This unique textbook merges human rights law with its practice, from the courtroom to the battlefield. Human rights are analysed in their particular context, and the authors assess, among other things, the impact of international finance, the role of NGOs, and the protection of rights in times of emergency, including the challenges posed by counter-terrorism. In parallel, a series of interviews with practitioners, case studies and practical applications offer multiple perspectives and challen...

A stimulating new inquiry into the fundamental truth of strategy - its purpose, place, utility, and value. This new study is animated by a startling realization: the concept of strategic victory must be summarily discarded. This is not to say that victory has no place in strategy or strategic planning.

The outcome of battles and campaigns are variables within the strategist's plan, but victory is a concept that has no meaning there. To the tactical and operational planner, wars are indeed won...

Finally, a book that offers a practical yet well-researched guide for practitioners seeking to hone the way they show up in citizen space.

At a time when public trust in institutions is at its lowest, expectations of those institutions to make people well, knowledgeable, and secure are rapidly increasing. These expectations are unrealistic, causing disenchantment and disengagement among citizens and increasing levels of burnout among many professionals. Rekindling Democracy is not just a prac...

Augusto Boal saw theatre as a mirror to the world, one that we can reach into to change our reality. This book, The Theatre of the Oppressed, is the foundation to 'Forum Theatre', a popular radical form practised across the world. Boal's techniques allowed the people to reclaim theatre, providing forums through which they could imagine and enact social and political change.

Rejecting the Aristotelian ethic, which he believed allowed the State to remain unchallenged, he broke down the wall bet...

Sinds de industriële revolutie werd veel vooruitgang geboekt – denk aan welvaart en geneeskunde. Er zijn redenen om te geloven dat die trend zich door AI zal voortzetten. Toch veroorzaakt AI ook problemen als discriminatie en desinformatie. Minder bekend is dat AI talloze giftige moleculen kan produceren, dat het erg dodelijke virussen kan verspreiden, of dat het een kerncentrale kan platleggen. En wat als er AI komt waarover we geen controle hebben? Volgens Sam Altman van OpenAI en Stephe...

De ontwikkelaars van Gelukskunde streven ernaar dat de leerling, samen met ander leerlingen en de docent, kennis en ervaringen op doet die helpen om positiever in het leven te staan, daar meer grip op te krijgen en zo gelukkiger te worden. Het werkboek is een uitgave van uitgeverij Cantal.

Het werkboek heeft 8 lessen:

Les 1: Wat is geluk?

Les 2: Zelfvertrouwen

Les 3: Jouw X-factor

Les 4: Stressbestendigheid

Les 5: Je relatie met anderen

Les 6: Werk, school, en hobby

Les 7: Spiritualiteit en g...

Providing for National Security: A Comparative Analysis argues that the provision of national security has changed in the 21st century as a result of a variety of different pressures and threats. In this timely volume experts from both the academic and policy worlds present 13 different country case studies drawn from across the globe-including established and newer states, large and smaller states, those on the rise and those in apparent decline-to identify what these key players consider to...