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The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the development of online mediation training courses. Interest in the topic has been gathering pace in recent years, driven by new opportunities offered by technological development, cost considerations, and concerns about the ecological impact of aviation. This paper is written as part of a discussion taking place within the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH Zurich). It aims to help the peace mediation teams at ETH Zurich to make an informed choice about whether to develop online learning resources for their further education and professional training programs., Die Covid-19-Pandemie hat die Entwicklung von Online-Trainingskursen für Mediation beschleunigt. Das Interesse an diesem Thema hat in den letzten Jahren zugenommen. Dies liegt an neuen technologischen Möglichkeiten und an Kostenerwägungen und Bedenken hinsichtlich der ökologischen Auswirkungen der Luftfahrt. Dieses Papier wurde im Rahmen einer Diskussion verfasst, die an der ETH Zürich stattfindet. Es soll den Friedensmediationsteams an der ETH helfen, eine fundierte Entscheidung darüber zu treffen, ob sie Online-Lernressourcen für ihre Aus- und Weiterbildungsprogramme entwickeln wollen., Reflection Paper

CSS Policy Perspectives, 6 (6), ISSN:2296-6471

CSS Policy Perspectives, 4 (5), ISSN:2296-6471

CSS Analysen zur Sicherheitspolitik, 183, ISSN:2296-0236

CSS Analyses in Security Policy, 183, ISSN:2296-0244

We exploit deep combined observations with Spitzer and Chandra of the SWIRE survey in the ELAIS-N1 region, to investigate the nature of the faint X-ray and IR sources in common, to identify AGN/starburst diagnostics, and to study the sources of the X-ray and IR cosmic backgrounds. In the 17'x17' area of the Chandra ACIS-I image there are 3400 SWIRE near-IR sources with 4 sigma detections in at least 2 IRAC bands and 988 sources detected at 24micron with MIPS brighter than 0.1 mJy. Of these, 102 IRAC and 59 MIPS sources have Chandra counterparts, out of a total of 122 X-ray sources present in the area with S(0.5-8 kev)>10^(-15) erg/cm^2/s. We have constructed SEDs for each source using data from the 4 IRAC wavebands, Chandra fluxes, and optical follow-up data in the wavebands U, g', r', i', Z, and H. We fit a number of spectral templates to the SEDs at optical and infrared wavelengths to determine photometric redshifts and spectral categories, and also make use of diagnostics based on the X-ray luminosities, hardness ratios, X-ray to infrared spectral slopes and optical morphologies. Although we have spectroscopic redshifts for only a minority of the Chandra sources, the available SEDs constrain the redshifts for most of the sample sources, which turn out to be typically at 0.5, Comment: Accepted for publication in AJ, March 2005 issue

The SIRTF Wide-area InfraRed Extragalactic survey (SWIRE), the largest SIRTF Legacy program, is a wide-area, imaging survey to trace the evolution of dusty, star-forming galaxies, evolved stellar populations, and AGN as a function of environment, from redshifts z~3 to the current epoch. SWIRE will survey 7 high-latitude fields, totaling 60 - 65 sq. deg. in all 7 SIRTF bands: IRAC 3.6, 4.5, 5.6, 8 microns and MIPS 24, 70, 160 microns. The Legacy Extragalactic Catalog may contain in excess of 2 million IR-selected galaxies, dominated by (1) ~150,000 luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs: L{FIR}>10^11 L_sun), ~7000 of these with z>2; (2) 1 million early-type galaxies, ~10,000 with z>2; and (3) \~20,000 classical AGN, plus significantly more dust-obscured QSO/AGN among the LIRGs. SWIRE will provide an unprecedented view of the evolution of galaxies, structure, and AGN. The key scientific goals of SWIRE are: (1) to determine the evolution of actively star-forming and passively evolving galaxies in order to understand the history of galaxy formation in the context of cosmic structure formation; (2) to determine the evolution of the spatial distribution and clustering of evolved galaxies, starbursts and AGN in the key redshift range, 0.5, Comment: 65 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in the P.A.S.P. Aug. 2003

Bulletin zur schweizerischen Sicherheitspolitik, ISSN:1024-0608, Bulletin 2013 zur schweizerischen Sicherheitspolitik, ISBN:978-39-0569-642-4

US-driven counter-terrorism policies that treat humanitarian and charitable organizations primarily as a liability are counterproductive and undermine efforts to prevent terrorism., CSS Policy Perspectives, 1 (2), ISSN:2296-6471

ISSN:1024-0608

Bulletin zur schweizerischen Sicherheitspolitik, ISSN:1024-0608, ISBN:978-3-905696-42-4

This paper is a summary of two research papers published by the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP) of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. The research was conducted under the auspices of the Islamic Charities Project (ICP). The project works towards the removal of unjustified obstacles for bona fide Islamic charitable institutions by arguing for more nuanced interpretations of their role and activities. ICP is supported and funded by the Human Security Division of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and is currently co-ordinated by the Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich in the framework of its Culture and Religion in Mediation Program (CARIM). Readers seeking more in-depth information and references to sources are directed to the original research papers: Schaeublin, E., (2009) “The West Bank Zakat Committees (1977 – 2009) in the Local Context”, CCDP Working Paper 5, Geneva: The Graduate Institute and Schaeublin, E., (2011) “Gaza Zakat Organizations (1973 – 2011) in the Local Context”, CCDP Working Paper 9, Geneva: The Graduate Institute. Both available for download at http://graduateinstitute.ch/ccdp/ccdp-research/projects/completed-projects/religion_, Research Summary

CSS Analyses in Security Policy, 119, ISSN:2296-0244

VLA imaging of the most extended structure in M 87 at 20 and 90 cm reveals a complex structure extending to about 40 kpc in radius. The images suggest a complicated, turbulent, transonic flow beginning at the boundary with the inner lobes and ending at the boundary of the bubble-like structure which is seen on the largest scales of the radio emission. The scale is interestingly similar to the “cooling core” of the X-ray source.

We characterize the Spitzer Wide-area Infrared Extragalactic Legacy Survey (SWIRE) galaxy populations in the SWIRE validation field within the Lockman Hole, based on the 3.6-24 μm Spitzer data and deep U, g', r', i' optical imaging within an area ~1/3 deg2 for ~16,000 Spitzer SWIRE sources. The entire SWIRE survey will discover over 2.3 million galaxies at 3.6 μm and almost 350,000 at 24 μm ~70,000 of these will be five-band 3.6-24 μm detections. The colors cover a broad range, generally well represented by redshifted spectral energy distributions of known galaxy populations; however, significant samples of unusually blue objects in the [3.6]-[4.5] color are found, as well as many objects very red in the 3.6-24 μm mid-IR. Nine of these are investigated and are interpreted as star-forming systems, starbursts, and active galactic nuclei (AGNs) from z=0.37 to 2.8, with luminosities from LIR=1010.3 to 1013.7 Lsolar.

The radio imaging of M 87, combined with supporting data from other wavelength bands, suggest that the inner 2 kpc of M 87 are a region of transonic turbulence, dynamically important magnetic fields, and synchrotron emitting emitting filaments in a 107 K thermal plasma. The energy source for this activity is likely to be the black-hole driven jet which can be seen bending and mixing with the other radio emission from the region.

CSS Mediation Resources, ISSN:2296-7397, ISBN:978-3-905696-55-4