This dissertation aims to answer the question: Can human rights monitoring contribute to foreseeing and preventing genocide? Genocide prevention has become an important issue, both in the scientific world as well as in international politics. Models of genocide prediction have been established by several …

Established in 1993, Transparency International (TI) defines itself as “the global civil society organization leading the fight against corruption, that brings people together in a powerful worldwide coalition to end the devastating impact of corruption on men, women and children around the world”. Its …

This paper focuses on the concept climate refugees in the 21st Century and mainly concerns environmentally displaced persons from developing countries. It seeks to answer the following question: 'Should the concept of climate refugees best be approached from a juridical or an environmental point of view?' …

In 1949 the People's Republic of China emerged from a civil war with communist Mao Zedong as its victor. During the peak of Mao's rule China was completely isolated from the world. In the 1960's China lost the support of the Soviet Union due to failed policies such as the Great Leap Forward and various …

Verkennende analyse van de sociale kwaliteit van de lokale samenleving van de gemeente Zwartewaterland. Dergelijke analyses zijn belangrijk in het licht van de nieuwe taken die de Wet Maatschappelijke Ondersteuning aan gemeenten toekent. Om te kunnen bepalen op welke wijze men de lokale civil society …

In the past years there have been many affairs involving ministerial responsibility. Sometimes the ministers had to resign and sometimes they resigned themselves. The fire at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport which caused two ministers to resign, gave me reason to do research on this subject and to find out …

This article analyzes negative externalities that policymakers in one region or group may impose upon the citizens of neighboring regions or groups. These externalities may be material, but they may also be psychological (in the form of envy). The latter form of externality may arise from the production …

De scriptie beantwoord de hoofdvraag: is er ruimte voor veranderingen in het Haags Verdrag van 1980 omtrent Internationale Kinderontvoeringen. In de scriptie wordt een uitgebreide uitleg gegeven over welke aspecten belangrijk zijn bij dit soort ontvoeringen, welke internationale verdragen er zijn, welke …

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Trias Politica Ethica bevat gezichtspunten die tot een vernieuwing van onze samenleving kunnen leiden. Het boek mikt op een herwaardering en praktische toepassing van de beginselen vrijheid, gelijkheid en broederschap. In dit boek wordt aan de hand van een groot aantal actuele vraagstukken getoond hoe …