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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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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.
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How to Fix Democracy with Carol Anderson
Season 5, Episode 10, features Dr. Carol Anderson, professor of African American Studies at Emory University. The episode discusses America in the post-World War II years when it emerged as the world's leading democratic country.
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The Digital Canvas of Revolution: How Online Art Redraws the Lines of Democracy and Diversity
Senior Landecker Fellow Nikola Lero wrote an opinion piece discussing how online art redraws the lines of democracy and diversity.
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How to Fix Democracy with Kevin Baker
Season 5, Episode 9, features writer and editor Kevin Baker who discusses the Interwar Era’s Cultural and Political Evolution in the US.
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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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Conflict: Beyond the Binary
Landecker Fellow Sujin Julia Noël wrote an opinion piece on the dangers of a single story and a binary narrative.
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How to Fix Democracy with Jill Watts
Season 5, Episode 8, features Jill Watts, author of The Black Cabinet, who shares the untold story of African Americans and politics during the age of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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.