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"This book critiques the dominant physical and biological interpretation of the Genocide Convention and argues that the idea of "culture" is central to properly understanding the crime of genocide. Using Raphael Lemkin's personal papers, archival materials from the State Department and the UN, as well as the mid-century secondary literature, it situates the convention in the longstanding debate between Enlightenment notions of universality and individualism, and Romantic notions of particularism and holism. The author conducts a thorough review of the treaty and its preparatory work to show that the drafters brought strong culturalist ideas to the debate and that Lemkin's ideas were held widely in the immediate postwar period. Reconstructing the mid-century conversation on genocide and situating it in the much broader mid-century discourse on justice and society he demonstrates that culture is not a distraction to be read out of the Genocide Convention; it is the very reason it exists"--

No pay system should be put into practice unless it is congruent with the values of the people it will affect. Cross-cultural research suggests performance pay is a poor fit for some cultures, although its actual use is rising throughout these very same cultures. This seeming contradiction is investigated through an exploratory, qualitative analysis to understand how performance pay translates across cultures. Findings call for (a) appropriate level of cultural aggregation, (b) focus on pay equity construal rather than preference and (c) attention to specific dimensions of culture identified as potentially most predictive of equity construal.

1. Dimensions of Russian culture and mind / Tatiana Larina, Arto Mustajoki, Ekaterina Protassova -- 2. Kant and Russian idealism : a litmus test of modernisation / Vesa Oittinen -- 3. Soviet modernisation and its legacies from the perspective of civilisational analysis / Mikhail Maslovskii -- 4. A morphology of Russia? : the Russian civilisational turn and its cyclical idea of history / Kare Johan MjØr -- 5. The Russian Orthodox Church today : transformations between secular and sacred / Elina Kahla -- 6. The end of the Russian intelligentsia? : conceptual changes in the context of post-Soviet Russia's modernisation process / Jutta Scherrer. Appendix : Integrum analysis / Hanna-Maaria Luoto -- 7. Universities for modernising Russia / Yury Zaretskiy -- 8. Post-socialist neoliberal? : education reform in Russia as a socially interpreted process / Elena Minina -- 9. Educating the new listener : classical music and Russian modernisation / Elina Viljanen -- 10. Cultural barriers of the Russian modernization / Nadezhda Lebedeva -- 11. 'New women' modernising Russia / Kirsti Ekonen and Irina Iukina -- 12. Public discussion on information society in Russia / Katja Lehtisaari -- 13. Preconditions for Russian modernisation : a media analysis / Veera Laine and Arto Mustajoki.

Culture remains a clear indicator of the organic identity of mankind. Cultural materials are therefore one of the dominant sources from which playwrights have continued to draw. However, an attempt to dramatise certain inherent cultural practices of a people often comes with challenges especially for a playwright who does not belong to such culture. Hence, this study examines Ahmed Yerima's Akudaaya with the view to define the cultural trajectories and traditional dispositions reflected in the play. Through textual analysis, the study analyses the selected play-text. It is revealed that Ahmed Yerima's attempt to reflect the cultural identity and traditional perspectives of the Yoruba people is manifested in his dramatisation of the symbolic representation of the king's crown; the cultural interpretation of akudaaya and the dichotomy of language; cultural norms and the significant position of Iyalode; ritual aesthetics and the spirito-cosmic identity of the Yoruba people. The study concludes that Ahmed Yerima's Akudaaya remains one of the notable plays written by a Nigerian playwright which reflects the cultural identity of the akudaaya view among the Yoruba people. However, Yerima is able to achieve cultural reconstruction and initiate a challenge to create cultural consciousness through his play-text.

There is no end or teleology to the struggle for human rights. There is no economic development as warranty for the abolition of human rights violations. There is no justice system immune to examples of injustice and inhumane behaviour. However, universal human rights are one way to ensure that humanitarian movements win one victory at a time. The paper discusses how Portugal, Greece and Spain each have surprisingly diverse human rights struggles, depending on their histories. No wonder that in much different countries, western countries or else, the human rights struggles are so different. Regardless, these facts should not provide an excuse for social theory to avoid understanding what is universal wherever human rights activists are involved. Social theory should take as its goal to show how in each and every society, regardless of very different history, culture or politics, humans share universal needs and desires that transcend their differences.