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Dewi, Novita. "Finding God in All Things through Poetry." Journal of Language and Literature 21, no. 1 (March 16, 2021): 190–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.24071/joll.v21i1.3145.
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Poetry is a language of devotion. It is the melody that resonates from one’s pure conscience. Being the most important and richest part of our spiritual practice, people read and write poems to help them gain understanding about themselves, each other, and the world around them. Examining world poetry, mainly from America, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka which tell about the presence of God, this article attempts to find out how God the Creator is present and represented, focusing as it does on the connection between poetry and spiritual exercises. Each of the seven poems under discussion is read by considering Ignatian Spirituality of which the core is “Finding God in All Things”. The selected poems show that God can indeed be found in three main spots. First, God resides in the universe. The presence of God in nature is a common theme shared by the poets discussed. Second, the speakers of the poems find God within themselves. They find God through discretion. Third, some of them find the face of God in that of other people because humans are created in His image. The poems open an awareness that God is present in the sufferings of others. In conclusion, poetry serves as both prayers and spiritual exercises that can improve people’s inner compassion and justice.
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O'Donovan, Leo J. "Found in God: In Memory of John Carmody." Horizons 23, no. 1 (1996): 119–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0360966900029893.
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“Seeking God in all things,” was one way Ignatius of Loyola described his pilgrim journey in this world—looking, longing, reaching always further for the "dearest freshness, deep down things" that he would call his Lord, his Majesty, his God. And for many years, even more insecure and inexperienced, in need of certitudes and formulas as I was, I heard the phrase, perhaps first in Hugo Rahner's luminous little book on The Spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola, as “finding God in all things.”
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O'Neill, Daniel W. "Practice and presence: a gathering for Christians in health care - finding God in all things." Christian Journal for Global Health 4, no. 2 (July 12, 2017): 103–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.15566/cjgh.v4i2.185.
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This conference report describes the content of the Practice and Presence confereence at Duke Divinity School in May 2017, and the approach to Ignatian practices of reflection, prayer and discernment applied to the practice of medicine, along with its application in global health contexts.
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Ren, Yi, and Mingzhe Zhu. "Finding God in All Things: Indirect Evangelization and Acculturation of Université l’Aurore in Modern China." Religions 14, no. 2 (February 2, 2023): 199. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel14020199.
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The current literature on Christian mission universities in Modern China (1840–1949) pays specific attention to their efforts to adapt to the intellectual and political context of their time. Through extensive archival works, we contribute to this research orientation by documenting the academic activities of the first Catholic university in China, Université l’Aurore (1903–1952) in Shanghai. Established and managed by the French Jesuits, Université l’Aurore exemplified the mission’s tradition of evangelization through science education. Its pedagogical arrangements, selection of teachers, and moral education showed high levels of professionalism and almost no religious influence. The Jesuits, who took as their motto, “to find God in all things”, believed that their scientific excellence could indirectly promote the Catholic spirit among future Chinese intellectuals and elites. Thanks to their strategy of indirect evangelization, not only did Université l’Aurore survive in a period when the government imposed draconic restrictions on mission entities in the name of “educational sovereignty”, it also contributed to the modernization of China’s education and society.
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Middleton, Darren J. N. "Ignatian Influences on Nikos Kazantzakis's Askitiki." Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality 24, no. 2 (September 2024): 295–313. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/scs.2024.a938557.
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Abstract: Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957), a highly influential Greek novelist and poet, spent a long apprenticeship to Christian spirituality, and he admired Ignatius Loyola (1491–1556). Examining Kazantzakis's Askitiki (English translation, The Saviors of God: Spiritual Exercises ), this essay discloses how the moves in Kazantzakis's lyrical essay, like those in Ignatius's masterwork, are drills that constitute an "always more" ( semper maior ) training for the arduous ascent to a knowledge of the God-world alliance. Three themes unite Kazantzakis and Ignatius: active mindfulness; soul-freedom through detachment from disordered affections; and pansacramentalism, finding God in all things and all things in the divine.
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Fu, Amy Yu. "Wanwuyiti and Finding God in All Things: A Comparative Study between Neo-Confucian Self-Cultivation and Ignatian Spirituality." Religions 15, no. 5 (April 23, 2024): 521. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel15050521.
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It seems that the early Jesuits misinterpreted the key Neo-Confucian terms taiji/li from an Aristotelian perspective in the seventeenth century, thereby leading to a dialogical failure in their initial encounter with Neo-Confucian tradition. What necessitates interreligious dialogue today is a pluralistic stance that deems all religious quests worthy in their own context. Therefore, this paper renews the dialogue between two spiritual traditions, long overdue, by reading two representative texts, side by side, from each tradition on self-cultivation: Reflections on Things at Hand (twelfth century) and The Spiritual Exercises (sixteenth century). The comparison showcases that the notion of “wanwuyiti”, a concomitant of the Confucian ren, is tantamount to a religious imperative for human ethical engagements, and the Ignatian axiom “Finding God in All Things” energizes a spiritual self-transformation to forge an intimate bond with God and the world. While Neo-Confucian cultivation focuses on the removal of desires, seeking to maintain “equilibrium” and “centrality”, the Ignatian exercises foreground commitment to “discernment” and “indifference”. The Neo-Confucians address human and worldly affairs in a procedural manner, with ever-broadening horizons, to establish an orderly society. In contrast, the Ignatian self is directed toward an orderly life to serve, love, and bring ever more to God’s Divine Majesty.
