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  • Debating Gun Control

    How Much Regulation Do We Need?

    Serie series Debating Ethics
    Americans have a deeply ambivalent relationship to guns. The United States leads all nations in rates of private gun ownership, yet stories of gun tragedies frequent the news, spurring calls for tighter gun regulations. The debate tends to be acrimonious and is frequently misinformed and illogical. The central question is the extent to which federal or state governments should regulate gun ... Altre info

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    A Guide for Practical Action

    “Nonviolence is not the recourse of the weak but actually calls for an uncommon kind of strength; it is not a refraining from something but the engaging of a positive force,” renowned peace activist Michael Nagler writes. Here he offers a step-by-step guide to creatively using nonviolence to confront any problem and to build change movements capable of restructuring the very bedrock of society. ... Altre info

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  • Clooney's War

    South Sudan, humanitarian failure and celebrity

    di Alex Perry ...
    In this book Alex Perry explores how humanitarian activities across the world, including those of celebrities like George Clooney and others brought pressure to bear that resulted in the creation of South Sudan as a separate state. This at a time when senior diplomats believed the chances of the new nation surviving and thriving were slim. Predictably, it seems an outcome that should have solved ... Altre info

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  • Crossing the Wire

    One Woman's Journey into the Hidden Dangers of the Afghan War

    In a harrowing memoir, the military journalist discusses her explosive report on sexual practices in Afghanistan and her experience in the War on Terror.When AnnaMaria Cardinalli's explosive United States military report on the topic of sexuality in southern Afghanistan was leaked to mainstream American media, it generated a firestorm of attention and reaction. While some of the findings regarding ... Altre info

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  • Human Rights in Russia

    Citizens and the State from Perestroika to Putin

    Serie series Library of Modern Russia
    Today Russia and human rights are both high on the international agenda. Since Putin returned to the presidency in 2012, domestic developments (from Pussy Riot to the release of Khodorkovsky) and Russia's global role (especially in relation to Ukraine) have captured world-wide attention. It is therefore an appropriate moment to see how human rights activism functions inside Russia. Since 1991, ... Altre info

    26,51 €

  • Inside South Africa’s Foreign Policy

    Diplomacy in Africa from Smuts to Mbeki

    di John Siko ...
    South Africa is still the major-player in African diplomacy, its military resources far outstripping those of other nations on the continent. It also has traditionally taken the lead role in Africa's united negotiations with other power blocs. Yet the recent consensus has been that South Africa's diplomacy over the last decades has been a disappointing failure - from appearing to back the ... Altre info

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  • Beyond Testimony and Trauma

    Oral History in the Aftermath of Mass Violence

    Rivisto da Steven High ...
    Serie series Shared: Oral and Public History
    Survivors of terrible events are often portrayed as unsung heroes or tragic victims but rarely as complex human beings whose lives extend beyond the stories they have told. Beyond Testimony and Trauma considers other ways to engage with survivors and their accounts based on insights gained from long-term oral history projects in a variety of contexts, including factory closures, industrial injury, ... Altre info

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  • Honour'

    Crimes, Paradigms, and Violence Against Women

    Rivisto da Lynn Welchman, Sara Hossain ...
    This volume brings together the practical insights and experiences of individuals and organisations working in diverse regions and contexts to combat 'crimes of honour'. Authors examine strategies of response to such manifestations of violence against women, focusing largely on 'honour killings' and interference with the right to choice in marriage, and the related use and legal treatment of the ... Altre info

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  • State Criminality

    The Crime of All Crimes

    di Dawn L. Rothe ...
    Serie series Issues in Crime and Justice
    State crimes are historically and contemporarily ubiquitous and result in more injury and death than traditional street crimes such as robbery, theft, and assault. Consider that genocide during the 20th century in Germany, Rwanda, Darfur, Albania, Turkey, Ukraine, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and other regions claimed the lives of tens of millions and rendered many more homeless, imprisoned, and ... Altre info

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  • Exhibiting Atrocity

    Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence

    di Amy Sodaro ...
    Honorable Mention, 2021 Outstanding First Book Award from the Memory Studies AssociationToday, nearly any group or nation with violence in its past has constructed or is planning a memorial museum as a mechanism for confronting past trauma, often together with truth commissions, trials, and/or other symbolic or material reparations. Exhibiting Atrocity documents the emergence of the memorial ... Altre info

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  • Broadcasting the End of Apartheid

    Live Television and the Birth of the New South Africa

    di Martha Evans ...
    South Africa came late to television; when it finally arrived in the late 1970s the rest of the world had already begun to boycott the country because of apartheid. While the ruling National Party feared the integrative effects of television, they did not foresee how exclusion from globally unifying broadcasts would gradually erode their power. South Africa was barred from participating in some of ... Altre info

    132,80 €

  • Drug Control and Human Rights in International Law

    di Richard Lines ...
    Human rights violations occurring as a consequence of drug control and enforcement are a growing concern, and raise questions of treaty interpretation and of the appropriate balancing of concomitant obligations within the drug control and human rights treaty regimes. Tracing the evolution of international drug control law since 1909, this book explores the tensions between the regime's self ... Altre info

    35,14 €