Research Network Relevant Publications Archive
Media & Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue Week
[ May 22, 2012 to May 25, 2012. ] With the support of UNAOC. Prominent experts, academic professionals, practitioners and researchers will share the initiatives being undertaken in the field of Media Literacy and Information and Intercultural Dialogue around the world. University Autonomous of Barcelona, Spain.
More information: http://milidweek-eng.blogspot.com.es/
European Multiculturalisms: Cultural, Religious and Ethnic Challenges
European Multiculturalisms: Cultural, Religious and Ethnic Challenges (edited by Anna Triandafyllidou, Tariq Modood, and Nasar Meerexplores) explores the issue of migrants, Muslims, integration and citizenship in Europe. It takes as its focus seven European countries – Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece and Spain – that have been host to a variety [...]
Publication details impact of Partnership for Higher Education in Africa
Weaving Success: Voices of Change in African Higher Education, released by UNAOC partner Institute of International Education (IIE) describes the impact of the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa (PHEA).
The Partnership for Higher Education in Africa was an unprecedented collaboration between seven major U.S. foundations to support African higher education institutions in building [...]
Roger Trigg, Equality, Freedom, and Religion
Roger Trigg, Equality, Freedom, and Religion
Roger Trigg argues in this book that sometimes the right to put religious beliefs into practice increasingly takes second place in the law of different countries to the pursuit of other social priorities, even though freedom of belief is a fundamental right for most human rights documents. Providing examples from [...]
The Immigrant Advantage: What We Can Learn from Newcomers to America about Health, Happiness and Hope
The Immigrant Advantage
As migrants settle in the US, they bring good practices that can help with health, boost happiness, and provide hope for all. In this book, Claudia Kolker provides a well-written description and analysis of some practices such as saving money, eating healthily, spouse-seeking, prevention of post partum depression, multigenerational living, boosting educational outcomes [...]
UN Peacekeeping in Africa
in Africa
UN Peacekeeping in Africa: From the Suez Crisis to the Sudan Conflicts, by Adekeye Adebajo. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2011.
Both in the past and the current, Africa has been the site of most of the UN peacekeeping missions.
In this assessment of these missions, Adekeye Adebajo focuses on a series of key [...]
Report on Migration in Americas
The Organization of American States (OAS), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) ‘s First Report on International Migration in the Americas is a joint effort by the three organizations to make rigorous and current technical information on [...]
Exporting Democracy
Exporting Democracy
Exporting Democracy: The Risks and Rewards of Pursuing a Good Idea, McClelland & Stewart (November 2011).
In this timely book, the former premier of Ontario province discusses the challenges and rewards of exporting democracy to various countries.
Exporting Democracy depicts the rise of the idea of democracy to the global stage as a product [...]
Ramayana de Valmiki
Ramayana de Valmiki, a French edition of the Ramayana, has been published by the publishing house of Editions Diane de Selliers. This edition offers the complete epic of 48,000 verses divided into seven books. The volumes are illustrated with hundreds of Indian miniatures selected from over five thousand identified works of art from the [...]
Radio In Africa: Politics, Cultures, Communities
Radio In Africa: Politics, Cultures, Communities, Edited by Dina Ligaga, Dumisani Moyo, and Liz Gunner, Publisher: Wits University Press, 2011.
Radio is a major medium of communication in places like Africa that have high illiteracy rates, like Africa. This pioneering collection of essays on Radio in Africa examines the roles played by radio — in Anglophone, [...]
Stay Connected