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Self-determination and the Irish Nation / Pat Doherty -- A review of the role of international organization in global peacekeeping / Lord Nazir Ahmed -- Self-determination and civil service advocacy / André Frankovitz -- Peoples' tribunals as a counter to ebbing UN support for self-determination / Karen Parker -- Self-determination in International law and in practice / G. N. Fai -- The role of the UN in Kashmir / Victoria Schofield -- Gwine on : The Gullah/Geechee season of self-determination / Quen Quet/Marquetta L. Goodwine -- Self-determination and systemic restorative justice : the Saami in Norway / Ragnhild L. Nystad -- The political economy of genocide : a case study of the Blackfoot Nation / James Craven -- Peoples of Afro descent and the right to self-determination / Ida Hakim -- Side-stepping state recalcitrance : a Dalit proposal / Henry Thiagaraj, Gohar Ayub Khan, N.A. Shawl -- Self-determination for the 21st century : a matter of coming together / Ramon Nenadich -- Strengthening international civil society as a counter to powerful interests / Farooq Siddiqi -- Creating a human rights culture : toward a global consensus on the interdependency of rights / Joseph Wronka -- The effectiveness of action by international civil society / Lars Rise -- A resume of the discussions on self-determination / Sardar Mohammad Anwar

This publication records papers presented to an unprecedented International Consultation wich was held in Sarajevo in November 2005. At the invitation of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation/Office Sarajevo and the Abrahamic Forum of the International Council of Christians and Jews, about forty leading experts and representatives of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim communities from eleven countries came together to discuss "Visions of a Just Society - Fears, Hopes, and Chances for Living together in a Globalized World from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives Focusing on South Eastern Europe". Illustrating the many facets of the topic and reflecting the variety of approaches to it, the volume also invites the reader to pick up the thread and continue the discussion on building a multi-ethnic, multi-religious, multi-cultural society that rightly may be called a just society, a society that allows, and guarantees, peaceful living together of all its memebers irrespective of their cultural or ethnic background, faith and political orientation.

Preliminary Material -- 1. Introduction to Essential Cases on Human Rights for the Police -- 1. Introduction to Police Powers and Respect for Human Rights -- 2. Right to Life -- 3. Prohibition of Torture -- 4. Right to Liberty and Security of Person -- 5. Prohibition of Arbitrary Interference with Privacy -- 1. Introduction to Police Functions and Protection of Human Rights -- 2. Right to a Fair Trial -- 3. Right to Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion -- 4. Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression -- 5. Right to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association -- 1. Introduction to Police Behaviour in Times of Armed Conflict, Disturbance and Tension -- 2. Respect for and Protection of Human Rights -- 3. International Crimes -- Table of Cases -- Table of Instruments.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- Dedication -- Introduction -- PART I BRITISH AMERICA -- 1 Robert Middlekauff (1980), 'Why Men Fought in the American Revolution', Huntington Library Quarterly, 43, pp. 135-48. -- 2 Joseph S. Tiedemann (1986), 'Patriots by Default: Queens County, New York, and the British Army, 1776-1783', William and Mary Quarterly, 43, pp. 35-63. -- 3 Albert H. Tillson Jr (1988), 'The Localist Roots of Backcountry Loyalism: An Examination of Popular Political Culture in Virginia's New River Valley', Journal of Southern History, 54, pp. 387-404. -- 4 Wayne E. Lee (2001), 'Early American Ways of War: A New Reconaissance, 1600-1815', Historical Journal, 44, pp. 269-89. -- 5 Piers Mackesy (1963), 'British Strategy in the War of American Independence', Yale Review, 52, pp. 539-57. -- 6 E. Wayne Carp (1983), 'The Origins of the Nationalist Movement of 1780-1783: Congressional Administration and the Continental Army', Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 107, pp. 263-92. -- PART II FRANCE -- 7 Harvey Chisick (2002), 'Public Opinion and Political Culture in France During the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century', English Historical Review, 117, pp. 48-77. -- 8 Vivian R. Gruder (1984), 'Paths to Political Consciousness: The Assembly of Notables of 1787 and the "Pre-Revolution" in France', French Historical Studies, 13, pp. 323-55. -- 9 Sarah Maza (1989), 'Politics, Culture, and the Origins of the French Revolution', Journal of Modern History, 61, pp. 704-23. -- 10 Munro Price (1990), 'The "Ministry of the Hundred Hours": A Reappraisal', French History, 4, pp. 317-39. -- 11 Samuel F. Scott (1975), 'Problems of Law and Order during 1790, the "Peaceful" Year of the French Revolution', American Historical Review, 80, pp. 859-88

A number of major blockades, including the Continental System in the Napoleonic Wars, the War of 1812, the American Civil War, and World Wars I and II, in addition to the increased use of peacetime blockades and sanctions with the hope of avoiding war, are examined in this book. The impact of technology and organizational changes on the nature of blockades and their effectiveness as military measures are discussed. Legal, economic, and political questions are explored to understand the various constraints upon belligerent behavior. The analysis draw upon the extensive amount of quantitative material available from military publications