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Witono, Odemus Bei. "PERAN INTEGRATIF PENDIDIKAN JESUIT DALAM FORMASI KEPEMIMPINAN IGNATIAN." Spiritualitas Ignasian: Jurnal Kerohanian dalam Dunia Pendidikan 24, no. 1 (October 11, 2024): 83–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.24071/si.v24i1.9094.
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This article explores through a qualitative approach the guiding principles and educational philosophy of Jesuit institutions, focusing on their holistic approach to personal and intellectual development. Key elements include the integration of faith and reason, the commitment to social justice, and the formation of students as conscientious and competent leaders. Central to this philosophy are the concepts of finding God in all things, the transience and immanence of God, and the dedication to the greater glory of God (AMDG) and the principle of "Magis." Keywords: Jesuit education, school, character development, faith and reason, social justice, leadership, Magis, Cura Personalis, reflective practices.
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McCall, Bradford. "Finding God in All Things: Celebrating Bernard Lonergan, John Courtney Murray, and Karl Rahner. Edited by Mark Bosco and David Stagaman." Heythrop Journal 50, no. 3 (May 2009): 571–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2265.2009.00484_55.x.
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Lim, Khay Tham Nehemiah. "Book Review: Healing The Split Between Theology And Spirituality: Hans Gustafson, Finding All Things in God: Pansacramentalism and Doing Theology Interreligiously." Expository Times 129, no. 12 (August 15, 2018): 580. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0014524618786186.
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Mohammed, Abdul Jabbar, and Mohammed Khalaf. "CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN HUNTING FOR DR. ABDEL KARIM ZIDAN, MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON HIM." Islamic Sciences Journal 11, no. 2 (March 17, 2023): 195–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.25130/jis.20.11.2.9.
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Islamic law is able to deal with all new things, keep pace with the requirements of the times, and find a juristic rule for all the coming down or all the developments of life, and examples of this are what we discussed among the pages of this research, and we found that intelligence is valid using modern machines, as the slaughtering of the scruff is valid under the conditions we mentioned during Research, and that the noun is divided if the pronouncer uttered it when operating the mechanical slaughtering machine, as we have known the mercy of the Sharia of the animal in its permissibility to anesthetize it before slaughtering it in order to reduce the pain on it. Walks of life, finding a The provisions of its own legitimacy.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Finding God in All Things"
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Foley, Christopher J. "Remembrance of God in all things a pastoral approach to work and prayer /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p015-0455.
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Gilbertson, Michael Robert. ""See, I am making all things new" : God and human history in the Book of Revelation and in twentieth-century theology, with particular reference to Wolfhart Pannenberg and Jurgen Moltmann." Thesis, Durham University, 1997. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1637/.
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A, Wild Robert. Finding God in all things. 2nd ed. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2005.
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Mejìa, Rodrigo. Seeking and finding God in all things. Karen, Nairobi: St. Paul Publications, Africa, 1986.
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Rehg, William. Christian mindfulness: A path to finding God in all things. St. Louis, MO: Seminar on Jesuit Spirituality, 2002.
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J, Buckley Michael, Himes Michael J, and Pope Stephen J. 1955-, eds. Finding God in all things: Essays in honor of Michael J. Buckley. New York: Crossroad Pub. Co., 1996.
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Ignatius, of Loyola, Saint, 1491-1556., ed. Finding God in all things: A companion to The spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius. Notre Dame, Ind: Ave Maria Press, 1991.
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Mark, Bosco, and Stagaman David J. 1935-, eds. Finding God in all things: Celebrating Bernard Lonergan, John Courtney Murray, and Karl Rahner. New York: Fordham University Press, 2007.
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Mark, Bosco, and Stagaman David J. 1935-, eds. Finding God in all things: Celebrating Bernard Lonergan, John Courtney Murray, and Karl Rahner. New York: Fordham University Press, 2007.
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McKissack, Pat. God makes all things new. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1993.
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Bosco, Mark, and David Stagaman, eds. Finding God in All Things. Fordham University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780823291557.
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Barry, William A. Finding God in All things. Ave Maria Press, 1991.
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Kemmis, Stephen, and Kathleen Mahon. "Finding Worlds Worth Living in." In Living Well in a World Worth Living in for All, 225–33. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7985-9_13.
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AbstractThis chapter discusses diverse views of worlds worth living in, as described by different groups of students, young people, and adults. It also highlights how the project of research and writing that produced this volume is an example of criticalpraxis: history making action directed towards realising the good for humankind. Perhaps, in this, it is an example of what Anna Stetsenko calls a ‘transformative activist stance’. In researching and articulating views of worlds worth living in, the contributors to the volume, and the participants with whom they spoke, not only began to imagine worlds worth living in, they also began to realise them.
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"Suffering in God and World." In Finding All Things in God, 270–87. The Lutterworth Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1131g0d.18.
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"Front Matter." In Finding All Things in God, i—iv. The Lutterworth Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1131g0d.1.
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"A Rahnerian Pansacramental Proposal." In Finding All Things in God, 80–111. The Lutterworth Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1131g0d.10.
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"Louis-Marie Chauvet:." In Finding All Things in God, 112–20. The Lutterworth Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1131g0d.11.
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"Sacramental Spirituality." In Finding All Things in God, 123–30. The Lutterworth Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1131g0d.12.
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"Thomas Merton:." In Finding All Things in God, 131–52. The Lutterworth Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1131g0d.13.
