Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> Peace

One of the core aspects of the Palestinian refugee question is that of compensation or reparations for Palestinian refugees forcibly displaced by the establishment of Israel.
Despite the importance of the issue, many of the complex technical issues compensation would entail have not received adequate attention. In this volume, a rich variety of contributors including Palestinian, Israeli, and international scholars, analysts, and former officials examine the topic from an array of legal, economic, and political perspectives.
In doing so, they cast new and important light on the way...

Driven by genocide, civil war, political instabilities, ethnic and pastoral hostilities, the African Great Lakes Region, primarily Uganda, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Burundi, has been overwhelmingly defined by conflict. Kenneth Omeje, Tricia Redeker Hepner, and an international group of scholars, many from the Great Lakes region, focus on the interlocking conflicts and efforts toward peace in this multidisciplinary volume. These essays present a range of debates and perspectives on the history and politics of conflict, highlighting the complex internal and external...

This book fills a gap in the literature by setting food security in the context of evolving global food governance.

Today's food system generates hunger alongside of food waste, burgeoning health problems, massive greenhouse gas emissions. Applying food system analysis to review how the international community has addressed food issues since World War II, this book proceeds to explain how actors link up in corporate global food chains and in the local food systems that feed most of the world's population. It unpacks relevant paradigms - from productivism to food sovereignty - and...

Mahatma Gandhi, one of the greatest global icons of all times, is known as much for his successful leadership of India s non-violent anti-colonial freedom movement as for his virtue and simplicity. His ideals have inspired diverse social and political movements across the world: "against "apartheid in South Africa, racial segregation in the United States, several state policies and actions in India and nuclear weaponisation, and "for "environmental sustainability and world peace. Hence, a pertinent question is often raised by media and academia: How would Gandhi have responded to the...