Results for "human rights and social justice"

Projects

Traditions of Democracy and Non-Violence in the Middle East

Description:

This project examines Arabic traditions of people power that began in the 10th and the ways that groups and individuals used expressive art to prevent or resolve conflict in non-violent means.

Faculty

Marilyn Armour

Affiliated Departments:
School of Social Work
Research Interests:

Clinical interventions with individuals, couples, and families; Clinical supervision; Cross Cultural supervision; Professional ethics and boundaries; Restorative justice; Research on families of homicide victims;…

J. Eric Bickel

Affiliated Departments:
Mechanical Engineering, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Information, Risk and Operations Management
Research Interests:

The theory and practice of decision making under uncertainty (decision and risk analysis), modeling probabilistic dependence, probability assessment, value of information, personal and organizational risk preference…

Pascale R Bos

Affiliated Departments:
College of Liberal Arts, Center for European Studies, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Center for Women's and Gender Studies, Comparative Literature, Germanic Studies, Humanities Program, Plan II Honors Program, Religious Studies, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies
Research Interests:

Holocaust history; Holocaust representations (literature, film, art, monuments); Holocaust and gender; Holocaust and (trans-generational) trauma; Genocide Studies; Memory studies; Sexual Violence in armed conflict;…

Daniel M Brinks

Affiliated Departments:
Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, Government, School of Law
Research Interests:

The role of the law and courts in supporting or extending the rights associated with democracy; Latin America; constitutional change and constitutional justice in the region; the judicial response to police violence…

Joshua Busby

Affiliated Departments:
LBJ School of Public Affairs
Research Interests:

Politics of climate change; developing country debt relief; HIV/AIDS; the International Criminal Court in selected country cases in the advanced industrialized world; transatlantic relations, both in international…

Noel Busch

Affiliated Departments:
School of Social Work
Research Interests:

violence against women and children; social and public policy; social justice; international social work education, training and practice; adoption and child welfare issues

Janet Davis

Affiliated Departments:
American Studies, Center for Women's and Gender Studies, History
Research Interests:

U.S. cultural and social history; popular culture; social thought; animal studies; women’s and gender history; U.S. social movements; modern South Asia.
Davis serves as a regular consultant for museum…

Donna De Cesare

Affiliated Departments:
College of Communication, School of Journalism, College of Liberal Arts, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies
Research Interests:

Reporting/still documentary photography and video-Creative Activities-- Exhibitions, Publications and Invited Lectures on topics: Salvadoran Civil War 1980s; spread of LA gangs--Central America; urban youth violence…