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Ten years of violent insurgency in northeast Nigeria have led to massive humanitarian needs, and the crisis shows no signs of abating. This report from the CSIS Humanitarian Agenda analyzes the challenges and opportunities for generating better humanitarian outcomes.

Introduction: Curating church: a vision for ministry -- Gallery I: Curating church: lessons from a misfit liturgical community -- Gallery II: Curating cultures: lessons from the world of art -- Gallery III: Curating possibilities for liturgical transformation.

Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Editors -- 1 Introduction to Family Therapy with Adolescents in Residential Settings: Intervention and Research -- Chapter Highlights -- Cost of Treatment -- Definitions and Consistency Across Chapters -- Chapter Contents and Organization -- Family Therapy During Separation -- Onsite Family Therapy -- Research and Outcomes -- Conclusion -- References -- Family Therapy During Separation -- 2 The Use of Letters to Create Movement in Residential Settings with Adolescents and Their Parents -- Chapter Highlights -- Impact Letters -- Response to Impact Letters -- Reversing the Process -- Accountability Letters -- Purposes and Desired Outcomes -- Future Directions -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 A Case Study of Narrative Family Therapy in an Outdoor Treatment Program with a Struggling Adolescent -- Chapter Highlights -- Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare -- Narrative Family Therapy -- Narrative Family Therapy in an Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare Setting -- Case Study -- The Program -- History and Reason for Treatment -- Assessment and Therapeutic Goals -- Narrative Family Therapy -- Concluding Therapy and Follow-up -- Suggestions for Family Therapists -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Understanding Video Game Mechanics as a Tool in Creating a Sustainable Relationship with Digital Media -- Chapter Highlights -- Gaming Evolved -- Gaming Mechanics and Video Game Process Addiction -- Addictive Gaming Mechanic #1: Level Grinding -- Addictive Gaming Mechanic #2: Twitch -- Addictive Gaming Mechanic #3: Guilds and Leagues -- Addictive Gaming Mechanic #4: Social Status and Achievements -- Addictive Gaming Mechanic #5: Fantasy Alter Egos -- Addictive Gaming Mechanic #6: Long Gaming Epochs and Persistent Universes -- Addictive Gaming Mechanic #7: Interrupted Flow -- Addictive Gaming Mechanic #8: Infinity

This paper introduces a stylized model to capture distinctive features of waiting list allocation mechanisms. First, agents choose among items with associated expected wait times. Waiting times serve a similar role to that of monetary prices in directing agents' choices and rationing items. Second, the expected wait for an item is endogenously determined and randomly fluctuates over time. We evaluate welfare under these endogenously determined waiting times and find that waiting time fluctuations lead to misallocation and welfare loss. A simple randomized assignment policy can reduce misallocation and increase welfare. (JEL C78, D61, D82, D83)

Many contemporary preachers and homileticians address what they believe to be a "crisis" of preaching. Without denying these claims, this essay offers theological and homiletical insights from the young Karl Barth on what he believed to be a more fundamental and pervasive homiletical crisis subsuming all others. Just what this crisis was for Barth becomes clearer when we look to the sociopolitical commitments of two of Barth's pastoral mentors: Friedrich Naumann and Christoph Blumhardt. Drawing from his theologico-political discernment leading up to the Great War, Barth offers us ways to challenge unjust and oppressive policies and systems through our preaching ministries today.

Deforestation and Agricultural Land-Use Change in Bolivia as a Function of Socio-Economic Realities. This research combines semi-structured interviews of key informants and local participants, as well as field observations, which were conducted between January and April of 2019 in the Departments of Santa Cruz & Chuquisaca.

Local governments consider consolidation as an answer to providing more cost-efficient services. Since 1815 when New Orleans merged with Orleans Parish, Louisiana, many different governments have experimented with consolidation. The research shows that consolidation does not lead to lower costs or higher efficiency. This study applies this framework to Minnesota's Eighth Congressional District's 180 fire departments, some of which are consolidated, to determine if the consolidated districts spend less while also improving efficiency. Minnesota's Eighth Congressional District is selected to provide a large sample size for data analysis. It also provides opportunities for comparative analysis between urban and rural departments and differences in budget size and response time. Departments are evaluated based on their reported budgets and average response times. The departments which are not consolidated serve as a control and are used to compare the figures collected from the consolidated departments. 56 The findings allow decision-makers to determine if consolidating fire services is a better option for communities within Minnesota's Eighth Congressional District. ; https://openriver.winona.edu/urc2019/1104/thumbnail.jpg

This thesis seeks to employ the fusion New Haven, Connecticut's municipal legacy with current market forces and players to critically analyze the urban condition. I will utilize Naomi Klein's notion of disaster capitalism to explore how development and management corporations in New Haven capitalized on the subprime crisis to further exploit already marginalized communities through vast land grabs and limited real estate maintenance. New Haven's current urban composition is the result of a legacy of disproportionate municipal support and selective appropriation of socio-cultural value in the city's low-income neighborhoods. In order to avoid addressing the systemic inequalities created by the City's urban history, these disenfranchised communities have gradually grown socially, economically and spatially isolated. This trajectory created a housing landscape that was highly vulnerable to the devastating economic effects of the national subprime mortgage crisis. In New Haven's low-income neighborhoods, the societal status assigned to the population, coupled with the magnified effects of the post-crisis marketplace led to widespread and reactionary disaster capitalism.[1] Disaster Capitalism is the practice of utilizing a major disaster to shape economic practices and policies that the population would not accept under normal circumstances.[2] Subprime lending is the widespread practice of originating mortgage loans to unqualified or low-income borrowers for future sale on the secondary market. This practice was at the core of the housing market's collapse, as the long-term viability of these loans was not relevant for the organizations and brokers by whom they were originated.[3] In the local fallout of this national crisis, companies and institutions exploited the post-subprime marketplace by utilizing disaster capitalism to profit off disenfranchised populations and influence development projects to serve internal goals. The effectively neutral stance taken by City government toward the exploitation of these communities has allowed for these companies and institutions to shape the City and reap monetary benefits on a massive scale. [1] Disaster Capitalism is a term originally used by author Naomi Klein. Klein, Naomi. The Shock Doctrine. Metropolitan Books. Henry Holt and Company. 2008 [2] "Disaster Capitalism." Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com LLC. . [3] Muolo, Paul and Padilla, Matthew. Chain of Blame: How Wall Street Caused the Mortgage and Credit Crisis. Hoboken, NJ, Wiley. 2010. Page 11