http://hdl.handle.net/10468/210 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:58:35 GMT 2013-05-20T21:58:35Z http://hdl.handle.net/10468/610 Assessing the impact of deliberation and information on opinion change: a quasi-experiment in public deliberation O'Malley, Eoin; Farrell, David M.; Suiter, Jane Deliberative democracy has become fashionable for many and it has been used in some places to solve real-world policy problems. However measuring the ‘success’ of deliberative democracy is not clearly achievable. For most ‘success’ is measured in terms of opinion change, but these are only rarely measured against control groups, and in particular there is no way of knowing if the opinion change took place because of the deliberation or because of information they received through the deliberation process. Exercises in deliberation seem to represent one big treatment. But we would want to separate out the component parts of the treatment. This paper outlines the results of an experiment in which deliberation took place in a pilot Citizens’ Assembly in Ireland. As part of this we measured the impact using pre and post-test controls, including a control group given the information the CA participants received, but without the deliberation. The results of the experiment reveal that there is a deliberation effect separate to the information effect. Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10468/610 2012-06-21T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10468/612 Routine and crisis, economic voting in Ireland Suiter, Jane; Reidy, Theresa Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10468/612 2012-04-03T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10468/614 Deliberative democracy in action Irish-style: The 2011 We The Citizens pilot citizens assembly Farrell, David M.; O'Malley, Eoin; Suiter, Jane Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10468/614 2012-04-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10468/584 The protection and security of vulnerable populations in complex emergencies using the Dadaab refugee camps in the north eastern province of Kenya as a case study McSweeney, Damien Patrick John The past two decades has seen a dramatic upheaval in the international world order: the end of the Cold War, the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent 'War on Terror', increased Jihadist activities, the accelerated pace of globalization, climate change and the 2008 global financial crisis have contributed to fear, uncertainty, poverty, conflict, massive displacements of populations of asylum seekers and refugees globally and a proliferation of Protracted Refugee Situations (PRS), defined as situations in which refugees have been in exile 'for 5 years or more after their initial displacement, without immediate prospects for implementation of durable solutions. In the past two decades there has been a huge proliferation of these with more than 7.2 million refugees now trapped in these PRS, with a further 16 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) trapped in camps within their own countries. The Dadaab refugee complex in Kenya, which of as March 2012, holds over 463,000 refugees, is the most significant and extreme example in recent times of a PRS. It was established in 1991 following the collapse of the Somali Government of Dictator Siad Barre, and the disintegration of Somalia into the chaos that still exists today. PRS such as Dadaab raise particular issues about humanitarianism in terms of aid, protection, security, human rights and the actions (or inaction) of the various stakeholders on an international, national and local level. This thesis investigates these issues by the use of a case study methodology on Dadaab as a PRS, framed in the context of humanitarianism and in particular the issues that arise in terms of how the international community, the UN system and individual states provide assistance and protection to vulnerable populations. Although the refugee camps have been in existence (as of 2012) for over 20 years, there has never been such a detailed study of Dadaab (or any other PRS) undertaken to date and would be of interest to academics in the areas of international relations, refugee/migration studies and global Governance as well as practitioners in both humanitarian response and development Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10468/584 2012-02-01T00:00:00Z