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Universities and the Right to Think in Africa
Studies of academic freedom have mostly focussed on Europe and North America. Yet, any consideration of the societal crises in Africa cannot ignore the collapse of its universities and the very concept of academic freedom on the continent. Much had been expected of the universities.
Jeremiah O. Arowosegbe
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The gift of democracy: a Tibetan experience with democracy in exile
Instituting democracy was one of the foremost engagements of the Dalai Lama in exile. The intricate connection drawn between democracy, the nationalist goal and the Dalai Lama gives a unique flavour to Tibetan democracy. Considered as a ‘gift’, democracy
Tenzing Palmo
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Risk and its others: Toward an anthropology of “protection” in rural Mongolia
Abstract Anthropological studies of risk have long focused on how people respond to and aim to manage potential harm. But despite its long and important genealogy, this article suggests that risk can pose an analytic blind spot that potentially occludes other ways of understanding how people aim to live well in potentially harmful situations.
Joseph Bristley
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PESANTREN DAN PUSAT KONSELING BAGI GENERASI MUDA
pesantren memberikan kontribusi besar dalam membentuk akhlak remaja. Di saat negara sedang gencar meyerukan kepada masyarakat untuk bersama-sama membentuk generasi muda yang bermoral, maka sesungguhnya pesantren telah menjadi pionir dalam program ...
Hasanatul Jannah
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Spartan Daily October 12, 2010 [PDF]
Volume 135, Issue 23https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/1186/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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ABSTRACT This article introduces a representative claims approach as a novel analytical framework to the field of diaspora politics. Supplemented with a network perspective, this approach offers a more nuanced understanding of the practices underpinning diasporic claims‐making.
Palmo Brunner
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Grand Union between Tibet and Mongolia: Unfulfilled Dream of the 13th Dalai Lama
Since the late sixteenth century when Altan Khan of Tumed in Southern Mongolia adopted the Yellow Hat sect of Tibetan Buddhism and supported it as the common faith of the Mongol people, the teaching and discipline of Buddhism greatly influenced the ...
Tsedenbamba Batbayar
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The Human Approach to World Peace [PDF]
Excerpt When we rise in the morning and listen to the radio or read the newspaper, we are confronted with the same sad news: violence, crime, wars and disasters.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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Argali, also known as wild sheep (Ovis ammon), is a prominent alpine mammal found in Central Asia. It is of conservation concern globally and domestically in China. Our study aims to unveil the genetic diversity and phylogenetic relationships among argali populations in China using the mitochondrial cytochrome b (Cytb) and control region (CR) sequences.
Wei-Xuan Zhang +4 more
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Transfer of Personality to Synthetic Human ("mind uploading") and the Social Construction of Identity [PDF]
Humans have long wondered whether they can survive the death of their physical bodies. Some people now look to technology as a means by which this might occur, using terms such 'whole brain emulation', 'mind uploading', and 'substrate independent minds ...
Bamford, Sim, Danaher, John
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