Redefining the Citizen of the New Millennium

Redefining the Citizen of the New Millennium
Author: Mohamed Diallo
Publisher: Book Venture Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2017-09-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1640699309

Rising above expectations is one thing and moving on is another. With great achievement comes great responsibility. In a century where automation is rapidly taking place, millions of people are losing their jobs, and human effort is being replaced by computers, and the stress level has dramatically increased. It has caused many families to relocate because of the inability of the household to financially sustain itself. Sadly, human beings within the first two decades of the twenty-first century have failed to act or rather implemented theories of past centuries inadequate to the current challenges of the world. We have seen policies designed or actions taken that genuinely undermine the dignity of other human beings. The truth is that despite all the technical and technological revolutions, machines or computers will never have the human emotion. That feeling of common humanity, self-respect, and for others, love for one another is something inherent and particular to the human nature. We need to elevate our standards and uphold our core values more than ever. We must refine our thinking and actions when the sanctuary becomes a ghost, about to burn. There is a need to redefine the citizen of the millennium. This second volume aims to aid in preventing conflicts and resolving them when they arise. It is designed to help each one of us find peace with ourselves and start a conversation with the other across the aisle. It goes from the spiritual to the physical world—the freedom to speak our minds, grow from fear, and turn challenges into opportunities for growth and inclusive progress.

Security and Environmental Change

Security and Environmental Change
Author: Simon Dalby
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2013-05-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0745658474

In the early years of the new millennium, hurricanes lashed the Caribbean and flooded New Orleans as heat waves and floods seemed to alternate in Europe. Snows were disappearing on Mount Kilimanjaro while the ice caps on both poles retreated. The resulting disruption caused to many societies and the potential for destabilizing international migration has meant that the environment has become a political priority.The scale of environmental change caused by globalization is now so large that security has to be understood as an ecological process. A new geopolitics is long overdue. In this book Simon Dalby provides an accessible and engaging account of the challenges we face in responding to security and environmental change. He traces the historical roots of current thinking about security and climate change to show the roots of the contemporary concern and goes on to outline modern thinking about securitization which uses the politics of invoking threats as a central part of the analysis. He argues that to understand climate change and the dislocations of global ecology, it is necessary to look back at how ecological change is tied to the expansion of the world economic system over the last few centuries. As the global urban system changes on a local and global scale, the world’s population becomes vulnerable in new ways. In a clear and careful analysis, Dalby shows that theories of human security now require a much more nuanced geopolitical imagination if they are to grapple with these new vulnerabilities and influence how we build more resilient societies to cope with the coming disruptions. This book will appeal to level students and scholars of geography, environmental studies, security studies and international politics, as well as to anyone concerned with contemporary globalization and its transformation of the biosphere.

Rethinking Human Rights for the New Millennium

Rethinking Human Rights for the New Millennium
Author: A. Fields
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2003-01-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 023010925X

This book invites people to think more deeply about human rights in an attempt to overcome many of the traditional arguments in the human rights literature. Belden Fields argues that human rights should be reconceptualized to combine philosophical, historical, and empirical-practical dimensions. The best way to understand human rights is not as a set of universal abstractions but rather as a set of past and ongoing social practices rooted in the claims and struggles of peoples against what they consider to be political, economic, or social domination. Fields aptly shows how a people's fight for recognition is often closely tied to rights claims and that these connections to identify can help bridge the gulf between universalistic and cultural relativistic arguments in the human rights debate.

Redefining the French Republic

Redefining the French Republic
Author: Alistair Cole
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2006-06-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780719071508

This text investigates continuity and change in contemporary French politics, society and culture. It draws on contributions that reflect a variety of methodological approaches, ranging from theoretical speculations and modelling to the interpretation of fieldwork data.

New Millennium, New Perspectives

New Millennium, New Perspectives
Author: Ramesh Chandra Thakur
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Human rights
ISBN: 9789280810547

Analyzes a number of pressing international challenges relating to security and governance. The authors address a variety of questions, such as the impact of globalization, and find points of commonality in problem-solving ethos and methodology.

