Healing Lebanon – A Study of Human Rights Violations, Corruption, Inequality and Political Instability in the Lebanese Republic

Healing Lebanon – A Study of Human Rights Violations, Corruption, Inequality and Political Instability in the Lebanese Republic
Author: Dr. Mark O'Doherty
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2020-01-21
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1794887857

With political leaders having failed to restore economic stability and basic human rights in Lebanon, clashes between police and demonstrators escalated in January 2020; injuring hundreds of people and marking the most violent weekend of protests in Beirut since the beginning of mass anti-government demonstrations in October 2019 - the Lebanese having finally had enough of a system that has enriched the political elite while failing to build a stable economy or provide basics like reliable running water or consistent waste management. Also, political elites have been reluctant to heed the key demand of demonstrators - that they relinquish power and allow an interim cabinet to pass fundamental governance reforms... Hence this book endeavours to improve rule of law in Lebanon. This includes of finally putting an end to corruption among political parties and public servants in Lebanon - as corruption is deeply institutionalised in Lebanon, and hence needs to be addressed urgently by Prime Minister Hassan Diab. Covid-19: "We fear hunger, not coronavirus: Lebanon protesters return in rage". Lebanon's coronavirus lockdown has sent an economy already in deep trouble into freefall, and many are struggling to survive. Gino Raidy is an activist who was prominent during the October 2019 anti-government corruption protests. Now, with many fearing hunger and believing there is nothing left to lose, he is helping to keep demonstrators safe as they demand real and lasting change. Hence it is very important that Prime Minister Hassan Diab urgently restores economic stability and basic human rights in Lebanon, by co-operating and working together with activists such as Gino Raidy and Lebanon's human rights movement.

Healing America – Improving Social Cohesion, Education and Global Solidarity in the United States of America

Healing America – Improving Social Cohesion, Education and Global Solidarity in the United States of America
Author: Dr. Mark O'Doherty
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2017-11-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1387338099

ATTN: William Joseph Burns, PM Rishi Sunak, Richard Moore, Director Avril Danica Haines, President Alexander Van der Bellen, Mr. Olaf Scholz, Mr. Bruno Kahl, Emmanuel Macron, Monsieur Bernard Emié, Karl Nehammer, Werner Kogler, Sigrid Maurer, Michael Ludwig, Alexander Schallenberg, Karoline Edtstadler, Omar Haijawi-Pirchner, Johanna Mikl-Leitner, Gerhard Karner, Walter Thurnherr, PM Ulf Kristersson, PM Jonas Gahr Støre, PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis, PM Giorgia Meloni, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, etc. REGARDING: Relocation of Work Premises and transfer of funds into our Bank Account; if applicable. REQUESTING PROTECTION FROM PRESS FREEDOM ATTACKS AND RELOCATION OF WORK PREMISES. It is worth noting, that the NGO BTB-Global Peacebuilding frequently has the task to pacify and bring peace to a country or warring factions in a failed state - such as Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, Myanmar, France, Israel-Palestine, Italy, China, Austria and Russia - which is very delicate PEACEBUILDING and DIPLOMATIC work, where just a slight disturbance and distraction can cause a political calamity of global impact. Hence it is very much in the interest of the governments in the International Community to provide us with a proper and secured Home Office and Basic Income - so that we can conduct our work properly and efficiently. Your assistance regarding this matter would be much appreciated. PS: All those fine folks in the Intelligence Community, protecting my internet space are doing a very good job. Keep up the good work: ) However, I would like to inform those fine folks that the time has come to implement a relocation of my Work Premises - so that the high quality of our work in Peacebuilding can be upheld. So should somebody send me a genuine good offer - whether from the public of private sector - please forward it to me. Furthermore, should certain individuals or organizations be withholding funds that rightfully belong to me - whether in Europe or America - please arrange the transfer of the funds into my bank account, so that I have the freedom to relocate to a place of my choice. Mark / BTB-Global Peacebuilding 4. April 2023 SOURCES OF INTEREST: https: //www.icc-cpi.int/ https: //www.theguardian.com/law/war-crimes https: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Independence_of_Ukraine https: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine https: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine https: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peacebuilding

Defining and Measuring Social Cohesion

Defining and Measuring Social Cohesion
Author: Jane Jenson
Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2010
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781849290234

Examines the literature on social cohesion. Presentsa range of indicators that have been used to measure social cohesion.

Communities in Action

Communities in Action
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 583
Release: 2017-04-27
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309452961

In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.

Slavery by Another Name

Slavery by Another Name
Author: Douglas A. Blackmon
Publisher: Icon Books
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2012-10-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1848314132

A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an 'Age of Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude thereafter. By turns moving, sobering and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals these stories, the companies that profited the most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.