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"Nicholas Black Elk:." In Finding All Things in God, 153–82. The Lutterworth Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1131g0d.14.
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"Dostoevsky and Wendell Berry:." In Finding All Things in God, 183–203. The Lutterworth Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1131g0d.15.
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"A Philosophy of Sacramental Mediation." In Finding All Things in God, 207–44. The Lutterworth Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1131g0d.16.
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Green, David, Harrison Chin, and Richard Barnett. "Assessment of Processes and Risks Associated with Extension of Inspection Intervals." In Vertical Flight Society 73rd Annual Forum & Technology Display, 1–7. The Vertical Flight Society, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4050/f-0073-2017-12216.
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This paper addresses processes and findings developed as the result of a program conducted by a Gulf of Mexico (GOM) helicopter Operator involving 14 S-76C+/++ (S-76C) helicopters in a three-year demonstration of operations supporting Oil and Gas Producers. These processes and findings are in many ways applicable to both civil and military helicopters since all civil and military OEMs use a Composite Worst Case (CWC) Usage as a key element of the algorithm for power train design and the establishment of initial power train inspection intervals. The current ability to record and process usage data during flight can allow the industry to develop inspection intervals based upon the actual usage data recorded on each helicopter in an operator's fleet. This allows the Operator to reduce the cost of operations without any degradation in flight safety or operational availability.
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Cawley, Declan, and Janki Patel. "P-162 National medication related benchmarking of incidents – are we all grading the same things?" In Finding a Way Forward, Hospice UK National Conference, 22–24 November 2022, Glasgow. British Medical Journal Publishing Group, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/spcare-2022-hunc.178.
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Logofatu, Bogdan, Andreea maria Visan, and Camelia Ungureanu. "GOOGLE CLASSROOM - THE NEW EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE. PILOT TEST WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT FOR DISTANCE LEARNING." In eLSE 2015. Carol I National Defence University Publishing House, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-15-166.
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The landscape of the educational area has witnessed a continuous transformation in the past years due to new technologies. Higher educational institutes from all over the world are competing in all kinds of learning experience with the main objective of finding the best practices for their students. The main purpose of all this experiences is to enrich learning through a new generation of pedagogical methods. One of the highest demands for Romanian educational system is the transition between the traditional classroom, which is limited at one teacher and his students in one room at the same time, with limited learning resources, to an open learning process in which teachers and students are equals contributors and in which learning resources are always shaping. This paper interests are centered on emerging educational technology through effective learning experiences in a cloud computing environment. Our main interest is to present a new way of doing things on campus by using Google classroom (first pilot test in Romania) within the Department for Distance Learning. Over the years the Department for Distance Learning had students of different ages, from 18+ to 50+, students from all over the country and abroad and they all had the same purpose: to learn. By working with different people, with different ways of learning and also different attitudes, opinions, ideas, needs and stock of knowledge, our mission was and still is to provide opportunities to learn for everyone, to customize learning. And what better way of doing it if not by implementing the latest trends in teaching? To achieve this mission our team started to use Google classroom, which is a great distance assessment tool that allows crowd participation and peer support. It is also promoting self assessment and reflection, it offers great help in managing class resources and a good guideline for e-feedback. It allows students and teachers to work quickly from anywhere and it uses the same web based tools that students and teachers among are using it at home. The challenges for the Department for Distance Learning team that came with the launch of this new project test are multiple but there are also a lot of opportunities created for teaching and learning as it will be presented in the paper.
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Yang, Kailu, and Yu Cao. "A Smart Campus Community Mobile Platform for ECA (Extra Curricular Activity) Management and Volunteer Coordination using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning." In 5th International Conference on Internet of Things & Embedded Systems, 115–25. Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5121/csit.2024.142310.
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There is a common difficulty in finding opportunities to participate in volunteer activities in my school [1]. The app aims to tackle this problem by providing a platform for signing up to volunteer activities. The app comprises three important systems including authentication, notification and pdf summary generation. The app uses firebase as the background database to store all data and provides an authentication and notification system that makes use of providers to listen to changes of data [2]. The app’s pdf summary generation system utilizes the ‘report lab’ module. Because of the complexity of the structure, the user interface has to be designed well to be organized and easy to use. After the completion of the app, a survey containing various questions on finding and signing up volunteer events was sent to 10 students to evaluate the effectiveness of the app in facilitating signing up to volunteer activities [15]. The results proved to be very successful and most importantly made finding the activities more convenient. The app saves precious time for students in looking for activities and allows them to compare various activities in the same place and choose the best fit one.
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Thrasher, Tricia Kelly, Regina Kaplan-Rakowski, Dorothy Chun, and Randall Sadler. "Virtual reality: “Awesome”, “OK”, or “Not so good” for language learning?" In EuroCALL 2023: CALL for all Languages. Editorial Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia: Editorial Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/eurocall2023.2023.16948.
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High-immersion Virtual Reality (VR) has rapidly gained popularity as an innovative tool that provides users with immersive and engaging learning experiences. Meanwhile, large-scale studies that provide empirical evidence regarding its effectiveness are scarce. This pilot study is part of a Meta and Immerse co-funded large-scale project investigating cognitive and affective aspects of language learning in VR. This short paper reports on one aspect of this pilot: language learners' (n=123) impressions of French as a foreign language (L2) classes conducted in Immerse, a VR language learning platform. Despite its acclaimed potential, VR may not be immediately perceived as an “awesome” tool for language learning. Our findings indicate that most learners viewed VR as "OK" or “awesome” for learning. However, only a few participants expressed VR to be “not so good.” Stemming from positive and negative feedback from the learners, we identify which aspects of VR are most appealing, and which should be carefully considered. Based on lessons learned, we share recommendations of how to avoid typical mistakes when implementing VR in a classroom.
