Join the Center for Global Justice in a visit to an amazing community activist/education center-- CEDESA--El Centro de desarrollo agropecuario (The Center for Agricultural Development). CEDESA provides training for local people in many sustainable agricultural technologies as well as ecological... Read more
This presentation by Professor Joan Roelofs will touch on themes to be developed in more depth in her four-session course beginning the January 15, at the Center for Global Justice:
- How is international law created and how is it enforced?
- Human rights in international law
- War: International “humanitarian” law, use of force, and other intervention
- Trade and investment
Joan Roelofs is Professor Emerita of political science, Keene State College. She is the author of two books: Greening Cities: Building Just and Sustainable Communities (Rowman and Littlefield, 1996) and Foundations and Public Policy: The Mask of Pluralism (SUNY Press, 2003). She is the translator of the first English edition of Victor Considerant’s Principles of Socialism: Manifesto of 19th Century Democracy (Maisonneuve Press, 2006) and co-translator of Charles Fourier’s “World War of Small Pastries” (Autonomedia, 2015. She studied international law with Philip Jessup at the Columbia Law School. He later became a judge at the International Court of Justice.
Web site: www.joanroelofs.wordpress.com Email: jroelofs@keene.edu
La Biblioteca Publica, Rejoj 50A, Centro
San Miguel de Allende, GUA 37700
Mexico
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