Global Unity Research Articles

Complexity and the Sustainable Development Goals: A Computational Intelligence Approach to Support Policy Mix Designs

In this article, a 3-step neuro-fuzzy expert decision support system is constructed in order to investigate the multifaceted performance interdependencies among 17 SDG performance scores across 162 UN Member States. The direct influence matrix among 17 SDGs, which would be filled by policy experts in interpretive structural modeling, is instead populated by computational intelligence. Results indicate that, the most influential performance drivers are SDG12 (Sustainable Production and Consumption), SDG 9 (Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure) and SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities) at global level. Yet these findings highlight the importance of establishing and enhancing local infrastructures and communities, innovative and sustainable supply and demand content to increase overall SDGs performance globally. Performance linkages SDG 5 (Gender Equality) and SDG 13 (Climate Action) are global common denominators across localities for positive evolution of overall SDGs performance. Local policy mixes between performance driver and linkage SDGs are recommended by taking eight dependent SDG performances (SDG 10, 16, 15, 8, 6, 17, 7, 2) into account as action contexts. Four autonomous (less influential) SDG performances (SDG 1, 3, 4, 14) remain to be integrated. Conclusions call for a global unity in diversity, local policy mixes by all cities and communities around the globe.

Mother of Transracial Adoption: Pearl Buck's Special Needs Adoption and American Self-criticism

In 1949, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck founded Welcome House, the first transracial and transnational adoption agency in the country, marking the beginning of the transnational adoption of mixed-race ‘Amerasian’ children. Contrary to the prevailing understanding that her humanitarian advocacy was a political act that promoted American global hegemony during the Cold War period, this article argues that her humanitarian work was motivated primarily by three forces: (1) her sense of American political and moral responsibility, (2) her desire for personal connection and motherhood, and (3) her mission of global friendship and unity. Buck actively fought racism in America, advocating the adoption of mixed-race Asian children and children with disabilities. Unlike evangelical agencies that catered to a conservative Christian audience, Pearl Buck normalised the notion of transracial adoption across America through her potent prose. This study examines her work in the context of the rise of Protestant liberalism, accentuating her role as the pioneer of the transracial and transnational adoption of Amerasian children and demonstrating that her ideology was congruent with her lifetime motto of human solidarity and anti-racism.

Articulaçao entre educaçao pré-escolar e 1º ciclo do ensino básico

The articulation between the various stages of the educational path implies a progressive sequentiality, granting each stage the function of completing, deepening and extending the previous stage, in a perspective of continuity and global unity of education and / or teaching. It is incumbent upon the Childhood Educators and the Teachers of the 1st Cycle of Basic Education to have an active attitude in the search for continuity / sequentiality, while asserting and highlighting the specificity of each stage, and also to create conditions for a social articulation by lis-tening to the parents, other professionals (who may occasionally be with the children), the children themselves and their perspectives.

Critical Discourse Analysis of Imran Khan’s Speech at Global Peace and Unity Forum.

Critical Discourse Analysis of Imran Khan’s Speech at Global Peace and Unity Forum.

The 2012 and 2014 Olympic Doping Scandals: A Critical Analysis of the Effectiveness of Anti-Doping Mechanisms in Sports Law and the Necessity of Global Unity and Rehabilitation in Enforcing Anti-Doping Measures

This paper critically assesses the effectiveness of Olympic anti-doping measures, will consider the way in which the difficulties inherent in the detection of doping may cause infringements on rule of law principles, and discusses approaches to further encourage a mutually beneficial global culture of cooperation and compliance between nations, which must serve as the fundamental basis for the modern development of anti-doping practices. This paper further highlights how the positive steps Russian bodies have taken in response to this scandal and the tangible improvements made to their regulation of doping behaviors are a positive indicator of sports law’s capacity to enact change. Moreover, this paper will argue that an approach to anti-doping that seeks to rehabilitate and encourage positive behaviors is ultimately necessary to ensure international sport’s role in peacefully facilitating international cooperation, as approaches that vilify and permanently ostracize states that have been found in violation of anti-doping laws are ultimately ineffective at facilitating compliance.

