The document argues that a new vision of international cooperation is needed to address global challenges like inequality, insecurity, and environmental degradation. It outlines four reasons why the current system has failed: 1) failure to address the challenges of global capitalism, 2) lack of mutual respect and democratic participation, 3) over-reliance on governments, and 4) failure to prevent humanitarian crises. It argues that reform needs a spiritual dimension to provide moral frameworks, social services, and transformation of individuals, in order to underpin new forms of politics, economics and social policy through ethical behavior and equitable sharing.
Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church for Catechistsneilmcq
Contained here is an outline and brief presentation of the basic principles of the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church. This is not a comprehensive course.
An introduction to the Catholic social teaching principle of solidarity. We are called to show solidarity with others, to work for the common good. Being in solidarity with others is one way we can help build a more just society.
Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church for Catechistsneilmcq
Contained here is an outline and brief presentation of the basic principles of the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church. This is not a comprehensive course.
An introduction to the Catholic social teaching principle of solidarity. We are called to show solidarity with others, to work for the common good. Being in solidarity with others is one way we can help build a more just society.
Introduction to Catholic Social Teaching - Session 2smolgff
This PowerPoint gives an intro to the Call of Family, Community and Participation, as well as Rights and Responsibilities, two major themes of Catholic Social Teaching
Notes from seminars run for the Bishop of Wakefield in the North of England. The presentation explains why the welfare state is good and necessary - but designed wrong. It challenges the current conception of welfare reform and proposes, instead a model based on enhancing citizenship for all.
I have compiled these notes from different resources. I am hopeful that these notes will help students who are willing to grab information on this subject for civil services exams or university exams. Good Luck
Social capital civil society and democracyAbad Agha
What is Social Capital? How to measure social capital? What is the link between democracy and social capital? How its stock can be increased? Where does it come from?
Nous sommes très près de l’abîme, et donc il faut faire un grand pas en avant pour ne pas risquer la catastrophe… Notre structure sociale génère des complications et des ennuis très importants, et cette situation ne pourra pas continuer pour long temps… Sûrement quelque chose va se passer, qui changera en profondeur l’ordre institutionnel et quotidien actuel… Pensez vous avec nous, pour pouvoir choisir le miex qui soit possible…
Nuestra estructura social genera importantes complicaciones y confictos, y esta situación no podrá continuar por mucho más tiempo… Seguramente algo va a pasar que torcerá los acontecimientos, que cambiará rumbos en el orden institucional y cotidiano actual… Piense usted con nosotros para poder elegir lo mejor…
Introduction to Catholic Social Teaching - Session 2smolgff
This PowerPoint gives an intro to the Call of Family, Community and Participation, as well as Rights and Responsibilities, two major themes of Catholic Social Teaching
Notes from seminars run for the Bishop of Wakefield in the North of England. The presentation explains why the welfare state is good and necessary - but designed wrong. It challenges the current conception of welfare reform and proposes, instead a model based on enhancing citizenship for all.
I have compiled these notes from different resources. I am hopeful that these notes will help students who are willing to grab information on this subject for civil services exams or university exams. Good Luck
Social capital civil society and democracyAbad Agha
What is Social Capital? How to measure social capital? What is the link between democracy and social capital? How its stock can be increased? Where does it come from?
Nous sommes très près de l’abîme, et donc il faut faire un grand pas en avant pour ne pas risquer la catastrophe… Notre structure sociale génère des complications et des ennuis très importants, et cette situation ne pourra pas continuer pour long temps… Sûrement quelque chose va se passer, qui changera en profondeur l’ordre institutionnel et quotidien actuel… Pensez vous avec nous, pour pouvoir choisir le miex qui soit possible…
Nuestra estructura social genera importantes complicaciones y confictos, y esta situación no podrá continuar por mucho más tiempo… Seguramente algo va a pasar que torcerá los acontecimientos, que cambiará rumbos en el orden institucional y cotidiano actual… Piense usted con nosotros para poder elegir lo mejor…
El presente informe aborda la situación de los derechos humanos en los Estados Unidos Mexicanos (México), con particular énfasis en desapariciones forzadas, ejecuciones extrajudiciales y tortura, así como la situación de inseguridad ciudadana, el acceso a la justicia e impunidad, y la situación de periodistas, defensores y defensoras de derechos humanos y otros grupos especialmente
afectados por el contexto de violencia en el país. Asimismo ofrece
recomendaciones con el objetivo de asistir al Estado mexicano en el fortalecimiento de sus esfuerzos por proteger y garantizar los derechos humanos en el país.
