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Abstract: Nonviolent action is according to Gene Sharp not passive. "It is not inaction. It is action that is nonviolent." The terrible casualty figures of war in the twentieth century and the proliferation of terrorism in the twenty first century have called for approaches that address a world challenged by negative attitudes and escalating violence both religious and social to what has been termed "the other".The other is often perceived as a fallacious or hostile threat to one's own security, whether in the form of a belief, a nation, or a culture. Legislation such as the Declaration of Human Rights calls for dignity, respect, and tolerance towards others, and yet since its inception human rights continue to be denied to many groups particularly those in the South. Comprehensive human rights training through the medium of active learning is able to instill ethical and moral support and focus on threats to security, tolerance, mutuality, and justice. By highlighting case studies of injustice and intolerance and encouraging restraint and responsibility through such citizen-based nonviolent concepts as human security, active learning, utilizing such methodology as role-play and constructive controversy inquiry, can show citizens ways to combat inequality and intolerance towards others.

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Abstract: This paper starts by highlighting the emergence of an EU concept of dignity over the past ten years, both in case law and in constitutional documents. The construction of the EU concept of dignity overtly and heavily relies on the common constitutional traditions of Member States. The paper argues that the emphasis on commonness masks the fact that a process of selection of specific dignity models is actually taking place. As is illustrated, the favourite model so far has been overwhelmingly influenced by (West) German constitutional law. This raises at least two crucial issues that are critically discussed. The first one is about the transferability to the EU level of a dignity model developed for and by a national state and deeply intertwined with its constitutional identity. The second issue considered here is the rationale for the exclusion of other possible models developed in member states. Finally, the paper reflects on the impact of this selection process on the nascent EU dignity culture.

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Abstract: Following the waves of anti-immigrant sentiment that enveloped California in the early 1990s and the concomitant expansion of a Latino based informal economy, in 1997 Los Angeles residents, along with key public officials pressured the city council to issue a legal injunction banning the use of leaf blowers within 500 feet of residential property. In response, Latina/o gardeners mobilized against what they understood to be a racist attempt to further control their livelihood and diminish their informal economic stronghold in the city's landscape industry. In this presentation I will discuss the ways in which the blower ban was constituted by particular investments in whiteness and privatized citizenship. I will interrogate how a variety of discursive and ideological mechanisms make up the leaf blower ban as a moment of white injury in order to blame the imagined or real social problems on the very Latino labor the global city of Los Angeles relies on to sustain its daily functioning. Moreover, I will uncover how jardineros employed culture as a source of autonomous political self-activity in order to bustle power against the impending attacks on their livelihood while articulating a struggle for dignity. I will also interrogate how, as a result of forced migration, lived meanings and practices are de-territorialized from their sites of origin and re-territorialized in the spatial and power contexts of work and a new home weighted with intense racial hostility. More specifically, I will reflect on how jardineros mobilized specific cultural forms to the strategic and tactical ends of launching and sustaining a campaign against the racist excesses of the Los Angeles’ leaf blower ban. This presentation will conclude by suggesting that cultural dignity is not only an antagonistic modality against specific systems of domination but also a protagonistic composition of being always expanding its potentiality beneath the corridors of power. More broadly, this study will be informed by how forms of Latina/o cultural dignity draw upon the accumulated memories of solidarity learned from historical micro-struggles such as the Los Angeles blower ban that eventually erupt into contemporary national mobilizations for justice, human rights and citizenship.

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Abstract: Police all over the world are know as “Peace Maker” by this, it means is the responsibility of the Police to ensure Protection of Citizens, Prevention and Detection of crimes, enforcement of laws and order, checkmate disorderly behaviour which may led to breach of the peace of the Public, etceteras.
To perform this Herculean tasks; Police are expected to uphold high moral standard, vis-à-vis integrity and dignity in the discharge of their lawful duties.
Since Crime prevention and Policing, are symbiotic processes involving the Police and the Public. A research was carried out on the Nigeria LNG Spy Police as an institution or microcosm agency of government responsible for enforcement of Law and Order in the Society, Community and Nation as a whole using Generic-Genetic, Nature and Environmental factors.
In a situation where the Police as an institution or agency bedraggled with corrupt practises and economic financial misappropriations. Thereby producing an unhealthy and unfriendly environment to operate.
A situation where the populace act on their anxieties about these issues and perceived any unchecked, disorderly behaviours, corruption or increase in crime rate, as ineffectiveness and incompetent on the part of the Police in the Performance of their duties.
The central aim of this paper is to approach Police corrupt practices and excessive use of power from holistic view and enable every Police personnel to see himself or herself as a servant and guardian of the people they are protecting with integrity and dignity of labour.

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Abstract: Wal-Mart has been accused of: violating labor laws; providing pay and benefits that do not allow workers to escape poverty; and discriminating against workers in terms of hiring, promotion, and occupational duties. Conversely, the company has been praised for: being the largest private employer in the United States; giving donations to community groups neighboring their stores; and having affordable prices. This project takes place in two Christian church communities where leadership has published very different opinions about Wal-Mart stores.
I seek to examine how members of fundamental nondenominational Christian communities use their religious ideologies to navigate social problems such as inequality at work, environmental and institutional racism, violence, underemployment and unemployment. Using ethnographic methods, I will analyze how congregation members talk about Wal-Mart, work, and social problems. I hope to illuminate the various ways religious socialization, race, class, gender, age, geographic location, and other categories of difference work together to shape one’s perceptions and actions towards social problems and community needs. Often, studies of black churches fail to: acknowledge church members’ relationships to the communities in which their churches are housed; compare and contrast congregation’s views and activities across rural and urban geographic locations; and provide rich ethnographic descriptions of more than one congregation. Addressing these gaps as well as communities’ understanding of Wal-Mart stores is the aim of this study.