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Introduction to Solidarity Economics and Luis Razeto
Dear HumanDHS Friends
What is Solidarity Economics?
from Luis Razeto, Chile
Solidarity economics is a theoretical and practical pursuit of alternative ways of engaging in the economy that are based on solidarity and work. The main principle or foundation of… Continue reading
New Book: Animals Erased: Discourse, Ecology, and Reconnection with the Natural World
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Animals are disappearing, vanishing, dying out,
not just in the physical sense of becoming
extinct, but in the sense of being erased from our
consciousness. Increasingly, interactions with
animals happen at a remove: mediated by nature
programmes,… Continue reading
Perceptual Diversity: Is Polyphasic Consciousness Necessary for Global Survival?
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Please find below a link to a paper on the need for Perceptual Diversity.
http://www.izilwane.org/concept-papers.html
Open Letter on Research Programme in European Framework Programmes
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Dear colleagues,
With this message we would like to invite you to sign an Open Letter addressed to the European Commissioner for Research and Innovation, which highlights some of the vital insights that Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities… Continue reading
New Apology in El Salvador
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The President of El Salvador, Mauricio Funes gave a new apology in the name of the State for the massacre of 1000 farmers, 450 of them children, committed by the army in 1981 in El Mozote and… Continue reading
Common Ground Newsbulletin: 2 April 2012
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www.commongroundnews.org
Inside this edition 03-09 April 2012
Transcending America’s faith divide to address social injustice
by Altaf Husain
On the anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death, Howard University Assistant Professor and Institute for Social Policy and… Continue reading
Focus on Prejudice and Group Focused Enmity
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In their Statement “Prejudice and Group Focused Enmity” (http://www.theewc.org/content/resources/prejudice.and.group.focused.enmity./), Beate Küpper and Andreas Zick give a thorough introduction into the topic of “prejudice”. Based on theories of Social Psychology, they describe the mechanisms and functions of prejudice,… Continue reading
Stand for Freedom Initiative: Australia
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The Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory are fighting for their freedom. The Stronger Futures legislation proposes to extend key elements of the Northern Territory Intervention until 2022. The Northern Territory Intervention has been condemned by the… Continue reading
Appreciative Nurturing Paper
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Updated paper on Appreciative Nurturing at:
www.humiliationstudies.org/documents/AppreciativeNurturingMarch2012.pdf
This text draws on the experience of members of the HumanDHS group. We wish to highlight the central role that the nurturing of relationships plays in creating our group as… Continue reading
Upcoming Conferences
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New Frontiers for Peacebuilding: Hybridity, Governance, and Local Agency, 13 – 14 September 2012
Hosted by Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) The University of Manchester
This conference inaugurates a new academic journal, Peacebuilding, and a new… Continue reading