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The Search for Lasting Peace
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 222

The Search for Lasting Peace

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-02-17
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Presenting the human security agenda as a policy response to the changing nature of violent conflicts and war, this collection traces its evolution in relation to conflicts in different contexts (Burma, India, Palestine, Canada, East Timor, Guatemala, Peru and African countries) and from the perspective of gender, addresses initiatives for peace with justice. Cases are analysed when the human security agenda, including UNSC resolution 1325, was in its initial phase and point to both the weakness of the concept and the unexpected direction it has taken. These discussions - always relevant - are more urgent than ever as gender-based violence against women has increased, resulting in new UNSC r...

Blended A Family Story
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 155

Blended A Family Story

This story is about a father who becomes the primary caregiver for his son, after a divorce and remarriage. A lot of men go on to raise a new family after a divorce. Edgar won custody so he could include his son in his day to day life, this is his struggle, and this is their story. Book Review by Monica Fleming wrote on your timeline. Hey Ron!!! The book it’s remarkable! Every time I have to put it down I cannot wait to pick back up again! Book: Blended A Family Story. November 27, 2010 at 2:28pm Book Review by Dona B. Shelton-Wiggins Hey Ron, I just finished a blended family. I finished Mount Misery on Tuesday. I loved the trip down memory lane, some of the names and things made me weep, ...

Reflexology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 188

Reflexology

Do you have tension build up in your body? Would you want to know everything about reflexology? Could you benefit from more relaxation in your life? Essential guide to relaxation- relieve tension, sports, massage and recovery, your pain and body fatigue will decrease steadily each day! You will discover everything you need to know about reflexology Here is a preview of what you'll learn... - What is reflexology? - How can reflexology improve your health? - Diy reflexology to relieve back pain - Diy reflexology for stress and tension - Benefits of reflexology - Reflexology for joint and muscular pain skin - Much, much more! There's a cure for everything hidden in nature, and it's up to us to discover the benefits of nature's cures and ancient healing techniques. One of the most effective ancient techniques for eliminating stress and tension, relieving pain in the neck, back, and shoulders, relieving uncomfortable symptoms caused by a number of illnesses and diseases, and aiding in weight loss is reflexology.

Radical Interventions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

Radical Interventions

In this volume, minority scholars in the humanities and the social sciences, working within what are often profoundly hostile contexts, speak about their efforts to disrupt and transform business as usual in the Academy. Theirs is a critical, and often radical rethinking of fundamental questions concerning identity, politics, and difference/s as these inform education theory and practice.

Sybil Thorndike
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 584

Sybil Thorndike

Outside the theatrical profession Sybil Thorndike is no longer the household name she once was; she has become a historical figure. Yet her combative, inspiring life, her passionate concern for the state of the world as well as for her art, resonates with any age. As the actor Michael Macliammóir put it: 'Essentially English, she is yet nationless; essentially of her period, she is yet timeless.'

The Gender Imperative
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 468

The Gender Imperative

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-12-06
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The book asserts that human security derives from the experience and expectation of human well-being which depends on four essential conditions: a life sustaining environment, the meeting of essential physical needs, respect for the identity and dignity of persons and groups, protection from avoidable harm and expectations of remedy from them. The book demonstrates their integral relationship to human security. Patriarchy being the germinal paradigm from which most major human institutions such as the state, the economy, organised religions and social relations have evolved, the book argues that fundamental inequalities must be challenged for the sake of equality and security. The fundamenta...

Open Mic Night at Westminster Cemetery
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

Open Mic Night at Westminster Cemetery

When Lacy wakes up dead in Westminster Cemetery, final resting place of Edgar Allan Poe, she's confused. It's the job of Sam, a young soldier who died in 1865, to teach her the rules of the afterlife and to warn her about Suppression—a punishment worse than death. Lacy desperately wants to leave the cemetery and find out how she died, but every soul is obligated to perform a job. Given the task of providing entertainment, Lacy proposes an open mic, which becomes a chance for the cemetery's residents to express themselves. But Lacy is in for another shock when surprising and long-buried truths begin to emerge.

Moving Against the System
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

Moving Against the System

In 1968, as protests shook France and war raged in Vietnam, the giants of Black radical politics descended on Montreal to discuss the unique challenges and struggles facing their brothers and sisters. For the first time since 1968, David Austin brings alive the speeches and debates of the most important international gathering of Black radicals of the era. Against a backdrop of widespread racism in the West, and colonialism and imperialism in the “Third World,” this group of activists, writers, and political figures gathered to discuss the history and struggles of people of African descent and the meaning of Black Power. With never-before-seen texts from Stokely Carmichael, Walter Rodney, and C.L.R. James, Moving Against the System will prove invaluable to anyone interested in Black radical thought, as well as capturing a crucial moment of the political activity around 1968.

Promoting Democracy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

Promoting Democracy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-08-20
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

How Western donor assistance can both help and undermine democracy in different parts of the world Democracy promotion is a central pillar of the foreign policy of many states, but the results are often disappointing. In Promoting Democracy, Manal A. Jamal examines why these efforts succeed in some countries, but fail in others. A former journalist and researcher in the Palestinian territories, she offers an up-close perspective of the ways in which Western donor funding has, on one hand, undermined political participation in cases such as the Palestinian territories, and, on the other hand, succeeded in bolstering political engagement in cases such as El Salvador. Based on five fieldwork tr...

The New Helots
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 217

The New Helots

Originally published in 1987 and now reissued with a substantial introduction by Robin Cohen, this wide-ranging work of comparative and historical sociology argues that a major engine of capital’s growth lies in its ability to find successive cohorts of quasi-free workers to deploy in the farms, mines and factories of an expanding international division of labour. These workers, like the helots of ancient Greece, are found at the periphery of ‘regional political economies’ or in the form of modern migrants, sucked into the vortex of metropolitan service or manufacturing industry. The regions of Southern Africa; the USA and the circum-Caribbean; European and its colonial and southern hinterlands, are systematically compared – yielding original and, in some cases, uncomfortable analogies between countries previously thought to be wholly different in terms of their political structures and guiding values. The New Helots has been written with both an undergraduate and professional readership in mind. Students of history, sociology and economics as well as those interested in patterns of migration and ethnic relations will find it of interest.