Part I.. Language: Its Diversity, its Study, and our Understandings of it -- Such a Treasure of Knowledge for Human Survival (Kerttu Vuolab) -- Linguistic and Biological Diversity: The Inextricable Link (Luisa Maffi) -- Rethinking Language Defense (Joshua A. Fishman and Gella Schweid Fishman) -- Maintaining, Developing and Sharing the Knowledge and Potential Embedded in All Our Languages and Cultures: On linguists as Agents of Epistemic Violence (Jan Branson and Don Miller) -- The Politics of A-political Linguistics: Linguists and Linguicide (Amir Hassanpour) -- Language Emancipation: The Finnish Case (Anna-Riitta Lindgren) -- Linguistic Pluralism: A Point of Departure (D.P. Pattanayak) -- Birch - Wind - Looks (Lilja Liukka) -- Culture, Sharing and Language (Probal Dasgupta) -- 'Spirit of the Earth' (Constance M. Beutel) -- Part II.. Rights: Language Rights, their Articulation and Implementation -- Language Maintenance as an Arena of Cultural and Political Struggles in a Changing World (Naz Rassool) -- Human Rights: The Next Fifty Years (Cees Hamelink) -- Tolerance and Inclusion: The Convergence of Human Rights and the Work of Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (Fernand de Varennes) -- Unity in Difference - Belonging (Pirkko Leporanta-Morley) -- Discourse and Access (Teun A. van Dijk) -- Language Rights for the Language of Norfolk Island (Peter Muhlhausler) -- The Latvian Language Law Debate: Some Aspects of Linguistic Human Rights in Education (Ina Druviete) -- Use of Language Rights by Minorities (E. Annamalai) -- (Un) Writing the Margins: Steps Toward an Ecology of Language (Mark Fettes) -- Part III.. Equity: Justice for Speakers of All Languages -- Writing for Diversity (Ngugi wa Thiong'o) -- On the Financing of Language Policies and Distributive Justice (Francois Grin and Francois Vaillancourt) -- Towards More Fairness in International English: Linguistic Rights of Non-native Speakers? (Ulrich Ammon) -- Linguicism in Action: Language and Power in Academic Institutions (Masaki Oda) -- Equality of Opportunity and Assimilation. Or: We German Left-wing Do-gooders and Minority Language Rights (Antje-Katrin Menk) -- Science and Policy - When does Science Matter? (Ingegerd Municio-Larsson) -- From Historical Shame to Present Struggle (Jarmo Lainio) -- Which Contacts Breed Conflicts? (Miklos Kontra) -- Exclusion as Discursive Practice and the Politics of Identity (Mustafa Hussain) -- Part IV.. Power: Policies for Multilingualism -- Paradoxes of Plurilingualism. For better? For worse? And Beyond? (Angeline Martel) -- Promoting Multilingualism and Linguistic Human Rights in the Era of Economic Rationalism and Globalization (Michael Clyne) -- Language Resilience and Educational Empowerment: Philippines and Australia (Jerzy J. Smolicz and Margaret J. Secombe) -- Language Policy and Planning in South Africa: Some Insights (Neville Alexander) -- Mother Tongue Education: The Key to African Language Development? A Conversation with an Imagined South African Audience (Zubeida Desai) -- Common Practice and Linguistic Human Rights: A-Team v. B-Team Coercion or the Co-construction of 'Utopia' (Shelley K. Taylor) -- Creating a Bilingual Family in a 'Monolingual' Country (Leena Huss) -- The Reindeer on the Mountain, the Reindeer in the Mind: On Sami Yoik Lyrics (Harald Gaski) -- Part V.. Education: Affirming Diversity, Confirming Rights -- The Linguistic Human Rights of Sign Language Users (Markku Jokinen) -- The Linguistic Problem Child has Many Names (Pertti Toukomaa) -- Creating a Successful Minority School (Markku Peura) -- Bilingual versus Bilingual Education: The Case of Slovakia (Istvan Lanstyak) -- Giving Good Weight to Multilingualism in South Africa (Kathleen Heugh) -- Education for All - In Whose Language? (Birgit Brock-Utne) -- Language: A Diversity Category Beyond All Others (Ofelia Garcia) -- 'This Place Nurtures my Spirit': Creating Contexts of Empowerment in Linguistically-diverse Schools (Jim Cummins) -- Dual Language Models and Intergenerational Inspirations (Dawn Wink and Joan Wink) -- Integrative Comment: Living with Vision and Commitment (Robert Phillipson).