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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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Landecker Fellow Asha Iman Veal - Promoting Solidarity Through Art
Humanity in Action spoke to Landecker Fellow Asha Iman Veal to check in on her Fellowship project.
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Landecker Fellow Asha Shajahan - Addressing Misinformation Around COVID-19
Humanity in Action spoke to Dr. Asha Shajahan about her Fellowship project.
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"I've spent my life without internet" - Manuela Evans article as part of Adam Echelman's Landecker Action Project
In his action project, Landecker Fellow Adam Echelman is amplifying voices of those who usually don't get the spotlight.
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How to Fix Democracy with David Stasavage
Season Three Episode Thirteen "Non-Western Democracies" features David Stasavage, the Dean for Social Sciences at New York University and the author of The Decline and Rise of Democracy. Stasavage and host Andrew Keen go over some non-western examples of early democracies, departing from the lineage of Athenian democracy.
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LandeckerFellow Flavia Matei - Migrant Care Workers in Austria
Humanity in Action spoke to #LandeckerFellow Flavia Matei about her Fellowship project.
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How to Fix Democracy with DeLesslin “Roo” George-Warren
Season Three Episode Twelve "A Political Wilderness?" features DeLesslin “Roo” George-Warren, a queer artist, researcher, and organizer from Catawba Indian Nation and a Humanity in Action Landecker Fellow. He talks with host Andrew Keen about Catawba Nation views of property, democracy, and the environment in the search for an indigenous view of the meaning of citizenship.
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How To Fix Democracy with Roya Hakakian
Season Three Episode Eleven "Citizenship July 4th," features Roya Hakakian, a writer and poet and the author of A Beginner's Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious. Talking just before July 4th, host Andrew Keen speaks with Roya about her own experience coming to the U.S. from Iran, the meaning of America’s Independence Day, and what we should think about during the holiday.
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How To Fix Democracy Live Session with Ben Rhodes
The Bertelsmann Foundation North America, Humanity in Action, and the Canadian Institute for Citizenship hosted a live discussion about why democracy is so broken both in America and around the world and what we can do to fix it.
Humanity in Action Press
Discover some of the publications from our in-house publisher:
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?
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.
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.