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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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How to Fix Democracy with Ambassador Norman Eisen
From Prague, where he served as Ambassador from the United States, Norman Eisen discusses the ups and downs of democracy in the Czech city over the course of the 20th century.
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How to Fix Democracy with Soraya Chemaly
Soraya Chemaly challenges the idea that democracy in the United States was every "unbroken." Click to learn more.
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Reflections on Social Cohesion/Social Coercion
Israel, Germany and the US are facing deeply divisive issues of national identity—and nationalism, often in its extreme incarnation—that derive from diverse populations and their leaders—issues that involve race, religion and national boundaries and histories.
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Tech & Society: Take Action! Design a Community-Driven Digital Project
The second webinar in the Tech & Society series, pioneered by Bertelsmann-Humanity in Action Professional Fellow Nicole Chi (2015 Paris Fellowship), features founding Executive Director of Heat Seek Noelle Francois and the cofounder and creative director of Foossa Lee-Sean Huang.
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How to Fix Democracy with Adrian Wooldridge
Adrian Wooldridge, political editor and Bagehot columnist at The Economist, speaks with Andrew Keen on how to reinvent liberalism.
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How to Fix Democracy with Carol Anderson
Hear how Professor Anderson’s research and teaching focus on public policy reveals how domestic and international policies intersect through the issues of race, justice and equality in the United States.
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How to Fix Democracy with David Runciman
David Runciman, Professor of Politics in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, talks about his take on the challenges to democracy in the second installment of How to Fix Democracy.
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How to Fix Democracy with Michael Ignatieff
See Michael Ignatieff, esteemed rector and president of Central European University, gives his insights on the state of democracy.
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.