I like this thought: "Only educated are free". (Epictetus)
Education is not about indocrination or unification of thinking.
Education opens our minds, forces us to search for truth, work with different ideas critically.
I think that an educated person is free from prejudices and imposed…
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Is the world about to witness a paradigm shift from Unipolarity to Polycentricity?
In 2014, the European Strategy for Policy Analysis System (ESPAS) predicted a shift from Unipolarity to Polycentricity by 2030. By implication, from a strategic perspective, the United States will lose its hegemonic status.
However, this geopolitical projection provided by the ESPAS report has been vehemently critiqued by Micaiah Kalu in his latest article entitled "Global Trends and the…
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Young people are required to become responsible by ensuring that the solution they have comes to pass or reality
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by Iveta Cherneva
When the news hit that the Romanian hard-baller Laura Kovesi was to become EU’s top prosecutor, anti-corruption activists across Europe applauded loudly.
One could hear the applause also in Bulgaria – a small EU country facing issues with EU funds misappropriation and theft, as well as freedom of the press -- a place where…
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Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs announces its 11th annual International Student Essay Contest, open to students of all nationalities anywhere in the world.
ESSAY TOPIC: Is there an ethical responsibility to regulate the Internet? If so, why and to what extent? If not, why not?
Please include in your analysis an explanation (in your own words) of "responsibility" and what it means to "regulate" the…
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I started my path in the international development field during my first year of university, working as an intern at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Venezuela. My experience alongside Colombian refugees in my country opened my eyes to the stark reality of displacement and war. Ironically, my country faces a similar situation nowadays. Venezuelans represent the highest rate of migrants and refugees in the Americas. More than 4 million have left the country since 2016; an…
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Very Famous The Wire's this Story has quoted me saying that Hon HRD Minister Shri Ramesh Pokhariyal had quoted from one of my articles establishing Scientific Importance of "Sanskrit". I have to say Hon Minister is right,though I did not hear what he said during convocation of IIT-Mumbai but I can prove what I wrote in Internet Society's Colorado Chapter perhaps in 2012 that Sanskrit is not only Computer Friendly than other languages but its a perfect language to others. Not only this…
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Today is India's Independence Day.Early in the morning and while addressing the nation from ramfort of Red Fort-one of largest red brick fort in India built by Mughal Emperor Shahjahan Narendra Modi presented a blue print plan for nation. This is his sixth consecutive address to nation on Independence day.His address lasted for more than one and half hour.When a…
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How Pakistan and India's Opposition Political Parties are reacting on removal of Article 370 and 35 A
1- Chidambaram calls it monumental blunder.
2- Gulam Nabi Azad calls it Article was incorporated in presence of Sardar Patel.
3- Mehbooba says India has taken out Jinn from Bottle without knowing how to put it back in bottle.
4- PoK protests.
5- Pakistan Army calls an emergency meet tomorrow.
6- Pakistan calls special joint session of parliament…
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On March 11, 2019, in the Front street community, there was almost an accident to befall us, as the picture above illustrates. We have a very narrow road where only two vehicles…
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The most important instrument to use where politicians are to be encourage to be more systematical, effective as well as more committed, is by incoporating this initiative. By allowing this ideal initiative into operation in a country,more less developed state will enhance the desired developmental goal.
The political and social contracts are to be drawn each time an election is due.This means that all such person ought to be or must be made subject to this process conditional term…
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On the European continent, the modern Romanian state is the posterchild for undercutting pressures in civilizational tectonics, a picture that Samuel P. Huntington so hauntingly laid out in his post-Cold war portrayal of the “clash of civilizations” thesis. Built at the confluence of Ottoman, Habsburg and Russian Imperial borderlands, Romania’s trifold cultural heterogeneity resonates still and parlays into current social-political divisions and governance…
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" To me the Presidency and the Vice Presidency were not prizes to be won but a duty to be done." Gerald R. Ford, "A Time to Heal", 1979.
Comment: Presidential Campaign Season Underway - good to see three women (out of 10 candidates in the first stage of the Democratic Debates) "May the best Leader win."
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Chi-Juei, Wu
Taichung Second Senior High School, Taiwan
High School
These days, more and more experts have shown they’re highly interested in the current relationship between the Both Sides of the Taiwan Strait. Not only because I’m a Taiwanese, but because this issue includes a ton of common problems that will occur in the international relations. For example, relations between Taiwan…
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“सामर्थ्यवान विपक्ष लोकतंत्र की अनिवार्य शर्त है. विपक्ष अब नंबर की चिंता छोड़ दें, पक्ष-विपक्ष में न बँटे, निष्पक्ष होकर काम करें. हमारे लिए विपक्ष का एक एक शब्द मूल्यवान है.
Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Damodar Das Modi before entering the Indian Parliament for first time on First Day of First Session of 17th Lok Sabha(Lower House) of His Newly Elected Government.…
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The editors of Ethics & International Affairs are pleased to present the Summer 2019 issue of the journal!…
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Prof Ratnesh Dwivedi
Acting Chancellor and Professor & Dean
School of Humanities & Social Sciences
Yesbud University,Zambia
Today on June 7,2019 when Uttar Pradesh's Chief Minister Mahanth Yogi Aditya Nath is visiting Ayodhya to inaugurate a 7 feet tall idol of Lord Ram made in Kannada Sthapatya Shaili in Tulsi Smarak Bhavan,its timely to know about wheather Lord Ram really existed or not. A country which is home to billions of Gods Ram still remains in…
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If I ask you that you flashback your memory to June 4,1989,do press on your cerebral card what you you were doing and which part of India,China or world you were.
I had just passed my 9th Exam in a sleepy town of Ayodhya but that does not mean I was not aware what was happening in world as was my nature. Everyday I rode my bicycle full one hour in advance to reach my uncle’s house on street of Ayodhya from my village to have tea and read news papers before departing for school.…
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Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs announces its June 2019 current affairs programs in New York City.
To attend in person, please RSVP. Go to the online calendar: https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/calendar.
Press passes and student tickets are available. Please contact…
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