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Yip-Hoi, Derek, and Debasish Dutta. "Finding Minimum Cost Tool Grouping Schemes on Machining Systems." In ASME 1997 Design Engineering Technical Conferences. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc97/cie-4270.
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Abstract Changing worn tools is a major concern in planning operations on machining systems. Strategies for replacing tools range from changing each tool as it reaches its projected tool life, to changing all tools when the tool with the shortest life on the machining system is expended. Intermediate strategies involve changing tools in groups. Each of these strategies has two cost components associated with it: (1) the cost of lost production due to machine tool stoppage, and (2) the cost of unused tool life. The best tool grouping strategy minimizes the combined cost of lost production. In this paper we present an approach for finding good tool grouping strategies from inputs that include the tool utilization for a given machining application, and the tooling and machining system costs. A genetic algorithm is used as the underlying optimization paradigm for finding the minimum cost strategy. An example is presented for a part produced on a machining center.
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Capes, David B. "TOLERANCE IN THE THEOLOGY AND THOUGHT OF A. J. CONYERS AND FETHULLAH GÜLEN (EXTENDED ABSTRACT)." In Muslim World in Transition: Contributions of the Gülen Movement. Leeds Metropolitan University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.55207/fbvr3629.
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In his book The Long Truce (Spence Publishing, 2001) the late A. J. Conyers argues that tolerance, as practiced in western democracies, is not a public virtue; it is a political strat- egy employed to establish power and guarantee profits. Tolerance, of course, seemed to be a reasonable response to the religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but tolerance based upon indifference to all values except political power and materialism relegated ultimate questions of meaning to private life. Conyers offers another model for tolerance based upon values and resources already resident in pre-Reformation Christianity. In this paper, we consider Conyer’s case against the modern, secular form of tolerance and its current practice. We examine his attempt to reclaim the practice of Christian tolerance based upon humility, hospitality and the “powerful fact” of the incarnation. Furthermore, we bring the late Conyers into dialog with Fethullah Gülen, a Muslim scholar, prolific writer and the source of inspiration for a transnational civil society movement. We explore how both Conyers and Gülen interpret their scriptures in order to fashion a theology and politi- cal ideology conducive to peaceful co-existence. Finally, because Gülen’s identity has been formed within the Sufi tradition, we reflect on the spiritual resources within Sufi spirituality that make dialog and toleration key values for him. Conyers locates various values, practices and convictions in the Christian message that pave the way for authentic toleration. These include humility, trust, reconciliation, the interrelat- edness of all things, the paradox of power--that is, that strength is found in weakness and greatness in service—hope, the inherent goodness of creation, and interfaith dialog. Conyers refers to this latter practice as developing “the listening heart” and “the open soul.” In his writings and oral addresses, Gülen prefers the term hoshgoru (literally, “good view”) to “tolerance.” Conceptually, the former term indicates actions of the heart and the mind that include empathy, inquisitiveness, reflection, consideration of the dialog partner’s context, and respect for their positions. The term “tolerance” does not capture the notion of hoshgoru. Elsewhere, Gülen finds even the concept of hoshgoru insufficient, and employs terms with more depth in interfaith relations, such as respect and an appreciation of the positions of your dialog partner. The resources Gülen references in the context of dialog and empathic acceptance include the Qur’an, the prophetic tradition, especially lives of the companions of the Prophet, the works of great Muslim scholars and Sufi masters, and finally, the history of Islamic civilization. Among his Qur’anic references, Gülen alludes to verses that tell the believers to represent hu- mility, peace and security, trustworthiness, compassion and forgiveness (The Qur’an, 25:63, 25:72, 28:55, 45:14, 17:84), to avoid armed conflicts and prefer peace (4:128), to maintain cordial relationships with the “people of the book,” and to avoid argumentation (29:46). But perhaps the most important references of Gülen with respect to interfaith relations are his readings of those verses that allow Muslims to fight others. Gülen positions these verses in historical context to point out one by one that their applicability is conditioned upon active hostility. In other words, in Gülen’s view, nowhere in the Qur’an does God allow fighting based on differences of faith. An important factor for Gülen’s embracing views of empathic acceptance and respect is his view of the inherent value of the human. Gülen’s message is essentially that every human person exists as a piece of art created by the Compassionate God, reflecting aspects of His compassion. He highlights love as the raison d’etre of the universe. “Love is the very reason of existence, and the most important bond among beings,” Gülen comments. A failure to approach fellow humans with love, therefore, implies a deficiency in our love of God and of those who are beloved to God. The lack of love for fellow human beings implies a lack of respect for this monumental work of art by God. Ultimately, to remain indifferent to the conditions and suffering of fellow human beings implies indifference to God himself. While advocating love of human beings as a pillar of human relations, Gülen maintains a balance. He distinguishes between the love of fellow human beings and our attitude toward some of their qualities or actions. Our love for a human being who inflicts suffering upon others does not mean that we remain silent toward his violent actions. On the contrary, our very love for that human being as a human being, as well as our love of those who suffer, necessitate that we participate actively in the elimination of suffering. In the end we argue that strong resonances are found in the notion of authentic toleration based on humility advocated by Conyers and the notion of hoshgoru in the writings of Gülen.
