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  • Diversity in the Police Force

    This is a negotiation-based simulation game that addresses a fictitious scenario. Cinnamon City has been facing problems with racial discrimination, highlighted by the release of two studies pointing to racial profiling by policemen and discriminatory hiring practices within the police department. The game prompts participants to think about different approaches communities might choose to… Read More
    Germany 2012

  • Remarks at the 2012 Humanity in Action Benefit

    Ron Chernow, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, delivered special remarks at the the 2012 Humanity in Action Benefit honoring Patricia Barbizet, Corinne Mentzelopoulos and Ron Chernow. The benefit was held at the Consulate General of France in New York City on Thursday, November 8, 2012. Dr. Judith Goldstein, Humanity in Action Executive Director, introduced Mr. Chernow with the following… Read More
    United States 2012
    Ron Chernow

  • Small Acts of Resistance Audio

    Steve Crawshaw delivers a keynote address with stories from his groundbreaking book, Small Acts of Resistance: How Courage, Tenacity and Ingenuity Can Change the World, written with John Jackson, at the Second Annual International Conference in Berlin. In his remarks, Crawshaw celebrates the courageous actions of ordinary people who have stood up to tyranny, dictatorship and the oppression of… Read More
    Germany 2011
    Steve Crawshaw

  • The Dissolution of Yugoslavia: Roots of the Conflict

    This keynote speech was delivered by Sonja Biserko, President of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, at the Third Annual Humanity in Action International Conference in Sarajevo on June 28, 2012.  Dear Founding Chair of the Humanity in Action in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Lamija Tanović), Executive Director (Judith Goldstein), Deputy Executive Director (Philip Ugelow); … Read More
    Bosnia and Herzegovina 2012
    Sonja Biserko

  • Business Ethics in a Globalised Economy: A Simulation for Use in Youth and Adult Education

    This simulation focuses on business ethics and corporate social responsibility in a globalized economy. The negotiation-based game addresses a fictitious situation: Visual Limited, an electronic devices company, received negative publicity due to an explosion that took place in its supplier factory in China. NGOs and labor organizations claim that there have been serious violations of basic… Read More
    Germany 2011
    Aida Salčić

  • The Presence of the Past: Confronting the Nazi State and Jim Crow

    Well into the second decade of the 21st Century, both the United States and Germany struggle with the consequences of previous state sponsored racist beliefs and behaviors. Neither the end of the Nazi state in 1945 nor the elimination of Jim Crow laws in the 1960s and 1970s has fully eradicated the lethal circuits of discrimination and violence. A report, issued in January 2012 by a panel of… Read More
    United States 2011

  • Transitional Justice Reconciliation Talks: A Simulation for Use in Youth and Adult Education

    This simulation educates participants in issues of transitional justice and reconciliation. The setting is entirely fictitious. The country of "Zamal" experienced some 15 years of an oppressive regime and brutal civil war. The newly established peace leads to questions of how to run the country in the future and what measures to employ to cope with Zamal’s troubled past. Objectives The… Read More
    Germany 2010

  • The Banality of Genocide Audio

    This speech was delivered at the first annual HIA International Conference in Amsterdam on July 2, 2010. General Roméo Dallaire was the commander of the UN military force sent into Rwanda to prevent a new outbreak of the civil war and monitor the implementation of the peace process. What he discovered was a genocide in preparation. His efforts to warn the international community to… Read More
    Poland 2010
    Konstanty Gebert

  • In Search of Humanity in Action

    What does it mean to act in defense of human rights and humanitarian ideals? How are we to know when and how to take action? In order to answer these questions, we can look to the experiences and words of Jørgen Kieler, a saboteur in the Danish resistance during the German occupation. Once, he was apprehended by a Danish police officer. Normally, he was to be handed over to the German… Read More
    Denmark 2000

  • Symbols as Political Weapons: Dansk Folkeparti’s Battle for Nostalgic Nationalism

    “National symbols are the embodiment of community, independent of class, social, political, or cultural differences.  They serve to define the boundaries of a state in relation to other states and impose limits (in defining a people) with respect to national minorities within a nation's borders.”  - Inge Adriansen, inspector at the Museum at Sonderborg Castle The… Read More
    Denmark 2003