Amazing analysis of the philantropist american culture.
This is the result of: “investin research that clarifies donors‟ motivations, needs, and decision-making criteria.”
Bounds for the P value(c) what Conclusions can you draw abo.docxhartrobert670
Bounds for the P value?
(c) what Conclusions can you draw about differences in the factor level means?
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Contemporary Readings in Law and Social Justice
Volume 4(2), 2012, pp. 1035–1040, ISSN 1948-9137
Views on the Process of Globalization
and its Effects on Human Beings
Oana GĂLĂŢEANU
[email protected]
Dunărea de Jos University, Galatzi
ABSTRACT. Today we live in so-called “era of globalization.” More we talk about
it, more concerned we become, but nevertheless, there is no universal definition
assigned to this accepted phenomenon. This is due, perhaps, to the fact that global-
ization comprises an extensive range of complex processes occurring in different
areas of contemporary society. Specifically, globalization is the term currently used
to describe those changes recorded in companies of world’s economy, changes
arising from the large increase of international trade and exchanges taking place.
However, globalization displays increasing trade and investment following the dis-
appearance barriers and the interdependence between states. As a result of this
globalization, the world in critical areas has turned into a unique social system,
precisely through the development of those ties of interdependence between states,
which each of us affects us. Referring to globalization is often used in economic
and, almost exclusively, is considering trade, free trade and labor market liberal-
ization. It is true that globalization is achieved by a real link between multi-national
states on plans not only the economic, which include communication and exchange
of information and activity in various fields research and no less true that the
mastery of information is increasingly needed in the competition taking place to rule
territories and possession and exploitation of raw materials and labor. But, we ask
how real is the information we receive and how much it helps us evolve culturally
and spiritually, if we really helps each one of us who are witnessing and without
right of choice involved in this process of globalization, the globalization of society
in which we live? The study presents the views of the author on the effects of
globalization on men and women development as being endowed with intellect,
views that give a negative answer to the question above mentioned, according to
which, as a result of globalization, humans get to live only for the production and
consumption in a state of constant manipulation by those who hold real information,
and default, the power.
Keywords: globalization, global knowledge, human resources
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Globalization represents the modern term used in order to describe the
changes that take place within societies and in the world economy that
results from the growing international trade and from the cultural exchanges
that take place. This term describes trade’s and i ...
A presentation by Peter Laurie, author and former Ambassador of Barbados to the USA at a September 21 seminar in Barbados, a follow-up to the September 12-13 AEC Justice and Peace Seminar.