America's Colony

America's Colony
Author: Pedro A Malavet
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2007-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0814757413

An examination of the legal relationship between U.S. and Puerto Rico.

New Creation Millennialism

New Creation Millennialism
Author: J. Mealy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2018-08-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781082468544

New Creation Millennialism is a creative new offering on the same topic as the author's seminal 1992 monograph After the Thousand Years: Resurrection and Judgment in Revelation 20. It introduces a powerful new interpretative approach to chapters 19-21 of the Book of Revelation. Its conclusion--that the thousand years of Revelation 20:1-10 begins at the glorious, world-shattering coming of Jesus Christ and has the new creation as its setting--flows from four observations about the literary design of Revelation: (1) John narrates ten or more visions of the glorious coming of Christ, making a simple chronological reading strategy impossible. (2) John gives clear verbal indications that he understands his vision of a devil-led attack by "Gog and Magog" upon the "beloved city" (Rev. 20:7-9 || Rev. 20:13-15) as representing the resurrection and final judgment of the devil and "the rest of the dead," who, like the devil, are to be incarcerated in the underworld "until the thousand years are ended" (Rev. 20:2-3, 5, 7). (3) John gives clear indications that the new creation and the coming to earth of the New Jerusalem (Rev. 21:1-2) attend Christ's coming in glory and are not to be assigned to a place after the thousand years of Revelation 20 (compare Rev. 19:5-9; 21:2, 9). (4) John offers multiple clues that the visions he narrates in Revelation 19-21 cover the same eschatological subject matter as those Isaiah narrated in the Isaiah Apocalypse (Isa. 24-27). This study not only solves the historically perplexing puzzles of Revelation 20 but also points to a new and radical theological understanding of the final fate of the unrepentant. Chapter 1 presents a new exposition of Rev. 19:5-21:8, demonstrating the elegance and explanatory power of the new creation millennialism interpretive paradigm. Chapters 2 and 3 lay out the insuperable difficulties that are faced by historic premillennialism and amillennialism, respectively. Chapter 4 presents a rebuttal to key amillennial arguments against the possibility of a premillennial reading of Rev. 20:1-10. The Conclusion sums up the gains made by the new creation millennialism approach and offers some theological reflections. An appendix introduces a number of ancient and modern interpreters of Revelation that have contributed to the new creation millennium interpretive paradigm.

Rethinking Australian Citizenship

Rethinking Australian Citizenship
Author: Wayne Hudson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2000-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780521596701

The notion of citizenship is now being taken up internationally as a way to rethink questions of social cohesion and social justice. In Europe the concept of national identity is under close scrutiny, while the pressures of globalizing markets and the power of transnational corporations everywhere raise questions about the true place and meaning of citizenship in civil society. In Australia, a traditional view of citizens belonging to a single nation made up of one people, with a special relationship to one land, has been thrown open to challenge by a range of differing perspectives. Rethinking Australian Citizenship considers the major debates. Some chapters look at contemporary theoretical debates, while others 'reinvent' Australian citizenship from a particular perspective on civil life. The result is a rich and coherent volume that shows the diverse ways in which Australian citizenship can be rethought.

Reinventing the Curriculum

Reinventing the Curriculum
Author: Mark Priestley
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2013-06-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1441134816

Scotland's Curriculum for Excellence offers an example of a different approach to national curriculum development. It combines what are claimed to be the best features of top-down and bottom-up approaches to curriculum development, and provides an indication of the broad qualities that school education should promote rather than a detailed description of curriculum content. Advocates of the approach argue that it provides central guidance for schools and maintains national standards whilst at the same time allowing schools and teachers the flexibility to take account of local needs when designing programmes of education. Reinventing the Curriculum uses Scotland's Curriculum for Excellence as a rich case study, analysing the strengths and weaknesses of this approach to curriculum design and development, and exploring the implications for curriculum planning and development around the world.