The Right to Have Rights: International Poverty Law as a New Paradigm in the Struggle for Global Justice
This paper argues that contemporary international human rights have traditionally been marked by a conceptual and structural imbalance between the relative recognition and enforceability of civil and political rights, on…
Khmer Rouge and Traditional Healers as Medical Anthropologists?: Retooling Health and Social Justice in Cambodia
The aim of this paper is to examine how a society such as Cambodia’s, which has undergone massive trauma, might heal and, in particular, whether traditional healers can help With…
Promoting Community Recovery in Lower Manhattan After September 11, 2001
The field of international psychosocial response to disaster and massive violence has much to contribute to an understanding of the social impact of the September 1 terrorist attacks and subsequent…
Injustice, Suffering and the State: Sorcery and Renewal in Contemporary Sri Lanka
Sorcery in Sri Lanka is entirely about human suffering and issues of personal injustice, which are viewed in terms of cosmological/mythological conceptions of the state and its transition from a…
Globalization’s Challenge to the Islamic Umma
The concept of umma is an important element of historical, as well as contemporary, discourse on Islam. This paper provides an overview of the development and evolution of the concept…
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