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Why You Should Ask Your Family Questions About The Past
The past is like the present and the future, far from rigid. It is ever-changing and always moving depending on the perspective of the narrator. In school I was taught about history in a standardized and fixed way, learning so-called key moments and key figures. Which moments and figures do we consider key when learning about history?
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Mable Dube: Charting a Course for Transformative Global Governance
This essay examines how the UN Summit for the Future can reimagine global governance, proposing innovative ideas such as a Global Civic Charter, a Democracy and Human Rights Council, and the use of technology to enhance transparency.
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Gilberto Morishaw: Seeing Through the Scattered Pieces
From cataclysm to catastrophes, skirmishes and uncertainties, there is a high-calling for global institutions, governments and leaders to act upon the meta-crisis the world is living in. The response is scattered. Many people feel that institutions, both domestic and multilateral are failing us. It is not a surprise that we see a rise in democratic decay, political extremism, humanitarian crises, and countless climate disasters.
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A vindication of the rights of all
Senior Landecker Fellow Judith Blijden wrote an opinion piece about what inspired her to create "The Digital Period", her Action Project.
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Landecker Senior Fellow Lievnath Faber - Fighting Antisemitism and Racism
Humanity in Action calls Landecker Fellow Lievnath Faber to talk about her Action Project.
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Landecker Fellow Ireen Kars - Awakening the private sector
Humanity in Action catches up with Ireen Kars on her Action Project.
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Landecker Fellow Zawdie Sandvliet - Bridging the digital divide in Amsterdam
Humanity in Action spoke to Zawdie about his Fellowship project.
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PAX Power to the People x HIA Talks: Activism: profession, hobby, or lifestyle?
In the context of the National Peace Week 2020, Humanity in Action The Netherlands, in collaboration with PAX Power to the People, organized the event ACTIVISM: PROFESSION, HOBBY, OR LIFESTYLE? On Sunday September 20th, 2020, we spoke with several ‘changemakers’ about their activism.
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Shifting Paradigms: Humanity in Action Senior Fellows on Policy and Pluralism Across Borders
Shifting Paradigms is a volume of diverse articles on cross-border policy and pluralism written by Humanity in Action Senior Fellows.
Two Trees in Jerusalem
Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen in her touching account "Two Trees in Jerusalem" tells about the resistance of her parents, Donata and Eberhard Helmrich, against the horrors of National Socialism.
Transatlantic Perspectives on Diplomacy and Diversity
Recognizing the intensification of transnational conflicts that both violently divide and intimately link our global communities, this book is a collection of diverse essays, which tackle international relations and migration.
Humanity in Action: Collected Essays and Talks
Humanity in Action: Collected Essays and Talks is an anthology of written works by Judith Goldstein, the Founder and Executive Director of Humanity in Action. In this collection, Goldstein explores the central themes of Humanity in Action and its educational programming: human rights, the Second World War and the Holocaust, diversity, religious freedom, race relations, civil society and the arts.
Civil Society and the Holocaust: International Perspectives on Resistance and Rescue
In 2013, Humanity in Action Denmark held a conference in Copenhagen to mark the 70th anniversary of the flight and rescue of Danish Jewry. This book was published in association with the “October 1943” conference. The anthology examines how European societies dealt with the knowledge of the Nazi persecution of Jews in very different ways before, during and after the Holocaust.
Reflections on the Holocaust
The first book published by Humanity in Action, Reflections on the Holocaust is a collection of essays from Humanity in Action Fellows, Senior Fellows, Board members and lecturers from 1997 to 2010.