RECEPTION OF THE IDEAS OF PLANETARY UNITY OF PEOPLE IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF COSMISM

RECEPTION OF THE IDEAS OF PLANETARY UNITY OF PEOPLE IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF COSMISMIntroduction. Appeal to the spiritual heritage of representatives of cosmism is caused necessity of creating a modern concept of sus-tainable development of human civilization that will bring together healthy people and people with disabilities. Aim and tasks. The aim of the article is to study the ways of forming the planetary unity of people with psycho-physical peculiarities and without them in the con-text of the philosophy of cosmism. The tasks of the article are to consider the views of the cosmists on the global unity of mankind, to study the basic models of disability, to outline a model that can provide the indicated unity, to analyze changes in terminology. Re-search methods: the paper uses general scientific and special research methods. The main among them was the method of compara-tive analysis. In addition, induction, deduction, analysis, etc. were used. Research results. To date, country proclaims the equality of rights and freedoms of man and citizen, including people with disabilities. The presence in the social structure of a significant number of persons with signs of disability determines the importance of the problem. The article considers the definition of disability from the view-point of various theories, describes the medical and social disability models, based on various views on the causes of disability. Discusion. The traditional paradigm of disability is burdensome for the economy. The social paradigm does not take into account the spec-trum of psychophysical capabilities of persons with disabilities, the need for maximum state assistance for some of them. There is a need in creating for a new paradigm that rejects the notion of disability. Conclusion. The new model of disability must protect the rights of persons with disabilities and become the basis for the unity of all people on Earth, regardless of their mental and physical characteristics.

Living Ethnoastronomy: Discovering the Connectedness of the Human Spirit Beneath the Night Sky

We are writing this article from opposite sides of the Earth and are getting ready to meet again in December 2017 to continue our project of bringing the world together through physics education, one constellation at a time. With the events in France, Belgium, Germany, United States, and United Kingdom fresh in our minds, there is not a more critical time than now to work on this project. Although some people believe that the authors (Richard, a Canadian Jew, and Nayif, a Palestinian Arab) should not be colleagues on an international project rooted in global unity, and certainly not be dear friends, we carry on as our work transcends the myopic limitations that society has placed on us. This is our story.

El cosmopolitismo por venir: Derrida y el pensamiento fronterizo Latinoamericano

En una era donde la diversidad es progresivamente aceptada como un valor tanto como un hecho, el cosmopolitismo ético-político debe proponer una noción de unidad global que sea compuesta en vez de impuesta por la diferencia. Jacques Derrida y Walter Mignolo ofrecen versiones distintas de esta visión del cosmopolitismo. La versión de Derrida está basada en su noción de “la democracia por venir”. Caracteriza esta noción como un mandato “incondicional” o cuasi transcendental. Mignolo se queja de este mandato como un “universal abstracto”. En su lugar ofrece una versión “crítica y dialógica” del cosmopolitismo basada más específicamente en “la diferencia colonial” o “el pensamiento fronterizo” de los grupos subalternos de América latina. Yo argumento que las referencias implícitas y explícitas de Derrida a las “voces” sugieren una tercera alternativa. Esta opción impide ciertos problemas que podemos atender en los convincentes puntos de vista de Derrida y Mignolo acerca del cosmopolitismo. También esta opción preserva la universalidad que tiene el mandato incondicional de Derrida pero sobre la base de un tipo de inmanencia material impulsada por el pensamiento fronterizo de Mignolo

Irish Cosmopolitanism: Location and Dislocation in James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, and Samuel Beckett by Nels Pearson

<i>Irish Cosmopolitanism: Location and Dislocation in James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, and Samuel Beckett</i> by Nels Pearson

Agenda-Setting in Greenpeace and Amnesty: The Limits of Centralisation in International NGOs

While international nongovernmental organisations (INGOs) have been heavily studied for their role in transnational advocacy, most research has ignored their internal organisation and the relationships between international and grassroots offices. Intuition suggests that INGOs should face structural imperatives to balance maintaining global brands while simultaneously mobilising disparate publics in local contexts. However, this intuition has not yet been systematically studied. We address this with a paired comparison of Amnesty International and Greenpeace. Using case studies and an original dataset of website attributes, we show that campaigns promoted by international offices and their national counterparts reflect a balance between local diversity and global unity, revealing organisational structures that combine centralised agenda-setting with decentralised agenda implementation. Our research identifies a “measurement gap” with implications for understanding INGO accountability and effectiveness, and indicates that a more complete research programme on INGOs must include attention to internal organisation and structural diversity.

Operational readiness for climate change of Malaysia high-speed rail

The Paris Agreement of December 2015 signifies global unity to limit global warming to well below 2°C (above pre-industrial levels) and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1·5°C. The global community now agrees that anthropogenic climate change is unequivocal. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the global average combined land and surface temperature has increased by 0·78°C. Although the magnitude of change in mean temperatures is relatively small, attendant extreme weather events have been shown to have increased in frequency, and are projected to increase in the future. The potential impacts of climate change on railway infrastructure and operations have not been fully assessed in the literature. The projected urban growth in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore has led to the necessity to establish a high-speed rail (HSR) system between the two. However, the existing railway network in the region has been significantly affected by severe weather conditions such as rainfall, lightning, wind and very high temperatures. This research addresses a knowledge gap regarding the potential impacts of climate change on future rail projects in the region, and points out the vulnerabilities that may lead to impaired operations and system failures. These insights are intended to inform the holistic consideration of climate change impacts in the design stage of HSR systems in Malaysia and beyond.

