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The universalism of human rights in the light of plurality of cultural value patterns in Africa
Guindon, Ľubica ; Hýbnerová, Stanislava (advisor) ; Honusková, Věra (referee)
Ľubica Guindon :Universalism of Human Rights in the Light of pluralism of African cultural values The purpose of this thesis is to analyze actual discourse in international law terms about universal or culturally determined characters of human rights. This theoretical problem is introduced with the focus on legal qualification of female circumcision (FC/ FGM ) in international human rights protection. The study goes beyond the scope of international law and reaches cross-disciplinary analysis related to the African context and its cultural, political and social factors. Chapter One addresses the theoretical issues of the notion of human rights, its sources and models in international law. This passage challenges an African approach to human rights bills including a catalogue of individual duties towards family, state and society as a whole. This concern about collective identity of a person within his or her community is a very important feature of African understanding of human rights and human dignity, and can enrich the universal consensus in this field. Within the theoretical issues of the international human rights protection it is necessary to look at the global, regional and local dimension of legal regulation. The most influential strategies on the global level are universal treaties with...
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Application of Balanced Scorecard in a banking institution
Nechanický, Jakub ; Říhová, Zora (advisor) ; Šustáček, Pavel (referee)
This thesis focuses on the use and application of strategic tool Balanced Scorecard (BSC) for managing banking institution and translation the strategy into particular objectives and initiatives. Theoretical background affects both BSC framework taking into account modern trends of the dynamic system conception and also basics of information society, strategic considerations and system dynamics theory in relation to creating and application of the BSC in the organization. The practical part provides an introduction to the issues of examined institution, the current state of sharing strategic objectives, fundamental analysis to detect key features of the organization and the market and especially BSC formation. There is an analysis of the BSC system in details, translation strategy into concrete objectives, targets, initiatives and also selected measures. The integrity of the thesis is supplemented by a suggested process of dynamic BSC implementation to the institution, introduction of the tool for building a dynamic model for simulation of strategies and the concept of the user interface in the selected tool for sharing BSC through the whole organization.
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Political Philosophy of John Gray
Černý, Kryštof ; Znoj, Milan (advisor) ; Bíba, Jan (referee)
Precis The Political philosophy of John Gray touches a number of topics and also has gone thrue a couple of modifications. However this thesis aims to show that there can be found a consistent political doctrine of agonistic liberalism in Gray's thought that arises from his critigue of rationalistic theories of liberalism. Agonistic liberalism is based on the naturalistic ethical theory of value-pluralism which Gray adopted whit some modifications from Isaiah Berlin. On the ground of incommensurability and uncombinability of some values within individuel lives as well as within life forms Gray comes to conclusion that the conflict of values is ineradicable part of our lives. And that's the reason why any legel or political theory cannot set up a set of liberal principles that could claim universal validity. That is why Gray sets up the concept of modus vivendi, political ideal of coexistence of individuals, groups and societies based on mutual toleration. With regard to the rational indeterminacy of conflicts over values, according to agonistic liberalism these conflict has to by resolved by political means.
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Do they really Matter? Impact of NGOs on European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR)
Kárníková, Anna ; Rovná, Lenka (advisor) ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (referee)
This master thesis analyses factors determining success of civil society organisations lobbying for the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights. The research focuses on the reform of the instrument between 2006 and 2007 which took place within the overall reform of EU's external action instruments. The EIDHR is delivered mainly through civil society and is thus an important source of funding for civil society organisations. Additionally, due to the central position of NGOs in the instrument's delivery, their input is crucial for ensuring strategic quality of the instrument. In order to exert influence, the organisations have to penetrate the complex decision-making system. This thesis scrutinises their strategies as well as analyses the institutional framework and its impact on the civil society organisations. The research builds on several complementary theoretical approaches including theory of lobbying, political opportunity structures or new institutionalism. Using the process-tracing method, this thesis analyses causal mechanisms linking interests of civil society groups and changes in the EIDHR programming documents. In order to test the hypotheses it looks into three sub-cases studies focusing on three different areas of EIDHR: democracy promotion, peacebuilding and human rights...
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Civic Iniciatives and Activities in the Seventies and Eighties of the Past Century in the Territory of Todays Moravian-Silesian Region
Hušková, Veronika ; Skovajsa, Marek (advisor) ; Moree, Dana (referee)
This master's thesis focuses on studying and analysing the opposition activities of the civic society in Czechoslovakia during the Normalization period (1970's - 1989), with a special emphasis on the Moravian-Silesian region. The first part of the thesis outlines the historical events and the situation of the opposition in Czechoslovakia in general, focusing particularly on Charter 77. The second part of the thesis gives an overview of the opposition civic iniciatives in the Moravian-Silesian region through interviews with the former participants as well as the analysis of the contemporary documents, and thus provides a complex picture of the opposition in this mostly industrial region.
