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Les pays africains entre violence, espoir et reconstruction. L'action des chrétiens et des Eglises
Avec la globalisation, le continent africain est-il en voie de marginalisation ? La célébration des 50 ans d'indépendance a donné lieu en 2010 à une série de bilans et de promesses. Chercheurs, universitaires, expert et théologiens font ici le point sur les fonctionnements socio-économiques actuels du Continent. Ils rappellent la complexité des situations et les conséquences des mutations socioculturelles, en soulignant les mécanismes transversaux communs à de nombreux pays : la déstructuration sociale et l'urgence de la reconstruction. Dans le second temps de l'ouvrage, les actions des chrétiens et des Eglises sont étudiées en lien avec les travaux du deuxième Synode cathol...
Les ancêtres et les dieux
Le vieillard Akebu Elente demande : « Que se disent le jour et la nuit lorsqu’ils se rencontrent à l’aube ? » Il répond : « Pour les enfants, le jour ordonne à la nuit de dégager. Mais les vieux savent que c’est la nuit qui dit au jour : “sois le bienvenu, mon hôte adoré, toi qui voyages, repose-toi un peu, tu repartiras quand tu le voudras.”» Pour ceux qui se réclament du ciel et des dieux, la vérité donne la chasse à l’erreur comme le jour à la nuit. Pour ceux qui se réclament de leurs ancêtres et de la terre, c’est plutôt la nuit qui souhaite au jour la bienvenue. L’épistémologie de la vérité, lumière du monde domine en absolu la planète des humains...
Livres de France
Includes, 1982-1995: Les Livres du mois, also published separately.
Refugees and the Myth of Human Rights
Most Western liberal democracies are parties to the United Nations Refugees Convention and all are committed to the recognition of basic human rights, but they also spend billions fortifying their borders, detaining unauthorised immigrants, and policing migration. Meanwhile, public debate over the West’s obligations to unauthorised immigrants is passionate, vitriolic, and divisive. Refugees and the Myth of Human Rights combines philosophical, historical, and legal analysis to clarify the key concepts at stake in the debate, and to demonstrate the threat posed by contemporary border regimes to rights protection and the rule of law within liberal democracies. Using the political philosophy o...
Fortress America
Gated communities are a new "hot button" in many North American cities. From Boston to Los Angeles and from Miami to Toronto citizens are taking sides in the debate over whether any neighborhood should be walled and gated, preventing intrusion or inspection by outsiders. This debate has intensified since the hard cover edition of this book was published in 1997. Since then the number of gated communities has risen dramatically. In fact, new homes in over 40 percent of planned developments are gated n the West, the South, and southeastern parts of the United States. Opposition to this phenomenon is growing too. In the small and relatively homogenous town of Worcester, Massachusetts, a band of college students from Brown University and the University of Chicago picketed the Wexford Village in November of 1998 waving placards that read "Gates Divide." These students are symbolic of a much larger wave of citizens asking questions about the need for and the social values of gates that divide one portion of a community from another.
Hard Choices
Since Somalia, the international community has found itself changing its view of humanitarian intervention. Operations designed to alleviate suffering and achieve peace sometimes produce damaging results. The United Nations, nongovernmental organizations, military and civilian agencies alike find themselves in the midst of confusion and weakness where what they seek are clarity and stability. Competing needs, rights, and values can obscure even the best international efforts to quell violence and assuage crises of poverty. More attention must be paid to the complexity of issues and moral dilemmas involved. This volume of original essays by international policy leaders, practitioners, and sch...