Part 1 deep dive; the future role of civil societyKarel Eramuri
Deep Dive; The Future Role of Civil Society
1. The Recent Evolution Of Civil Society
2. Defining Civil Society
3. Shifting Civil Society Roles and Relationships
The presentation is based on a philosophical paper which outlines both the causes of the current attack on the welfare state and recommends new thinking about the purpose and structure of the welfare state
Part I Studying nonprofit organizationsThe study of nonprofit.docxdanhaley45372
Part I: Studying nonprofit organizations
The study of nonprofit, third sector, or voluntary organizations is a fairly recent development in the history of the social sciences. What has become one of the most dynamic and interdisciplinary fields of the social sciences today began to gather momentum more than three decades ago. At the same time, the field is rooted in long-standing intellectual and disciplinary approaches that seek to come to terms with the complexity and vast variety of nonprofit organizations and related forms and phenomena. After considering this chapter, the reader should:
■ have an understanding of the wide range of institutions, organizations, and types of activities that come under the label of the nonprofit sector;
■ be able to identify key intellectual traditions of nonprofit sector research;
■ have a sense of the major factors that influenced the field and that contributed to its development; and
■ be able to navigate through the book’s various parts and chapters in terms of specific content and their thematic connections. Some of the key concepts introduced in this chapter are:
THE EMERGENCE OF THE NONPROFIT SECTOR IN THE US While the concept of civil society as such is not common currency in the US, there is nonetheless a deep-seated cultural understanding that civil society finds its clearest expression in this country. Indeed a strong political as well as cultural current running through American history and contemporary society sees the US as an ongoing “experiment” in civility, community, democracy, and self-governance. Not only the country as a whole, but cities, such as New York, Chicago, Miami, and Los Angeles in particular, regard themselves as the “social laboratories” of modern urban life: they are among the most diverse in the world in ethnic, religious, and social terms, with large portions of immigrant populations, small local government, and high levels of community organizing and individualism. A strong expression of this cultural self-understanding is that the US, in all its imperfections and injustices, is nonetheless regarded as the embodiment of human political progress. This ideological current assumes at times mythical dimensions, perhaps because it is so closely linked to, and rests on, major symbols of US political history. In countless political speeches as well as in popular culture frequent references are made to highly symbolic events and documents that provide deep roots of legitimacy to both nonprofit organizations and the notion of self-organization. Among the most prominent of such cultural-political icons:
Charity, i.e. individual benevolence and caring, is a value and practice found in all major world cultures and religions. It is one of the “fi ve pillars” of Islam, and central to Christian and Jewish religious teaching and practice as well. In many countries, including the US, the notion of charity includes relief of poverty, helping the sick, disabled, and elderly, supporting.
Introduction to Global Studies. This course provide general knowledge regarding to the world evolution. there are economics, politics, social and culture issues.
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The Religion of the Market
David R. Loy
RELIGION IS NOTORIOUSLY DIFFICULT to define. If, however, we
adopt a functionalist view and understand religion as what grounds us by
teaching us what the world is, and what our r6le in the world is, then it
becomes obvious that traditional religions are fulfilling this role less and
less, because that function is being supplanted-or overwhelmed-by
other belief-systems and value-systems. Today the most powerful alterna-
tive explanation of the world is science, and the most attractive value-
system has become consumerism. Their academic offspring is economics,
probably the most influential of the "social sciences." In response, this
paper will argue that our present economic system should also be under-
stood as our religion, because it has come to fulfill a religious function for
us. The discipline of economics is less a science than the theology of that
religion, and its god, the Market, has become a vicious circle of ever-
increasing production and consumption by pretending to offer a secular
salvation. The collapse of communism-best understood as a capitalist
"heresy"-makes it more apparent that the Market is becoming the first
truly world religion, binding all corners of the globe more and more
tightly into a worldview and set of values whose religious role we over-
look only because we insist on seeing them as "secular."
So it is no coincidence that our time of ecological catastrophe also
happens to be a time of extraordinary challenge to more traditional
religions. Although it may offend our vanity, it is somewhat ludicrous to
think of conventional religious institutions as we know them today serving
David R. Loy is Professor in the Faculty of International Studies, Bunkyo University, Chigasaki 253,
Japan (email: [email protected]).
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a significant role in solving the environmental crisis. Their more immedi-
ate problem is whether they, like the rain forests we anxiously monitor, will
survive in any recognizable form the onslaught of this new religion.
The major religions are not yet moribund, but when they are not already
in bed with the economic and political powers that be, they tend to be
so preoccupied with past problems and outmoded perspectives (e.g.,
pronatalism) that they are increasingly irrelevant (e.g., fundamentalism)
or trivialized (e.g., television evangelism). The result is that up to now they
have been unable to offer what is most needed, a meaningful challenge to
the aggressive proselytizing of market capitalism, which has already
become the most successful religion of all time, winning more converts
more quickly than any previous belief system or value-system in human
history.
The situation of religions today is becoming so critical that the envi-
ronmental crisis may actually turn out to be a positive thing for religion. ...
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National government demands to frame their policy aligned with international environmental laws and regulations
Reunión de Freedom Prep en Birmingham, AL con personas de la comunidad en la Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Fátima. Es una reunión que busca mostrar el interés de la comunidad por tener opciones de educación en la ciudad de Birmingham.
