Social Justice back issues from September 2008:
Overview: war, crisis, and transition.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... NEWLY ELECTED PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA FACES THE THANKLESS TASK OF RESCUING the key financial and productive institutions of American capitalism, reforming and strengthening international financial institutional arrangements, extricating the country from two hot wars and countless worldwide ...
Moral responsibility in a time of war.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Introduction ON A DALLY BASIS, MOST OF US MAKE ETHICAL (1) JUDGMENTS ALL THE TIME IN RELATION to private action. We make moral judgments about individuals who murder, cheat, lie, and steal. We expect that individuals will act on "universal" principles in their treatment of ...
The Bush administration, debt relief, and the war on terror: reforming the international development system as part of the neoconservative project.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... IN JULY 2005, THE WORLD WAS TREATED TO THE ODD SIGHT OF THE HIGHLY CONSERVATIVE Bush administration, generally considered indifferent if not hostile to the fate of the poor, taking the lead in pushing the other G8 nations to support full debt cancellation for the world's most heavily ...
The Rwandan genocide: international finance policies and human rights.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Introduction THE GENOCIDE OF THE RWANDAN TUTSIS SERVES TO REMIND US OF THE ETHNIC, political, and economic conditions that are typical for postcolonial states. Ethnic identities are often magnified, if not manufactured, by occupying forces or national elites during the colonial ...
Building justice after war: the use of multiple post-conflict justice mechanisms.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Introduction SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA HAS EXPERIENCED 133 STATE-LEVEL CONFLICTS SINCE THE END of World War II (Rothe and Mullins, 2008). These include civil wars, non-international armed conflicts, and a small number of international wars. The contextual background and etiological ...
Toxic cities: globalizing the problem of waste.(Case study)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Introduction THIS ARTICLE PROVIDES A DETAILED CASE STUDY OF A TOXIC EVENT THAT OCCURRED in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in August 2006. This is a continuing event, in the sense that people are still suffering the full effects and consequences of the toxic waste that was dumped in their ...
Decolonizing resistance, challenging colonial states.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Introduction IN A RECENT ARTICLE IN SOCIAL JUSTICE, "DECOLONIZING ANTIRACISM," BONITA Lawrence and Enakshi Dua (2005) argue that antiracist theory and practices have historically excluded the concerns of Aboriginal peoples. The result, they claim, is twofold: Aboriginal people ...
Review of Predatory States.('Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America')(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... J. Patrice McSherry, Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America. Lanham, MD and Oxford, UK: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005. THIS FASCINATING BOOK TELLS THE STORY OF OPERATION CONDOR, "A SECRET intelligence and operations system created in the 1970s through ...
Review of Darius Rejali's Torture and Democracy.('Torture and Democracy')(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Darius Re jail, Torture and Democracy. Princeton, N J: Princeton University Press, 2007. $39.50 (cloth), ISBN: 978-0-691-11422-4. LONG BEFORE THE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM ABU GHRAIB WERE LEAKED TO AN astonished public, an Iranian-American political science professor named Darius Rejali ...