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Interview Ai WeiWei
Humanity in Action is pleased to share a 32 minute video of an hour-long conversation on the role of art and organizations like Humanity in Action in upholding civil democracies and humanity in our current, turbulent times with Judith Goldstein and the renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei at his studio in Berlin.
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Toward Durable Solutions for the Internally Displaced in Bosnia and Herzegovina
By conducting interviews with members of Bosnia’s internally displaced population, this project aims to identify and recommend possible solutions to the challenges these individuals face.
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Humanity in Action Hangout with Baratunde Thurston
Baratunde Thurston delivers his Keynote "Then They Laugh At You: A Conversation about Art, Politics and Activism" via Google Hangout for the Fourth Annual Humanity in Action International Conference in Warsaw, Poland.
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Sierra Leone Memory Project
This is a preview of the Sierra Leone Memory Project. Launched by the Jeneba Project and sponsored by Humanity In Action, it is an oral history prlejct dedicated to recording oral histories of former child soldiers, amputees, rape victims and all those who lived through the violent civil war in Sierra Leone from 1991 to 2002.
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Senior Fellow Action Day 2019
During the 2019 Copenhagen Fellowship, Senior Fellows led workshops, lectures and discussions on a myriad of issues.
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How to Fix Democracy with Richard Stengel
"For democracy to work, there needs to be informed citizens... what is different now is the universality and instantaneousness of disinformation."
Humanity in Action Press
Discover some of the publications from our in-house publisher:
On People with Disabilities
What would happen if Hermione Granger was a girl with a disability? Why is disability is rarely discussed in terms of diversity? Who are people with disabilities?
Pre-Genocide - Warnings and Readiness to Protect
An anthology of personal interpretations, by researchers and writers, about alarm bells and the readiness to protect prior to genocides. The essays in this volume focus on the 1930s before the Holocaust in Germany, Poland, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and Denmark - as well as the years before the genocides in Armenia, Cambodia, Kurdistan, Rwanda and Bosnia.
Shifting Paradigms: Humanity in Action Senior Fellows on Policy and Pluralism Across Borders
Shifting Paradigms is a volume of diverse articles on cross-border policy and pluralism written by Humanity in Action Senior Fellows.
Two Trees in Jerusalem
Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen in her touching account "Two Trees in Jerusalem" tells about the resistance of her parents, Donata and Eberhard Helmrich, against the horrors of National Socialism.
Transatlantic Perspectives on Diplomacy and Diversity
Recognizing the intensification of transnational conflicts that both violently divide and intimately link our global communities, this book is a collection of diverse essays, which tackle international relations and migration.
Reflections on the Holocaust
The first book published by Humanity in Action, Reflections on the Holocaust is a collection of essays from Humanity in Action Fellows, Senior Fellows, Board members and lecturers from 1997 to 2010.