Primer reunión de Freedom Prep en Birmingham, AL con líderes comunitarios de los vecindarios donde posiblemente estableceríamos Freedom Preparatory Academy
Información General de Freedom Preparatory Academy. Presenta características más detalladas de Freedom Prep y permite acercar a la población Hispana/Latinx a una educación de calidad en sus comunidades. Comparte la misión/visión de FPA y acerca al lector a una visión amplia pero al mismo tiempo detallada.
Información General de Freedom Preparatory Academy. Presenta características generales de Freedom Prep y permite acercar a la población Hispana/Latinx a una educación de calidad en sus comunidades.
The publication details the policies that should be the priority of federal lawmakers across civil rights, criminal justice, economic security, education, health and well-being, and immigration issues.
The Latino community has made notable gains across key indicators including health, education, and the economy. Yet harmful policies and regulations issued under the Trump administration threaten to reverse this progress and widen inequities. UnidosUS’s policy agenda urges the 116th Congress to prioritize American workers and families—including Latinos—by protecting and advancing the gains they have made over the past decade.
FPA vision: All students at Freedom Prep will have the same competitive advantage as the most privileged children in America. This ppt provides the information so you can sign up to Duke TIP!
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St. Jude Leadership Society encourages a focus on gratitude
and good citizenship, building your personal brand, diversity
and inclusion, leading with purpose and how we can all be
at our best through a series of leadership development sessions.
St. Jude recognizes the importance of mentorship and community, and encourages collaboration and shared learning throughout this experience.
In January of 2017, PeacePlayers launched a partnership with Nike to bring PeacePlayers’ proven model of uniting communities through sport to the United States. This partnership piloted growth in 2017 first to Baltimore, Brooklyn and Detroit, and then in the summer of 2018 added programs in Chicago and Los Angeles. At this time we are excited to begin launching two new sites Memphis (TN) and Portland (OR). We are currently seeking a Director to lead the planning and implementation of PeacePlayers Memphis.
MICAH is made up of 50+ churches, synagogues, mosques, community organizations, and unions--all standing together for a more just Memphis.
MICAH works to connect and amplify these diverse voices around our common values--equity, justice, and our God-given human dignity.
This was the Program for Public meeting in 2018
15 recommendations wer given including:
1. Protecting the right to request and be granted asylum.
2. Adapt national legislation to international standards
3. Adapt internal migration norms, policies, procedures and protocols to international norms and standards
4. Ending fast-track deportations and automatic returns
5. Adopt necessary measures in order to safeguard the right to counsel of migrant persons, asylum-seekers, and refugees
6. Ending lengthy migration detentions and taking any measures necessary to implement alternatives to deprivation of liberty
7. Ensuring conditions of detention that meet international standards for deprivation of liberty
8. Closing the processing centers supervised by the CBP.
9. Ending the practice of detaining children and adolescents in detention centers.
10. Prioritizing the child’s best interest in all administrative and judicial decisions that concern a child or adolescent and their family.
11. Prioritize the principle of family unity, and forego with the Zero
Tolerance policy and the policies and practices that criminalize migrants and their families in any circumstances
12. Continue with the implementation of actions aimed at reunifying families that have been separated
13. Taking any measures to protect defenders of the rights of migrant persons, asylum-seekers, and refugees, as well as the right of these defenders to do their job and to effectively access justice. Immediately ending threats and acts of harassment against these defenders.
14. Creating national and transnational mechanisms that enable an effective, timely identification of missing or dead migrant persons, and to make it possible to investigate those cases, punish anyone responsible for them, and provide the applicable reparations.
15. Ratifying the American Convention on Human Rights, the
Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, the International
Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Today is our second annual public meeting between MICAH and community
representatives and will highlight the work of all three of our issue areas. Since
the meeting last October at Mason Temple, MICAH has spent hundreds of
hours meeting with elected officials, and other business and community
leaders, to develop strategies and partnerships to address some of the most
challenging issues facing our community. All of the community
representatives here today have been informed about our issue platforms, they
know ahead of time what questions will be asked of them, and many of them
have worked in direct partnership with us to arrive at today’s
accomplishments
MICAH (Memphis Interfaith Coalition for Action and Hope) is a coalition of community and faith-based organizations joining together to give a more powerful voice for issues of justice in our city. Our current platform concentrates on three pillar issues, economic equity, education equity, and immigration & intercultural equity. We organize and speak to our community and its leaders, always seeking to "do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God." The purpose of MICAH is not to replace each congregation or community organization's efforts, but instead to amplify the voice and the impact by working together interdependently.
