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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “benjamin lessing”
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  • Making Peace in Drug Wars

    Crackdowns and Cartels in Latin America

    by Benjamin Lessing ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    Over the past thirty years, a new form of conflict has ravaged Latin America's largest countries, with well-armed drug cartels fighting not only one another but the state itself. In Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil, leaders cracked down on cartels in hopes of restoring the rule of law and the state's monopoly on force. Instead, cartels fought back - with bullets and bribes - driving spirals of ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

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  • Little School

    Tales of Disappearance and Survival

    by Alicia Partnoy ...
    One of Argentina's 30,000 "disappeared," Alicia Partnoy was abducted from her home by secret police and taken to a concentration camp where she was tortured, and where most of the other prisoners were killed. Her writings were smuggled out of prison and published anonymously in human rights journals. The Little School is Alicia Partnoy's memoir of her disappearance and imprisonment in Argentina in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Kicking Ass and Saving Souls

    Story of Boy fm Baltimore Who Evolves fm Safecracking, Jewel-Heisting, Deep-Sea Diving, Ultimate-Fighting, International Playboy to a Globetrotting Humanitarian

    by David Matthews ...
    The story of a boy from Baltimore who evolves from a safecracking, jewel-heisting, deep-sea diving, ultimate-fighting, international playboy into a globetrotting humanitarian.Stefan Templeton was born a child of extremes. The son of Ebba, an aristocratic Norwegian love child, and Roye, a militant African American philosopher, Stefan spent his early years shuffling between the discipline of his ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Radovan Karadžič

    Architect of the Bosnian Genocide

    by Robert J. Donia ...
    Radovan Karadžić, leader of the Bosnian Serb nationalists during the Bosnian War (1992–5), stands accused of genocide and other crimes of war before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. This book traces the origins of the extreme violence of the war to the utopian national aspirations of the Serb Democratic Party and Karadžić's personal transformation from an ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Life Reality

    Flower To Life, #9

    by Jean-Nichol Dufour ...
    Series Book 9 - Flower To Life
    This is part 9 of a 12 books suite. In this one, I will invent the basic principles that can form a new system following the conclusions I gained from all my previous writings. ... Read more

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  • Business and Human Rights

    Beyond the End of the Beginning

    Edited by César Rodriguez-Garavito ...
    Series series Globalization and Human Rights
    The regulation of business in the global economy poses one of the main challenges for governance, as illustrated by the dynamic scholarly and policy debates about the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and a possible international treaty on the matter. This book takes on the conceptual and legal underpinnings of global governance approaches to business and human rights, with an ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Human Right to Water

    From Concept to Reality

    Edited by Nandita Singh ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    The discourse on the human right to water presents deliberations on the concept, content and rationale for the right, with little attention to the practical question of translating the right into reality. This book aims to fill this void by focusing on ‘realization’ of the right by its holders, examining how effective the mechanisms are for ‘implementing’ the right in enabling its universal ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Emotions and Mass Atrocity

    Philosophical and Theoretical Explorations

    Edited by Thomas Brudholm, Johannes Lang ...
    The study of genocide and mass atrocity abounds with references to emotions: fear, anger, horror, shame and hatred. Yet we don't understand enough about how 'ordinary' emotions behave in such extreme contexts. Emotions are not merely subjective and interpersonal phenomena; they are also powerful social and political forces, deeply involved in the history of mass violence. Drawing on recent ... Read more

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  • International Disaster Response Law

    Edited by Marco Gestri, Gabriella Venturini, Andrea de Guttry ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    With a Foreword by Kristalina Georgieva, European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis ResponseOver the last decades natural and man-made disasters have been increasing in terms of frequency, size, number of people affected and material damage caused. There is growing awareness of the importance of adequate national and international legal frameworks for disaster ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • New Perspectives on Human Security

    Edited by Malcolm McIntosh, Alan Hunter ...
    This book is testimony to the emergent nature of human security as an idea, as a useful construct and as an operational strategy. The aim is to showcase new directions that may enrich the human security agenda. Some human security discourse is still rooted in the traditional language of the aid-agency/UN development/economic growth models, often hostile to the corporate and business sector, and ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Beyond Disagreement

    Open Remedies in Human Rights Adjudication

    by Aruna Sathanapally ...
    Examining the role of 'open remedies' in human rights adjudication, this book provides a new perspective informing comparative constitutional debates on how to structure institutional relationships over fundamental rights and freedoms. Open remedies declare a human rights violation but invite the other branches of government to decide what corrective action should be taken. Open remedies are ... Read more

    $119.69 USD

  • 'Progress' in Zimbabwe?

    The Past and Present of a Concept and a Country

    Edited by David Moore, Norma Kriger, Brian Raftopoulos ...
    Zimbabwe's severe crisis - and a possible way out of it with a transitional government, and the new era for which it prepares the ground - demands a coherent scholarly response. 'Progress' can be employed as an organising theme across many disciplinary approaches to Zimbabwe's societal devastation. At wider levels too, the concept of progress is fitting. It underpins 'modern', 'liberal' and ... Read more

    $48.99 USD