Human rights, civil rights

What was distinctive about the founding principles and practices of Quakerism?

The term 'terrorism' is often applied exclusively to non-state groups or specific 'rogue states'.

Negotiating sovereignty and human rights takes the transatlantic conflict over the International Criminal Court as a lens for an enquiry into the normative foundations of international society.

Critical Perspectives on Human Rights provides cutting-edge interventions into contemporary perspectives on rights, ethics and global justice.

Navigate the world's belief systems with this faith-filled resource!

An underground sensation, Secret and Suppressed confronts the reader with disquieting revelations on mind control, secret societies, media disinformation, cults and elite cabals.

This volume examines the possibility - or need - of a revitalization of pacifism as a world-political practice.

The book aims to explore the foresight of prominent Middle Eastern authors and artists who anticipated the Arab Spring, which resulted in demands for change in the repressive and corrupted regimes.

Contemporary Mexico faces a complex crisis of violence and insecurity with high levels of impunity and the lack of an effective rule of law.

This monograph offers a longitudinal analysis of the developments in the European fundamental rights arena during the last decade.

From the Great Depression in the twentieth century to the Great Recession in the twenty-first, systemic banking crises have been a recurring problem for both developing and developed countries.

This edited collection considers Greek American formal and informal educational efforts, institutions, and programs, broadly conceived, as they evolved over time throughout the United States.

This book offers a comprehensive theory of invisibility as a critical sociological concept, addressing the relationship between social suffering and invisibilization.

There is a growing realization that religion plays a major role in development, particularly in the Global South.

This book examines the forms and practices of Irish confinement from the 19th century to present-day to explore the social and political failings of 20th and 21st century postcolonial Ireland.

This book investigates how the externalisation of EU migration policies is implemented in Tunisia after the fall of the Ben Ali regime in 2011 through the involvement of civil society organisations.

This edited volume discusses critically discursive claims about the theological foundations connecting Islam to certain manifestations of violent extremism.

This book seeks to understand how to internationalize curriculum without imperializing or imposing the old, colonial, and so-called first-world conceptualizations of education, teaching, and learning.

This book offers a materialist critique of mainstream human rights discourse in the period following 9/11, examining literary works, critical histories, international declarations, government statutes, NGO manifestos, and a documentary film.

This volume seeks to understand the role and function of religious-based organizations in strengthening associational life through the provision of social services, thereby legitimizing a new role for faith in the formerly secular public sphere.

This book provides an important, critical, feminist perspective on desistance theory and practice.

Nordic law is often referred to as something different from other legal systems.

This volume examines the specific gender roles in peace and security.

This book critically addresses the still prevalent assumption of the individual's procedural disability in international judicial fora.

This book presents a comprehensive review of cross-border labor mobility from the ancient forms of slavery to the present day.

This book examines the concept of empathy as an essential aspect of the teacher training curriculum, and asks how it can be taught.

This volume engages in conversation with the thinking and work of Max Charlesworth as well as the many questions, tasks and challenges in academic and public life that he posed.

This original, scholarly collection of essays investigates the intersections of large-scale international migration and solidarity-building.

Amidst ongoing allegations of inappropriate behavior and trafficking during UN peacekeeping missions, this volume takes a step back to analyze the post-war and peacekeeping contexts in which prostitution flourishes.

This book addresses the need to radically transform societies plagued by racism.

Against the backdrop of the ongoing Rohingya crisis, this book takes a close and detailed look at the rise of militant Buddhism in Sri Lanka, Burma and Thailand, and especially at the issues of 'why' and 'how' around it.

Western political theory has many great strengths but also a few weaknesses.

Autoethnography is a unique discipline which steps inside and outside the self to experience, embody and express social and cultural meaning.

This study entails a theoretical reading of the Iranian modern history and follows an interdisciplinary agenda at the intersection of philosophy, psychoanalysis, economics, and politics and intends to offer a novel framework for the analysis of socio-economic development in Iran in the modern era.

In this book, Arjun Tremblay considers the future of multiculturalism, contextualised within an ideological and political shift to the right.

Grounded in the Weberian tradition, Islam and Democracy in South Asia: The Case of Bangladesh presents a critical analysis of the complex relationship between Islam and democracy in South Asia and Bangladesh.

This book provides a unique analysis of prisons and the violence at work inside them.

This book analyses the debates on colonial genocide in the 21st century and introduces cases where states are reluctant to acknowledge genocides.

The original text of this work was published in the French journal Revue d'Histoire et de Philosophie Religieuses.

This book investigates the contested phenomena of Islamophobia, exploring the dichotomous relationship that exists between Islamophobia as a political concept and Islamophobia as a 'real' and tangible discriminatory phenomenon.

This book examines the impact and implications of the relationship between risk and criminal justice in advanced liberal democracies, in the context of the 'revolt against uncertainty' which has underpinned the rise of populist politics across these societies in recent years.

Una trágica historia llena de violaciones a los derechos fundamentales obliga a que en Colombia la investigación sobre Educación en Derechos Humanos sea un deber.

This textbook presents an integrative approach to thinking about research methods for social justice.

This book presents commentaries by a leading international group of peace education scholars and practitioners concerning Reardon's peace education theory and intellectual legacy.

In this book the author argues that judicial activism in respect of the protection of human rights and dignity and the right to due process is an essential element of the democratic rule of law in a constitutional democracy as opposed to being 'judicial overreach'.

This book analyses the UN's Agenda 2030 and reveals that progress is lagging on all five interlocking and interdependent themes that are discussed: conflict prevention, development, peace, justice and human rights.

This book highlights the use of art in human rights, specifically within Africa.

This book addresses key challenges and conflicts arising in extractive industries (mining, oil drilling) concerning the human rights of workers, their families, local communities and other stakeholders.

This volume explores the Western-led liberal order that is claimed to be in crisis.

This book comprehensively examines right-wing extremism (RWE) in Canada, discussing the lengthy history of violence and distribution, ideological bases, actions, organizational capacity and connectivity of these extremist groups.