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The ‘Joyce Banda Effect’: Public Opinion and Voting Behaviour in Malawi
No full textIn the 2014 elections in Malawi, the incumbent female president Joyce Banda lost the presidency, and the number of women MPs was reduced from 43 to 33. This decline in women representation came despite opinion polls showing strong support for women’s political rights and for equal gender representation in politics. Why has women’s representation gone down when public attitude surveys indicate strong support for women?
In 2003, the Afrobarometer survey asked respondents to indicate if they agree that women should have equal rights and should receive the same treatment as men, and 52 per cent of the respondents were positive to this. In 2005, this had increased to almost 80 per cent of the respondents, and in 2012 the overwhelming majority was still of the opinion that women should have the same chance of being elected to political office as men.
However, in the 2014 elections in Malawi, President Joyce Banda lost the presidency, her party (the People’s Party , PP) got only 18 per cent of the votes, and the percentage of women in parliament went down from 22.3 to 16.7. It seems that Joyce Banda dragged herself and others down.
In this brief, we will try to unravel this puzzle, using two possible and plausible explanations. First, there could be a methodological problem with the opinion polls, the so-called ‘social desirability’ bias. That is, respondents have a tendency to provide answers that the respondents believe is ‘correct’ or ‘socially acceptable’. Secondly, it could be a problem of ‘role-modelling’: the performance of a particular representative has a tendency of shaping public opinion and future attitudes on that representative and on what he/she represents. That is, the failure of the woman president may have brought down the popularity also of other women politicians.
Stable Opinion and ‘Yeah-saying’
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Conclusion:Better cancer care and greater local health security: Lessons, opportunities and ways forward
No full textIn pulling together the book’s analytical themes and practical lessons in the conclusion, this chapter emphasises as a core theme the scope for bringing together health, industrial development and innovation to build greater local health security, for cancer care, across the spectrum of health need and pandemic preparedness. The pandemic and our study of cancer care reinforced the importance of simultaneous co-resolution of challenges pertaining to health systems strengthening, development of broad industrial capabilities and improvements in planning, organisational, funding and institutional capabilities. This is critical for building agile and resilient local health security, a critical pre-condition for global health security.</p
At the mercy seat
No full text"At the Mercy Seat" explores the relentlessness of mercy as it permeates the natural world and also our relationships, opening them to mystery. Whether the poems reclaim biblical stories or the voices of McCaslin’s poetic progenitors, they are compelling and finely nuanced events leading to a contemplative being-in-the-world, in which spirit and matter, the sacred and profane, the delicate and the disturbing develop as a unified field.This is a book about thresholds: the meeting places of silence and language, suburbia and coastal wilderness, the seemingly disparate worlds of parent and child, husband and wife. The poems remind the reader that magical transformations can occur at places both “here” and “there,” that we are all to some extent “threshold dwellers,” that divine mercy still breaks into the middle of our most ordinary lives — with a sudden rupturing of the fabric, the “jagged edge of raw blue silk torn from its skein.” --From publisher description.poetr
Mercy as a Theological Term
No full textThe author of the article analyses different meanings of the term ‘mercy’. He begins with the ancient use of the word by pagan philosophers. This is the background for the analysis of the term ‘mercy’ in the Old and New Testament. The biblical sources lead to the definition of dogmatic foundations of God’s Mercy and allow the ethical and moral aspects of the human mercy to be shown. Closely connected with the last is the social dimension of the mercy. The author also deals with other dimensions of the mercy, such as: pastoral, liturgical, psychological and juridical. He also discusses the meaning of the mercy in the spirituality and Christian art.The author of the article analyses different meanings of the term ‘mercy’. He begins with the ancient use of the word by pagan philosophers. This is the background for the analysis of the term ‘mercy’ in the Old and New Testament. The biblical sources lead to the definition of dogmatic foundations of God’s Mercy and allow the ethical and moral aspects of the human mercy to be shown. Closely connected with the last is the social dimension of the mercy. The author also deals with other dimensions of the mercy, such as: pastoral, liturgical, psychological and juridical. He also discusses the meaning of the mercy in the spirituality and Christian art
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The Cancer Care Challenge in the Light of Pandemic Experience
No full textThis introductory chapter argues that tackling the escalating cancer crisis in Africa and India is essential for human wellbeing and inclusive health care, while having much to teach about how to build better local health security in low- and middle-income contexts. Global health security is built on the foundations of strong local health security. Local health security in turn relies on effective and innovative industrial supply chains to provide essential medicines, devices and other commodities at manageable prices, and effective industrial-health sector policy collaboration to ensure broad health benefit, lessons the pandemic has hammered home
