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Municipal Development Partnership. Eastern and Southern Africa. and Association of Local Authorities in Namibia., eds. Enhancing local government capacity through human resources development and institutional strengthening: Report of proceedings on, the municipal management course for African mayors, 20-24 February 2006, Windhoek, Namibia. Municipal Development Partnership, Eastern and Southern, 2006.

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United Nations. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, ed. Institution and human resource capacity building in ASEAN. United Nations, 1999.

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United Nations. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific., ed. Institution and human resource capacity building in ASEAN. United Nations, 1999.

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Soil Management Collaborative Research Support Program. SM CRSP final report, 2002-2008: Building human and institutional capacity to combat land degradation, poverty, and hunger : Cornell University, Montana State University, North Carolina State University, University of Florida, University of Hawaii. Soil Management Collaborative Research Support Program, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, Dept. of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, 2008.

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Alex, Grzybowski, UVic Institute for Dispute Resolution., and Cambodia Capacity Building Project, eds. Building democratic institutions and practices in Cambodia: Proceedings from the Cambodia Commission on Human Rights Capacity Building Project. UVic Institute for Dispute Resolution, 1998.

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Mkomwa, Saidi, and Amir Kassam, eds. Conservation agriculture in Africa: climate smart agricultural development. CABI, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789245745.0000.

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Abstract This book is about Conservation Agriculture (the use of no tillage systems) to preserve soil structure and integrity. It has become an increasingly important step towards sustainable farming. This publication brings together conservation agriculture and climate smart decision making processes for the first time, focusing on Africa. This book brings to the fore scientific and empirical evidence about Conservation Agriculture in Africa, articulated by the Second Africa Congress on Conservation Agriculture (2ACCA) held in Johannesburg in 2018. It describes how farmers in Africa are succe

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Workshop series on human resource capacity building for institutional management in Tanzanian universities: Proceedings. Tanzania Commission for Universities, 2010.

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Bratman, Michael E. Shared and Institutional Agency. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197580899.001.0001.

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Our human lives involve remarkable forms of practical organization: diachronic organization of individual activity, small-scale organization of shared action, and the organization of institutions. A theory of human action should help us understand these multiple forms of human practical organization and their interrelations. This book argues that a key is our capacity for planning agency. Drawing on earlier work on the roles of planning agency in the cross-temporal and small-scale social organization of our agency, this book focuses on the role of our planning agency within our organized insti

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Rukgaber, Matthew. Human as the Other. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350438590.

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Philosophical anthropology investigates what makes us human, but it has produced accounts that exclude some members of our species.It relies often on non-naturalistic “philosophies of consciousness” that locate humanity in the cognitive capacity to objectively represent things, to reason teleologically and use tools, to use symbols and language, or to be self-conscious and question existence. This work pursues an alternative, thoroughly naturalistic philosophical anthropology by combining Arnold Gehlen’s theory of our behaviorally-detached and institutionally-structured impulses with Maurice M

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Hamilton, Kirk, and Gang Liu. Human Capital, Tangible Wealth, and the Intangible Capital Residual. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803720.003.0011.

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Since income is the return on wealth, the total wealth of a country should be around twenty times its GDP. Instead, the average observed ratio from the System of National Accounts (SNA) is a factor of 2.6–6.6. Clearly, wealth accounts are incomplete. Estimating the value of the most obvious omission, human capital, using the lifetime income approach for a sample of thirteen (mostly high-income) countries yields a mean share of human capital in total wealth of 63 per cent—four times the value of produced and fourteen times that of natural capital. But for selected high-income countries an avera

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Gutiérrez Silva, Rodolfo. Challenges facing International Institutions in the Protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Ediciones Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.16925/9789587602760.

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In recent years we have witnessed a great increase in knowledge and technology worldwide which is available to all. However, despite this progress, we still have the same international institutions and mechanisms that we designed after the Second World War. These institutions are characterized by fragmentation, structural dysfunctions such as corruption, lack of resources and a lack of institutional capacity. The objective of this book is to evaluate the challenges facing international institutions and mechanisms in the protection of Economic, Social and Cultural rights. More specifically, it

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Rothstein, Bo. 1. The Relevance of Comparative Politics. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198737421.003.0003.

