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“thomas w simon”

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  • Ethnic Identity and Minority Protection

    Designation, Discrimination, and Brutalization

    by Thomas W. Simon ...
    In Ethnic Identity and Minority Protection: Designation, Discrimination, and Brutalization, Thomas W. Simon examines a new framework for considering ethnic conflicts. In contrast to the more traditional theories of justice, Simon’s theory of injustice shifts focus away from group identity toward group harms, effectively making many problems, such as how to define minorities in international law, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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    A Guide for Practical Action

    by Michael N. Nagler Ph.D. ...
    “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. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions

    The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights

    by Omar Barghouti ...
    As international awareness of the apartheid nature of Israel grows, Omar Barghouti offers a manifesto for winning Palestinian civil rights.Thirty years ago, an international movement utilizing boycott, divestment, and sanction (BDS) tactics rose in solidarity with those suffering under the brutal apartheid regime of South Africa. The historic acts of BDS activists from around the world isolated ... Read more

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  • Clooney's War

    South Sudan, humanitarian failure and celebrity

    by 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 ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • 2048

    Humanity's Agreement To Live Together: The International Movement for Enforceable Human Rights

    by J. Kirk Boyd ...
    Creating an enforceable international guarantee of basic human rightsOutlines the basics of a universally acceptable agreementShows what everyone can do to make this agreement a realityIn 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a deeply inspiring document that has been translated into over 300 languages and dialects. But because its provisions ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inside South Africa’s Foreign Policy

    Diplomacy in Africa from Smuts to Mbeki

    by 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 ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Army of None

    Strategies to Counter Military Recruitment, End War, and Build a Better World

    by Aimee Allison, David Solnit ...
    Uniformed U.S. Army Officers lunch with students in elementary school cafeterias. Army training programs including rifle and pistol instruction replace physical education in middle schools. Like never before, military recruiters are entering the halls of U.S. schools with unchecked access in an attempt to bolster a military in crisis.However, even as these destructive efforts to militarize youth ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Compensation to Palestinian Refugees and the Search for Palestinian-Israeli Peace

    Edited by Rex Brynen, Roula El-Rifai ...
    One of the core aspects of the Palestinian refugee question is that of compensation or reparations for Palestinian refugees forcibly displaced by the establishment of Israel.The Nakba saw the displacement of 85% of the Palestinian Arab population and the descendants of these displaced peoples numbers almost 5 million. Despite the gravity of the situation and the importance of restorative justice, ... Read more

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  • Quality Peace

    Peacebuilding, Victory and World Order

    by Peter Wallensteen ...
    Series series Studies in Strategic Peacebuilding
    In Quality Peace, leading peace researcher Peter Wallensteen offers a broad analysis of peacebuilding, isolating what does and not work when settling conflicts. The book uses statistical analysis to compare two war outcomes-negotiated settlement and victory- in the post-Cold War era. Wallensteen finds that if peace is to last, three conditions must be met: a losing party must retain its dignity; ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Global Health Security

    Edited by Simon Rushton, Jeremy Youde ...
    This new Handbook presents an overview of cutting-edge research in the growing field of global health security.Over the past decade, the study of global health and its interconnection with security has become a prominent and rapidly growing field of research. Ongoing debates question whether health and security should be linked; which (if any) health issues should be treated as security threats; ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • UN Emergency Peace Service and the Responsibility to Protect

    by Annie Herro ...
    Series series Global Politics and the Responsibility to Protect
    This book examines the attitudes of political, military and non-state actors towards the idea of a UN Emergency Peace Service, and the issues that might affect the establishment of this service in both theory and practice.The United Nations Emergency Peace Service (UNEPS) is a civil society-led idea to establish a permanent UN service to improve UN peace operations as well as to operationalise the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • From Mediation to Nation-Building

    Third Parties and the Management of Communal Conflict

    by Mohammad Ashraf, Elham Atashi, Linda Bishai, Steven L. Burg, Stephen D. Collins, Neil A. Cruickshank, Caroline A. Hartzell, Matthew Hoddie, Daniela Irrera, Dijon Jones, David D. Laitin, Paul T. McCartney, Cdr. Brigid Myers Pavilonis, Victor Peskin, Mateja Peter, Molly S. Wallace, Sam Whitt, Donald R. Zoufal, I.M. Lobo de Souza, David Forsythe, Mieczyslaw P. Boduszynski, James DeShaw Rae ...
    The eruption in the early 1990s of highly visible humanitarian crises and exceedingly bloody civil wars in the Horn of Africa, imploding Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, set in motion a trend towards third party intervention in communal conflict in areas as far apart as the Balkans and East Timor. However haltingly and selectively, that trend towards extra-systemic means of managing ethnic and national ... Read more

    $64.99 USD