Livingstone Undergraduate Research Awardshttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/4222024-03-03T20:25:16Z2024-03-03T20:25:16ZThe International Criminal Court and Restorative Justice: Community Reparations for Victim-Survivors of Sexual Violencehttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/84122023-04-12T12:05:29Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZThe International Criminal Court and Restorative Justice: Community Reparations for Victim-Survivors of Sexual Violence
This paper investigates how the philosophic justifications for punishing perpetrators of sexual violence within international law evolved as our conceptualizations of sexual violence in warfare shifted, with a focus on the tension between deterrence and restoration. In the past decade, the prevailing understanding of sexual violence has begun to shift to a focus on the ability of sexual violence to destroy the social fabric of a community, which implies an emphasis on the restoration of community in the justice process with specific attention to the reintegration of victim-survivors. I reframe the debate to the practice of reparations as an effective form of restorative justice by the International Criminal Court. By analyzing the relationship between dominant theories of wartime sexual violence and justifications of punishment emphasized by the ICC, this paper demonstrates how emerging concepts of sexual violence in armed conflict imply the need for an amplified focus on restoration in the ICC. I draw from restorative justice literature to illustrate the potential of bottom-up, gender-sensitive reparative programs to provide economic relief to the entire community while simultaneously undermining structures of gender inequality and rethreading the social fabric by returning autonomy to the community to define their needs and values.
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZFrench Facial Covering Ban: A Comparison of American and French Media Coverage from 2010 – 2012http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/84112023-04-12T12:05:04Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZFrench Facial Covering Ban: A Comparison of American and French Media Coverage from 2010 – 2012
In September 2010, France became the first European country to enact a ban on full facial coverings. French Parliament cited safety and French values of secularism as the reasoning behind the ban, but public debate around the true intentions of the ban and its implications for the country’s large Muslim population intensified. This paper seeks to analyze media coverage surrounding the ban and its ensuing effects on public perception of the event throughout the year it was passed and up to two years post-legislation. Turning a critical eye to the dissemination of information on an international scale, this research seeks to analyze the language, tone, and themes between major American and French news agencies as two countries with widely impactful media outlets, vast international influence, and a populous with access to the increasing accessibility of technology and social media of the time. Ultimately, France’s facial-covering ban includes written law that does not specify religious garments at all, differing from the articles identified within this research and showing potential correlation between the media’s reporting and the public’s perception of the law.
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZChallenges and Opportunities in Creating an Accessible Web Application for Learning Organic Chemistryhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/84082023-04-20T18:47:56Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZChallenges and Opportunities in Creating an Accessible Web Application for Learning Organic Chemistry
This research project has three distinct contributions. First, questionnaire data were gathered from 56 participants related to the development of an organic chemistry web application, called web-based Organic Reaction Animations (webORA). Second, usability test data were collected from 12 participants which focused on accessibility challenges that users face when using webORA. Third, an accessibility analysis was conducted using Wave, a web accessibility evaluation tool.
Accompanied by a conference proceeding, "Challenges and Opportunities in Creating an Accessible Web Application for Learning Organic Chemistry," https://doi.org/10.1145/3517428.3563284.
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZTwo Sides to the Story: Linguistic Assimilation in Americahttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/84072023-04-12T12:05:56Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZTwo Sides to the Story: Linguistic Assimilation in America
This research project aims to answer the following research question: “Should immigrants work to fully assimilate into American society by only speaking English instead of their native languages?” It argues that immigrants should not work to linguistically assimilate into American life because it restricts these individuals to a superficial sense of belonging within American society and distances them from their native identity. In order to demonstrate this claim with a unique genre, the author created a satirical American survival guide promoting English only, juxtaposed with a second ethnic minority empowerment magazine.
This research project was completed as part of the Honors Representing Race (ENG 0934) course.
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