Human security and 'new multilateralisms -- Introduction : a decade of human security : what prospects for global governance and new multilateralisms? / Timothy M. Shaw, Sandra J. MacLean, David R. Black -- Whose security? : innovation and responsibility, perception and reality / Ian Smillie -- Global legalism and human security / Antonio Franceschet -- EU foreign policy motivation : a mix of human security and realist elements / Rory Keane -- Canada : a contradictory human security agenda -- Mapping the interplay of human security practice and debates : the Canadian experience / David R. Black -- Human security in the national interest? : Canada, POGG and the "new" multilateralism / George A. MacLean -- Diminishing human security : the Canadian case / Heather A. Smith -- The "freedom from fear" agenda : operational issues -- Human security and corporate governance : a critical assessment of Canada's human security agenda / Elizabeth Blackwood -- Two Africas? : two Ugandas? : an African "democratic developmental state"? : or another "failed state"? Timothy M. Shaw -- A true measure of success? : the discourse and practice of human security in Haiti / Robert Muggah and Keith Krause -- Bringing in "freedom from want" -- Toward a more inclusive global governance and enhanced human security / Catherine Schittecatte -- A silent killer : HIV/AIDS metaphors and human (in)security in southern Africa / Rebecca Tiessen -- The "securitization" of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa : a critical feminist lens / Colleen O'Manique -- Research advances and objectives -- Peacebuilding research and North-South research relationships : perspectives, opportunities and challenges / Pam Scholey -- The organization for social science research in eastern and southern Africa's contributions to human security research in Africa / Alfred G. Nhema -- Postscriptum : prospects for the next decade / Timothy M. Shaw, David R. Black, Sandra J. MacLean

Despite the rhetoric of Western leaders, democracies are great and frequent war-makers and interventionists. This fact stands in a strange contrast to the liberal self-image of democracies being particularly peaceful. Addressing this contrast, this book turns the 'democratic peace' theme on its head and looks for the causes of their militancy

"Examines Charles Brannan's agricultural plan, the farm policy debate, and Harry S. Truman's quest for a long-range agricultural program. Assesses Truman's relationships with farmers and with politicians and the search for a workable peacetime program, especially as it related to the parity price foundation and price supports" - Provided by publisher

Choose profit over market share -- Learn to compete peacefully -- Change the way you form your assumptions -- Use internal data to find profit opportunities -- Uncover preferences and willingness to pay -- Optimize your marketing mix to capture the highest additional profit -- Raise your prices to get the profit you deserve -- Don't ingratiate yourself with customers -- Align your incentives to focus on profit -- Get your market communication under control -- Epilogue: it's time to cash in your profit opportunities

There is a vigorous debate about the merits of globalisation for developing countries. Based on numerous focus-group discussions and over 10,000 interviews, this book studies economic and cultural openness from the perspective of the public in four developing or 'transitional' countries: Vietnam, (South) Korea, the Czech Republic and Ukraine (both before and after the Orange Revolution). It finds many supporters of opening up, but also many who are discontented with its downsides and who expect states to tackle the exploitation and unfairness that accompany it. Among the most fervent enemies of openness there is support not just for peaceful public protest to tackle the problems it brings, but for violence or sabotage. The methodology provides a unique opportunity for the public in developing countries to 'speak with their own voices' about markets and openness - and highlights the subtlety, ambiguity, tensions, conflicts and emotion that statistics alone fail to capture

A comprehensive introduction to the rapidly growing research area of peace psychology. Both a topic in its own right and studied within courses on peace studies, conflict studies and subsidiaries of psychology, international relations and politics, peace psychology is a practically and theoretically important area. This textbook covers the whole research literature focusing on research since the end of the cold war but also incorporating aspects of earlier literature which retain contemporary relevance. The content includes an introductory chapter outlining the growth of the field and continues to cover interdisciplinary practice (international relations, education, feminist studies and ethics), primary psychological topics (development, social psychology, psychodynamics and cognition), core topics from peace studies (conflict resolution, crisis management, non-violence, peacemaking and peacebuilding, specific locations such as the middle East and sustainable development) and terrorism (threats and victims). This is a unique textbook that will appeal to students and practitioners alike

