George Kent
Biographic Data
| ID | 1241628 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Kent |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Kent |
| SIGNATURE | KENT G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hawaii System |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1931 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Gender, nutrition, and the human right to adequate food: Toward an inclusive framework
Gender, nutrition, and the human right to adequate food: toward an inclusive framework." Journal of Peace Education, 15(2), pp. 238–239
Grains
Global trends and patterns of commercial milk-based formula sales: Is an unprecedented infant and young child feeding transition underway
Objective The marketing of infant/child milk-based formulas (MF) contributes to suboptimal breast-feeding and adversely affects child and maternal health outcomes globally. However, little is known about recent changes in MF markets. The present study describes contemporary trends and patterns of MF sales at the global, regional and country levels. Design Descriptive statistics of trends and patterns in MF sales volume per infant/child for the ye…
MarcPilisuk, JenniferAchord Rountree. The Hidden Structure of Violence: Who Benefits from Global Violence and War. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2015
Ending Hunger Worldwide
Rights and obligations in international humanitarian assistance
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a framework for understanding the rights and obligations of different parties in relation to international humanitarian assistance. Design/methodology/approach – Past discourse on rights and obligations of the parties in various types of humanitarian emergencies is critically reviewed. Various moral and legal principles are used to assess that discourse. Findings – Many governments emphasize their…
Art and the building of peace
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGeorge KentGeorge Kent is professor emeritus with the University of Hawai'i. He was a professor in the Department of Political Science from 1970 until his retirement at the end of 2010
Introducing Global Issues
Introduces students to the challenging contemporary issues of conflict and security, the global economy, development, and the environment
Disasters and “responsibility to protect – should nations force aid on others
Ira Rohter
Ira Rohter, professor of political science at the University of Hawai‘i since 1968, passed away on June 22, 2009. He was well known in the community as a leading scholar-activist. Professor Rohter wrote the pathbreaking book A Green Hawaii: A Sourcebook for Development Alternatives . It helped others to see the possibilities for going beyond criticism of the current order to undertake positive, transformative action
Unpeaceful Music
How far should nutrition reach
The table shows that Spain had the best average life expectancy over the 35 years, and Australia now has a longer life expectancy than any Mediterranean country. The countries that started with long life expectancies have seen a lengthening of about 12% in 35 years; while countries with lower life expectancies have had much bigger gains, around 40% in the period
Children as Victims of Structural Violence Les enfants comme victimes de la violence structurelle: Résumé Los niños como víctimas de la violencia estructural
Structural violence is harm imposed by some people on others indirectly, through the social system, as they pursue their own preferences. Its effects are clear in the massive mortality of children. More than ten million children die before their fifth birthdays every single year. For most children, the immediate cause of death is a combination of malnutrition and ordinary diseases such as diarrhea, malaria, and measles. Given adequate resources, …
Privacy and the Public Interest in the Middle East
This article examines the role of media intrusion in Middle Eastern politics and how the public/private dichotomy is useful in exploring the existent or not of press freedom around the region. Several examples from different countries are used to discuss how the various so-called ‘new’ and ‘small’ media have, together with certain tabloid newspapers, been in the vanguard of investigating into corruption and other matters of public interest previo…
The human right to disaster mitigation and relief
The human right to disaster mitigation and relief." Global Environmental Change Part B: Environmental Hazards, 3(3), pp. 137–138
Fisheries, food security, and the poor
Promoting nutrition rights in Latin America
Children in the International Political Economy
List of Tables and Figures - Preface - Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - PART 1: FRAMEWORK AND SETTING - Responsibility - The Global Economy - PART 2: CHILDREN'S PROBLEMS - Mortality - Child Labour - Child Prostitution - Armed Conflict - Malnutrition - PART 3: THE HUMAN RIGHTS RESPONSE - Nutrition Rights - Children's Rights - International Children's Rights - Selected References - Appendix: Data on Children - Index
The roles of international organizations in advancing nutrition rights
Children's right to adequate nutrition
Analyzing Conflict and Violence
This study offers a conceptual framework for the analysis of concrete conflicts and also the violence that can result from conflicts. A conflict situation is the background setting in a particular time and place in which the important parties, issues, and possible outcomes are embedded. A party is an individual, entity, organization, or agency of some sort that has a distinct set of preferences relating to the possible outcomes of a situation. Pr…
Valuation in development projects: Enlarging the analytical framework
The twelve who survive: Strengthening programmes of early childhood development in the third world
Our children, our future
A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks
Fisheries, food security, and the poor
The twelve who survive: Strengthening programmes of early childhood development in the third world
Discussion and Reviews: The application of peace studies
Children as Victims of Structural Violence Les enfants comme victimes de la violence structurelle: Résumé Los niños como víctimas de la violencia estructural
Structural violence is harm imposed by some people on others indirectly, through the social system, as they pursue their own preferences. Its effects are clear in the massive mortality of children. More than ten million children die before their fifth birthdays every single year. For most children, the immediate cause of death is a combination of malnutrition and ordinary diseases such as diarrhea, malaria, and measles. Given adequate resources, …
