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W.E.B. Du Bois: From Global to Transnational Justice
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- April 7, 2016
By Inés Valdez Theories of global justice spring from a genealogy of internationalism that includes the Parliament at The Hague, the League of Nations, and the United Nations. These theories rely on a conceptualization of the West as homogeneously affluent, which limits the recognition of marginalized groups within the West or the possibility that West–non-West
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Thinking About Strategic Posture Options: Dutch Lessons for Canada?
- Analysis
- April 6, 2016
The Trudeau government’s maiden budget pledged important new commitments, but defence spending was not one of them. One could argue that this is only logical: money should not be spent before the defence review is completed and Canada’s priorities in this policy area are set. At the moment, the government is getting ready to kick-start
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Finding Canada’s Way Again on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Analysis
- March 31, 2016
Introduction: Disability and Global Development There are over one billion persons with disabilities in the world today. Although many are at the “bottom billion” of the global hierarchy, over the past decade they have capably organized to get their rights recognized through the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). The Sustainable
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What the Karadžić Verdict Means
- Analysis
- March 30, 2016
Radovan Karadžić, the former president of the Bosnian Serb Republic and supreme commander of its armed forces during the 1992–95 war, was convicted on March 24th of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the United Nations war crimes court in The Hague. The 70 year
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