JORGE RODRIGUES SIMÃO

Prisana: An IOM X Drama

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION

What is Human Migration?

“JHA is a fragmented policy field that responds to different policy-making rules (intergovernmental and supranational. The development of a JHA external dimension is dependent upon two variables: states’ preferences and historical legacies. The different combination of those variables border management, counter-terrorism and rule of law promotion leads to different patterns and trends. The most general trend identified is that the JHA external dimension, applied to the Mediterranean region, is more dependent upon institutional processes (historical legacies and Member states’ preferences) than upon ideational elements. Contrary to widespread belief, the development of a JHA external dimension started well before 9/11 and was the result of various institutional factors, in particular path-dependency and states’ preferences.”

The Mediterranean Dimension of the European Union's Internal Security

Sarah Wolff

A maior parte das vezes por necessidade, outros obrigados por outros conflitos e guerras, e umas quantas mais pelo desejo de alargar o seu poder, há milhares de anos o ser humano tem emigrado, ou foi deslocado pela força para novos locais ou países, sendo um fenómeno que se repete actualmente, com o fluxo descomunal de cidadãos provenientes de África e do Médio Oriente para a Europa.

As previsões da “Organização Internacional para as Migrações (OIM) ”, calculam que mais de quatrocentas e trinta mil pessoas atravessaram o Mediterrâneo para a Europa, desde o início do ano, e cerca de duas mil e oitocentas pessoas morreram ou desapareceram nessa tentativa, e cujo número aumenta diariamente.

"Show me a hero," quipped American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, "and I will write you a tragedy." The ultimate tragedy, however, is the vast majority of modem hero-worshipers in the Western world who revere false heroes. So much so, that hero is one of the most misused words in the English language. As a matter of course hero today is mostly applied to people who do well in sports or in the financial world or in show business and have gotten a lot of publicity. Unfortunately, the modem American hero is somebody whom we adore, respect, worship, or idolize for all the wrong reasons. With this in mind, it's best to be careful with your heroes. Don't put any of them on a pedestal. After all, no one - even a true hero - deserves to be there.

Nothing comes quite so easily to us as the ability to procrastinate. With varying degrees, we all have the tendency to let things slide. In fact, most of us could write the Bible on time-wasting - but there again, we would never get around to putting this project together regardless of how much promise it offered. We always have too many much more important activities to pursue - such as sleeping, watching television, surfing the Internet for twisted humor, and checking out absolutely useless e-mails.

Not so long ago I received a brochure advertising the annual conference for an international human resources foundation. The cover of the brochure announced, "BE A KNOW-IT-ALL! Here's how." The inside of the brochure promised, "Join our Foundation and see how easy it is to know-it-all." As I read this brochure, I wondered if these professionals - I use the term lightly – had contemplated the advantages of "not knowing it all".