The human right to disaster mitigation and relief
The human right to disaster mitigation and relief." Global Environmental Change Part B: Environmental Hazards, 3(3), pp. 137–138
Our children, our future
The roles of international organizations in advancing nutrition rights
Analyzing Conflict and Violence
This study offers a conceptual framework for the analysis of concrete conflicts and also the violence that can result from conflicts. A conflict situation is the background setting in a particular time and place in which the important parties, issues, and possible outcomes are embedded. A party is an individual, entity, organization, or agency of some sort that has a distinct set of preferences relating to the possible outcomes of a situation. Pr…
Dominance in Fishing
What are the major problems of ocean management? The United Nations Law of the Sea Conference has on its agenda issues such as the width of the territorial sea, the creation of a new international administrative body, passage through straits, fishing rights, the exploitation of seabed minerals, and the like. What really motivates concern for these issues? The values drawn from the sea include both extracted material goods, such as fish or oil or …
The New Crisis in the Motion Picture Industry
Essay| March 01 1931 The New Crisis in the Motion Picture Industry George Kent George Kent Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1931) 33 (6): 887–891. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1931.33.6.887 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Georg…
The Simplest Simulation
Discussion and Reviews: The application of peace studies
Struggle for the Image: Selected Books by or about Blacks during 1971
ciently explored in the past, consolidating or intensifying an image for greater understanding, and those taking off in some pioneering direction. Such categories as autobiography and biography, fiction, poetry, criticism, ideological writings, etc., are here at times no more than classifications used for convenience, since some overlap. In several instances, for example, autobiographical writing is a part of an attempt to place the self in persp…
Outstanding Works in Black Literature during 1972
THE BOOKS analyzed in black literature in this essay were selected to represent certain main lines of development in autobiography, fiction, poetry, and criticism. As the title implies, the essay is limited in its coverage to books bearing a 1972 copyright, with the exception of Rene Maran's Batouala, which is included because the definitive edition of this famous work appeared in English translation for the first time in 1972
The Black Woman in Faulkner's Works, with the Exclusion of Dilsey: Part I
1XJHErN WE TURN from the image of the black woman as sexual threat to the portraits of them as faithful servants and mammies, the change is considerable. In the white consciousness of Isaac, the anonymous black woman who sought the love of the white Carothers appears to be an upstanding young woman, but when he learns of her black identity, she, in part, automatically becomes the Manichean nigger raising the horrible specter of miscegenation and …
World Order Design: What Could Be More Practical
Notes on the 1974 Black Literary Scene
The Black Woman in Faulkner's Works, with the Exclusion of Dilsey: Part II
The 1975 Black Literary Scene: Significant Developments
Dominance in Fishing
What are the major problems of ocean management? The United Nations Law of the Sea Conference has on its agenda issues such as the width of the territorial sea, the creation of a new international administrative body, passage through straits, fishing rights, the exploitation of seabed minerals, and the like. What really motivates concern for these issues? The values drawn from the sea include both extracted material goods, such as fish or oil or …
Peace Education: Pedagogy of the Middle Class
Baroque Masterpieces for Trumpet and Organ
Gwendolyn Brooks-Portrait, in Part, of the Artist as Young Girl and Apprentice Writer
Development Planning for Micronesia
Regional Approaches to Meeting National Marine Interests
States bordering an enclosed or semi-enclosed sea should co operate in the exercise of their rights and in the performance of their duties under this Convention. To this end they shall endeavour, directly or through an appropriate regional organi zation: (a) to co-ordinate the management, conservation, exploration and exploitation of the living resources of the sea: (b) to co-ordinate the implementation of their rights and duties with respect to …
Fisheries and undernutrition
People eat fish directly, and they also consume it indirectly in the form of feed for livestock such as pigs and poultry. Despite widespread malnutrition in developing countries, the data indicate that on a per capita basis people in developed countries use about four times as much fish as people in less developed countries. Nevertheless, people in developing countries tend to be far more dependant on fish because it accounts for a far higher pro…
Fish and nutrition in India
Improved use of fisheries resources
Our children, our future
A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks
The Politics of Children's Survival
Preface Patterns of Mortality Individual Factors Household Factors The Child Survival and Development Movement Criticism of Child Survival Programs Food Poverty War Repression Population Alternative Social Systems Should Children be Treated as Human Capital? Motivating The Powerful Children's Survival and Community Development Localized Multiparty Planning Laws and Institutions Selected References Index
The twelve who survive: Strengthening programmes of early childhood development in the third world
Children's right to adequate nutrition
Analyzing Conflict and Violence
This study offers a conceptual framework for the analysis of concrete conflicts and also the violence that can result from conflicts. A conflict situation is the background setting in a particular time and place in which the important parties, issues, and possible outcomes are embedded. A party is an individual, entity, organization, or agency of some sort that has a distinct set of preferences relating to the possible outcomes of a situation. Pr…
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