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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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Preventive Detention: A Simulation for Use in Youth and Adult Education
This game addresses the topic of preventive detention, a form of secure custody used to hold prison inmates beyond the original sentence imposed by a judge. The practice is most often targeted at convicted sex offenders and violent criminals. Upon reaching the end of one’s sentence, a prisoner appears before a judge who, often based on psychiatric evidence about the prisoner’s… Read More
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Just People: A Quest for Social Souls with Independent Minds
HIA has partnered with the acclaimed Dutch filmmaker Annegriet Wietsma to produce the organization's first film—one that would reach a large audience and share HIA educational concerns, messages and goals. "Just People: A Quest for Social Souls with Independent Minds" is Wietsma's filmic essay. It explores the challenges and complexities of being an independent individual while… Read More
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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
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Whose Story is History? History Education and Minority Students
Imagine a history class in a Danish gymnasium. To fulfill his mandate to teach human rights, the teacher has decided to give a lesson on the Armenian genocide. The majority of his classroom takes notes on figures and dates, but one student sits silently, struggling with himself. His Turkish family, and the media he grew up with, have told him that the event was not a genocide. Now, his… Read More
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Sex Slaves or Modern Women? Towards a Sustainable Meat Market
Techno beats flow from the bars in the old meatpacking district. An African woman is leaning against the bus stop. She shakes her black curly hair, pouts her lips and ashes her cigarette on the sidewalk. A car pulls up beside her and she hurries to the open window. Her leopard spotted dress is tight around her bouncing buttocks as she stalks down the street in stiletto-heeled boots. On the… Read More
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Solitary Confinement: a Threat to Denmark’s Credibility
"You can judge a society by the way it treats its prisoners"- Winston Churchill Although Danish society often sees itself as an ideal community with a competent state that protects the downtrodden, this vision has been tainted by injustices in the Danish penal system. Together with a group of American students visiting Vestre Fængsel, a Danish prison, we discovered this one bright… Read More
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An American, Swedish and New Danish Perspective on the Ethnic Minority Discourse in Danish Media
A discussion of how Danes with ethnic minority backgrounds are depicted in the media today, and ways to raise awareness concerning the media's responsibility There is a “battle of words” going on between ethnic minority youth and the Danish media. When Danish journalists show ignorance regarding the way in which their own discourse affects the public perception of these youths,… Read More
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Measuring Age: In Violation of Children’s Rights
In 2009, 605 unaccompanied asylum- seeking children under the age of 18 came to Denmark. According to the Red Cross, these children come for a myriad of different reasons: some have lost their parents in war or while fleeing their home country; some had traumatic experiences in their country of origin; and some are victims of organized trafficking. Most minors who seek asylum are boys between… Read More
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Is There Something Rotten in the State of Denmark?
Over the course of the past decade, the majority of the important players on the Danish political scene have moved towards a rather conservative approach to immigration. As a result, the current laws and procedures regarding Danish citizenship have made it increasingly difficult for individuals with immigrant backgrounds to become Danish citizens, thereby alienating large portions of Denmark's… Read More
