The metamorphosis of Buddhism synchronizing with alterations in political ideology, rapid economic growth, and evolving societal demands in China's new era is the focus of this book.
Shortlisted for the 2024 British-Kuwait Friendship Society PrizeAn estimated 300,000 people have been detained or have died in prison since the Syrian uprising broke out.
Nationalism, Religious Violence, and Hate Speech in Nineteenth-Century Western Europe critically analyses the role played by different memories of past religious violence in public debates in nineteenth-century Europe.
El Comando Conjunto fue un organismo represivo de la dictadura chilena del que nada se sabía hasta que uno de sus agentes –Andrés Valenzuela Morales, alias Papudo– desertó y, arriesgando la vida, entregó su testimonio.
Deaf Walls Speak presents an insider's view of artmaking in Guantanamo, the world's most notorious prison, as self-expression and protest, and to stage a fundamental human rights claim that has been denied by law and politics: the right to be recognized as human.
Secularism and Islam in Bangladesh comprehensively analyses the syncretistic form of Bengali Islam and its relationship with secularism in Bangladesh from pre-British to contemporary times.
Shortlisted for the 2024 British-Kuwait Friendship Society PrizeAn estimated 300,000 people have been detained or have died in prison since the Syrian uprising broke out.
A gripping reconstruction of the daring escape to freedom of hundreds of East Germans in the summer of 1989 - and how it led to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
'Outstanding' JOHN PRESTON | 'Extraordinary' THE TIMES | 'A master-storyteller' ANDREW ROBERTS | 'Vivid and compelling' IRISH TIMES | 'Psychologically shrewd' IRISH INDEPENDENT | 'A page-turning finale' HISTORY TODAY | 'Superb' TELEGRAPH *5 STARS*Celebrated reformer and proud nationalist, romantic radical and vilified traitor: this is the story of Roger Casement, one of the 20th century s most complex and compelling individuals.
Secularism and Islam in Bangladesh comprehensively analyses the syncretistic form of Bengali Islam and its relationship with secularism in Bangladesh from pre-British to contemporary times.
Los mecanismos de justicia transicional y la sociedad necesitan tener acceso a los archivos de inteligencia y contrainteligencia utilizados en el marco del conflicto armado.
An indispensable resource for understanding religion's place in American schools and in matters concerning the separation of church and state in the United States.
The Dream of Social Justice and Bad Moral Luck examines the intertwined lives of five women and three men, Russian Jews in the first half of the twentieth century, as their belief in social transformation unraveled.
Este libro busca contribuir al difícil debate sobre cómo compatibilizar los imperativos de la justicia y los derechos de las víctimas con las dinámicas propias de una negociación de paz.
Esta cartilla ofrece una reflexión teórica en torno a la implementación del trabajo regional en ciencias sociales y humanas, bajo lo que Dejusticia ha denominado investigación anfibia – investigación-acción –.
Collecting authoritative contributions, Psychoanalytic, Psychosocial, and Human Rights Perspectives on Enforced Disappearance combines the life experience of victims with the expertise of scholars and practitioners of human rights, psychoanalysis, and artists to compose a picture that renders the complexity of this crime in its legal, psychological, and social aspects.
The revolutionary upheaval currently sweeping across Western democracies on parade under the banner term woke calls for rethinking the foundations of ethics and politics.
Mit den Landtagswahlen 2023 vor der Tür richtet sich das WOCHENSCHAU-Sonderheft "Landtagswahlen Hessen" an hessische Schüler*innen, insbesondere im wahlfähigen Alter.
A pesar de la larga trayectoria en la protección y promoción de los derechos humanos de las organizaciones de la sociedad civil (OSC) venezolanas, y de su importante rol en la superación de la crisis que atraviesa el país, su voz no es ampliamente difundida y la mirada de la comunidad internacional se ha centrado principalmente en atender las consecuencias de la crisis.
This book presents various forms of human trafficking, a growing trend in the exploitation of large numbers of people with concurrent public health, socio-cultural, and economic costs to countries burdened with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.
To consider the problems of high litigation costs and delay that burden both plaintiffs and defendants, average citizens and large corporations, Senator Joseph R.
** #4 New York Times bestseller **In Democracy Awakening, American historian Heather Cox Richardson examines how, over the decades, an elite minority have made war on American ideals.
This book provides the first comprehensive history of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the central aid agency of the Religious Society of Friends or Quakers, from 1917 to 1945.
