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From:International Journal of Social Quality (Vol. 4, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Recognizing the influence crises have in shaping global governance nowadays, the present work explores the possible contribution of human development thinking countering the perverse effects of shock-driven...
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From:International Journal of Social Quality (Vol. 4, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract "Good governance" may be viewed as governance that effectively promotes human rights, human security and human development. This article discusses human security analysis, which in certain ways offers an...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 57, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedThis essay analyzes Gerald Vizenor's novel The Heirs of Columbus (1991) in terms of human rights law and international legal norms. In this speculative text, Vizenor imagines how Indigenous nations can employ...
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From:International journal of communication (Online)Peer-Reviewed
Virtual Reality and the Syrian Refugee Camps: Humanitarian Communication and the Politics of Empathy
In recent years, virtual reality (VR) has gained traction in humanitarian communication through its utopian promises of copresence, experiential immediacy, and transcendence. I analyze three communication texts that... -
From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 44, Issue 3)INTRODUCTION The Korean War has never officially ended. Yet the 70th anniversary of the first "hot" conflict in a rapidly-developing Cold War is an occasion to reflect upon how deep divisions that had existed for...
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From:International Journal of Social Quality (Vol. 5, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Drawing on the first attempt worldwide to implement human rights indicators at the national level in Ecuador (2009-2014), as well as on a critical review of the uneasy relationship between human rights and...
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From:Wicazo Sa Review (Vol. 29, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIndigenous daily lifeways are directly altered and, at times, devastated by climate change; from the habitable Arctic land-base losses, to glacial melt that is washing away centuries of sustainable agriculture in...
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From:International Journal of Social Quality (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis research presents the Humanosphere Potentiality Index (HPI), developed to address current global potentiality from a long-term perspective. The HPI presents a different way to envision the current condition of the...
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From: Michigan Law Review[(essay date April 2008) In the following essay, Delahunty and Yoo use Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front for a study of how war fatigue among the general public in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s led to the pursuit...
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From:International Journal of Social Quality (Vol. 8, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article tracks the intergovernmental negotiations aimed at combatting human-induced greenhouse gas emissions under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from COP21 and the creation of the Paris...
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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 43, Issue 3)Borders are no longer just lines on a map. They are places of active governance. Knowing them better may help us manage them more wisely and humanely. International borders have been headline news in the past few...
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From:International Journal of Social Quality (Vol. 7, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPoverty is generally viewed in traditional understandings as merely lowness of income, so its noneconomic aspects and dynamic characteristics are neglected. Conversely, Amartya Sen has argued that poverty must be seen...
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From:Mediactive (Issue 4)Which multi-national companies are operating detention and security services for the Home Office? US corporations have pioneered a new kind of prison industrial complex. With falling profits in the prison industry, the...
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From:Mediactive (Issue 4)The politics of security has been a political issue since the early 1990s. This article charts how refugees and asylum seekers, who were once considered to be those in dire need of security and safety, are now perceived...
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From:Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal (Vol. 51, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract The glaring absence of gender persecution as grounds for protection in the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, the cornerstone of international refugee law, continues to impact current refugee...
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From:History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past (Vol. 28, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines the United Nations' international commemoration program for the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). It argues that the deficiencies of the UN's promotional effort were mirrored in...
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From:Daedalus (Vol. 132, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the founding document of modern human rights doctrine. Adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, it was composed by an international committee of experts...
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From:French Politics, Culture and Society (Vol. 38, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT: This article explores the French delegation's approach to debates about colonial oversight and accountability that took place at the Conference on International Organization in San Francisco in 1945, where...
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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 36, Issue 3)THE SOURCE: "Human Rights as Myth and Ceremony? Re-evaluating the Effectiveness of Human Rights Treaties, 1981-2007" by Wade M. Cole, in American Journal of Sociology, Jan. 2012. SKEPTICS SCORN THE TREATIES AND...
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From: International Affairs[(essay date 2006) In this essay, Hall uses the work of scholar Marc Trachtenberg regarding the overlap between history and theory in this comparison of the success and popularity of Ferguson and fellow historian Paul...