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This chapter explains what comparative politics could be relevant for, such as informing the public debate and giving policy advice. It argues that comparative politics has a huge but sometimes underdeveloped potential for being relevant for the various aspects of human well-being, economic prosperity, and social justice that most people care deeply about. Empirical research shows that the manner in which a country's political institutions are designed and the quality of the operations of these institutions have a strong impact on measures of population health as well as subjective well-being

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Building capacity of national human rights institutions: The case of Nepal. Right to Education Foundation, 2004.

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Tyler, Tom R. Justice and Human Essence. Edited by Martijn van Zomeren and John F. Dovidio. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190247577.013.6.

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This chapter argues that the human essence involves not only the desire to achieve justice but also the capacity to develop a consensus about what is just. It shows how justice provides the building blocks for cooperation and enhances people’s capacity to cooperate successfully. The chapter examines the role of justice in facilitating conflict management; in legitimating authorities as conflict managers, focusing on how a neutral authority can define the meaning of a fair outcome; and in helping social institutions to function as organizers of human activity. It also considers social identity,

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Decoeur, Henri. The Potential Role of International Criminal Tribunals in the Suppression of State Organized Crime. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198823933.003.0009.

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Chapter 8 outlines the potential merits and challenges of prosecuting individuals suspected of being involved in state organized crime before international criminal courts and tribunals. It identifies potential advantages common to international criminal courts and tribunals, namely the unavailability of jurisdictional immunities as a procedural bar, the greater likelihood of a genuine investigation, the existence of formal rules to deal with concurrent claims of jurisdiction, the capacity to address complex cases of system criminality, and the expressive potential of international criminal co

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Zaitchik, Benjamin F. Climate and Health across Africa. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.555.

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Humans have understood the importance of climate to human health since ancient times. In some cases, the connections appear to be obvious: a flood can cause drownings, a drought can lead to crop failure and hunger, and temperature extremes pose a risk of exposure. In other cases, the connections are veiled by complex or unobserved processes, such that the influence of climate on a disease epidemic or a conflict can be difficult to diagnose. In reality, however, all climate impacts on health are mediated by some combination of natural and human dynamics that cause individuals or populations to

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McDonald, Peter D. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198725152.003.0001.

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The introduction begins by reflecting on how we look at the English writing system and how we think about language, culture, and community. It then explains why the idea of the modern state as an artefact of writing is central to the book. Taking issue with Goody, Watt, McLuhan, and Anderson, all of whom associated the Europeanized modern ‘nation-state’ with the ‘Western’ writing system and/or its traditions of print, it shifts the focus of attention to constitution-making and to the questions Tagore raised about the state’s capacity to grasp human difference. The last sections explain why the

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Onuf, Nicholas Greenwood. Epochal Destruction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879808.003.0011.

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Often we hear that modernism is all about speed. Better to say that modernism marked the age of acceleration, an explosion in rates of change. Today we routinely link capitalism and the metaphor of explosive growth. Capitalism threatens to consume everything in its path, producing great destruction along the way. This is conspicuously so with the advent of modern war epochally transformed by the modernist acceleration of technical innovation. Appalling loss of human life and systematic destruction of productive capacity inspired a world order movement obdurately modern in its conceptual underp

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McDonnell, Erin Metz. Patchwork Leviathan. Princeton University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691197364.001.0001.

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Corruption and ineffectiveness are often expected of public servants in developing countries. However, some groups within these states are distinctly more effective and public oriented than the rest. Why? This book explains how a few spectacularly effective state organizations manage to thrive amid general institutional weakness and succeed against impressive odds. Drawing on the Hobbesian image of the state as Leviathan, the book argues that many seemingly weak states actually have a wide range of administrative capacities. Such states are in fact patchworks sewn loosely together from scarce

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McMorrow, Sean. Power to Assume Form. Rowman & Littlefield, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978734531.

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The Power to Assume Form: Cornelius Castoriadis and Regulative Regimes of Historicity examines the major contribution of Cornelius Castoriadis’s work, which elucidated the role of the social imaginary within human societies. What is significant, Sean McMorrow argues, is that Castoriadis’s work presents a unique perspective on the regimes of historicity; modes of instituting power that establish the legitimacy of institutional order in relation to the extensive social imaginary articulations of the world. The author assesses Castoriadis’s theorization of the radically creative capacity of the s

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Baer, Madeline. Water for Life. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190693152.003.0005.

