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Border Militarizonaion And Health: Violience, Death And Security In Mexico And The United States, Jeremy Slack, Daniel E. Martinez, Scott Whiteford, Alison Lee Jan 2014

Border Militarizonaion And Health: Violience, Death And Security In Mexico And The United States, Jeremy Slack, Daniel E. Martinez, Scott Whiteford, Alison Lee

Scott Whiteford

Authors examine violence as a health issue on the U.S./Mexico border, with a special focus on border enforcement and security.


Combating Terrorism On The Free Highway, Raphael Cohen-Almagor Nov 2013

Combating Terrorism On The Free Highway, Raphael Cohen-Almagor

raphael cohen-almagor

The Internet has enabled transnational jihad based on a decentralized network that overcomes the limitations of face-to-face interaction. Terrorists are making the most of the Internet to: 1) find essential information, 2) communicate, and 3) coordinate among each other in order to wage violent anti-social operations.


The Cultural Sociology Of Human Rights, Mark D. Jacobs, Lester R. Kurtz Jan 2013

The Cultural Sociology Of Human Rights, Mark D. Jacobs, Lester R. Kurtz

Lester R. Kurtz

These cases of China, Occupy, and Gandhi suggest the value of the sociology of culture for understanding human rights. Since human rights is a cultural construct, human rights issues are in-flected by the same set of semantic tensions as the culture concept itself. The sociology of culture thus recommends a method for studying human rights: to explicate--indeed, to weave into an exegetical deep structure--those various tensions. This helps to see beneath the distortions that power and other forms of domination introduce into the discourse of human rights, and to recognize the full multiplicity of interests and voices.


Peaceful Relationships, Lester R. Kurtz Jan 2010

Peaceful Relationships, Lester R. Kurtz

Lester R. Kurtz

Peaceful relationships are sustained interactions characterized by the absence or low levels of violence. Easier to theorize or write about than to sustain in practice, from interpersonal interactions to relations at the global level and among states, institutions, and social groups, peaceful relationships are the building blocks of a more peaceful world. Interwoven with a web of violence in human affairs is a web of peaceful relations, from the micro level to the macro level, that probably shape most human behavior.


Preface, Lester R. Kurtz Jan 2008

Preface, Lester R. Kurtz

Lester R. Kurtz

No abstract provided.


Gandhi And His Legacies, Lester R. Kurtz Jan 2008

Gandhi And His Legacies, Lester R. Kurtz

Lester R. Kurtz

No abstract provided.


Solving The Qur’Anic Paradox, Lester R. Kurtz, Mariam Ramadhani Kurtz Jan 2005

Solving The Qur’Anic Paradox, Lester R. Kurtz, Mariam Ramadhani Kurtz

Lester R. Kurtz

No abstract provided.


Parading Persuasion: Nonviolent Collective Action As Discourse In Northern Ireland, Lester R. Kurtz Jan 2002

Parading Persuasion: Nonviolent Collective Action As Discourse In Northern Ireland, Lester R. Kurtz

Lester R. Kurtz

No abstract provided.


Hildegard Goss-Mayr, Lester R. Kurtz Jan 2001

Hildegard Goss-Mayr, Lester R. Kurtz

Lester R. Kurtz

No abstract provided.


Local Gods And Universal Faiths, Lester R. Kurtz Jan 2001

Local Gods And Universal Faiths, Lester R. Kurtz

Lester R. Kurtz

No abstract provided.


Untangling The Web Of Violence, Lester R. Kurtz, Jennifer Turpin Jan 1997

Untangling The Web Of Violence, Lester R. Kurtz, Jennifer Turpin

Lester R. Kurtz

No abstract provided.