Nearly fifty years after being incarcerated by their own government, Japanese American concentration camp survivors succeeded in obtaining redress for the personal humiliation, family dislocation, and economic ruin caused by their ordeal. An inspiring story of wrongs made right as well as a practical guide to getting legislation through Congress, ......
This book traces the Annang people of Nigeria's history and struggle for ethnic identity. Ette demonstrates how, after colonialism, the indigenous elites who threw off colonial power adopted methods of governance closely resembling the structures put in place by the colonizers and the effect that had on ethnic groups within the country.
Achieving Transitional Justice in a Postconflict Society
This book examines the patterns of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Syria since 2011. The contributors also discuss the possibilities of achieving accountability through the international system and the linkages between the transition and the new justice system that should emerge in Syria.
Freeing the Right to be Religious and Leaving the Left Alone
The best way today to protect traditional marriage is through its abolition as a civil institution. Civil marriage laws must be replaced with civil unions in order for everyone, regardless of their sexual orientation, to enjoy equal rights, both with respect to government benefits as well as religious freedom.
""People's Resistance"" in the War of Independence and Postwar Politic
This study examines the military, political, and personal life of Abdul Harus Nasution, a seminal figure in modern Indonesian history. The author analyzes Nasutions participation in the countrys struggle for independence, his role as leader of the armed forces, and his strategies on guerrilla warfare and civilian mobilization.
In A Tapestry of African Histories: With Longer Times and Wider Geopolitics, contributors demonstrate that African historians are neither comfortable nor content with studying continental or global geopolitical, social, and economic events across the superficial divide of time as if they were disparate or disconnected. Instead, the chapters within ......
How the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic
Starting a much needed conversation about the ethics and impacts of the behavioural psychology, manipulation and the strategy of fear that is so deeply embedded in government.
Is the United States Constitution the embodiment of certain principles? The four authors of this book for a variety of reasons, and with somewhat different emphases, believe the answer is no. Those who authored the Constitution no doubt all believed in liberty, equality, and, with caveats, republican self-government values, or if you will, ......
