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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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Islamophobia: The New Anti-Semitism?
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Lost and Found: Communism Nostalgia and Communist Chic Among Poland’s Old and Young Generations
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“In Kreuzberg, there are no foreigners!” Scrutinizing Berlin’s diversity
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A Needle in Red Flesh: The Dynamics between a Former Stasi Prison and its Town
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Decent Housekeeping
Decent Housekeeping aims to improve the working conditions of domestic workers in the Netherlands by raising awareness among employers.
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Visiting the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
If we lived in a just and honorable world, this would not be our only museum visit in Washington DC. We would also be spending time at one dedicated to the history of black/white relations in the US.
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P!oneers: A Discussion with Ambassador Renée Jones-Bos
Renée Jones-Bos leads a discussion at the P!oneers conference in New York City on November 20, 2009. Renée Jones-Bos is the former Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United States. Beginning in 2011, she now serves as the Director-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague.
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P!oneers' Project Presentations
Watch the Project Presentations from the P!oneers session in New York City on November 20, 2009.
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.