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Zhang, Yulun, He Jiang, Varun Bhatt, Stefanos Nikolaidis, and Jiaoyang Li. "Guidance Graph Optimization for Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding." In Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-24}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2024/35.
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We study how to use guidance to improve the throughput of lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF). Previous studies have demonstrated that, while incorporating guidance, such as highways, can accelerate MAPF algorithms, this often results in a trade-off with solution quality. In addition, how to generate good guidance automatically remains largely unexplored, with current methods falling short of surpassing manually designed ones. In this work, we introduce the guidance graph as a versatile representation of guidance for lifelong MAPF, framing Guidance Graph Optimization as the task of optimizing its edge weights. We present two GGO algorithms to automatically generate guidance for arbitrary lifelong MAPF algorithms and maps. The first method directly optimizes edge weights, while the second method optimizes an update model capable of generating edge weights. Empirically, we show that (1) our guidance graphs improve the throughput of three representative lifelong MAPF algorithms in eight benchmark maps, and (2) our update model can generate guidance graphs for as large as 93 x 91 maps and as many as 3,000 agents. We include the source code at: https://github.com/lunjohnzhang/ggo_public. All optimized guidance graphs are available online at: https://yulunzhang.net/publication/zhang2024ggo.
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Li, Jie, and Katja Hölttä-Otto. "Does Empathising With Users Contribute to Better Need Finding?" In ASME 2022 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2022-89413.
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Abstract In user-centered product design, empathizing with users is an effective way to step into their shoes. Ideally, it helps designers understand user needs better and in more depth. However, the degree to which accurate empathic understanding contributes to needfinding and what exactly constitutes a ‘good’ need remain unclear. In this study, 13 designers watched a standard stimulus contextual user interview, performed an empathic accuracy task, and identified user needs based on the video. The needs identified from all participants were affinitized and summarized into a set of 23 user needs. They were scored for overall need quality, consisting of importance and satisfaction with current solutions as well as for need depth and latency. Designers’ empathic understanding was measured as the accuracy with which they could infer users’ mental contents and emotional tone. The designers’ emotional tone accuracy correlated with their performance in identifying important unfulfilled needs and needs where the users were most satisfied with existing solutions. However, no correlations were found for the empathic understanding of mental contents. In addition, need depth or latency was not found to correlate with any empathic understanding measure. These results are among the first to link empathy and designers’ performance in needfinding, but further studies are necessary to replicate and validate the results.
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Wilke, Gunther. "Findings in Aero-Acoustic Simulations for Optimizations." In Vertical Flight Society 76th Annual Forum & Technology Display. The Vertical Flight Society, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4050/f-0076-2020-16495.
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The methods of the aero-acoustic optimization toolchain developed by DLR within the VicToria project are further analyzed. From previous investigations, it was settled that an unsteady panel code with a free-wake model poses a fast alternative to higher-order CFD simulations to predict blade-vortex interaction noise. In this paper, a brief validation of both methods against the HART II rotor is done. Design parametric studies with UPM are carried out for which single CFD simulations are placed to examine the correlation between both methods. In the end, an optimization with the panel code as well as CFD is conducted to see how good the final designs match. From this research it is observed that UPM captures plausible trends when altering the chord distribution. The blade sweep may be optimized with caution when using UPM. However, for the optimization of an-/dihedral, UPM predicts a very different trend than CFD. The final designs retrieved by UPM or CFD contradicted each other when optimizing with all five parameters. The reason for this mostly lies in the determination of the strength of the rolled-up tip vortex and partially its location.
Reports on the topic "Finding God in All Things"
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Prud’homme, Joseph. Quakerism, Christian Tradition, and Secular Misconceptions: A Christian’s Thoughts on the Political Philosophy of Ihsan. IIIT, October 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47816/01.006.20.
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In his elegant and insightful book Muqtedar Khan admonishes Muslims to do beautiful things. It is an arresting call in a book itself beautiful in style, clarity, and boldness of vision for a better world. Professor Khan’s quest for beauty in a specific Muslim context: the beauty that arises when actions are done with the inescapable sense that God sees all one does – or, Ihsan. But what exactly do the commands of God require of those who, knowing He is watching, set themselves the task of scrupulously doing His will?
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MacFarlane, Andrew. 2021 medical student essay prize winner - A case of grief. Society for Academic Primary Care, July 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.37361/medstudessay.2021.1.1.
