The clock of ages : why we age-how we age-winding back the clock / John J. Medina

• Record Nr.: UNISA990000070280203316
• Autore: MEDINA, John J.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 1997
• ISBN: 0-521-46244-4.- ISBN 0521-59456-1
• Descrizione fisica: X, 332 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
• Disciplina: 612.67
• Collocazione: 612.67 MED
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Achieving Peace or Protecting Human Rights? : Conflicts between Norms Regarding Ethnic Discrimination in the Dayton Peace Agreement / / Gro Nystuen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451509903321
• Autore: Nystuen Gro
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden; ; Boston : , : Brill | Nijhoff, , 2005
• ISBN: 1-280-86867-8; 9786610868674; 1-4294-2717-5; 90-474-0829-2; 1-4337-0455-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (310 p.)
• Collana: The Raoul Wallenberg Institute Human Rights Library ; ; 23
• Disciplina: 341.4/8
• Soggetti: Discrimination - Law and legislation - Former Yugoslav republics; Human rights - Former Yugoslav republics; Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 - Peace; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Oslo, 2004.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 2. METHODOLOGY -- CHAPTER 3. THE DAYTON PEACE AGREEMENT - BACKGROUND AND OVERVIEW -- CHAPTER 4. THE GENERAL FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT FOR PEACE IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA -- CHAPTER 5. PROTECTION AGAINST ETHNIC DISCRIMINATION IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA -- CHAPTER 6. ETHNIC DIFFERENTIATION RULES IN THE BH CONSTITUTION -- CHAPTER 7. THE SCOPE OF CONFLICT BETWEEN THE NON-DISCRIMINATION RULES AND THE -- RULES AUTHORISING ETHNIC DIFFERENTIATION -- CHAPTER 8. POSSIBLE JUSTIFICATIONS FOR ETHNIC DIFFERENTIATION IN EMERGENCIES -- CHAPTER 9. POSSIBLE WAYS OF ADDRESSING ETHNIC DIFFERENTIATION -- CHAPTER 10.; CONCLUDING REMARKS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- TABLE OF CASES -- ANNEX I -- ANNEX II -- INDEX.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Achieving peace or protecting human rights? Conflicts between norms regarding ethnic discrimination in the Dayton Peace Agreement" examines some of the legal issues pertaining to international settlements aiming at ending a war, finding political common ground between bitter enemies, and at the same time, protecting individual human rights. The author examines the Dayton Peace Agreement for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in particular the constitutional framework which on the one hand secures everyone's human rights and protection from ethnic discrimination, but on the other hand sets up a political system which in fact discriminates on the basis of ethnicity. The author argues that it might have been consistent with international law (particularly the legal regimes of derogation and necessity) to agree on such a constitutional system at the time of the Dayton negotiations because the alternative was a high risk of continued war, but that a constitutional arrangement with clear human rights deficiencies should have been made temporary. The author points out that the ethnically-based constitutional system, for the time being, seems to prevail at the expense of the right to non-discrimination, and discusses various possibilities of altering this situation.

Varieties of Javanese religion : an anthropological account / / Andrew Beatty [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779927003321
• Autore: Beatty Andrew
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999
• ISBN: 1-107-11525-6; 0-511-17301-6; 0-511-32488-X; 0-511-61249-4; 1-280-41899-0; 0-521-62444-4; 0-511-05079-8; 0-511-15196-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (civ, 272 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; ; 111
• Disciplina: 200/.9598
• Soggetti: Java (Indonesia) Religion
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-268) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of plates; Glossary; 1 Introduction; 2 The slametan: agreeing to differ; 3 The sanctuary; 4 A Javanese cult; 5 Practical Islam; 6 Javanism; 7 Sangkan Paran: a Javanist sect; 8 Javanese Hindus; 9 Conclusion; Notes; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Java is famous for its combination of diverse cultural forms and religious beliefs. Andrew Beatty considers Javanese solutions to the problem of cultural difference, and explores the ways in which Javanese villages make sense of their complex and multi-layered culture. Pantheist mystics, supernaturalists, orthodox Muslims and Hindu converts at once construct contrasting faiths and create a common ground through syncretist ritual. Vividly evoking the religious life of Javanese villagers, its controversies and reconciliations, its humour and irony, its philosophical seriousness, and its formal beauty, Dr Beatty probes beyond the finished surfaces of ritual and cosmology to show the debate and compromise inherent in practical religion. This is the ; most comprehensive study of Javanese religion since Clifford Geertz's classic study of 1960.