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The Independence of the Prosecutor

The establishment of the International Criminal Court was a singular, even revolutionary, achievement. Uniquely within the realm of international criminal justice, the ICC prosecutor can initiate investigations ...

Rethinking Free Speech

By (author) Peter Ives
Categories: Political control and freedoms

Clashes over free speech rights and wrongs haunt public debates about the state of democracy, freedom and the future. While freedom of speech is recognized as foundational to democratic society, its meaning ...

Insurgent Ecologies

We are living through a world-rattling ecological inflection point, with an unprecedented consensus that capitalism is leading humanity into a social and ecological catastrophe and that everything needs ...

When the Pine Needles Fall

There have been many things written about Canada’s violent siege of Kanehsatà:ke and Kahnawà:ke in the summer of 1990, but When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance is the first book ...

The Life and Death of Freedom of Expression

By (author) Richard Moon
Categories: Legal history

In The Life and Death of Freedom of Expression, Richard Moon argues that freedom of expression is valuable because human agency and identity emerge in discourse – in the joint activity of creating meaning. ...

The Regeneration Handbook

Leadership for the Great Transition—a changemaker’s toolkit for cultivating personal and community resilience

The Regeneration Handbook offers an abundance of insights, stories, tools, practices, and ...

Higher Expectations

Higher Expectations is a practical guide to navigating academia for people who want to improve their own day-to-day work lives and create better conditions for everyone. Universities are broken: they’re ...

Broken City

By (author) Patrick M. Condon
Categories: Urban communities

How can urban housing, and the land underneath, now account for half of all global wealth? According to Patrick Condon, the simple answer is that land has become an asset rather than a utility. If the ...

The Consulting Trap

By (author) Chris Hurl & Leah B. Werner
Categories: Consultancy

The Consulting Trap does a deep dive into how governments have become hooked on private consultancy firms with dire consequences for democratic decision-making, public accountability and accessible public ...

What Works, What Doesn't (and When)

How well do behavioral science interventions translate and scale in the real world? Consider a practitioner who is looking to create behavior change through an intervention – perhaps it involves getting ...