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Education Under Occupation: Legal Framework – International Humanitarian Law

December 7, 2020

This article is part of the series Education under Occupation, which explores the legal responsibilities of Israel with respect to the Palestinian population living under the military occupation. This article describes the framework of International Humanitarian Law, including a short tour through its history and applicable normative bodies. This study pertains to the situation in Israel and Palestine, specifically to the military occupation of Palestine by Israeli forces.

Generational Gap in Learning

August 19, 2020

The existence of an identifiable generational gap between teachers and students affecting the learning process is suggested here. It begins around the social settings that surrounded the present day educator, and gets in conflict with the learning habits technology has promoted. Here, a brief explanation of how Acceleration (H. Rosa), Dyssynchrony (B-C. Han) & Hystheresis (P. Bourdieu) affect the aforementioned phenomenon is developed. Furthermore, a suggestion is given on how the concepts of Action (H. Arendt) and Resonance (H. Rosa) could reduce its widening.

Medicinal Plants: From Sanitary Fallacy to Medicine of the Future

February 11, 2020

This contribution is a brief review of the prohibition of psychoactive substances, mainly of medicinal plants at an international level, finding that the westernization of knowledge presents one of the obstacles when applying ancestral knowledge about herbal medicines.
In addition, it looks at the intersections between the fourth industrial revolution, the use of psychedelics and mental health.

Keywords: Psychedelics, Mental Health, Human Rights

Debate on Cannabis Regulation in El Salvador. A few observations.

December 18, 2019

In the name of the “Drug War”

November 12, 2019

Building on the continuing broad support for the drug war, Duterte announced last year with his Philippine Anti-Illegal Drugs Strategy (PADS) “drug-free communities by 2022” .
In this article, I present some of the effects of this anti-drug campaign based on perspectives on the affected communities, on justifications and impacts of the killings and on functions of the most prominent drug allegedly to be extinguished.

Anthropological Reflections on Medicalization

September 25, 2019

Its possible to study pain, chronic illness and death from different angles, apart from the biomedical approach, or the perspectives and models of psychology, the palliative and terminal care view, and even more so, to the branch of medicine that scientifically studies pain and its treatment, algology.

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Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Human Rights and Science

Education Under Occupation: Legal Framework – International Humanitarian Law

Generational Gap in Learning

Medicinal Plants: From Sanitary Fallacy to Medicine of the Future

Debate on Cannabis Regulation in El Salvador. A few observations.

In the name of the “Drug War”

Anthropological Reflections on Medicalization

Education Under Occupation: Legal Framework – International Humanitarian Law

Generational Gap in Learning

Medicinal Plants: From Sanitary Fallacy to Medicine of the Future

Debate on Cannabis Regulation in El Salvador. A few observations.

In the name of the “Drug War”

Anthropological Reflections on Medicalization

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