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The New Generation Voices Video Series
In the New Generation Voices series, the Bertelsmann Foundation in partnership with Humanity in Action Germany has created a collection of digital animations portraying how young Germans and Americans see common global challenges and how the future can be shaped best by working together.
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Wilhemina Welsch: From Knowing to Doing - Affective Bureaucracies as a Tool for Future Proof Governance
In the current polycrises context, building synergies across disciplines is the only way to address global challenges. Only truly open platforms and networks composed of human and non-human communities, particularly of those that have not had a voice, can go beyond mere inclusion and ensure participation in decision-making.
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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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Maja Bogojević: Challenging the Illusion of Participation
The Summit of the Future 2024 holds the promise of transformative change through meaningful youth participation and empowerment. By challenging the illusion of participation, establishing global standards, and promoting education and active citizenship, we can empower youth to shape their futures.
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Lukas Goltermann: Reforming International Financing for Sustainable Development (Policy Brief)
This policy brief explores the challenges of the current system and proposes actionable solutions that should be further explored at the United Nations Summit of the Future and the Fourth International Conference on Financing Development in 2025.
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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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Surayya Walters: The 4I Matrix withIN for Global Governance 2050
The 4I Matrix withIn can be a welcome companion to this year’s UN Summit of The Future by encouraging understanding and implementation of SDGs in a manner that is intercultural, interrelated, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational.
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Niels Bak: Charting the Path to Transformative Change: From Advisory Power to Real Influence in Global Governance
The Declaration on Future Generations underscores the responsibility of today's generations to ensure the prosperity and security of future ones. It fosters a sustainable and equitable global community.
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Cate Schultz: Revitalizing Global Solidarity and Governance Through Children's Rights - The Role of Play and Science
The fundamental child rights to both free play and scientific knowledge are not sufficiently recognized, emphasized in policy, nor a key focus of international dialogue.
Humanity in Action Press
Discover some of the publications from our in-house publisher:
Pre-Genocide - Warnings and Readiness to Protect
An anthology of personal interpretations, by researchers and writers, about alarm bells and the readiness to protect prior to genocides. The essays in this volume focus on the 1930s before the Holocaust in Germany, Poland, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and Denmark - as well as the years before the genocides in Armenia, Cambodia, Kurdistan, Rwanda and Bosnia.
On People with Disabilities
What would happen if Hermione Granger was a girl with a disability? Why is disability is rarely discussed in terms of diversity? Who are people with disabilities?
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.
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.