Is Kosova a late creation of the Yugoslav state and should it be considered the cradle of the Serb nation? -- Were Albanians always on the side of the Ottoman Empire against Christian powers? -- Is it true that Albanians in Kosova are not Albanians, but descendants from albanized Serbs? -- Is the Muslim conversion of Albanians the main cause of the estrangement between the Slavs and Albanians? -- Is it true that Albanians invaded Kosova? -- Is it true that Albanians are responsible for an orchestrated campaign to destroy Kosova's cultural heritage in modern times? -- Have ethnic and religious animosities caused the destruction of the artistic and cultural heritage of Kosova during the Ottoman -- Was the Albanian opposition to the Serb kingdoms annexation in 1912 without justification? -- Is the complaint about the Serb states deportation policy of Albanians between the two World Wars based on myth? -- Is it true that Tito's Yugoslav policies favored Albanians in Kosova? -- Is it true that Albanians collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II? -- Did Albanians in Kosova breach their voluntary commitment to join Yugoslavia in 1945? -- Have Albanians been against a peaceful solution to the question of Kosova's autonomy? -- Have Albanian terrorism and separatism been the cause of the Yugoslav State violence during the 1990s? -- Was the KLA a criminal, terrorist and islamist organization? -- Was the 1999 NATO intervention an illegal war against the former republic of Yugoslavia? -- Is it true that there is no right of self-determination for Kosova? -- Is it true that the NATO bombing and the KLA were responsible for the Albanian refugee crisis in the spring of 1999 and that the number of Albanians killed during the war has been grossly exaggerated? -- Were Albanians responsible for reverse ethnic cleansing after the war? -- Is it true that Albanians are incapable of ensuring security for Serbs in Kosova, that partition is the only solution, and that an independent Kosova will inevitably be a mono-ethnic state? -- Is it true that a human rights culture, respectful of minorities, is impossible in Kosova? -- Would an independent Kosova be an islamist state? -- Would Kosova be incapable of surviving economically as an independent state? -- Is it true that Kosova cannot govern itself and needs further international tutelage or conditional independence? -- Is it true that Kosova is a clannish society still regulated by the kanun, or the customary law, and does not belong to the west? -- Is greater Albania a threat? -- Is it true that Kosova independence would destabilize the Balkans and endanger the possibility of stabilizing other areas of the world, for example, Chechnya or Nagorno Karabach? -- Is it true that decentralization is the key to security and stability in Kosova?

The year 2004 marked the 150th anniversary of the signing of the first treaty of peace and amity (Treaty of Kanagawa) between the United States and Japan - a treaty which over time has both bloomed and failed, and falls into three phases, each lasting for a period of approximately fifty years. Phase one, which began in a context of force majeure but ended positively, lasted until the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5; phase two began positively with the Treaty of Portsmouth which followed, but ended disastrously with the outbreak of the Pacific War; phase three began in 1952 with the San Francisco Peace Treaty and continues today. The author, who offers a significant Japanese view of the alliance as both a scholar and high-ranking military officer, explores the history, but also poses the question, what will be the relationship for the next fifty years. Through a close analysis of the nature of alliances, current issues and specific case studies, including the impact of a possible peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula, he concludes that for the long-term stability of the Asia Pacific region, a continuing interdependent relationship between Japan and the US is a sine qua non. Fumio Ota is a Vice Admiral (ret'd) of the Japanese Naval Defense Forces, and until recently, was Director of Japan's Defense Intelligence Headquarters

Because religion is so central to the lives and experience of the vast majority of people throughout the world, it figures very prominently in a variety of ways in interhuman relations. Unfortunately, 'religion' often appears to be one of the potent sources of mistrust, discord and strife between and among individuals, groups and cultures. What frequently lies at the root of such suspicion and dissension is general ignorance concerning the religious other, a lack of knowledge about his or her beliefs, aspirations and views of the good and morally honorable life. And even if people have some factual knowledge about other religions, they regularly display little understanding of them and their adherents. Learning both to know and understand people of other faiths and their religions is absolutely requisite to the realization of paradigms of coherent and intelligent 'convivance,' that is, living together in sensible, peaceable and cooperative harmony. An effective agency for fostering such knowledge and understanding is the discipline of theology of religions, which examines how religions have and ought to view other religions. And it is particularly the practice of comparative theology of religions which bears the most promise in this regard. The present symposium consists of precisely this kind of comparative exercise and may be viewed as an important contribution to the development of a new project which endeavors to enlarge the horizon and broaden the focus and reflection of theology of religions as that has been gradually developed during the last few decades, a new enterprise, in other words, which seeks to universalize and mutualize theology-of-religions discourse. One of the important things this volume shows is that the views religions have of other religions differ from one another in very substantial ways, which is explained by the fact that they derive from diverging paradigms of faith, belief and ritual and specific cultural and social contexts. This textbook demonstrates how strongly different Hindu, Buddhist, Shinto and Confucian views are from those of Islam, Judaism and Christianity, which latter in turn also exhibit considerable differences among themselves. These differences are greater than people immersed in their own cultures often realize or expect. It is becoming ever more clear that ignorance of or disinclination to acknowledge or refusal to accept these real differences constitute major root causes of serious conflicts in the world. The essays in this book, written by representatives of the major world religions, offer descriptive and/or prescriptive appraisals of other religions in general or one other religion in particular from the perspective of the religion of the author concerned. It is hoped that this unique exercise in intercultural theology of religions will generate insights and new forms of understanding which can be used by religious leaders and other educators to help correct the disposition toward religious haughtiness, insularity and communalism and the dangerous leanings toward interreligious suspicion, antipathy and animosity which are all too often evident in our contemporary societies