The Inner Level

The Inner Level
Author: Richard Wilkinson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2020-01-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0525561242

A groundbreaking investigation of how inequality infects our minds and gets under our skin Why are people more relaxed and at ease with each other in some countries than others? Why do we worry so much about what others think of us and often feel social life is a stressful performance? Why is mental illness three times as common in the USA as in Germany? Why is the American dream more of a reality in Denmark than the USA? What makes child well-being so much worse in some countries than others? As The Inner Level demonstrates, the answer to all these is inequality. In The Spirit Level Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett put inequality at the center of public debate by showing conclusively that less equal societies fare worse than more equal ones across everything from education to life expectancy. The Inner Level now explains how inequality affects us individually, altering how we think, feel and behave. It sets out the overwhelming evidence that material inequities have powerful psychological effects: when the gap between rich and poor increases, so does the tendency to define and value ourselves and others in terms of superiority and inferiority. A deep well of data and analysis is drawn upon to empirically show, for example, that low social status leads to elevated levels of stress hormones, and how rates of anxiety, depression and addictions are intimately related to the inequality which makes that status paramount. Wilkinson and Pickett describe how these responses to hierarchies evolved, and why the impacts of inequality on us are so severe. In doing so, they challenge the conception that humans are inescapably competitive and self-interested. They undermine, too, the idea that inequality is the product of "natural" differences in individual ability. This book draws together many of the most urgent problems facing societies today, but it is not just an index of our ills. It demonstrates that societies based on fundamental equalities, sharing and reciprocity generate much higher levels of well-being, and lays out the path towards them.

Slum Health

Slum Health
Author: Jason Corburn
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2016-06-07
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0520962796

Urban slum dwellers—especially in emerging-economy countries—are often poor, live in squalor, and suffer unnecessarily from disease, disability, premature death, and reduced life expectancy. Yet living in a city can and should be healthy. Slum Health exposes how and why slums can be unhealthy; reveals that not all slums are equal in terms of the hazards and health issues faced by residents; and suggests how slum dwellers, scientists, and social movements can come together to make slum life safer, more just, and healthier. Editors Jason Corburn and Lee Riley argue that valuing both new biologic and “street” science—professional and lay knowledge—is crucial for improving the well-being of the millions of urban poor living in slums.

Learning

Learning
Author: Jacques Delors
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9789234032742

The outcome of a three-year process of consultation by a distinguished panel chaired by Jacques Delors, this reports considers the requirements for an education for the twenty-first century capable of tapping and nurturing the rich potential for learning inherent in every individual. Education is viewed firstly in its social setting - in the light of the challenges of global interdependence, enhanced democratic participation and sustainable development. The report goes on to define the four pillars of learning to live together - and to review the task of formal and nonformal education in the context of the tasks of formal and nonformal education in the context of the learning society. A series of pointers and recommendations complete a document that is establishing itself as required reading for anyone with a profesional or informed interest in educational matters. Published also in Arabic, Chinese, English, French and Spanish

The Fractured Republic

The Fractured Republic
Author: Yuval Levin
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2017-05-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0465093256

Americans today are frustrated and anxious. Our economy is sluggish, and leaves workers insecure. Income inequality, cultural divisions, and political polarization increasingly pull us apart. Our governing institutions often seem paralyzed. And our politics has failed to rise to these challenges. No wonder, then, that Americans -- and the politicians who represent them -- are overwhelmingly nostalgic for a better time. The Left looks back to the middle of the twentieth century, when unions were strong, large public programs promised to solve pressing social problems, and the movements for racial integration and sexual equality were advancing. The Right looks back to the Reagan Era, when deregulation and lower taxes spurred the economy, cultural traditionalism seemed resurgent, and America was confident and optimistic. Each side thinks returning to its golden age could solve America's problems. In The Fractured Republic, Yuval Levin argues that this politics of nostalgia is failing twenty-first-century Americans. Both parties are blind to how America has changed over the past half century -- as the large, consolidated institutions that once dominated our economy, politics, and culture have fragmented and become smaller, more diverse, and personalized. Individualism, dynamism, and liberalization have come at the cost of dwindling solidarity, cohesion, and social order. This has left us with more choices in every realm of life but less security, stability, and national unity. Both our strengths and our weaknesses are therefore consequences of these changes. And the dysfunctions of our fragmented national life will need to be answered by the strengths of our decentralized, diverse, dynamic nation. Levin argues that this calls for a modernizing politics that avoids both radical individualism and a centralizing statism and instead revives the middle layers of society -- families and communities, schools and churches, charities and associations, local governments and markets. Through them, we can achieve not a single solution to the problems of our age, but multiple and tailored answers fitted to the daunting range of challenges we face and suited to enable an American revival.

The Division of Labor in Society

The Division of Labor in Society
Author: Émile Durkheim
Publisher: Digireads.com
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781420948561

mile Durkheim is often referred to as the father of sociology. Along with Karl Marx and Max Weber he was a principal architect of modern social science and whose contribution helped established it as an academic discipline. "The Division of Labor in Society," published in 1893, was his first major contribution to the field and arguably one his most important. In this work Durkheim discusses the construction of social order in modern societies, which he argues arises out of two essential forms of solidarity, mechanical and organic. Durkheim further examines how this social order has changed over time from more primitive societies to advanced industrial ones. Unlike Marx, Durkheim does not argue that class conflict is inherent to the modern Capitalistic society. The division of labor is an essential component to the practice of the modern capitalistic system due to the increased economic efficiency that can arise out of specialization; however Durkheim acknowledges that increased specialization does not serve all interests equally well. This important and foundational work is a must read for all students of sociology and economic philosophy.