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Chapter 5 provides a case study of the human rights-based approach to water policy through an analysis of the Bolivian government’s attempts to implement the human right to water and sanitation. It explores these efforts at the local and national level, through changes to investments, institutions, and policies. The analysis reveals that while Bolivia meets the minimum standard for the human right to water and sanitation in some urban areas, access to quality water is low in poor and marginalized communities. While the Bolivian government expresses a strong political will for a human rights ap

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Henke, Marina E. Constructing Allied Cooperation. Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501739699.001.0001.

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How do states overcome problems of collective action in the face of human atrocities, terrorism and the threat of weapons of mass destruction? How does international burden-sharing in this context look like? This book addresses these questions. It demonstrates that coalitions do not emerge naturally; rather, pivotal states deliberately build them. They develop operational plans and bargain suitable third parties into the coalition. Pulling apart the strategy behind multilateral military coalition-building, the book looks at the ramifications and side effects as well. Via these ties, pivotal st

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Dryzek, John S., and Jonathan Pickering. The Politics of the Anthropocene. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198809616.001.0001.

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The Politics of the Anthropocene is a sophisticated yet accessible treatment of how human institutions, practices, and principles need to be re-thought in response to the challenges of the Anthropocene, the emerging epoch of human-induced instability in the Earth system and its life-support capacities. However, the world remains stuck with practices and modes of thinking that were developed in the Holocene – the epoch of around 12,000 years of unusual stability in the Earth system, toward the end of which modern institutions such as states and capitalist markets arose. These institutions persi

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Brysk, Alison. Acting Globally. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190901516.003.0003.

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Chapter 3 chronicles the international repertoire that has grown to respond to gender violence. We will trace the growth, rationale, and mechanisms of the regime. Global standards and programs, regional organizations, foreign aid and diplomacy, and cross-cutting development and health linkages have raised consciousness, empowered advocacy, diffused law, fostered policy, and built capacity to contest violence. We will see how global action against gender violence has evolved from humanitarian protection to human rights to broad connections with multiple facets of human security and development.

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Kumar, Victor, and Richmond Campbell. A Better Ape. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197600122.001.0001.

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A Better Ape explores the evolution of the moral mind from our ancestors with chimpanzees, through the origins of our genus and our species, to the development of behaviorally modern humans who underwent revolutions in agriculture, urbanization, and industrial technology. The book begins, in Part I, by explaining the biological evolution of sympathy and loyalty in great apes and trust and respect in the earliest humans. These moral emotions are the first element of the moral mind. Part II explains the gene-culture co-evolution of norms, emotions, and reasoning in Homo sapiens. Moral norms of h

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Tsutsui, Kiyoteru. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190853105.003.0005.

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The conclusion summarizes key findings of the empirical chapters and offers an answer to the core puzzle of the book about the rise of minority activism since the 1970s: it was global human rights ideas and institutions that transformed the movement actorhood of all three minority groups in Japan, galvanizing their activism and enabling their significant gains. The chapter also underscores the book’s theoretical contributions, pointing to the need to understand the capacity of global human rights to transform movement actorhood, rather than to assume rational actors with set interests, and ill

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Tallberg, Jonas, Karin Bäckstrand, and Jan Aart Scholte. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826873.003.0001.

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Legitimacy is central for the capacity of global governance institutions to address problems such as climate change, trade protectionism, and human rights abuses. However, despite legitimacy’s importance for global governance, its workings remain poorly understood. That is the core concern of this volume, which engages with the overarching question: whether, why, how, and with what consequences global governance institutions gain, sustain, and lose legitimacy. This introductory chapter explains the rationale of the book, introduces its conceptual framework, reviews existing literature, and pre

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Straume, Ingerid S. How Does a Society Change? The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798881811273.

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One of the most challenging questions of today concerns how human activities threaten the conditions for our very own existence. With one crisis leading into the next, the need for socio-political change is necessary and desirable, yet so hard to imagine in practice. At the heart of the matter is a deeper crisis of the socio-political imagination. To understand how a society produces and changes itself, Ingerid S. Straume points to historical and contemporary institutions and the imaginaries they embody, and argues that the key to social creativity is found in the reflexive potential of instit

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Tallberg, Jonas, Karin Bäckstrand, and Jan Aart Scholte, eds. Legitimacy in Global Governance. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826873.001.0001.

