Browsing by Author "Salazar, PH-J"

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    The impact of air traffic management automation on the human performance of air traffic controllers in aviation law
    (2025) Hendrikse, Cindy; Salazar, PH-J
    Advancements in communication, navigation, surveillance and air traffic management (CNS/ATM) systems directly impact air traffic controllers (ATCs), who must interact with these technologies within a regulated framework. The hypothesis is that aligning these advancements with their governing international, regional, and national legislation and operational procedures with ATCs in mind will significantly enhance ATCs' performance and trust in these advancements and increase operational safety in a progressively technology-driven environment. Therefore, the research investigated the impact of CNS/ATM advancements on ATCs, the extent to which international, regional and national legislation consider ATCs, and whether the legislation can effectively address the rapid development and growing consequences caused by automation, including artificial intelligence. The study employed a multidisciplinary approach, incorporating a review of human factors research, an analysis of relevant international and European Union aviation law and initiatives, and a comparison of national policies and legislation of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and South Africa. Lastly, it included a qualitative survey directed at ATCs to draw from their operational expertise. The human factors literature review highlighted the growing implications of automation, including issues such as complacency, overreliance, distrust in automation, and diminishing manual skills. The legislative analyses unveiled various shortcomings at each level, while the survey revealed that ATCs follow operational procedures regardless of accuracy. Additionally, the survey showed that automation failures significantly increase ATC workload. Lastly, although no participant could indicate how artificial intelligence is currently employed in ATM, most do not trust it nor believe it would be able to control air traffic without any ATC input.
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    The law's authority to implicitly inscribe the rhetoric of forgiveness through creatures of statute tasked with truth recovery, justice, peace and reconciliation in post-conflict contexts of South Africa and Rwanda
    (2023) Teele, Thapelo; Salazar, PH-J
    This thesis presents a socio-legal approach of the rhetoric of law and the rhetoric of forgiveness in bodies legally mandated with reconciliation in post-conflict contexts of South Africa and Rwanda. Through a qualitative engagement with literature, the aim is to ascertain whether the law has the authority to grant forgiveness to a perpetrator on behalf of a victim? This question is premised on an understanding of reconciliation as occurring between two individuals in the presence of a third party in view of a specific political outcome, whereas forgiveness is personal, occurring without a specific political outcome and only between two individuals. It is argued that there exists a rhetorical gap between those who speak the language of the law on reconciliation, and those who speak the everyday language of forgiveness informed by a Judaeo-Christian rhetorical frame. It is argued that the gap is addressed by public deliberation or “live rhetoric”, allowing for a divided citizenry in post-conflict contexts to create a transformation (metanoia) and sameness of intent (homonia) in their community that prevents stasis – a reciprocal threat of civil war due to a difference of opinion. “Live rhetoric” functions to keep everyone bound in the process towards reconciliation, and this thesis seeks to highlight that live rhetoric is significant not only for the maintenance of peace and democracy in post conflict contexts at the level of the state, but also allows processes of reconciliation and possibly forgiveness to continue among individuals beyond the confines of bodies legally mandated with reconciliation.