MICAH is a power organization that addresses social justice issues in Memphis. MICAH is interfaith and multi-racial and engages stakeholders in the political and economic decisions affecting their lives. MICAH acts as a unified voice for the faith and justice community to act on its values in the public arena. MICAH is a coalition of congregations and community organizations whose interest is justice for all people.
The Texas Legislature recently gave serious consideration to legislation that would have allowed the granting of childcare licenses to immigration detention centers that hold asylum-seeking mothers and children. The licensing bill was proposed at the request of the private for-profit prison company — the GEO Group — that runs one of these family detention facilities. According to a state legislator, “the legislation came from” a GEO lobbyist (Hoffman 2017a). Indeed, the GEO Group admitted that it sought state licensing because it believed that the “licensing process [would] allow longer lengths of stay” for families in immigration detention, and thereby protect and possibly increase its profits (GEO Group 2016, 32). The GEO Group pushed the legislation in the wake of court rulings that limited the detention of children accompanied by their parents in unlicensed detention centers, putting lucrative contracts for family detention held by the GEO Group and other private companies at some risk.
The state of Tennessee, along with the nation, has undergone a “demographic evolution” spurred by increases in minority populations. These demographic booms are evident all over the
country, primarly in states like California and Texas, and major metropolitan cities like Los Angeles, Houston, and New York.
However, these changes are evident in all corners of Tennesse, including the city of Chattanooga and Hamilton County. Hamilton County Schools have seen a significant growth in Hispanic and English Learner populations, directly mirroring the growth across
the state. As these groups and other under-served groups grow, it is imperative to have community stakeholders advocating on their behalf to ensure that they receive the appropriate support and resources to perform on par with their peers.
Chattanooga State Community College has proposed to create an innovative hybrid program for English Language Learners to have increased access to Early post-Secondary Opportunities. As the Bridges to Success 2.0 program evolves, it is necessary to
recognize the demographic trends of the country, the city, and the
state and what the state of educational attainment is for English
learners in Hamilton County to ensure BTS 2.0 provides the most
appropriate support.
Teachers of color are positive role models for all students in breaking down negative stereotypes and preparing students to live and work in a multiracial society. A more diverse teacher workforce can also supplement training in the culturally sensitive
teaching practices most effective with today’s student populations.
In addition to providing social advantages for all students, the racial diversity of the teaching workforce can help to close the
achievement gap, emerging research suggests. Both quantitative and qualitative studies find that teachers of color can improve the school experiences of all students; further, teachers of color contribute to improved academic outcomes while serving as strong role models for students.
One report suggests that, compared with their peers, teachers of color are more likely to (1) have higher expectations of
students of color (as measured by higher numbers of referrals to gifted programs); (2) confront issues of racism; (3) serve as
advocates and cultural brokers; and (4) develop more trusting relationships with students, particularly those with whom they
share a cultural background.
A recent report shows that, despite the critical role that teachers of color can play in helping students of color succeed, every
state has a higher percentage of students of color than teachers of color and the workforce is still overwhelmingly homogenous.
While the focus of this report is on racial diversity, the Department acknowledges that other forms of diversity such as socioeconomic background, gender, sexual orientation, disability status, religion, and multilingualism are also important and should be examined. For example, when considering gender in addition to race, we know that black males make up only 2 percent of the teaching workforce nationwide.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty, In...Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty,
International FDP on Fundamentals of Research in Social Sciences
at Integral University, Lucknow, 06.06.2024
By Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
A review of the growth of the Israel Genealogy Research Association Database Collection for the last 12 months. Our collection is now passed the 3 million mark and still growing. See which archives have contributed the most. See the different types of records we have, and which years have had records added. You can also see what we have for the future.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
This slide is special for master students (MIBS & MIFB) in UUM. Also useful for readers who are interested in the topic of contemporary Islamic banking.
