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Der neue an der Goethe-Universität und dem FIAS konstruierte Supercomputer „L-CSC“ im Darmstädter GSI Helmholtzzentrums für Schwerionenforschung hat im weltweiten Vergleich der energiesparendsten Hochleistungscomputer den Weltmeistertitel errungen. Auf Anhieb erreichte der neue Höchstleistungsrechner Platz eins auf der am Donnerstag in New Orleans veröffentlichten Rangliste „Green500“, die weltweit die Energieeffizienz der schnellsten Supercomputer vergleicht. Mit einer Rechenleistung von 5,27 Milliarden Rechenoperationen pro Sekunde je Watt hat „L-CSC“ zugleich einen neuen Weltrekord für Energieeffizienz bei Supercomputern aufgestellt
Das Jahr 1914 markiert im kollektiven Gedächtnis den Einstieg in die „Urkatastrophe“ des 20. Jahrhunderts: Mit seinen 10 Millionen Todesopfern, mit den gewaltigen Materialschlachten und dem Einsatz neuer Waffen und Kampfstoffe sollte der 1. Weltkrieg alles bis dato Gekannte in den Schatten stellen. Bei Gründung der Goethe-Universität am 18. Oktober ist der Weltkrieg bereits ausgebrochen, der Kaiser muss seinen Besuch absagen: „Die notwendig gewordene Verteidigung des Vaterlandes gegen ruchlose Angriffe unserer Feinde hat Mir dringendere Pflichten auferlegt“, telegrafiert Wilhelm II. aus Charleville-Mézières.
Die ersten Jahre dieser jungen Hochschule und auch die Nachkriegszeit hat der Krieg in nicht unerheblichem Maße geprägt. Mit verschiedenen Ausstellungen und Vorlesungsreihen soll im Jubiläumsjahr auch des Kriegsbeginns gedacht werden.
Der diesjährige Preis wurde an Ehrlichs 160stem Geburtstag von Professor Dr. Harald zur Hausen in der Frankfurter Paulskirche überreicht. Er gehört zu den international renommiertesten Auszeichnungen, die in der Bundesrepublik auf dem Gebiet der Medizin vergeben werden. Den gleichnamigen Nachwuchspreis erhielt eine Forscherin aus Bonn.
Ein Novum mit Symbolwert: Erstmals fand der traditionelle Neujahrsempfang der Stadt Frankfurt in der Paulskirche statt. Nicht zuletzt mit dem überraschenden Ortswechsel setzte die Stadt in diesem Jahr ein deutliches Zeichen in Richtung Jubiläumsjahr der Goethe-Universität. Festredner war diesmal Universitätspräsident Prof. Werner Müller-Esterl.
Wer sind die eigentlich? Was genau tun sie? Und wie viele sind es überhaupt? Fragen über Fragen, die nie jemand gestellt hat, weil man manche Dinge für so selbstverständlich hält, dass man vergisst, sich darum zu kümmern. Aber genau wie der gesamte Wissenschaftsbetrieb hat sich eine seiner wichtigsten Komponenten so stark verändert, dass es schon nicht mehr reichte, die Fragen nur zu stellen. Es war Zeit für die Antworten, um endlich Aufklärung zu erlangen über die „große Unbekannte“ der deutschen Wissenschaft: die Promotion.
Building Peace from Within
(2014)
This book seeks to examine how successful models of building 'peace from within' in the African context function. It draws emerging lessons to provide critical recommendations on policy, practice and academia - our primary audience. While there are numerous examples of failures of conflict resolution in Africa, shown by intractable conflict axes, less attention is paid to successes. While acknowledging the challenges that exist, this edited volume provides positive examples of building peace from within in fragile contexts through many forms of initiatives and actions at different levels: community-based (through individual and/or collective local peace initiatives), government (through ministries and/or departments), and regional (through external and/or multilateral infrastructure for peace). As a guiding principle the notion of building peace from within draws from the idea of community regeneration, which describes voluntary and peaceful activities of grassroots actors that reflect their broader interests of building peaceful communities and existence.
This book addresses hot issues pertaining to the manner in which corporate South Africa has engaged the emerging green global economy. Firstly, the book profiles the green and low carbon economy landscape in South Africa and interfaces it with global trends. This way, the book aligns very well in terms of the Rio+20 outcomes on 'The Future We Want' that fully embraces the green global economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication. The rest of the chapters in the book profile breakthroughs from selected companies. The book also comes as the second in a series that is addressing global and national concerns on the green global economy agenda. The first book entitled 'Green Economy and Climate Mitigation: Topics of Relevance to Africa' was produced as part of the 17th Session of the Conference of Parties' collaborative work carried out by the Institute of Global Dialogue, the Africa Institute of South Africa and Unisa's Institute for Corporate Citizenship. The book 'Breakthrough: Corporate South Africa in the Green Economy' comes in seven parts. Part I focuses on the Green Economy Landscape. This part considers both the international and national perspectives. Parts II-VI present different sector initiatives namely: Mining and Energy (Part II), Banking and Insurance (Part III), Forest and Paper (Part IV), Industrial (Part V) and Retailing and Aviation (Part VI). The last part is made up of a single chapter dealing with Emerging Issues and Way Forward.
