarch" from Bucharest, specializing in Orthodox Pastoral Theology (2011), followed by a master's degree at the same faculty, and another issued by the University of Bucharest, specializing in Information and Documentation Sciences (2015). The author also has a PhD degree awarded by the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bucharest (2013-2018) with the thesis "The journal" The Churce's Voive": A critical study and bibliographic index". The book is prefaced by Protos. Assist. Prof. PhD. Maxim Vlad from the Faculty of Orthodox Theology, covers 128 pages (including bibliography), representing in fact the re-edition of the author's bachelor's thesis, based on a seminar paper regarding the Librarian in the Byzantine Empire (330-1453), defended by the author in 2013 at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bucharest.

Review of the Volume ”Bărbatul și femeia. IMAGINEA unei polemici cu privire la echitatea de gen” [The Man and the Woman. The Image of a Controversy Regarding Gender Equity]. Authors: Iulian Apostu, Cristina Georgiana Petrescu, Lumen Publishing House, 2017

Anastasia Streng — 2020-12-21

We are constantly evolving, society is modernizing and most are beginning to accept change, but nevertheless we still strongly have a model to relate to the two genders (male and female) well inoculated within our culture and way of thinking. The volume ”Bărbatul şi femeia : imaginea unei polemici cu privire la echitatea de gen” [The man and the woman. The image of a controversy regarding gender equity], published by Lumen Publishing House from Iași, Romania, in 2017, manages, under the guidance of professor Iulian Apostu and Cristina Georgiana Petrescu, to analyze a lot of subjects that are still very topical and outline both genres socially, psychologically and scientifically. The volume contains an introduction, four chapters, conclusions, a references list and an appendix. The themes of this book are focused on both genres and how they coexist or come into conflict. The introduction reveals the intention and motivation of the study in broad terms, such as the desire to observe how men relate to women's emancipation.