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Mediatization of the Politic Sphere
Hannich, Jiří ; Nečas, Vlastimil (advisor) ; Trampota, Tomáš (referee)
This Diploma Thesis "Mediatization of Political Sphere" deals with the systematic influence of mass media and their logic on the functioning of the political system, process development and implementation of policy instruments and methods of political communication. First of all the theoretical part is focused on the description of the institutional importance of media in the social environment, more properly introduces images of the effects of media communications in the society, characteristics of the participation of media organizations in the economic relations so that the concept of mediatization in the frame of media studies could be defined and to specify its aspects in connection with a set of knowledge of media logic. The thesis does not omit the introduction of basic logic elements of political sphere, it also deals with its implicit settings, as well as modifications of the political structures in response to transfer a large part of the policy enforcement into the symbolic space of the media. The theoretical interpretation is followed by the research which is focused on the selected elements of mediatization in the Czech context. In the first stage the quantitative research method of content analysis is used to find out which topics and which representatives are observed by the Czech...
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Financing and accounting of non-profit organizations in the particular case of the civic association Silueta
Macíková, Nela ; Takáčová, Hana (advisor) ; Nováková, Štěpánka (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with accounting, financing and management of non-profit organizations in the particular case of the civic association Silueta. The work is divided into a theoretical part and a practical part. The theoretical part is focused on general characteristics of non-profit organizations, their position in society, accounting and financing. The indispensable component of this part is also a mention of the re-codification of private law and the impacts on non-profit organizations. The practical part is focused on an analysis of the civic association Silueta in 2011-2013.
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Analysis of the Role of Social Activities in Local Development of Central Bohemia Region
Kuncová, Tereza ; Pělucha, Martin (advisor) ; Kadeřábková, Jaroslava (referee)
The thesis deals with a separate analysis of the local development and the state of social activities. Closer examination focuses on the method of financing and support of local development and civil society initiatives in the Central Bohemian Region. In the Czech Republic are these initiatives defined best by the competition "Village of the Year" since 1995. The aim of this work is to assess the impact of civic initiatives in the local development and quality of life in selected communities. The results of the competition in the field of communities' social life are represented by both the current state and the information from directed interviews and surveys. These interviews were conducted with the representatives of the communities awarded for a community life. Contribution of the thesis will be to provide partial conclusions and recommendations concerning the potential development of rural communities with regard to the existence of civil initiatives, primarily in the Central Bohemian Region. Some general or cross-sectional findings can be applied to other regions in the Czech Republic.
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Support within the social networks in the Czech Republic
Němcová, Vlasta ; Tuček, Milan (advisor) ; Kuchař, Pavel (referee)
Main themes of the thesis are cohesion and solidarity among people. Thesis focuses on the function of social networks in the Czech Republic. In the beginning is defined the conception of the social networks and their inner structure. As social networks represent a basic source of support and information for each member of society, it is substantial to focus on their function. The empirical part involves secondary analyze of social networks. The aim is to find out what kind of support members of society give to each other and what way do people help each other in ordinary and also in critical situations. Social networks comprise family, relatives, friends and others. The relationship among these people is analyzed through a view of reciprocal cooperation. Within the networks of friends were analyzed also main aspects of the relationships and intensity of its functioning. The final part includes an international comparison. It compares how different or similar are networks of friendship in the Czech Republic and in other five countries involved in the research. At the end there are mentioned main conclusions of the thesis and recommendations for a future research. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Changing perceptions of waqf in the Egyptian society (1805-1953)
Melčák, Miroslav ; Veselý, Rudolf (advisor) ; Kropáček, Luboš (referee) ; Mendel, Miloš (referee)
Waqf (pI. 'awqi() emerged in the first century after the birth of Islam, and spread to the whole of the Middle East to become one of the most distinctive features of its societies. Although waqfs played many different socio-economic roles, their significance has up to now usually been described by means of the dichotomic concept distinguishing between waqf chayri (charitable endowment) and waqf 'ahli (family endowment), the first having been established as a kind of charity to provide free social services to the population (mainly mosques and madrasas), the latter as a tool for evading inheritance rules (ilm al-jarii'i), which, if applied, would cause the fragmentation of properties into uneconomical units. This concept originated in the period of the 19th and 20th centuries when the new legislation was beeing produced in Middle East countries to restrain waqf as an obstacle to social and economic progress. The thesis traces a history of this dichotomic concept in the context of modem Egypt. First it discusses the waqf policy of Mul).ammad cAli in the first half of the 19th century, then the development of the central waqfbureau up to the end of the 19th century, and the process of conferring property rights to the land which caused an unprecedented expansion of family-like endowments during the first half...
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