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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
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Restoring Humanity: Confronting the Nazi State and Jim Crow
Comparisons, often inexact, can be deeply illuminating. At first glance, comparing the racist policies of Jim Crow and the Third Reich might exceed credibility in regard to the intentions of the oppressors and the suffering and losses of the victims. From our contemporary perspective, the differences are sharp and stark. Over at least eight decades after the Civil War, the South oppressed its… Read More
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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
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The Banality of Genocide
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
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Diverging Views on Secularism within Muslim Communities
How does one live in our society if one is a believer and moreover, if one wishes to actively worship their religion? France has a complex stance regarding the relationship of the State and religious issues due to its long-lasting historical conflicts with established churches. Religious wars between the Catholics and the Protestants, as well as strong interference from the Catholic Church in… Read More
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Tailoring Financial Services to Transient Identities
A street vendor selling corn on the cob and fried meat, Juana nibbled on a piece of beef as the subway rumbling overhead interrupted our introduction. At the age of 50, a 10 year resident of Jackson Heights, Queens, Juana sends as much as she can, usually between $100 and $200 each month to her mother in Ecuador. When asked why she sends money to her mother she laughs and says in Spanish,… Read More
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Taking Crisis as a Chance: Innovation, Community Change, and Reforming the Criminal Legal System in Red Hook, Brooklyn
“First things learned are hardest to forget. Traditions pass from one generation to the next. We need to change.” Straight Out of Brooklyn (1991) On December 17, 1992, Principal Patrick Daly left Public School 15 in Brooklyn to search for a nine year-old child who had run out of school after getting into a fight with a class-mate. Daly ran into the Central Mall that flows… Read More
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Love Your Neighbor, But Not Too Much: Political and Religious Involvement in Sex Education within Polish Public Schools
Elena, age 14, attends her church’s ‘Family Life’ classes, where she is told that condoms are barriers to partner unity and love, and that HIVAIDS is only a symptom of a larger disease in society—adultery. Grzegorz, age 17, gets most of his information about sex and reproduction from his friends, which he admits may not be “very accurate”. Magda, age 18,… Read More
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Let’s (Not) Talk About Sex: The Role of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ in the Military
“I was going to a gay rally and my friends told me to bring my uniform. It was raining that day, and I thought, ‘I’m not gonna wear my white dress uniform in the rain.’ Then I thought, ‘well, is it the rain or is it because I’m scared.’ So I changed out of my jeans and t-shirt and put on my uniform. At the rally there were reporters and they interviewed… Read More
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“Die Geister, die ich rief!” (The Ghosts that I Awoke); German Anti-Terror Law and Religious Extremism
“German police have raided 300 mosques, searched 2000 offices and apartments, and interrogated thousands of Muslims- yet little evidence has been made public to suggest that these invasive measure have yielded any information relating to terrorist activities.” - Dr. Nadeem Elyas (Chair of the Zentralrat der Muslime in Germany) “If you keep prodding a hornets nest,… Read More
