Climate change and climate change policy raise important issues of intergenerational and international justice. Intergenerational justice requires that CO2 emissions be halted by the middle of this century or shortly thereafter. But since human development requires energy, the elimination of...

The label 'human security' has attracted much attention since the 1994 Human Development Report, but there are numerous conflicting definitions and agendas, and widespread scepticism. The Ogata-Sen Commission report Human Security Now has proposed a unified yet flexible definition and agenda....

This paper makes a case for analysing the new insecurities introduced or worsened by globalization from a human security perspective. The author examines the ways in which globalization is changing the word -- economically, politically, and in terms of information and communications technology...

Amartya Sen's ideas constitute the core principles of a development approach that has evolved in the Human Development Reports. This approach is a "paradigm" based on the concept of well-being that can help define public policy, but does not embody a set of prescriptions. The current movement...

Purpose This paper aims to examine the basic determinant factors of human development using the theory of Maqasid al Shari’ah (TMS). It also identifies relevant demographic variables that may likely moderate the relationship among the identified factors. Design/methodology/approach An in-depth...

In a less widely known contribution, Béla Martos (1966, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) introduced a generalized notion of concavity that is closely related to what is nowadays known as r-concavity in the operations research literature, and that is identical to what is nowadays known as...

The contemporary world seems to be characterized by a new trend, that of returning and appreciating its past. In this search we witness the rise of a new spirituality, to the birth of new connections between religion, memory, identity and media. In this process, the sacred acquires new meanings...

The privatization and globalization measures unleashed by the Indian government in the post 1990s, in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, had led to the establishment of innumerable media houses both in the print and electronic sectors, besides educational institutions, in keeping...

This paper examines the nexus between identity and politics of memory in the European Union, focusing on the ongoing conflict between remembrances of Stalinism/ Communism and Nazism/ Fascism at the European level. The enlargement of the European Union posed new challenges for the evolution of a...