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Police-Building And The Responsibility To Protect: Civil Society, Gender And Human Rights Culture In Oceania, Charles Hawksley, Nichole Georgeou
Police-Building And The Responsibility To Protect: Civil Society, Gender And Human Rights Culture In Oceania, Charles Hawksley, Nichole Georgeou
Nichole Georgeou
Forthcoming: This book examines how the United Nations and states provide assistance for the police services of developing states to help them meet their human rights obligations to their citizens, under the responsibility to protect (R2P) provisions. It examines police-capacity building ("police-building") by international donors in Timor-Leste, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea (PNG). All three states have been described as "fragile states" and "states of concern", and all have witnessed significant social tensions and violence in the past decades. The authors argue that globally police-building forms part of an attempt to make states "safe" so that they can adhere …
A Turbulent Decade: Social Protest Movements And The Labour Movement, 1965-1975, Rowan Cahill, Beverley Symons
A Turbulent Decade: Social Protest Movements And The Labour Movement, 1965-1975, Rowan Cahill, Beverley Symons
Rowan Cahill
During the decade 1965-1975, a cultural revolution took place in Australia. The future was seeded with movements and ideas that changed Australian society and culture, and enlarged the space for democratic action. This book, edited by Beverley Symons and Rowan Cahill, themselves activists during the period, brings together the candid, at times vulnerable, recollections of thirty-nine participants in the events of the decade.
Sea Change: An Essay In Maritime Labour History, Rowan Cahill
Sea Change: An Essay In Maritime Labour History, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
An essay length monograph on the life and times of E.V. Elliott (1902-1984), a prominent and militant Australian maritime trade union leader from the 1930s through to the 1970s.
Synthesis And Hope, Rowan Cahill
Synthesis And Hope, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
A collection of the author's articles on school teaching and education, previously published in non-academic journals during the 1980s and early 1990s, and mainly drawing on the author's extensive classroom experience.