Integral Human Development A New Humanism For a Common Home

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The challenges of news representations of climate change

Although there are still denialists around the world among politicians, common people and even ‘scientists’ who minimize the effects of climate change, nobody less than the United Nations (UN) states it as the defining issue of our era[1]. With a clear impact on the habitability conditions of our planet, dealing with climate change is not just a matter of cutting carbon emissions and other technical actions, but foremost a human...

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Humanist journalism (or its lacking…) in the coverage of a crime with a child victim

A popular statement in journalism says that “a dog biting a man is not news, but a man biting a dog is definitely news”. Irony aside, we can acknowledge some truth in this statement. Disturbances of any nature in our daily lives inevitably capture our attention. They can be as trivial as a car crashing reflecting on the traffic or a storm that cut down some trees and closed streets....

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Relationship Between the Divine and Nature in Nepal – the Malikarjun Case

In this eleventh blog post, I depart from the field experiences of anthropologists Alex Greene and David Gellner in Nepal, to problematize the conception of the landscape as a repository of memory, and a nexus that unites the divine with the human, as well as the multiform resource to religion, to question the suffering of human beings in the world. For this, I detail the case described by Greene (2019)...

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Media attention to the earthquake in Turkey and Syria – a reflection on news media coverage of humanitarian crises

The earthquake of the latest 6th of February was the “greatest tragedy since 1939” in Turkey and led Syria to a situation “worse than the war” that the country has endured for more than a decade, according to a piece’s title of Diário de Notícias newspaper[1]. Nevertheless, in a search on its website for the terms ‘earthquake’, ‘Turkey’ and ‘Syria’, the results presented only go until the fourth page. The...

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Reflecting on the Church’s Social-Charitable Action with the Archbishop of Évora

We are challenged to have an ever-new and renewed look “at the margins”, beyond the reasonable border in the often hypocritical context of our society and culture; we are challenged to go to the limit, as Jesus was. Tiago Abalroado / D. Francisco Senra Coelho           Charity for the Church means “to look at the other as Christ would look”. How did Jesus look at the prostitute? How did he...

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Students’ Perspectives About Climate Change: Sustainable Development Goal 13

When HEIs make a visible and active commitment for SD, students recognize the need to become part of this action and, in so doing, are able to develop skills to be applied in their future daily lives as professionals and citizens. Yet again, this underlines the role played by Higher Education Institutions in achieving SD and SDGs. The role of Higher Educations Institutions (HEIs) for sustainability, particularly in the fight...

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Higher education and society: co-creation opportunities for sustainability and mutual transformation?

Knowledge transfer and innovation should be at the forefront when planning the future of higher education institutions (HEIs), with a growing emphasis on close articulation with different stakeholders, namely with other universities and polytechnics, institutions linked to the health sector and the business fabric through joint project development. Ana Marta Aleixo Companies around the world are increasingly expressing their concern about the development of more sustainable practices, either because they...

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Scapegoating of People and Groups

In this tenth blog post, I depart from the analyzes by René Girard (1988, 1997, 2001) and Levine (2011) to reflect upon the scapegoat dynamics that affect individuals and groups – in a spectrum that ranges from particular family dynamics that exclude certain individuals, unfavorable school and work contexts, to the social exclusion of entire groups of people, as it is often the case of certain categories of migrants, or...

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For a journalism orientated towards the public service that it must be

The end of a year and the beginning of a new one usually represent a good opportunity to think of what has happened, evaluate it, and make predictions/plans about the future. The field of journalism studies does not differ from this tradition and two of its most renowned research centres publish documents on predictions and trends for the year ahead. While the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism surveys...

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Uma Abordagem Fenomenológica à experiência DeafSpace no Cairo

Ao falarmos sobre a experiência vivida do Espaço, impulsionados por hipotéticas linhas de diálogo que se entrelaçam nos Estudos Surdos, bem como na Fenomenologia da Percepção de Maurice Merleaux-Ponty (1994), reconhecemos o conceito emergente de Corpo Próprio, Corpo Subjetivo e experiência do Espaço, ou seja, os modos de ser, sentir e compreender o mundo, na primeira pessoa. Duvisac (2014) [1] recupera o conceito de Espaço em M M-Ponty, citando o...

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The water war: Is water a common good?

Is water a common good, when so many people still do not have the right to it? More than ever, climate change and the need for an urgent response to it are the order of the day. Although the prevention, combat and mitigation of climate change have long been discussed, news of natural and other disasters is becoming increasingly frequent, calling a concerted response into question. Agreements are signed, initiatives...

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Human Rights: Dignity, Freedom and Justice for All

Surely it is difficult to list the situations that contribute/co-occur to the inequality gap, but what unites everything and underlines the need for reflection are the many characteristics that can place someone/some group in vulnerability and social disadvantage. Carlos Barros 10th of December marks the International Human Rights Day. This day marks the official recognition of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations Organisation (UNO) in 1948....

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