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As a student undertaking a Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (LIC)1 based in a GP practice in a rural community in the North of Scotland, I have been lucky to be given responsibility and my own clinic lists. Every day I conduct consultations that change my practice: the challenge of clinically applying the theory I have studied, controlling a consultation and efficiently exploring a patient's problems, empathising with and empowering them to play a part in their own care2 – and most difficult I feel – dealing with the vast amount of uncertainty that medicine, and particularly primary care, presents to both clinician and patient. I initially consulted with a lady in her 60s who attended with her husband, complaining of severe lower back pain who was very difficult to assess due to her pain level. Her husband was understandably concerned about the degree of pain she was in. After assessment and discussion with one of the GPs, we agreed some pain relief and a physio assessment in the next few days would be a practical plan. The patient had one red flag, some leg weakness and numbness, which was her ‘normal’ on account of her multiple sclerosis. At the physio assessment a few days later, the physio felt things were worse and some urgent bloods were ordered, unfortunately finding raised cancer and inflammatory markers. A CT scan of the lung found widespread cancer, a later CT of the head after some developing some acute confusion found brain metastases, and a week and a half after presenting to me, the patient sadly died in hospital. While that was all impactful enough on me, it was the follow-up appointment with the husband who attended on the last triage slot of the evening two weeks later that I found completely altered my understanding of grief and the mourning of a loved one. The husband had asked to speak to a Andrew MacFarlane Year 3 ScotGEM Medical Student 2 doctor just to talk about what had happened to his wife. The GP decided that it would be better if he came into the practice - strictly he probably should have been consulted with over the phone due to coronavirus restrictions - but he was asked what he would prefer and he opted to come in. I sat in on the consultation, I had been helping with any examinations the triage doctor needed and I recognised that this was the husband of the lady I had seen a few weeks earlier. He came in and sat down, head lowered, hands fiddling with the zip on his jacket, trying to find what to say. The GP sat, turned so that they were opposite each other with no desk between them - I was seated off to the side, an onlooker, but acknowledged by the patient with a kind nod when he entered the room. The GP asked gently, “How are you doing?” and roughly 30 seconds passed (a long time in a conversation) before the patient spoke. “I just really miss her…” he whispered with great effort, “I don’t understand how this all happened.” Over the next 45 minutes, he spoke about his wife, how much pain she had been in, the rapid deterioration he witnessed, the cancer being found, and cruelly how she had passed away after he had gone home to get some rest after being by her bedside all day in the hospital. He talked about how they had met, how much he missed her, how empty the house felt without her, and asking himself and us how he was meant to move forward with his life. He had a lot of questions for us, and for himself. Had we missed anything – had he missed anything? The GP really just listened for almost the whole consultation, speaking to him gently, reassuring him that this wasn’t his or anyone’s fault. She stated that this was an awful time for him and that what he was feeling was entirely normal and something we will all universally go through. She emphasised that while it wasn’t helpful at the moment, that things would get better over time.3 He was really glad I was there – having shared a consultation with his wife and I – he thanked me emphatically even though I felt like I hadn’t really helped at all. After some tears, frequent moments of silence and a lot of questions, he left having gotten a lot off his chest. “You just have to listen to people, be there for them as they go through things, and answer their questions as best you can” urged my GP as we discussed the case when the patient left. Almost all family caregivers contact their GP with regards to grief and this consultation really made me realise how important an aspect of my practice it will be in the future.4 It has also made me reflect on the emphasis on undergraduate teaching around ‘breaking bad news’ to patients, but nothing taught about when patients are in the process of grieving further down the line.5 The skill Andrew MacFarlane Year 3 ScotGEM Medical Student 3 required to manage a grieving patient is not one limited to general practice. Patients may grieve the loss of function from acute trauma through to chronic illness in all specialties of medicine - in addition to ‘traditional’ grief from loss of family or friends.6 There wasn’t anything ‘medical’ in the consultation, but I came away from it with a real sense of purpose as to why this career is such a privilege. We look after patients so they can spend as much quality time as they are given with their loved ones, and their loved ones are the ones we care for after they are gone. We as doctors are the constant, and we have to meet patients with compassion at their most difficult times – because it is as much a part of the job as the knowledge and the science – and it is the part of us that patients will remember long after they leave our clinic room. Word Count: 993 words References 1. ScotGEM MBChB - Subjects - University of St Andrews [Internet]. [cited 2021 Mar 27]. Available from: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/medicine/scotgem-mbchb/ 2. Shared decision making in realistic medicine: what works - gov.scot [Internet]. [cited 2021 Mar 27]. Available from: https://www.gov.scot/publications/works-support-promote-shared-decisionmaking-synthesis-recent-evidence/pages/1/ 3. Ghesquiere AR, Patel SR, Kaplan DB, Bruce ML. Primary care providers’ bereavement care practices: Recommendations for research directions. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2014 Dec;29(12):1221–9. 4. Nielsen MK, Christensen K, Neergaard MA, Bidstrup PE, Guldin M-B. Grief symptoms and primary care use: a prospective study of family caregivers. BJGP Open [Internet]. 2020 Aug 1 [cited 2021 Mar 27];4(3). Available from: https://bjgpopen.org/content/4/3/bjgpopen20X101063 5. O’Connor M, Breen LJ. General Practitioners’ experiences of bereavement care and their educational support needs: a qualitative study. BMC Medical Education. 2014 Mar 27;14(1):59. 6. Sikstrom L, Saikaly R, Ferguson G, Mosher PJ, Bonato S, Soklaridis S. Being there: A scoping review of grief support training in medical education. PLOS ONE. 2019 Nov 27;14(11):e0224325.
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Tommasi, Mariano, Carlos Scartascini, and Germán Caruso. Are We All Playing the Same Game?: The Economic Effects of Constitutions Depend on the Degree of Institutionalization. Inter-American Development Bank, July 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0011491.
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The understanding of the economic effect of formal institutional rules has progressed substantially in recent decades. These formal analyses have tended to take for granted that institutional arenas such as Congress are the places where decision-making takes place. That is a good approximation in some cases (such as many developed countries today) but not in others. If countries differ in how institutionalized their policymaking is, it is possible that the impact of formal political rules on policy outcomes might depend on that. This paper explores that hypothesis and finds that some important claims regarding the impact of constitutions on policy outcomes do not hold for countries in which institutionalization is low. The findings suggest the need to develop a broader class of policymaking models in which the degree to which decision-making follows "the rules" is also endogenized.