Visiones globales y comunicación intercultural este/oeste: De Whitman a Kipling a Friedman

Este ensayo analiza expresiones poéticas y periodísticas de visiones globales y comunicaciones interculturales expresadas por tres escritores: el poeta y periodista estadounidense Whitman; el poeta, novelista y periodista británico Kipling; y el escritor y periodista estadounidense Friedman, todos los cuales comunican los mensajes a través de culturas y razas para proyectar visiones de una unidad global posible.

From Activist to Entrepreneur: Peace One Day and the Changing Persona of the Social Campaigner

From Activist to Entrepreneur: Peace One Day and the Changing Persona of the Social Campaigner

From Miracle to Crisis and Back: The Political Economy of South Korean Long-Term Development

This article analyses the process of economic development and associated political transformations in South Korea since the mid-1960s. It claims that, as in the rest of East Asia, capital accumulation in South Korea has revolved around the production of specific industrial goods for world markets using the relatively cheap and highly disciplined local workforce for simplified labour processes, as appendages of the machine or in manual assembly operations. This modality of accumulation resulted from changes in the forms of production of relative surplus value on a global scale through the development of computerisation and robotisation, and the concomitant transformation in the productive attributes of the collective worker of large-scale industry. The article identifies the main characteristics of the political and economic relations through which the structural transformation of the Korean society came about throughout the period studied, as a form of realising the global unity of the process of capitalist development. This analysis not only supports the claims made about the specific characteristics of the East Asian processes of capitalist development. It also shows the intrinsic unity of seemingly diverse political-economy processes, as forms of realisation of the transformations of Korean society.

Intercultural Education, a Response to Contemporary Multilingual Societies and a New Challenge for Maritime Education and Training (MET) Institutions

Globalization has made intercultural communication inevitable. Communicating with other cultures characterizes today's workplace, classroom, and community. Intercultural communication is of importance in any career field, but for maritime institutions, especially, this topic has become a ‚must-have’ of education.The teacher faces new challenges while teaching students pertaining to different cultural and ethnic environments. The way of approaching such issues is vital if we aim to achieve a peaceful global unity. On the other hand the onboard training of our nautical students has come in the aid of identifying the features of the challenges they face during their onboard training. Such challenges are the result of a multicultural crew dynamics made up of different people speaking different languages.This is the reason of tackling such a topic in our paper as we are trying to develop methodological and pedagogical strategies for intercultural education adapted both to our own environment and to the cultural diversity that our students must absorb. The results of our research will help us to develop and implement the “Intercultural Communication Onboard Ships” as a course that is to be implemented within marine education curriculum

The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom by Marcus Rediker (review)

The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom By Marcus Rediker. (New York: Viking, 2012. Pp. 288. Cloth, $27.95.)Reviewed by Graham Russell Gao HodgesStephen Spielberg's 1997 film account of the Amistad Revolt of 1839 begins with gripping scenes of enslaved people digging out with bare fingers the nails holding imprisoning irons. After those visceral images the movie settles into a familiar courtroom drama, leaving the flesh and blood world of the rising slaves behind. The film depended heavily on Howard Jones's Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy (New York, 1987). Jones emphasized the effect of the revolt on abolitionism and American politics and focused on the legal battle over the rebels' status. Now Marcus Rediker applies his ample talents to tell the story of the Amistad Africans themselves within Atlantic culture. Rediker, winner of many prizes for his works on eighteenth-century pirates and on slave ships, is one of the best prose stylists and researchers among contemporary historians, and those skills are on full display in the present book.The Amistad Revolt is well known to historians, though never before have all of the methods of a skilled social historian been put to use. Howard Jones's fine monograph is closest thematically to Rediker's approach. One should also, given Rediker's heavy emphasis on the contemporary creation of historical memory in popular culture, consider Iyunolu Folanyan Osagie's 2000 book on Amistad in historical memory. As Rediker is especially keen to place Amistad as a formative intervention in abolitionism, Jones's argument that the revolt made abolitionism ever more entwined in American politics is most apposite. Moving beyond this argument, Rediker focuses on the rebels themselves and contends that the revolt made abolitionists more accepting of violent means for ending slavery.Rediker begins his saga with a careful account of the African origins of the Amistad rebels. By locating their nationalities, he indicates the importance of the Poro, a secret masculine society devoted to settling local disputes and creating global unity (32). Throughout, Rediker combines direct factual recollection with context about domestic servitude, wars, slave factories, the slave trade, and the Middle Passage to the slave pens of Havana, where traffic in human bondage still persisted decades after the British closed Atlantic slave commerce. In so doing, Rediker firmly aligns with and pushes forward W. E. B. Du Bois's observation in The Souls of Black Folk that rebellion flowed in the blood of AfricanAmerican slaves. Rediker thereby contradicts a long train of scholarship starting with Gerald Mullin's Flight and Rebellion in 1973, through Ira Berlin's 1999 opus, Many Thousands Gone, and implicitly argued as well in 2012, in Stephen Kantrowicz's More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889-that skilled, acculturated enslaved people were more likely to run away and rebel than forcibly imported bond people brought directly from Africa.Following a fine section on the rebels' experiences in Cuban slave society, Rediker details their rising against their sea masters on the Amistad and the ensuing, wandering sail to Long Island in the United States. …