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Legitimacy is central for the capacity of global governance institutions to address problems such as climate change, trade protectionism, and human rights abuses. However, despite legitimacy’s importance for global governance, its workings remain poorly understood. That is the core concern of this volume: to develop an agenda for systematic and comparative research on legitimacy in global governance. In complementary fashion, the chapters address different aspects of the overarching question: whether, why, how, and with what consequences global governance institutions gain, sustain, and lose l

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Bågenholm, Andreas, Monika Bauhr, Marcia Grimes, and Bo Rothstein, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the Quality of Government. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198858218.001.0001.

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Recent research demonstrates that the quality of public institutions is crucial for a number of important environmental, social, economic, and political outcomes, and thereby human well-being broadly conceived. The Quality of Government (QoG) approach directs attention to issues such as impartiality in the exercise of public power, professionalism in public service delivery, effective measures against corruption, and meritocracy instead of patronage and nepotism. The 38 chapters in this handbook offer a comprehensive, state of the art overview of this rapidly expanding research field and also

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Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M., ed. Humanitarianism and Mass Migration. University of California Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520297128.001.0001.

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The world is witnessing a rapid rise in the number of victims of human trafficking and of migrants—voluntary and involuntary, internal and international, authorized and unauthorized. In the first two decades of this century alone, more than 65 million people have been forced to escape home into the unknown. The slow-motion disintegration of failing states with feeble institutions, war and terror, demographic imbalances, unchecked climate change, and cataclysmic environmental disruptions have contributed to the catastrophic migrations that are placing millions of human beings at grave risk. Hum

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Foot, Rosemary. The State, Development, and Humanitarianism. Edited by Alex J. Bellamy and Tim Dunne. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198753841.013.50.

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This chapter outlines China’s major concerns during the various phases of R2P’s development and determines which of Beijing’s positions are most likely to influence its efforts to shape the future trajectory of R2P. First, it discusses R2P’s normative characteristics to demonstrate how these have facilitated the Chinese government’s ability to play a shaping role. Next, it illustrates China’s preferences in the definition and development of R2P, before explaining these preferences. The chapter’s main argument is that Beijing’s beliefs in the primacy of the state have led it to promote the noti

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Gatta, John. Contemplating Site-Based Education and Place-Making. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190646547.003.0006.

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This chapter considers some practical applications of place-based inquiry, beginning with an assessment of site-grounded ventures in learning at collegiate institutions across the United States. Site-based learning amounts to an extension of the long-standing but beleaguered residential model of higher education. Such programs may also expose students to the spirituality of “contemplative ecology,” thereby contributing to one version of holistic education. The chief rationale for contemplative learning in place rests on enlarging students’ awareness and understanding of place, as well as their

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Muirhead, Andrew T. N. Scottish Presbyterianism Re-established. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474447386.001.0001.

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In 1690, the Church of Scotland rejected episcopal authority and settled as Presbyterian. The adjacent Presbyteries of Stirling and Dunblane covered an area that included both lowland and highland communities, speaking both English and Gaelic and supporting both the new government and the old – thus forming a representative picture of the nation as a whole. This book examines the ways in which the two Presbyteries operated administratively, theologically and geographically under the new regime. By surveying and analysing surviving church records from 1687 to 1710 at Presbytery and parish level

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Forst, Rainer. Normativity and Power. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198798873.001.0001.

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Humans are justificatory beings—they offer, demand, and require justifications. The rules and institutions we follow rest on narratives that have evolved over time and, taken together, constitute a dynamic and tension-laden normative order. This book presents a new approach to critical theory. Each chapter reflects on the basic principles that guide our normative thinking. The book's argument goes beyond obsolete “ideal” and “realist” theories and shows how closely the concepts of normativity and power are interrelated, and how power rests on the capacity to influence, determine, and possibly

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Pilisuk, Marc. Who Benefits from Global Violence and War. Praeger, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216035381.