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Arias, Omar, Gustavo Yamada, and Luis Tejerina. Education, Family Background and Racial Earnings Inequality in Brazil. Inter-American Development Bank, September 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0012219.
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This study combines survey data with annual state data on pupil-teacher ratios covering broadly the period 1940-90 to investigate the role of race, family background and education (both the quantity and quality) in explaining earnings inequality between whites and the African descendent population (pretos and pardos) in Brazil. The authors estimate quantile Mincer earnings equations to go beyond the usual racial average earnings gaps decompositions. The main findings indicate that differences in human capital, including parental education and education quality, and in its returns, account for most but not all of the earnings gap between the African descendent population and whites. There is evidence of potential greater pay discrimination at the higher salary jobs at any given skill level. The authors also find that returns to education vary significantly across workers. The results suggest that while equalizing access to quality education, including improved early learning environments, is key to reduce inter-racial earnings inequality in Brazil, specific policies are also needed to facilitate non-whites equal access to good quality jobs.
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Soares, Tatiana Fontes, Simon Lodato, Monika Huppi, Jose Claudio Linhares Pires, and Cheryl Gray. Fifth Independent Evaluation of SCF's Expanded Project Supervision Report Exercise. Inter-American Development Bank, September 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0010613.
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Each year the Structured and Corporate Finance Department (SCF) of the Inter-American Development Bank prepares a set of Expanded Project Supervision Reports (XPSRs). This Fifth Independent Evaluation Report presents the annual independent validation of the XPRSs by the Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE). The exercise has been carried out in line with the Good Practice Standards for Private Sector Operations issued by the multilateral development banks' Evaluation Cooperation Group. Each project is evaluated on four dimensions: Development Outcome, IDB Profitability, IDB Additionality, and IDB Work Quality. This XPSR exercise covers all nine SCF projects that reached Early Operating Maturity in 2011. These projects were approved mostly in 2008 and 2009 during the global financial crisis, although one dates back to 2006. The portfolio consists of five financial operations (all located in C&D countries) and four non-financial sector operations (located in A&B countries). This report presents the main findings and conclusions from the evaluation exercise. Some specific financial, business or proprietary information has been edited, in compliance with the Bank's Access to Information Policy.
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Lunn, Pete, Elish Kelly, and Nick Fitzpatrick. Keeping Them in the Game: Taking Up and Dropping Out of Sport and Exercise in Ireland. ESRI, December 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.26504/rs33.
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Keeping them in the Game, commissioned by the Irish Sports Council and compiled by ESRI researchers, provides evidence for policy from three large nationally representative surveys of activity, covering everyone from primary school children to older adults. In launching the report Minister Michael Ring highlighted “the importance of having research of this quality in order to inform important policy decisions around trying to increase the number of Irish people taking part in sport throughout their lives". Key findings include: Almost all primary schoolchildren engage in regular sporting activity – it's what happens after that stage that is a cause for concern. Many children drop out of regular activity during the second-level years, especially girls. School exams have a strong negative impact: students participate less in exam years and this has a lasting effect on whether they are active in later years. Students who play sport get, on average, better Leaving Certificate results. Activity as an adult is less related to attitudes and beliefs than to life events: most adults believe sporting activity is good for them and want to be more active, but leaving education, work commitments, relocations and family responsibilities lead many to drop out. Cycling and, in particular, swimming, are most likely to persist into later adulthood; Gaelic games meanwhile have a high drop-out rate. New sporting activities are mostly taken up through social connections with friends, colleagues and family members; finding facilities is not a barrier. These factors lead to a widening socio-economic gap as people progress through adulthood – the less well-off are more likely to drop out from sport as young adults and less likely to take up new activities. The study discusses a number of policy implications.
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Ramírez Rodríguez, Santiago, Danya Churanek, Katherine Pielemeier, Darinka Vásquez Jordán, Oliver Azuara Herrera, and Alejandro Soriano. Second Independent Evaluation of the Japanese Trust Funds at the IDB. Inter-American Development Bank, May 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0010585.
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This evaluation was conducted by IDB's Independent Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) at the request of the Japan Executive Director's Office at the IDB, on behalf of the Government of Japan (GoJ). The purpose of the evaluation was to assess the results obtained with JTF financing and to point out any potential improvement in the future use of those funds. The findings were also expected to highlight topics related to the visibility of Japan's contributions and collaboration with Japanese agencies. The review covered the entire JTF portfolio of country and regional NRTCs completed between January 2006 and December 2012 - a total of 265 projects with US$96.7 million in disbursements from the JTF. These operations financed programs in 25 of the 26 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean via loan preparation grants (LPGs) or stand-alone grants (SAGs) in practically all areas of IDB's work. The majority of these projects were approved between 2005 and 2009.
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HEFNER, Robert. IHSAN ETHICS AND POLITICAL REVITALIZATION Appreciating Muqtedar Khan’s Islam and Good Governance. IIIT, October 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47816/01.001.20.
