Rectifying International Injustice

Rectifying International Injustice
Author: Daniel Butt
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2009
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199218242

Rectifying International Injustice examines the theory behind claims for reparations and compensation as a result of historic international injustice.

Rectify

Rectify
Author: Lara Bazelon
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2018-10-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807029173

A powerful argument for adopting a model of restorative justice as part of the Innocence Movement—so exonerees, crime victims, and their communities can come together to heal In Rectify, a former Innocence Project director and journalist Lara Bazelon puts a face to the growing number of men and women exonerated from crimes that kept them behind bars for years—sometimes decades—and that devastate not only the exonerees but also their families, the crime victims who mistakenly identified them as perpetrators, the jurors who convicted them, and the prosecutors who realized too late that they helped convict an innocent person. Bazelon focuses on Thomas Haynesworth, a teenager arrested for multiple rapes in Virginia, and Janet Burke, a rape victim who mistakenly IDed him. It took over two decades before he was exonerated. Conventional wisdom points to an exoneration as a happy ending to tragic tales of injustice, such as Haynesworth’s. However, even when the physical shackles are left behind, invisible ones can be profoundly more difficult to unlock. In the midst of Bazelon’s frustration over the blatant limitations of courts and advocates, her hope is renewed by the fledgling but growing movement to apply the centuries-old practice of restorative justice to wrongful conviction cases. Using the stories of Thomas Haynesworth, Janet Burke, and other crime victims and exonerees, she demonstrates how the transformative experience of connecting isolated individuals around mutual trauma and a shared purpose of repairing harm unite unlikely allies. Movingly written and vigorously researched, Rectify takes to task the far-reaching failures of our criminal justice system and offers a window into a future where the power it yields can be used in pursuit of healing and unity rather than punishment and blame.

American Federationist

American Federationist
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 730
Release: 1916
Genre: Labor unions
ISBN:

Includes separately paged "Junior union section."

Just Intervention

Just Intervention
Author: Anthony F. LangJr.
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2003-12-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1589013549

What obligations do nations have to protect citizens of other nations? As responsibility to our fellow human beings and to the stability of civilization over many years has ripened fully into a concept of a "just war," it follows naturally that the time has come to fill in the outlines of the realities and boundaries of what constitutes "just" humanitarian intervention. Even before the world changed radically on September 11, policymakers, scholars, and activists were engaging in debates on this nettlesome issue—following that date, sovereignty, human rights, and intervention took on fine new distinctions, and questions arose: Should sovereignty prevent outside agents from interfering in the affairs of a state? What moral weight should we give to sovereignty and national borders? Do humanitarian "emergencies" justify the use of military force? Can the military be used for actions other than waging war? Can "national interest" justify intervention? Should we kill in order to save? These are profound and troubling questions, and questions that the distinguished contributors of Just Intervention probe in all their complicated dimensions. Sohail Hashmi analyzes how Islamic tradition and Islamic states understand humanitarian intervention; Thomas Weiss strongly advocates the use of military force for humanitarian purposes in Yugoslavia; Martin Cook, Richard Caplan, and Julie Mertus query the use of force in Kosovo; Michael Barnett, drawing on his experience in the United Nations while it debated how best to respond to Rwandan genocide, discusses how international organizations may become hamstrung in the ability to use force due to bureaucratic inertia; and Anthony Lang ably envelopes these—and other complex issues—with a deft hand and contextual insight. Highlighting some of the most significant issues in regard to humanitarian intervention, Just Intervention braves the treacherous moral landscape that now faces an increasingly unstable world. These contributions will help us make our way.

African Liberation

African Liberation
Author: Dr. Amos M. “Deluxe” Sirleaf, Ph.D.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2010-03-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1449093450

Conflict is an increasing threat to national and international security and a major challenge to development. It is significant to acknowledge that civil conflict has impoverished countries in every major region of the world, with specific emphasis on Africa. In case of Liberia which is the main objective of this study, the 25 years civil conflict not only wiped out the achievements of decades of economic and social development, but destroyed thousands of lives, the physical assets of the country, and disrupted trade links which devastated the fabrics of the Liberian society. This study will be focusing on new system which will require the United States, the International Community, The European Union, The EEC, and other Non-Governmental Organizations, social, political, and economic cohesion as a pre-condition for reconstruction, rehabilitation, reconciliation, and recovery. As a practitioner, specialist, and a 21st century student of politics of life, Post-independence Black-Africa political and historic, cultural and Liberian political scientist, international political systems, comparative international political problems and global political cultural diversity, I am cognizant, and I do indeed care about Liberia /Africa in global conflicts that have profound effects on Africa, and implications which lead to war, instability, and international tension as well as about events which lead to equitable interdependence, integration, peace, improvement of quality of life, reduction of exploitation, imperialism human rights violation perpetrated by post-independence African leadership. Because I am a Black-African-Liberian, I do care about these national, international, regional, state of affairs that specifically affect Africa in general and Liberia in particular, I have tried over the years to make some life time attempt to make some scholastic decisions as it reflects on my research, to advance procedures in conflict management and resolution theories about systematizing my observations and improving my knowledge and skills of pre-conflict analysis of Africa in general and post-conflict analysis of Liberia in particular.

Sessional Papers

Sessional Papers
Author: Ontario. Legislative Assembly
Publisher:
Total Pages: 640
Release: 1891
Genre: Ontario
ISBN:

The Right That Could Be

The Right That Could Be
Author: Wayne M. Strittmatter
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2019-07-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1644626144

Joe Bridgeman is a good-hearted, likable man who just wants to do the right thing. He naively gets into politics to find fame and popularity at his doorstep, wondering why it's so easy. Eventually, Joe understands and, through the heartaches he witnesses and endures, learns his purpose in life is to share a message of a hope and a warning with his generation.

The American Federationist

The American Federationist
Author: William Green
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1292
Release: 1916
Genre: Labor unions
ISBN:

Includes separately paged "Junior union section."