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Military, economic, and environmental violence in the era of globalization cause immense suffering and may ultimately threaten the existence of life as we know it, but author Pilisuk explains that the future can change if we understand and act upon the roots of violence. A professor emeritus of psychology and human and community development, Pilisuk explains how most violence is the product of a human-built social order in which some people and institutions control most of the resources, make the decisions that necessitate violence, and operate with minimal accountability. The common root of w

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Dias, Luciano Souto, Denilson Mascarenhas Gusmão, Mírian Célia Gonçalves de Almeida, and Teodolina Batista da Silva Cândido Vitório. A ressignificação do Direito a partir da pandemia do novo Coronavírus. Brazil Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31012/978-65-5861-073-1.

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The work “Reassignment of Law from the new coronavirus pandemic” is an interdisciplinary collective production idealized under the perceptive lenses of notable scope professionals in the legal universe, working in the various fields of law, in the noble priesthood of the law, judiciary, economics, psychology, masters, doctors and post-doctors, with renowned national and international institutions degrees. The careful reading of this impressive collection shows that the new coronavirus invites to the non-negotiable duty of reflection, both on the large scale suffering it imposed on humanity and

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Flentø, Johnny, and Leonardo Santos Simao. Donor relations and sovereignty. UNU-WIDER, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35188/unu-wider/2020/892-4.

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As a sovereign country, Mozambique initially relied on international solidarity and managed its donor relations well. Donor dependency entailed some loss of agency for the government as it allowed donors to challenge its capacity but never its authority. However, in the last decade, donor countries have expressed disappointment with reforms and challenged the government’s legitimacy. This is not only because of developments in Mozambique. Donor countries have become less enthusiastic about long-term, harmonized development cooperation and less concerned with aid effectiveness for poverty allev

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Altamirano Rayo, Giorleny. Securing Territory. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197770894.001.0001.

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Abstract Indigenous peoples demand that their respective states comply with international treaties and national constitutions that institutionalize their communal property rights to land and natural resources by titling Indigenous lands. However, Indigenous land titling varies dramatically, across and within countries as well as through time. In particular, the rate and timing, as well as the geographical concentration of Indigenous land titling is highly uneven. Securing Territory shows that Indigenous land titling depends on state interests. Based on in-depth fieldwork in three countries, th

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Ameriks, Karl. Kantian Dignity and its Difficulties. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780198917656.001.0001.

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Abstract This book is a systematic and historical study of the nature and reception of Kant’s distinctive conception of dignity. The first chapter discusses contemporary interpretations and defends Kant’s concept of dignity as rooted in a basic capacity of reason for morality, and as an unconditional, all-or-nothing, and inviolable feature of all human beings, one that deserves universal respect. The next four chapters build on this systematic account by explaining how Kant’s notion of dignity was further clarified, or seriously misunderstood or neglected, in five significant contexts: the Bal

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Nadeau, Robert. Rebirth of the Sacred. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199942367.001.0001.

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There is also a large and growing consensus in the scientific community that resolving the environmental crisis will require massive changes in our political and economic institutions and new standards for moral and ethical behavior. In this groundbreaking book, Robert Nadeau makes a convincing case that these remarkable developments could occur if sufficient numbers of environmentally concerned people participate in the new dialogue between the truths of science and religion. Those who enter this dialogue will discover that the most fundamental scientific truths in contemporary physics and bi

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Morrill, Richard L. Strategic Leadership. Praeger, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216192619.

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Morrill describes how to understand and use the strategy process as a form of collaborative leadership in colleges and universities.Strategic Leadershipis the first book to propose the integration of leadership and strategy as a discipline of practice in academic institutions. The book's unique aspect is that it integrates current ideas about leadership, governance, values, narrative, and strategy into the process of strategic leadership. The author argues that strategy is not just a method of management, but can also be a process and applied discipline of collaborative leadership. In drawing

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Taking Stock of Global Democratic Trends Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31752/idea.2020.66.

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This GSoD In Focus provides a brief overview of the global state of democracy at the end of 2019, prior to the outbreak of the pandemic, and assesses some of the preliminary impacts that the pandemic has had on democracy globally in 2020. Key findings include: • To address the COVID-19 pandemic, starting in March 2020, more than half the countries in the world (59 per cent) had declared a national state of emergency (SoE), enabling them to take drastic temporary (and in most cases necessary) measures to fight the pandemic. These measures have included in most cases temporarily curbing basic ci

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