Serial buku ini merupakan bagian dari program penelitian sembilan negara berjudul "Agama, kebijakan publik, dan transformasi sosial di Asia Tenggara". Ketiga seri buku ini mengenai agama dan keterkaitannya dengan negara dan masyarakat di Asia Tenggara yang meneliti berbagai hal mengenai politik, kebijakan publik serta perubahan sosial dalam hubungannya dengan bentuk-bentuk kontemporer dari aga…
Razali Ismail examines his years at the United Nations during a time when multilateral diplomacy struggled to find relevance towards the end of the Cold War and after. He writes about the interplay of diplomacy and international relations in the backdrop of the two Gulf wars, Bosnia and Palestine, and turmoil in certain parts of Africa. Razali has used detailed material and original document…
Daftar isi: 1. Pendahuluan 2. Kerangka kerja pengarusutamaan gender bidang pendidikan 3. Prosedur pengelolaan kegiatan PUG pendidikan.
Global warming, rolling black outs, massive tanker spills, oil dependence: our profligate ways have doomed us to suffer such tragedies, right? Perhaps, but Vijay Vaitheeswaran, the energy and environment correspondent for The Economist, sees great opportunity in the energy realm today, and Power to the People is his fiercely independent and irresistibly entertaining look at the economic, politi…
The book sheds light on the indigenous principles of social organisation - the centrality of women, male veiling and milk-kinship - bringing positive feminist perspectives on how the Sahrawi have innovatively reconfigured their tribal nomadic pastoral society into globalising citizen-nomads constructing their nascent nation-state. This is essential reading for those interested in anthropology, …
This is a sharp insight into the heart of the United Nations. Behind the public face of its Secretary General, Kofi Annan is a core of advisors and officials, this book examines them in close detail. This UN is facing tremendous pressures from today's world and is a crucial part of its future. The office of UN Secretary-General and the Secretariat exercise policy functions that are the closest…
This book contains: 1. Prologue--Women and the League of Nations 2. The founding mothers of the United Nations 3. Human rights are women rights 4. The United Nations decade for women (1976-1985): A decade of development 5. All issues are women's issues 6. The Beijing conference--A grand consolidations 7. Five years later--Progress and drawbacks 8. Epilogue--Will the world change?
Genocide, mass murder, and human rights abuses are arguably the most perplexing and deeply troubling aspects of recent world history. This collection of essays by leading international experts offers an up-to-date, comprehensive history and analysis of multiple cases of genocide and genocidal acts, with a focus on the twentieth century. The book contains studies of the Armenian genocide, the vi…
Upon the invitation by Federico Mayor, personalities from all over the world address a letter to the future generations and formulate ideas they feel essential in the fields of education, science and culture for a culture of peace. Among them, Kofi Annan, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Danielle Mitterand.
Genom manusia, seperangkat lengkap gen yang terdapat dalam dua puluh tiga pasang kromosom, tidak lain adalah autobiografi spesies kita. Dengan telah diumumkannya draf kasar genom manusia, berarti kita, generasi yang beruntung ini, menjadi makhluk hidup pertama yang mampu membaca buku pintarnya sendiri, sekaligus memperoleh wawasan paling mendalam tentang makna hidup, arti menjadi manusia, kesad…