This volume is an attempt to provide this intersectional and reflexive space. The thinking behind the book began in Lamu in mid-2010. It was a time when growing community resistance emerged towards the Kenyan government's plan to build a second seaport under a trans-frontier infrastructural project known as the Lamu Port- South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor (LAPSSET). The editors agreed that a book that draws community activists, academics, researchers and policy makers into a discussion of the predicament of indigenous rights and development against the backdrop of the Endorois case was timely and needed. Assembled here are the original contributions of some of the leading contemporary thinkers in the area of indigenous and human rights in Africa. The book is an interdisciplinary effort with the single purpose of thinking through indigenous rights after the Endorois case but it is not a singular laudatory remark on indigenous life in Africa. The discussion begins by framing indigenous rights and claims to indigeneity as found in the Endorois decision and its related socio-political history. Subsequent chapters provide deeper contextual analysis by evaluating the tense relationship between indigenous peoples and the post-colonial nation-state. Overall, the book makes a peering and provocative contribution to the relational interests between state policies and the developmental intersections of indigeneity, indigenous rights, gender advocacy, environmental conservation, chronic trauma and transitional justice.
The year 2013 marked 15 years of the phenomenal diplomatic relations between South Africa and China. Th e relationship between South Africa and China has been developing since diplomatic ties were established on 1 January 1998. Since then, South Africa-China's bilateral relations have undergone rapid and all-facet development. Th ere were frequent high level and other kinds of mutual exchanges between the two countries. Th e bilateral relations within the space of fifteen years have evolved from a Partnership to a Strategic Partnership, and then to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. Furthermore, in the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, which was set out in the Beijing Declaration signed in 2010, the two countries expressed the desire to further strengthen and deepen cooperation in both bilateral and regional affairs by establishing a comprehensive strategic partnership based on equality, mutual benefit and common development. Th e agreements range from political dialogue, trade, investment, mineral exploration, manufacturing, and agriculture to joint efforts in the global arena, such as in the United Nations, the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), and Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). In recognition of the aforementioned bilateral achievements, on 19 September 2013, an Ambassadorial forum was co-hosted by the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO), The Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Republic of South Africa, and the Africa Institute of South Africa Human Science Research Council (AISA-HSRC). The objective of the Ambassadorial Forum was to provide an opportunity for refl ections on the past and outlook on the future diplomatic relations between South Africa and China. This book presents the offi cial keynote addresses which provide strategic thinking and foresight into the bilateral relations between the two countries. Th e main substance of the book is a collection of the Ambassadorial Forum papers that were submitted. The papers evaluate economic and political progress from a national interest perspective. Progress is measured against variables such as trade growth, people-to-people development, partnerships, and the implementation of state agreements, all against the background of the theory of national interest.
The quality of education is pivotal for the production of human capital and this cannot be compromised by failing to refocus on the quality of education offered in schools. The inputs in the system such as trained and motivated teachers, buildings and classrooms including sanitation, clean water, instructional material such as textbooks, as well as strong leadership with vision to steer the winds of change are important in providing the desired outcomes. The chapters in this volume are broadly divided into three subsections as follows: learner related issues, (farm and rural schools, poverty and schooling, school violence, and students rights); teacher related issues,(teacher morale and motivation, teachers for all schools, management needs of school principals); and administrative/policy related issues (inclusive education, and school community relations). The social demand for better schools, effective principals, qualified and committed teachers and better opportunities for all place a huge challenge to provinces and the state to protect the rights of all citizens. This volume sets out the challenges facing the education system in South Africa, such as poor school infrastructure, poor learning conditions, and a lack of learning materials and provides recommendations on how some of these can be overcome.
This book foregrounds emerging and different perspectives on the centenary of the ANC which was celebrated in February 2012. Differing in tenor, methodology and style, we present nineteen chapters that tackle various epochs and events in the making of the centenary of the oldest political organisation in Africa. The book offers new angles to our understanding of what sustained the ANC over one hundred years in spite of all the internal and external contradictions. There is arguably a view that part of what distinguishes the ANC from other revolutionary movements in the continent is that from the turn of the twentieth century its founders prioritised national unity across tribal, ethnic, linguistic, religious, gender and racial identities. This ideal of national unity informed their responses to the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910 and the declaration of the South African Republic in 1961. In principle, the leadership was opposed not to these manifestations of concrete nation state formation but to the practice of excluding the majority of South African citizens according to racial markers. As a contribution to the historiography of the ANC and that of South Africa which it was established to liberate, the book tackles the following critical questions: what traits in the ANC's genetic code have kept it alive for one hundred years? Is the ANC on course to meeting its historical mission of building an equitable, nonracial, non-sexist and socially-democratic society as articulated in the Africans' Claims, the Freedom Charter and the Strategy and Tactics documents? Finally, would the ANC continue to retain relevance for a bicentenary especially as it now contends with new internal and external contradictions in an increasingly unequally society and unipolar world order? This new hypothetical architecture, hopefully, will be employed by many others engaged in the study of the rise and fall of political organisations.