Mercy as a Theological Term
No full textThe author of the article analyses different meanings of the term ‘mercy’. He begins
with the ancient use of the word by pagan philosophers. This is the background for
the analysis of the term ‘mercy’ in the Old and New Testament. The biblical sources
lead to the definition of dogmatic foundations of God’s Mercy and allow the ethical
and moral aspects of the human mercy to be shown. Closely connected with the last
is the social dimension of the mercy. The author also deals with other dimensions of
the mercy, such as: pastoral, liturgical, psychological and juridical. He also discusses
the meaning of the mercy in the spirituality and Christian art
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy: An Ethic of Reconciliation
No full textThe author of this dissertation contends that reconciliation is the goal of divine and human action. The problem addressed is that human attempts at reconciliation are incomplete. Reconciliation can be defined with careful attention to the use of the words mercy, justice, and truth. The disse1iation\u27s thesis is that the South African expe1ience of mercy provides a reconciliation model for relationship, conversation, and ministry in Portland, Oregon. Chapter 1 introduces the challenge of addressing the problem through an account of a Restorative Listening Project on Gentrification meeting. The challenge is to move from words to action. Chapter 1 then describes the ministry contexts in and around Westminster Presbyterian Church in P01iland. Chapter 2 addresses four key issues: (a) human and divine aspects of reconciliation and the relationship between them, (b) reconciliation as a central theme in the Bible, (c) enacting human reconciliation, and (d) biblical roots of the words restorative justice and mercy. Chapter 3 addresses four issues similar to those in chapter 2 from a theological perspective: (a) human and divine aspects of reconciliation, (b) a postmodern challenge to universals and reconciliation as a goal, ( c) enacting human reconciliation, and ( d) justice out of balance. The final issue exemplifies how determining the meaning of the word justice can lead to tension. In this chapter, as in the previous one, the author intentionally chooses scholars who disagree to explore the tensions that stand in the way of reconciliation. Chapter 4 describes the South African experience of mercy, relates mercy to forgiveness, and defines truth as narrative truth. It examines critiques of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission experience in South Africa and provides a model for reconciliation based on the South African experience. Chapter 5 describes the Restorative Listening Project on Gentrification and the Genesis Community Fellowship, used by the dissertation\u27s author in translating the reconciliation model from chapter 4 into action. Chapter 6 claims that a balance of mercy, justice, and truth is the strongest and deepest reconciliation response to human divisions and injustice. The dissertation claims that balance demands increased attention to mercy. The dissertation shows that though human attempts at reconciliation are imperfect, it is important to continue them
“O Good One, Open the Door of Your Mercy…”: Reflections on Divine Mercy in West Syriac Tradition
No full textAbstract: This paper is a study of certain notions of ‘Divine Mercy’ in the West Syriac liturgical tradition in the light of Word of God and liturgical prayers. The author tries to explore the theme of ‘Mercy’ (rahme) in the liturgical prayers in West Syriac liturgical tradition using certain technical phrases coined with the word rahme. Some of the phrases are “Door of Mercy” (tar’o drahme), “Dew of Mercy” (talā drahme), “Sea of Mercy” (yamā drahme) and “Wings of Mercy” (kenfe drahme)
Divine mercy as a source and exemple of mercy according to St. Faustyna Kowalska
No full textANOTATION Titel of the work: Divine Mercy as a source and exemple of mercy of St. Faustyna Kowalska Surname and name of the author: Matysková Veronika Diplom work analyses spirituality o Divine Mercy in the life of St. Faustyna Kowalska. It looks at the source of inspiration in spirituality inneren relationship of the Holy Trinity, in act of creation and redemption of humanity in the Eucharist. Knowledge of Divine Mercy leads the saints to realize the mercy in practice, in the words, in the prayers to the Suffering Lord Jesus Christ, as participation in Divine Mercy for the lost souls. Presented are also specific tasks of St. Faustyna, flowing from her mission of spreading the devotion to the Divine Mercy. Key words: Divine Mercy Teophany Experience Mission Rescue of soul
Divine mercy as a source and exemple of mercy according to St. Faustyna Kowalska
No full textANOTATION Titel of the work: Divine Mercy as a source and exemple of mercy of St. Faustyna Kowalska Surname and name of the author: Matysková Veronika Diplom work analyses spirituality o Divine Mercy in the life of St. Faustyna Kowalska. It looks at the source of inspiration in spirituality inneren relationship of the Holy Trinity, in act of creation and redemption of humanity in the Eucharist. Knowledge of Divine Mercy leads the saints to realize the mercy in practice, in the words, in the prayers to the Suffering Lord Jesus Christ, as participation in Divine Mercy for the lost souls. Presented are also specific tasks of St. Faustyna, flowing from her mission of spreading the devotion to the Divine Mercy. Key words: Divine Mercy Teophany Experience Mission Rescue of soul
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