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June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
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Is future positive? - Michael Edwards
1. Future Positive?<br />Michael Edwards<br />These days, a quick glance at the headlines is enough to confirm that our world is in desperate need of a new vision for international cooperation. Globalization means that no community can prosper in isolation from communities elsewhere. Our welfare is affected by events from Mexico to Thailand, decisions made in distant capitals, and threats from enemies we may never see – like global warming, new diseases, and international networks of terrorists and criminals. In this scenario, global cooperation is not an option, it's essential. Either we pursue a narrow definition of our “national interests” against the background of growing inequality, insecurity and environmental degradation, or we embark on a new era of collective action, much as the international community agreed to do in the aftermath of World War Two. Their vision was soon overtaken by the Cold War and growing North-South conflicts, but now – with the Cold War out of our system and global threats mounting – we have another opportunity to fashion a “Future Positive” together. What might that mean in practice, and why do I argue that this revolution will fail without an explicitly religious and spiritual dimension?<br />Why we need reform.<br />There are at least four reasons why we need a new system of international cooperation. First, our attempts since 1945 have never gotten to grips with the fundamental challenge of modern times: re-shaping the costs and benefits of global capitalism. Instead, foreign aid has been used to knit together a social safety net for the casualties of state and market failure, but one which leaves out many more people than it can ever save. There simply isn’t enough money to go around, and even if there was, it would not be made available in the right ways at the right time. Instead, why not pool all foreign aid in a network of “National Development Funds” governed by – and accountable to – a partnership between government, business and civil society on the ground? That would encourage societies to take responsibility for their own development, rather than beg, borrow or steal from the West. Yes, mistakes would be made, but that is how people learn and institutions grow stronger – and any negative consequences would be far less traumatic than the damage done to Russia, for example, by ten years of heavy-handed foreign meddling and a forced march to crony Capitalism.<br />Second, we have failed to establish the conditions required for cooperation to work: mutual respect in international affairs, and the legitimacy that comes from democratic participation in setting the rules of the game. In this sense, the word “cooperation” is a misnomer; “intervention” is much more honest. By and large, the institutions that count in the global arena are run by and for the rich world (think of the World Bank, the IMF and the World Trade Organisation), and those that try to be more open and democratic - like the United Nations - are increasingly marginalized from mainstream decision-making. Consequently, the Third World has no say in the solutions to global problems, and no stake in their outcomes. We need a democratic constitution for a globalizing world – a set of rules and agreements that can protect the equal rights and entitlements of all its citizens. And that means increasing poor countries’ voice in all international bodies (voting weighted by population as well as Gross National Product), and more space for citizens’ groups, labor unions and churches in the corridors of power. <br />Third, too many of the solutions we have pursued have been dependent on action by recalcitrant governments. In a globalising economy and an evolving global polity, it is the dynamism of business and civil society that influences change as much as state regulation, but they - especially civil society - are usually excluded from a seat at the negotiating table. The United Nations cannot halt global warming unless ordinary people decide to do something about pollution, yet our international institutions are distanced from the constituents whose support is required to make them work – which means us. In reality, few Americans are interested in wearing clothes made by workers who are exploited, and those who campaign on their behalf are mobilizing the muscle of consumers, investors and employers to generate reform. Multinational corporations themselves are writing codes of conduct that make globalization work for the poor - purchasing coffee produced by cooperatives that guarantee workers a fair share of the proceeds, for example, or making sure that soccer balls are not stitched by children working as slave laborers. <br />Fourth, in the words of the General Confession, “we have done what we ought not to have done, and left undone what we ought to have done.” The dangerous hubris of molding other societies in our own image must be consigned to the dustbin of history. At the same time, we can help in important ways, especially by making the global context more supportive to local efforts. The rich world needs a greater sense of humility about what is possible through aid and intervention, balanced by more concerted efforts where outside help can really make a difference. For example, the New York Police Department spends as much money each year as the UN does on peacekeeping, and (contrary to popular opinion) there are more permanent employees at Disneyland than in the UN Secretariat – a good illustration, perhaps, of a world with its priorities turned upside down. Now is the time for a standing United Nations army and police force to back Security Council resolutions, and an International Criminal Court to hold the abusers to account. With those institutions in place we'd have a better chance of preventing tragedies like the recent genocide in Rwanda, where 800,000 people lost their lives as Western governments watched, waited and sat on their hands. <br />Why reform needs the life of the Spirit.