The comparative study: Aesthetic and love in Hafiz and Goethe's poetry in order to awaken and bring perfection in global education

In the middle of eighteen century, sources of the East were considered by European visitors. Accordingly, Hafiz (c.1320-1329) was one of these sources that influenced one of the greatest poets and thinkers of German. Goethe severely in his West-ostlicher Divan disclosed that Hafiz’s poems attracted him. In this essay, we explain influence of Hafiz on Goethe. In addition, the effect of love and aesthetic illustrated remove distances and keep nations and cultures closer in a common education in order to global unity as Hafiz and Goethe pointed it. Also, it investigates penetrating of globalization on international education, according to the Goethe and Hafiz’s view. Key words: Aesthetic education, global education, comparative education, Hafiz, Goethe.

Character, Courage or Conceit: Towards an Ethics of the New in 1910

Form is the highest judge of life. Form-giving is a judging force, an ethic; there is a value-judgment in everything that has been given form. Every kind of form-giving, every literary form, is a step in the hierarchy of lifepossibilities[.] Georg Lukacs, ‘The Metaphysics of Tragedy: Paul Ernst’ 1 Taking Virginia Woolf’s statement that ‘on or about December 1910 human character changed’ as a point of departure, the loaded term is ‘character’. Although hard to define precisely, Woolf gives a precious hint when she contrasts the Victorian cook who lived invisibly in the ‘depths’ of the house with the Georgian cook, who, she says, has turned into a creature of ‘sunshine and fresh air’. 2 The opposition she establishes is between traditional bourgeois slavery and a more recent emancipation that doubles as patronising camaraderie: the ‘modern’ cook can enter into the drawing room, and she will not hesitate to borrow the daily newspaper or ask the house’s lady for advice about fashion. It is tempting to claim that the concept of ‘character’ as it is sketched here corresponds to what Hegel calls Sittlichkeit ,t he ‘ethical substance’ that defines the shared values of a whole period. In the Phenomenology of Spirit, this term comes into play after selfconsciousness reaches an awareness of its ‘others’ and then moves on to perceive the global unity made up by individuals and society. In Sittlichkeit, one perceives the community of a polity, for there, no distinction between private interests and a collective ethos holds. 3 This should not be confused with morality in general or with the

On Body Snatching: How the Rhetoric of Globalization Elides Cultural Difference in ‘Bodies… The Exhibition’