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Ours is an age of pervasive political turbulence, and the scale of the challenge requires new thinking on politics as well as public ethics for our world. In Western countries, the specter of Islamophobia, alt-right populism, along with racialized violence has shaken public confidence in long-secure assumptions rooted in democracy, diversity, and citizenship. The tragic denouement of so many of the Arab uprisings together with the ascendance of apocalyptic extremists like Daesh and Boko Haram have caused an even greater sense of alarm in large parts of the Muslim-majority world. It is against this backdrop that M.A. Muqtedar Khan has written a book of breathtaking range and ethical beauty. The author explores the history and sociology of the Muslim world, both classic and contemporary. He does so, however, not merely to chronicle the phases of its development, but to explore just why the message of compassion, mercy, and ethical beauty so prominent in the Quran and Sunna of the Prophet came over time to be displaced by a narrow legalism that emphasized jurisprudence, punishment, and social control. In the modern era, Western Orientalists and Islamists alike have pushed the juridification and interpretive reification of Islamic ethical traditions even further. Each group has asserted that the essence of Islam lies in jurisprudence (fiqh), and both have tended to imagine this legal heritage on the model of Western positive law, according to which law is authorized, codified, and enforced by a leviathan state. “Reification of Shariah and equating of Islam and Shariah has a rather emaciating effect on Islam,” Khan rightly argues. It leads its proponents to overlook “the depth and heights of Islamic faith, mysticism, philosophy or even emotions such as divine love (Muhabba)” (13). As the sociologist of Islamic law, Sami Zubaida, has similarly observed, in all these developments one sees evidence, not of a traditionalist reassertion of Muslim values, but a “triumph of Western models” of religion and state (Zubaida 2003:135). To counteract these impoverishing trends, Khan presents a far-reaching analysis that “seeks to move away from the now failed vision of Islamic states without demanding radical secularization” (2). He does so by positioning himself squarely within the ethical and mystical legacy of the Qur’an and traditions of the Prophet. As the book’s title makes clear, the key to this effort of religious recovery is “the cosmology of Ihsan and the worldview of Al-Tasawwuf, the science of Islamic mysticism” (1-2). For Islamist activists whose models of Islam have more to do with contemporary identity politics than a deep reading of Islamic traditions, Khan’s foregrounding of Ihsan may seem unfamiliar or baffling. But one of the many achievements of this book is the skill with which it plumbs the depth of scripture, classical commentaries, and tasawwuf practices to recover and confirm the ethic that lies at their heart. “The Quran promises that God is with those who do beautiful things,” the author reminds us (Khan 2019:1). The concept of Ihsan appears 191 times in 175 verses in the Quran (110). The concept is given its richest elaboration, Khan explains, in the famous hadith of the Angel Gabriel. This tradition recounts that when Gabriel appeared before the Prophet he asked, “What is Ihsan?” Both Gabriel’s question and the Prophet’s response make clear that Ihsan is an ideal at the center of the Qur’an and Sunna of the Prophet, and that it enjoins “perfection, goodness, to better, to do beautiful things and to do righteous deeds” (3). It is this cosmological ethic that Khan argues must be restored and implemented “to develop a political philosophy … that emphasizes love over law” (2). In its expansive exploration of Islamic ethics and civilization, Khan’s Islam and Good Governance will remind some readers of the late Shahab Ahmed’s remarkable book, What is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic (Ahmed 2016). Both are works of impressive range and spiritual depth. But whereas Ahmed stood in the humanities wing of Islamic studies, Khan is an intellectual polymath who moves easily across the Islamic sciences, social theory, and comparative politics. He brings the full weight of his effort to conclusion with policy recommendations for how “to combine Sufism with political theory” (6), and to do so in a way that recommends specific “Islamic principles that encourage good governance, and politics in pursuit of goodness” (8).
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Cannon, Mariah, and Pauline Oosterhoff. Tired and Trapped: Life Stories from Cotton Millworkers in Tamil Nadu. Institute of Development Studies, March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/clarissa.2021.002.
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Labour abuse in the garment industry has been widely reported. This qualitative research explores the lived experiences in communities with bonded labour in Tamil Nadu, India. We conducted a qualitative expert-led analysis of 301 life stories of mostly women and girls. We also explore the differences and similarities between qualitative expert-led and participatory narrative analyses of life stories of people living near to and working in the spinning mills. Our findings show that the young female workforce, many of whom entered the workforce as children, are seen and treated as belonging – body, mind and soul – to others. Their stories confirm the need for a feminist approach to gender, race, caste and work that recognises the complexity of power. Oppression and domination have material, psychological and emotional forms that go far beyond the mill. Almost all the girls reported physical and psychological exhaustion from gendered unpaid domestic work, underpaid hazardous labour, little sleep, poor nutrition and being in unhealthy environments.
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Brockmann, Kolja, Mark Bromley, and Lauriane Héau. Adapting the Missile Technology Control Regime for Current and Future Challenges. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, November 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.55163/qdbn4348.
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The Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) is a cornerstone of the non-proliferation architecture for missiles and other uncrewed aerial vehicles. However, geopolitical and technical developments and operational challenges threaten the regime’s effectiveness and create a need for reform in several areas. The MTCR partners should develop a clear strategy for determining if and how to expand MTCR membership. To increase the number of adherents, partners should pursue reinforced outreach and expand and promote the benefits offered. By improving the transparency of its procedures and deliberations, the regime can make them more understandable for non-partners. The partners can also improve the MTCR’s legitimacy by emphasizing that it provides public goods and helps states to meet their international obligations. The regime can also address the challenges of emerging technologies by focusing on technical deliberations and sharing information and good practices. Through all this, the MTCR must ensure its continued functioning in the face of geopolitical tensions and armed conflict between partners. This SIPRI Policy Brief summarizes the findings and presents the policy recommendations from a longer report, see Brockmann, K., Bromley, M. and Héau, L., The Missile Technology Control Regime at a Crossroads: Adapting the Regime for Current and Future Challenges, SIPRI Report (SIPRI, Stockholm, 2022).