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Does renewable electricity promote Indigenous sovereignty? Reviewing support, barriers, and recommendations for solar and wind energy development on Native lands in the United States
Get PDFNative lands in what is called the United States have vast renewable energy resources. If focused on advancing sovereignty and self-determination, renewable energy development could alleviate harm from ongoing processes of settler colonialism and from the climate crisis, experienced by Native peoples first and worst. However, Native peoples benefit very little from existing renewable energy projects. To increase understanding on how renewable energy can better support Native sovereignty, this paper provides a systematic literature review of 74 articles published between 2003 and 2023 on Native peoples\u27 involvement in wind and solar electricity in the United States. We find that existing literature focuses on support for and barriers to Native involvement, Native leadership, and Native ownership in renewable energy development. Supports include special characteristics of Native nations and the capacity of renewables to alleviate harm. However, social, material, and legal barriers—all rooted in ongoing settler colonialism—obstruct Native involvement in renewables. The final section analyzes these barriers, and scholars\u27 recommendations for addressing them, concluding that 1) a focus on repairing and building relationships of trust, 2) building technical and financial capacity within Native nations alongside valuing existing expertise, and 3) fundamentally overhauling legal and policy structures to support, rather than inhibit, sovereignty and self-determination is critical to Native ownership of and benefit from renewable energy. When these practices are centered, renewable energy can align with Native cultural and environmental values, provide economic resources to advance the development of Native economies and institutions, and support Native leadership in alleviating the climate crisis
The Personality Profile and Leadership Style of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Get PDFThis report presents the results of an indirect assessment of the personality of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon.
Psychodiagnostically relevant data about Zelenskyy were collected from biographical sources and media reports and synthesized into a personality profile using the Millon Inventory of Diagnostic Criteria (MIDC), which yields 34 normal and maladaptive personality classifications congruent with DSM-III-R, DSM-IV, and DSM-5.
The personality profile yielded by the MIDC was analyzed on the basis of interpretive guidelines provided in the MIDC and Millon Index of Personality Styles manuals. Zelenskyy’s primary personality patterns were found to be Outgoing/congenial and Ambitious/confident, with secondary Dauntless/adventurous, Accommodating/cooperative, and Conscientious/respectful patterns, complemented by subsidiary Dominant/asserting features.
Outgoing leaders are dramatic attention-getters who thrive on being the center of social events, go out of their way to be popular with others, and have confidence in their social skills and ability to charm and influence others. Ambitious leaders are characteristically self-confident, competitive, daring, bold, charming, and skilled at winning others over to their causes and purposes. Dauntless leaders tend to flout tradition, dislike following routine, and sometimes act impulsively. Accommodating leaders tend to be considerate, cordial, and cooperative and are willing to reconcile differences and to concede when necessary. Conscientious individuals are dutiful and diligent, with a strong work ethic and careful attention to detail, and an ability to prevail in difficult circumstances.
The prominence of the Ambitious and Outgoing patterns is indicative of political charisma and, in concert with the Dauntless pattern in Zelenskyy’s overall personality configuration, suggests a courageous charismatic leadership style
Panel: Cultivating Hope and Change: Student Research in Support of Global Climate Action
No full textBeginning in Paris in 2015, Bennies and Johnnies, accompanied by professors, have participated in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) annual Conference of Parties (COP). Join us as six current students share the research projects they have undertaken in advance of, during, and after attending the COP27 in Egypt (2022) and COP28 in the United Arab Emirates (Nov-Dec 2023). Additionally, panelists will share how this research and this international climate governance experience has shaped their future plans
What Christians Get Wrong about Judaism and Why it Matters
No full textThis one-hour program was free, open to the public and sponsored by the Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning at Saint John’s University in collaboration with the Jay Phillips Center for Interreligious Studies at the University of St. Thomas.
“From early on in Christian history, Christians have defined Christianity in relation to the Jewish tradition from which it emerged,” said John Merkle, director of the Jay Phillips Center. “But when doing this, Christian teachers and preachers down through the centuries have often misrepresented Judaism, expressing anti-Jewish perspectives that have fostered antisemitic attitudes and behaviors.”
According to Merkle, “the result of anti-Judaism and antisemitism has not only been dire for Jews, including in the last several years in the United States where there has been a dramatic increase in anti-Jewish hate crimes, but it has also distorted Christian self-understanding and faith.
“In his lecture here, Rabbi Dulkin will focus on several things that Christians often misunderstand about Judaism and on some of the effects this has on Jews, Christians and others.”
Dulkin teaches in the theology department at the University of St. Thomas and directs the department’s recently created Encountering Judaism Initiative.
A native of California, he earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in English literature from San Francisco State University and M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in scriptural interpretation from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (New York City), where he also received his rabbinic ordination.
His scholarly articles have appeared in Jewish Studies Quarterly, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics and The Routledge Dictionary of Ancient Mediterranean Religions
Displacement of the Rohingyas of Myanmar, Land Grabbing, and Extractive Capital
Get PDFResearch on the displacement of the Rohingya from their property has paid little attention to how the government’s land policies encourage various actors to seize that land and extract resources. This research is based on interviews with Rohingya refugees, reports from the United Nations and humanitarian agencies, and published academic work. Economic, social, and political factors are responsible for the displacement of Rohingyas. To argue that a single factor is responsible for their displacement would be incorrect, as research reveals a more complicated interaction of social forces. However, this paper considers the unique dynamics of land grabbing, land laws, ethnic conflict, and extractive capital, and the role these particular forces played in the displacement of Rohingyas from the 1960s up until 2012. To prevent further displacement of Rohingyas and to work toward peace, the Myanmar government should recognize and protect the citizenship of Rohingyas and institutionalize power-sharing entitlements among various groups. The international community and influential third-party actors—in particular, China, which holds significant economic power over Myanmar—have a responsibility to curb displacement and build peace in Myanmar
Bishops in the Catholic Peace Tradition
Get PDFThis brief survey takes a historical perspective on the role of Catholic bishops in global peacemaking. Building on my previous work 1 and more recent research, it focuses on the roles of bishop as teacher, ruler, and minister of the sacraments and on the interplay between prophetic protest and institutional authority. It covers the origins of the bishop’s office, the development o f prophetic protest and rule in episcopal peacemaking in the early church and Middle Ages, including the Peace and Truce of God. It then turns to early modern peacemaking and the influence of humanist thinkers on Latin American missionary bishops, including Bartolomé de Las Casas. For the modern world it discusses the Catholic bishops’ response to communism, Nazism, and World War II, the bishops’ role in post war Europe, Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the USA, and concludes with recent US bishops’ thought and action on peace
