Counseling and Psychotherapy of Victims of Organized Violence in Sociocultural Context

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Peltzer, Karl

Psychology & Counseling

Contributors originally presented their ideas for this book at the IV International Congress on the Intercultural Philosophy, held in Bangalore, India in September 2001. Participants from Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America make the case that only by creating conditions of social justice and equality at the world level can we be guaranteed a free interaction in which cultures, without the fear of being colonized, can accept and promote from within a mutual transformation.

Interaction and Asymmetry Between Cultures in the Context of Globaliation

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Founded in 1978, the goal of the Working Women's Forum is to improve living conditions of working women in India. Its struggle against poverty and insufficient social protection includes programs for women's health and welfare, and credits and cooperatives to enhance the economic participation of women. This organization has developed into a platform for empowerment, giving Indian women both voice and capacity to realize their economic and social goals. The Working Women's Forum has, for over a decade and a half, mobilized the poorest, and the most marginalized sector of the work force in India. Poor women workers face constraints and oppression by their barriers of caste, class, and gender that further marginalize their position both at home and at work place. Caste affiliation restricts their mobility and formulates cultural norms for their social behavior. Class membership limits their access to productive resources and makes them invisible in the economic spheres. The gender roles relegate women to a low productive occupation near the household, minimizing their economic role as only an extension of their domestic chores. In detailing the history and growth of the Working Women's Forum in India, Structuring a Movement and Spreading It On shows how women workers are undermined as workers, defined as housewives, and forced to a status of invisibility, living in subsistence and marginal survival conditions. Their vital contribution to the productive process and thereby the nation's economy is unrecognized. Therefore, the nation's planning process never makes the requisite allocations for the growth and development of this section. It is this segment of the work force that have beenorganized by the Working Women's Forum through credit cooperatives and collective spirit of unionism that has brought about a sea change in the lives of the poorest women. Today, thousands of women have been released from the clutches of perpetual indebtedness and dependency on moneylenders and other middlemen. Women have thus been able to save, create assets, and improve the quality of living, thus ensuring growth with equity.

Structuring a Movement and Spreading It on: History and Growth of the Working Women's Forum in India 1978-2003

Business & Money

Economics

Teaching and the research of theology and philosophy in Africa faces serious challenges: Contents and methods of study programs are often coined by European universalism. Tertiary institutions depend largely on foreign funding. This study analyzes the situation and suggests a closer collaboration.

Doing Theology and Philosophy in the African Context (Denktraditionen im Dialog: Studien zur Befreiung und Interkilturalitat) (French and English Edition)

Philosophy

Product Details Series: Beitrage Zur Regional- Und Migrationsforschung / Contributions to Regional and Migration Research Paperback: 190 pages Publisher: IKO (February 1, 2005) Language: English ISBN-10: 3889397123 ISBN-13: 978-3889397126 Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 5.8 x 8 inches

Chinese Migration in Germany: Making Home in Transnational Space (Beitrage Zur Regional- Und Migrationsforschung / Contributions To Regional And Migration Research)

Leung, Maggi Wai-Han

Social Sciences

The context of the work is the analysis of African values. The significance is the avoidance of generalizations. There are cultures in Africa and not just one culture and in each culture, there is a diversity of clans. The analysis of African values ought to have universal relevance, hence the use of phenomenological-hermeneutical method. This is the first analysis of such a value in the Igbo cultural group. It is at the same time a contribution to an important and often neglected aspect of development: human development. The personality of the individual is a fundamental principle.  Solidarity, philosophically formulated, can be a norm that regulates people's behavior. The personality of the individual is a fundamental principle. A person is identified with his dignity. This dignity is enriched and thus matures through his openness to others and positive contribution to the development of their personality. In order to show that our principle is not a mere abstract idealization, the second part of the work is a hermeneutical analysis of solidarity as found among the Igbo of Nigeria.  Sylvanus Ifeanyichukwu Nnoruka is a Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Onitsha (Nigeria). He has published Personal Identity: a Philosophical Survey as well as other books and articles.

Solidarity: A Principle of Sociality: A Phenomenological-Hermeneutical Approach in the Context of the Philosophy of Alfred Schutz and an African Culture

History

Nnoruka, Sylvanus Ifeanyichukwu

Africa

Women-Headed Households in Namibia: Causes, Patterns and Consequences (ISSA Wissenschaftliche Reihe 29)

Adelheid Iken

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