Rhetorical practices warrant analysis amid contemporary globalization, as discourses frame international museum and science-styled exhibit display practices by drawing attention toward idealized human global unity and away from concern for respecting differences between westerners and Chinese persons. Among such international practices, recent displays of deceased human bodies, cleaned and entertainingly posed, have appeared in museums and other exhibition centers in major cities around the world. These displays have given rise to significant ethical questions regarding the use of undocumented Chinese bodies. In this analysis of ‘Bodies… The Exhibition’, which has been central to those ethical questions, we examine how rhetorical strategies of realist discourse and identification through commonality invoke a rhetoric of globalization that reinforces western international privilege by situating plasticized Chinese bodies within truth claims about human similarity that eschew intercultural understandings and issues of intercultural respect. Las prácticas retóricas justifican un análisis en medio de la globalización contemporánea, en la manera como los debates enmarcan a los museos internacionales y a las prácticas de exhibiciones de estilo científico, llamando la atención hacia la unidad global humana idealizada y lejos de alguna preocupación por respetar las diferencias entre las personas occidentales y chinas. Entre tales prácticas internacionales, exhibiciones recientes de cuerpos fallecidos, limpios y expuestos para entretener, han aparecido en museos y otros centros de exhibición en grandes ciudades alrededor del mundo. Estas exposiciones han dado origen a preguntas éticas de importancia sobre el uso de cuerpos chinos indocumentados. En este análisis sobre “Cuerpos – La Exhibición” que ha estado en el centro de esas preguntas éticas, analizamos cómo las estrategias retóricas de un debate realista y de identificación a través de elementos comunes, explican una retórica de la globalización que refuerza el privilegio internacional occidental, al situar cuerpos chinos plastificados mediante las pretensiones de la verdad sobre la similitud humana, que rechaza a los entendimientos interculturales y asuntos del respeto intercultural. 当代全球化中的修辞实践（惯例）为分析辩解，这一点在国际博物馆的话语和吸引人们的注意力到理想化的人类全球大团结和远离尊重西方人和中国人之间差异的关切的科学风格的展览实践中得到反映。在这些国际实践中，被清洁的和娱乐性地姿势的死亡人体的最近展出，已经出现在世界各大都市的博物馆和其它展览中心。 这些展出已经引出了有关使用未有正式注册的华人尸体（the use of undocumented Chinese bodies）的严重的道德问题。本文是关于“尸体.展览”的分析，中心是针对这些道德问题，检讨通过共同性的现实主义话语和认证的修辞策略如何援引某种全球化的修辞来加强西方的国际特权， 即把塑化的华人尸体置于关于人类相似性的真理情境下，这种相似性回避了跨文化的理解和跨文化尊重的种种议题。 담론이 서구인과 중국인 간의 차이에 관심을 갖지 않고 추상화된 인간적인 지구적 통일성에 대한 관심을 끌어 내어 국제 박물관과 과학화된 전시가 이루어지면서, 수사적 행위는 현대 세계화에서 분석을 필요로 한다. 이러한 국제 행사에서 깨끗하게 그리고 재미있는 자세를 한 죽은 사람들의 신체 전시가 세계 주요 도시의 박물관과 다른 전시 센터들에서 이루어지고 있다. 이러한 전시는 기록되지 않은 중국인 신체의 사용과 관련된 윤리적 문제들을 제기한다. 윤리적 질문의 중심이 되는 ‘전시된 신체의 분석’에서 우리는 공통점을 통한 사실주의적 담론과 확인이라는 수사적 전략이 박제화된 중국인 신체를 어떻게 문화 간 이해와 문화 간 존중을 피하는 인간 유사성에 대한 진실 주장에 위치시키는지를 검토한다. Риторический анализ гарантирует практику на фоне современной глобализации, в качестве дискурса - создание Международного музея и разработанные наукой методы экспозиции, привлекающие внимание к идеализированному человеческому глобальному единству и отвлекающие от беспокойства за соблюдение различий между западными жителями и китайскими людьми. Среди таких международных практик недавние выставки мертвых человеческих тел, очищенных и расставленных в забавных позах, они появились в музеях и выставочных центрах крупных городов всего мира. Эти демонстрации привели к значительным этическим вопросам по поводу использования недокументированных китайских органов. В анализе "Тела…Выставка”, который занимает центральное место в этих этических вопросах, мы рассмотрим, как риторические стратегии реалистического дискурса и идентификации через общность призывают риторику глобализации, которая усиливает западную международную привилегию совмещать пластифицированные китайские органы и утверждения об истинности сходства людей, и которая сторонится межкультурных соглашений и вопросов межкультурного уважения.

From the Past to the Future: Changing Agendas in Teacher Education between the 19th and the 21st Century

The educational turn of the late eighteenth century, nation building of the nineteenth century, and efforts to promote global unity after the two World Wars did not only have effects on educational organizations, policies, and materials, but also on the manner with which the major actors in the world of education—namely, teachers – were trained. The different ideals and agendas in teacher training reflected the major cultural concerns of each era: in the nineteenth century, this was national uniqueness and supremacy, which, in the post war period, gave way to internationalization and global standardization. These visions were associated with the emergence of particular academic subfields and heavily shaped pedagogical ideals. In the era of nation building, the history of education dominated teacher education. In the context of the Cold War teacher training was aligned with a new internationalist and scientific paradigm. The following chapter discusses these two agendas in teacher education. In the first section we will reconstruct the rise of the history of education as a major subject in nationalist and religiously inspired teacher education in Germany and France. In the second section we will show how this leitmotif in the Cold War era was supplanted by a “cognitive turn” in the training of professional educators.