<br />On the face of it, none of these changes requires a religious or spiritual approach, yet I want to argue that marrying the inner life of meaning and conviction with the practice of new forms of economics and public policy is the key to social transformation. There are at least four ways in which religion and spirituality can promote more effective and deep-rooted solutions to global problems.<br />Because of their scale, reach and constituency, religious organizations can provide a more effective delivery system for the social and economic services poor people need (such as health care or micro-credit), and a stronger social base from which to influence public policies in the same areas. The success of the Jubilee 2000 movement in harnessing a religiously inspired message to support from a mass constituency (based around churches and faith-based coalitions) provides a good example.<br />Because of their theological and scriptural traditions, religious organizations can provide alternatives to orthodox, secular thinking, especially in economics and economic policy. Such traditions can provide legitimacy to discriminatory policies too, of course, yet much current thinking in the global movement for economic justice takes its inspiration from religious ideas built around self-reliance and the need to find less exploitative economic systems than current forms of capitalism - such as Islamic economic thinking on banking, interest and debt.<br />Because the world’s religions converge on a common set of values, they can provide an overarching moral framework for a less destructive approach to economic and social policy – one which elevates human development above profit, for example, and conservation above greed. This framework can then be used as a yardstick to evaluate alternative social, economic and political solutions in different contexts, even if societies disagree with each-other on the details of which solutions suit them best.<br />Because the core of religious experience lies in a transformation of the heart, a rich inner life can provide the wellspring for different forms of personal behavior and relationships that writ large, can underpin new and less destructive forms of politics, economics and social policy. Ethical production systems – in which more attention is given to labor and environmental standards by corporations - are not viable without ethical consumers who will pay a higher price for their products; equitable social policies are impossible if men and women are unwilling to share the burden of paid and unpaid work.<br />All these dimensions of religion and spirituality are important, and much has been written about the first three of them - from proponents and critics of President Bush’s “Faith-Based Initiative” to learned texts on Buddhist and Islamic economics. However, it is the last possibility – the transformation of the Self through spiritual practice - that offers the most potential for a more effective approach to global problems. This is because it is the only aspect of religious or spiritual experience that unites people of different faiths and traditions, and the only safeguard against the use of religion for unjust or anti-developmental ends. Our own age shows us the dangers that religious fundamentalism brings to social institutions when it spills over from the private to the public realm. Social conservatism is rarely more dangerous than when it cloaks itself in religious garb that cannot adequately be challenged by rationalist arguments for social justice because it assumes an other worldly authority. <br />However, disciplined self-enquiry of the kind that is characteristic of the spiritual life provides a way out of this impasse, by constantly exposing attitudes and behaviors that masquerade as compassionate or detached. Paradoxically, the expansive compassion and tenderness of heart I am calling for requires all the toughness of mind, courage and flexibility that are also required in the outer struggle for social change. A rich and authentic inner life increases our personal commitment to conserve scarce resources, share our wealth and opportunities, protect each-others’ rights, and co-operate to advance the “common good” - the long term health and welfare of the planet and its social fabric on which all our futures depend. Making people “more competitive” and increasing their voice on the political stage will not promote the changes we seek unless we all learn to use the power we gain in less selfish and self-centered ways. It is one of the paradoxes of globalization that the more we succeed as individuals in the global marketplace, the more we may fail in other areas of our lives and our relationships with others, a failure that destroys the possibilities of similar success for millions of people now and many more in generations still to come. <br />The marriage of spirituality and social justice.