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Taking a Stand through Digital Games - An empirical procedure among consciousness, learning and participation

Enrico Gandolfi · Kent University, Ohio, USA
The article focuses on an empirical procedure aimed to harness digital games in exploring sensible issues in social research. By merging qualitative and creative methods and taking into account suggestions from Sociology, Media Studies, and Game Studies, the suggested approach combines single interv…
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Legal Provisions, Discrimination and Uncertainty on LGBT community in Albania. Laws on human rights vs exerted rights of LGBT persons

Urjana Curi · University of Tirana, Albania
During the communist regime and until 1995 homosexual relations were senteced by law in Albania as a criminal offense. Membership in the Council of Europe and the ratification of the European Convention on Human Rights brought as a result the improvement of the legal framework and the abolition of t…
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Codification and Legal Sources in the Albanian Legal System: Comparative Approach to Legal Systems

Enkeleda Olldashi · Faculty of Law, University of Tirana, Albania
The civil law system entered the codification path during the 19th century, enabling the creation of uniformity, such as drafting a civil code and building a new (national) identity. The structure of the code suggests that it provides a comprehensive, internally coherent set of rules for private law…
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Civil rights between legal provisions and political reality in Albania

Doris Koliqi · Institute of European Studies, University of Tirana, Al…
One of the basic principles of civil rights is that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. The life protection, liberty and property should be equally guaranteed to citizens to exclude discrimination of minorities or other parts of the population. These rights are an importa…
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Dynamic Interactions Between Health, Human Capital and Wealth

Wei Zhang · Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan
This paper proposes a dynamic economic model with health, human capital and wealth accumulation with elastic labor supply. The economic system consists of one industrial, one health, and one education sector. Our model is a synthesis of four main models in economic theory: Solow’s one-sector neoclas…
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The Bumpy Road of EULEX as an Exporter of Rule of Law in Kosovo

Gentjan Skara · University, Tirana, Albania
This paper analyses EULEX mission in Kosovo (hereafter EULEX) as an exporter of rule of law. From the deployment of the mission, two mainstream discourses have coined the effectiveness of EULEX establishing the rule of law in Kosovo. From the Brussels point of view, EULEX has marked a lot of progres…
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Three growing questions about Masonry

Davide Crimi · Independent Researcher, Catania, Italy
Through three capital questions, this short essay tries to offer a general panorama and a better understanding of the proteiform complex body or Masonry. Through by a multi-level hermeneutic, this study get the ambition to be comprehensible both to Readers who are not used to this kind of literature…
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The Role of Interreligious and Interfaith Dialogue in the Post-Secular World

Biljana Popovska, Zhanet Ristoska, Pablo Payet · Hochschule Furtwangen University, Germany. Ministry of…
Today, western liberal democratic societies are secular, or in other words, religion is set apart from the state. However, the beginning of the 21st century has seen a re-politicizing of the religion. This paper argues that religion plays an important role in current global politics and events. More…
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Gaming mirrors at play through ludic data-selves

Enrico Gandolfi · Kent University, Ohio, USA
The focus of the article is on data-self technology in digital entertainment - virtual entities that replicate and/or are influenced by players’ behaviors and actions, working as agential mirrors on the screen. Little efforts have been done in investigating their potential in social research and edu…
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The Code of the Administrative Procedures according to the Principle of the Power Separation and Balancing in the Central and Local Government Bodies in Albania

Mimoza Sadushi, Saimir Shatku · Faculty of Law, University of Tirana, Albania
Different authors at different times have given an unequal definition to the term of public administration compared to what it is used today. The author Georges Vestel has defined the public administration as “the set of activities aimed at maintaining the public peace and meeting other needs of the…
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The integrity of persons elected, appointed or exercising public functions

Agathi Nano · University of Tirana, Faculty of Law, Albania
By decision no. 32 of 2015, “On the establishment of a special parliamentary commission for the implementation of the issues in the resolution on the agreement between the majority and the opposition in the Albanian Parliament” was approved the establishment of a special parliamentary commission for…
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Pragmatism and Evolutionary Epistemology

Michele Marsonet · University of Genoa, Italy
To understand the significance of a pragmatist stance in this matter we must address a basic question: which kind of evolution are we referring to when talking of “evolutionary epistemology”? If we take evolution to be an undifferentiated concept, such that no useful distinction can be found in it, …