A new tool for preserving Indigenous cultural heritagesIntangible cultural heritage (ICH) consists of community-based practices, knowledges, and customs that are inherited and passed down through generations. While ICH has always existed, a legal framework for its protection only emerged in 2003 with the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of ......
A Fundamental Approach To Finding Missing Persons, Insurgents, Guerrillas, And Fugitives From The Law
Tracker. The very word evokes images of buckskin-clad braves crouching over the ground, carefully studying the signs before them—a part of history. But the modern world has not put behind it the need for the earthy business of tracking. Such skills are still routinely used by the military, rescue personnel, and law enforcement, as well as by ......
Inside Florida's Decades-Long Voting Rights Battle
The story of an extraordinary expansion of voting rights and the obstacles holding back its implementation When Florida citizens voted in 2018 to pass Amendment 4 to the state constitution, which promised to restore voting rights to people with past felony convictions, the decision was celebrated as a civil rights victory and the nation's ......
How Black youth in Detroit made claims for political equality over and against the new order of community policing The criminalization of Black youth was central to policing in urban America during the civil rights era and continued in Detroit even after the rise of Black political control in the 1970s. Wildcat of the Streets documents how the ......
Offers new perspectives on freedom of conscience and religious liberty by tracing their origins to the Middle Ages, thereby challenging the common assumption that these core tenets of modernity were products of the Enlightenment Deeply committed to the formation of a just and sacred society, medieval theologians and canonists developed ......
Reconceiving Ethics and Politics in the Wake of Wokeism
The revolutionary upheaval currently sweeping across Western democracies on parade under the banner term "wokeism" calls for rethinking the foundations of ethics and politics. The social justice movement challenges us fundamentally to reconceive our being with one another in society and to reassess our profoundest traditions. There is something ......
In 2007, the Watson Affair - the worldwide character assassination and exclusion from public life of Dr. James Watson, the brilliant, Nobel Prize-winning scientist co-credited with the discovery of DNA - shocked the global public in an early episode of what would come to be called "cancel culture." Watson was as an early and very public victim of ......
Civil Wars and New Humanitarianism in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Cote D'Ivoire
At the turn of the twenty-first century, manipulation of the democratic process coupled with preexisting political and economic grievances led to years-long civil wars in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Cote d'Ivoire. During and after these conflicts, international peacekeeping efforts and humanitarian intervention became the dominant paths for ......
Civil Wars and New Humanitarianism in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Cote D'Ivoire
At the turn of the twenty-first century, manipulation of the democratic process coupled with preexisting political and economic grievances led to years-long civil wars in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Cote d'Ivoire. During and after these conflicts, international peacekeeping efforts and humanitarian intervention became the dominant paths for ......
