title: Sovereignty and nation-building: The development challenge in Indian country today

authors: Crombie, Winifred

subjects: Native American economic development

abstract: In Sovereignty and Nation-Building: The Development Challenge in Indian Country Today, Cornell and Kalt (1998) argue that economic success, and the reduction of unemployment and welfare dependency, is more likely in the case of American Indian tribes if governance is characterised by five principles. In a number of articles and talks on Maori nation building projects in Aotearoa/New Zealand, reference has recently been made to Cornell and Kalt and to one or more of these five principles. Thus, for example, Dodd, in an article published in the Journal of Maori and Pacific Development in 2000, argues that Iwi governance structures should involve a separation of governance and management and should be consistent with indigenous ideas about the location and exercise of authority (2000, p.7). She refers, in this context, to the work of Cornell and Kalt, and quotes Eade who observes that “it is doubtful that an organisation that itself maintains oppressive social structures can be a reliable vehicle for transforming these in a liberating way, whatever the rhetoric” (Eade 1997, p. 26). More recently in this Journal, Tiakiwai and Bishop (2002, p. 36), note that Cornell and Kalt (1998, p.2) found a “positive correlation between self-determination and successful development as defined by the tribe”, and observe that what they refer to as the ‘decade of Maori development’ provides concrete Maori examples of development theorizing in line with Eade (1997) and the assertions of Cornell and Kalt (1998). The article by Cornell and Kalt which appears to be most often quoted in the context of Maori nation building projects first appeared in 1998. The extent of its current influence in Aotearoa/New Zealand suggests that a careful re-examination of it at this point could prove useful.

text: Sovereignty and nation-building: The development challenge in Indian country today In Sovereignty and Nation-Building: The Development Challenge in Indian Country Today, Cornell and Kalt (1998) argue that economic success, and the reduction of unemployment and welfare dependency, is more likely in the case of American Indian tribes if governance is characterised by five principles. In a number of articles and talks on Maori nation building projects in Aotearoa/New Zealand, reference has recently been made to Cornell and Kalt and to one or more of these five principles. Thus, for example, Dodd, in an article published in the Journal of Maori and Pacific Development in 2000, argues that Iwi governance structures should involve a separation of governance and management and should be consistent with indigenous ideas about the location and exercise of authority (2000, p.7). She refers, in this context, to the work of Cornell and Kalt, and quotes Eade who observes that “it is doubtful that an organisation that itself maintains oppressive social structures can be a reliable vehicle for transforming these in a liberating way, whatever the rhetoric” (Eade 1997, p. 26). More recently in this Journal, Tiakiwai and Bishop (2002, p. 36), note that Cornell and Kalt (1998, p.2) found a “positive correlation between self-determination and successful development as defined by the tribe”, and observe that what they refer to as the ‘decade of Maori development’ provides concrete Maori examples of development theorizing in line with Eade (1997) and the assertions of Cornell and Kalt (1998). The article by Cornell and Kalt which appears to be most often quoted in the context of Maori nation building projects first appeared in 1998. The extent of its current influence in Aotearoa/New Zealand suggests that a careful re-examination of it at this point could prove useful.

year: 2003-02

title: Maori perspectives of the environment: A review of Environment Waikato information sources.

authors: Whangapirita, Laura

subjects: Maori

abstract: The Community and Economy Programme at Environment Waikato has developed a partnership with the Maori and Psychology Research Unit of the University of Waikato to further assist in strengthening its commitment to cultural research and information work. This relationship will facilitate the development of a number of significant research reports throughout 2003.  This initial report describes an internal review conducted by the Maori and Psychology Research Unit to identify what information Environment Waikato currently holds on Maori environmental perspectives.

text: Maori perspectives of the environment: A review of Environment Waikato information sources. The Community and Economy Programme at Environment Waikato has developed a partnership with the Maori and Psychology Research Unit of the University of Waikato to further assist in strengthening its commitment to cultural research and information work. This relationship will facilitate the development of a number of significant research reports throughout 2003.  This initial report describes an internal review conducted by the Maori and Psychology Research Unit to identify what information Environment Waikato currently holds on Maori environmental perspectives.

year: 2003-05

title: Divergent stutter bisimulation abstraction for controller synthesis with linear temporal logic specifications

authors: Mohajerani, Sahar

subjects: computer science

abstract: This paper proposes a method to synthesise controllers for systems with possibly infinite number of states that satisfy a specification given as an LTL\◦ formula. A common approach to handle this problem is to first compute a finite-state abstraction of the original state space and then synthesise a controller for the abstraction. This paper proposes to use an abstraction method called divergent stutter bisimulation to abstract the state space of the system. As divergent stutter bisimulation factors out stuttering steps, it typically results in a coarser and therefore smaller abstraction, at the expense of not preserving the temporal ‘‘next’’ operator. The paper leverages results about divergent stutter bisimulation from model checking and shows that divergent stutter bisimulation is a sound and complete abstraction method when synthesising controllers subject to specifications in LTL\◦.

text: Divergent stutter bisimulation abstraction for controller synthesis with linear temporal logic specifications This paper proposes a method to synthesise controllers for systems with possibly infinite number of states that satisfy a specification given as an LTL\◦ formula. A common approach to handle this problem is to first compute a finite-state abstraction of the original state space and then synthesise a controller for the abstraction. This paper proposes to use an abstraction method called divergent stutter bisimulation to abstract the state space of the system. As divergent stutter bisimulation factors out stuttering steps, it typically results in a coarser and therefore smaller abstraction, at the expense of not preserving the temporal ‘‘next’’ operator. The paper leverages results about divergent stutter bisimulation from model checking and shows that divergent stutter bisimulation is a sound and complete abstraction method when synthesising controllers subject to specifications in LTL\◦.

year: 2021