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  • 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

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Blueprint for Revolution

    How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World

    by Srdja Popovic, Matthew Miller ...
    An urgent and accessible handbook for peaceful protesters, activists, and community organizers—anyone trying to defend their rights, hold their government accountable, or change the worldBlueprint for Revolution will teach you how to• make oppression backfire by playing your opponents’ strongest card against them• identify the “almighty pillars of power” in order to shift the balance of control• ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Nonviolence Handbook

    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

    $10.79 USD

  • 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

    $2.27 USD

  • Beyond the White House

    Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope

    by Jimmy Carter ...
    The president’s personal and passionate account of his twenty-five years in the service of humanitarian effort that won him the Nobel Peace Prize was received with the admiring respect of reviewers and readers and it will stand as the record of his brilliant post-presidential career.This is the story of President Jimmy Carter’s post-presidency, the most admired and productive in the nation’s ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Ultimate Weapon is No Weapon

    Human Security and the New Rules of War and Peace

    by Shannon D. Beebe, Mary H. Kaldor ...
    The twenty-first century has seen millions unemployed. It has seen livelihoods undermined by environmental degradation. Middle-class cities in Europe, Asia, and Africa have become cauldrons of violence and resentment. Tribalism, ethnic nationalism, and religious fundamentalism have flared dangerously, from Russia to Spain. The use of force is unlikely to help. What works when counter-insurgency ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • 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

    $36.49 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

    $14.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $72.99 USD

  • Human Rights

    Current Issues and Controversies

    Edited by Gordon DiGiacomo ...
    Written largely by Canadian scholars for Canadian readers, this overview of contemporary human rights concerns introduces the human rights instruments—provincial, national, and international—which protect Canadians. The volume begins with an outline of the history of human rights before moving on to discuss such important topics as the relationship between political institutions and rights ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

  • Understanding Peace Research

    Methods and Challenges

    Edited by Kristine Hoglund, Magnus Oberg ...
    This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of different methods and sources of information-gathering for peace and conflict students and researchers, as well as the challenges presented by such work.Research on conflict-ridden societies carries special challenges for the collection and evaluation of information about the conflict and its actors. First, due to the nature of information ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Surveillance, Privacy and Security

    Citizens’ Perspectives

    Edited by Michael Friedewald, J. Peter Burgess, Rocco Bellanova, Walter Peissl, Johann Čas ...
    This volume examines the relationship between privacy, surveillance and security, and the alleged privacy–security trade-off, focusing on the citizen’s perspective.Recent revelations of mass surveillance programmes clearly demonstrate the ever-increasing capabilities of surveillance technologies. The lack of serious reactions to these activities shows that the political will to implement them ... Read more

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