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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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'COLONIALISM' - from the 2022 HUMAN RIGHTS Cph Fellowship podcast series
Learn more about the role of colonialism and education in the present day relationship between Denmark and Greenland as well as the two countries' shared history. This podcast is created by Maida Zagorac, Paulina Saerbeck, and Sonya Zayneb Ouertani during the 2022 Copenhagen Fellowship.
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'RAISING A RED FLAG' - from the 2022 HUMAN RIGHTS Cph Fellowship podcast series
Can a flag be apolitical? Listen to this podcast from the 2022 Copenhagen Fellows and learn more about Greenland, the Faroe Islands and Denmark's shared history and how the flag has come to play a role in it.
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'THE ARCTIC WINTER GAMES' - from the 2022 HUMAN RIGHTS Cph Fellowship podcast series
Did you know that the Inuit game of 'finger pulling' has become an official discipline in the Arctic Winter Games? Have you even heard about the Arctic Winter Games? Learn about Finger Pulling, its history and meaning, and the olympics of the Arctic in this podcast from the 2022 Cph Fellowship
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How to Fix Democracy with Cynthia Miller-Idriss
Season 4 Episode 5 titled "The Health of American Democracy" features Cynthia Miller-Idriss, director of the Polarization and Extremism Research Innovation Lab (PERIL), and author of "Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right," who has focused her research on these issues and how our society can overcome them.
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My Father's War: Educational Materials, Resources, and Inspirations
On this page you find a variety of educational tools and resources to enrich the viewing experience of the film "My Father's War" in your classroom or in a non-formal educational setting.
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"Wild Hearts": On witnessing hope, love, and resiliency behind bars
Read a short story by Senior Fellow Cassandra Meador on the real magic of the Poetic Justice.
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How to Fix Democracy with Andrea Young
Season 4 Episode 4 titled "Racial Injustice & Voting Rights in the United States" features Andrea Young, the executive director of the ACLU in Georgia and a lifelong advocate of voting and civil rights in the United States.
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Education is a way to change. Book and workshop “About Hate Speech and Hate”
News about our latest interactive book “About Hate Speech and Hate” is spreading to more and more people!
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.