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Law Not War: A Reflection on the Life and Work of Benjamin B. Ferencz, 1920-2023
Get PDFSolidarity in this essay is differentiated from collectivism, conformity, group think, herd mentality and mob action. It is defined as a mindful and empathetic choice to work in unity with others to alleviate human suffering and uphold human dignity by advancing systems of greater justice, peace, freedom, and inclusion for all. This form of solidarity is explored through the prism of one person’s life – that of Benjamin Ferencz – and how he used his experience, talents, and skills to develop and promote the international legal framework needed to address and prevent crimes against humanity. It traces his life from birth into a Jewish Hungarian family and early experience as a poor immigrant in New York City, to his study and research on war crimes at Harvard law School and his first law case as a Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals. It discusses his subsequent work on reparations for victims of Nazi persecution, and his role in drafting, negotiating, and promoting ratification of the Rome Statute, the International Criminal Court. Also included are personal reflections on his life and personality, and discussion, excerpts, and a list of some of the publications by and about him
Review of Reading Thomas Merton and Longing for God in Haiti: Learning Wisdom in the School of My Life
Get PDFThe Life of an American Catholic Radical: Review of Christian Anarchist, Ammon Hennacy, A Life on the Catholic Left
Get PDFAnterior chamber depth in mice is controlled by several quantitative trait loci
Get PDFAnterior chamber depth (ACD) is a quantitative trait associated with primary angle closure glaucoma (PACG). Although ACD is highly heritable, known genetic variations explain a small fraction of the phenotypic variability. The purpose of this study was to identify additional ACD-influencing loci using strains of mice. Cohorts of 86 N2 and 111 F2 mice were generated from crosses between recombinant inbred BXD24/TyJ and wild-derived CAST/EiJ mice. Using anterior chamber optical coherence tomography, mice were phenotyped at 10–12 weeks of age, genotyped based on 93 genome-wide SNPs, and subjected to quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis. In an analysis of ACD among all mice, six loci passed the significance threshold of p = 0.05 and persisted after multiple regression analysis. These were on chromosomes 6, 7, 11, 12, 15 and 17 (named Acdq6, Acdq7, Acdq11, Acdq12, Acdq15, and Acdq17, respectively). Our findings demonstrate a quantitative multi-genic pattern of ACD inheritance in mice and identify six previously unrecognized ACD-influencing loci. We have taken a unique approach to studying the anterior chamber depth phenotype by using mice as genetic tool to examine this continuously distributed trait
Environmental Peacebuilding: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
No full textOpening Words by CSB+SJU President Brian Bruess.
Welcome and Introduction by Dr. Jon Armajani, Department of Peace Studies Faculty.
Opening Keynote by Dr. Ken Conca, American University: Environmental Peacebuilding: Yesterday, Today. and Tomorrow.
Ken Conca is a professor of International Relations in the School of International Service at American University. His research focuses on environment, conflict, and peacebuilding; water politics and governance; and the role of the United Nations in environmental governance. Dr. Conca’s work has been recognized with several major awards, including the Grawemeyer Prize for Ideas Improving World Order, the Al-Moumin Award for thought leadership in environmental peacebuilding, the Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for best book on international environmental affairs, and the Chadwick Alger Prize for best book in the field of International Organization. He was a founding member of the UN Environment Programme’s Expert Advisory Group on Conflict and Peacebuilding. Recent books include An Unfinished Foundation: The United Nations and Global Environmental Governance and The Oxford Handbook of Water Politics and Policy (both with Oxford University Press). Dr. Conca earned his Ph.D. from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley
Softly enhancing political legitimacy via Red Tourism
Get PDFPolitical legitimacy-building and tourism studies help to explain how and why China’s governing regime advanced Red Tourism to justify and reinforce its governance and legitimacy. A historical analysis of multilevel Chinese sources shows that the expressivity and value-ladenness that characterize visits to select historical sites permit governing regimes to softly augment their political legitimacy via political identity formation, political meaning framing, and nationalistic mobilization
Extractivism and Conflict: Comparative Study of Serbia and the DRC
Get PDFThis study explores how populations in Serbia and the DRC have been affected by and responded to natural resource extraction. Specifically, protests and other activist engagement were examined by surveying social movements’ participants from civil society and academia. Both qualitative and quantitative methods of inquiry were used. Data was collected from multiple sources, including academic and online sources pertaining to the topic of extractivism, and a survey of 71 participants. The results indicate that both Congolese and Serbian participants have grave concerns about extractivism and its impact on the environment, peace, stability, health, and well-being but differ in their ability to resist extractive projects and their impacts on local communities. Protests in the DRC were organized locally and sporadically, while in Serbia the environmental movement was present at all societal levels, which led to different outcomes. Exploitation of mineral resources without local development, environmental protection, and improvement of life conditions of the local communities may contribute to the deepening of already grave inequities and instability in both countries