<br />What kind of personal changes could energize the move towards an economic order that re-balances competitive and co-operative rationalities, a politics of dialogue rather than unrepresentative democracy, and a social policy that works against marginalization and values the care and nurture of all human beings? The first principles for such change lie at the heart of the teachings of all the great religions – “Love thy neighbor as thyself” in the Judaeo-Christian tradition, “See God in each other” in Sanskrit. It is fascinating to recognize that the core of religious teaching concerns our feelings towards each other – a deeply social statement as much as it is profoundly personal. But to love our neighbors as ourselves, we must come to understand our own inner being: to recognize that in our deepest essence we are compassionate, capable of giving love, and worthy of receiving it – not just in our private relationships with each-other, but in the ways in which we practice and participate in public life as producers or consumers, citizens or politicians, husbands, wives and children. Most of us know that our true Self is loving and compassionate, but feel we must disguise it in the street fighting of everyday life. However, when we consciously create more opportunities for inner transformation in our families, schools, workplaces and civic associations, we can begin to exercise our economic, social and political responsibilities in ways that both draw from and encourage the personal changes we are looking for. It may sound romantic to call for an economics or politics that is loving and compassionate, but this is exactly what we can shape through conscious action.<br />Only when established in this positive self-knowledge are we likely to confront the overriding challenge that faces us in the 21st century: the need to re-balance the competitive and co-operative forces that motivate each one of us, whether in economics, politics or social life. We can do this by regulating - and ultimately re-constructing - all systems of power in ways which achieve three things: a more equal distribution of what they deliver, less costly ways of producing it, and more co-operative values and behavior among the participants. This sounds impossibly abstract, but lots of useful experiments are already underway.<br />In economics for example, new forms of enterprise are competing effectively in open markets but distributing work and profits with a social purpose, backed up by codes of conduct to level up working conditions and supported by a growing movement for “ethical consumption.” The links that are developing between peasant production systems in Latin America and supermarket campaigns in industrialized countries provide a good example of this wave of the future. <br />In politics, municipalities in Latin America, India and Uganda are inventing new forms of “dialogic democracy” in which representatives from civil society and business share in decision-making with local government. These innovations give everyone a voice in decision-making and reduce the dangers of “elected dictatorships” that favor the interests of the rich. As members of civil society partnerships, alliances and networks spanning the globe, these experiments will become the building blocks of more democratic global governance.<br />In the area of social policy, organizations like the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) in India and the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh are promoting different ways of sharing the costs and responsibilities of child-care, so that women can increase their incomes and assets without sacrificing their own health and welfare in the process. These innovations achieve a better set of trade-offs between social and economic outcomes, and challenge discrimination where it matters most.<br />Although personal transformation is rarely an explicit element in these experiments, it is the missing ingredient required to make them work on a larger scale. Such innovations show how ethics of caring and co-operation can be matched by institutions through which they can be expressed, and the deeper personal commitment required to put those ethics into practice. Such self-reinforcing cycles of sharing and stewardship are the key to a social order that enables all people to meet their basic needs for security, voice and equality of rights, with less of a risk that in doing so they will deny others the same opportunities for a fulfilling life. <br />Conclusion.<br />Although there are many interesting experiments like these to report on, they do not add up to much when compared to the forces that really drive change in the contemporary world. What are missing are scale, depth and sustainability - to make these innovations the norm rather than the exception. Achieving those goals requires a mass base to support radical change, and that in turn requires an inner transformation on a scale not realized in any period in history. Motivating large numbers of people to shift to more co-operative behavior and persuade those in power to create more inclusive institutions goes against the heart of the current economic order. Without personal change towards more caring and compassionate ways of being and dealing with each other, it will be very hard to generate the momentum to bring about such a shift.<br />However, the vision of a world that manages the costs and opportunities of an integrated economy to mutual benefit provides a powerful leitmotif for the century to come. True freedom is attainable only through relations with others, since in an interconnected world I can never be safe until you are secure; nor can one person be whole unless others are fulfilled. That is only possible on a cooperative world. Is that the kind of world we want to live in and bequeath to those we love? If so, our responsibilities are clear.<br />= 2,600 words<br />Michael Edwards is the author of Future Positive (Earthscan): http://www.futurepositive.org<br />