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2012/04/23 に公開
Simon Fraser University's Centre for Dialogue presents world-renowned author and 2008 TED Prize recipient Karen Armstrong for her feature lecture, "What is Religion?" and inaugural "State of the Charter for Compassion Address". The lecture and address took place on March 22, 2012. It was hosted by Simon Fraser University's Centre for Dialogue in partnership with the Charter for Compassion, TED Prize, and Greater Vancouver Compassion Network. This event took place as part of 12 Days of Compassion, a Vancouver-wide conversation on compassion built around the SFU Jack P. Blaney Award for Dialogue. Armstrong's visit reached thousands of participants and generated 5500 person-hours in programming to discuss the role of compassion in the lives and communities of participants. The visit also resulted in the formation of 61 book clubs, where 600 members read and discussed Armstrong's book, Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life. Armstrong is considered one of the world's most thought-provoking and original public thinkers on the role of religion in historical and contemporary life. Her poignant writing and captivating talks have sparked worldwide debate and respectful dialogue. In 2008, Armstrong was awarded the TED Prize in support of her call for a council of religious and spiritual leaders to draw up a Charter for Compassion. That document is now endorsed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama, and has accumulated more than 85,000 supporters worldwide. |
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2013/06/04 に公開
Karen Armstrong talks about compassion and why we need to put the Golden Rule at the heart of our society. Filmed at an Action for Happiness event in Conway Hall on 18 April 2013 |
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2015/03/17 に公開
GUEST：Mr.H.A.ムガール氏 評論家 ジャーナリスト プロフィール 1987年よりペルシャン.ウェーブ通商（有）ペルシ絨毯屋を経営）。イスラム文化研究会主宰として講演活動を行い、「朝まで生テレビ」に出演。パキスタンの民間外交官であり、ムガール帝国の末裔にあたる。著書：イスラムは日本を変えるか？文芸社 |
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South China Sea
Try not to blink As China asserts itself as a naval and air power, and as America responds, the risks of confrontation are growing May 30th 2015 | BEIJING | http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21652348-china-asserts-itself-naval-and-air-power-and-america-responds-risks AMERICAN officials are losing patience with China. On May 22nd the vice-president, Joe Biden, was blunt. He warned naval-college graduates of “new fault lines” emerging between the great powers. China, he said, was challenging freedom of navigation in the South China Sea by reclaiming land on disputed reefs on a “massive scale”. Two days earlier America had signalled its annoyance by sending a surveillance aircraft close to one of the reefs where China is building an airstrip. Such secretive flights are common, but this one was different. The plane also took a crew from CNN, which broadcast the Chinese navy’s testy response through a radio transmission in English: “Leave immediately, in order to avoid misjudgment.”
Chinese officials and state-controlled media have reacted angrily to America’s rhetorical offensive (reinforced by CNN’s dramatic footage of the spyplane mission over Fiery Cross Reef, showing sand being sucked from the bottom of the sea and sprayed onto the island-in-the-making by Chinese dredgers). On May 25th a Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman called on America to end its “provocative behaviour”. Global Times, a state-owned newspaper known for its hardline views, said war would be “inevitable” if America kept complaining about the island-building. On May 24th the People’s Daily, the Communist Party’s main mouthpiece, warned America that those who “hurt others” could “end up hurting themselves”. Mercifully, the heated words have not so far been matched by hot-headed military behaviour in or above the sea itself. Both America and China are anxious to avoid clashes. But in order to make its point, America is considering moves that might be construed by China as threatening. American spy flights, as well as similar missions by its ships, have so far kept at least 12 nautical miles (22km) away from the reefs they are monitoring. That would be the outer limit of China’s sovereign domain if the reefs were islands (ie, permanently above sea) and were indeed Chinese. Now the Pentagon is considering whether to probe these lines.
China has long said it owns most of the reefs and islands in the South China Sea, and has also asserted vaguely defined rights to most of the sea itself. Other countries around the sea dispute these claims (Vietnam and the Philippines both say they own Fiery Cross Reef). America takes no position in the sovereignty debate, but it says arguments should be resolved peacefully, without affecting freedom of navigation. China’s warnings to American spyplanes suggest that it is already trying to impose restrictions on military traffic. Despite America’s increasingly public complaints, there has been no change in the frantic pace of China’s reclamation efforts on several reefs (pictured is an American spyplane’s photograph of work on Fiery Cross Reef). On May 26th China’s defence ministry released a “white paper” on military strategy. It said the country should build a “modern maritime military force” to protect China’s “maritime rights and interests”, including in the South China Sea. Ash Carter, America’s defence secretary, said a day later that China’s actions in the area showed it was out of step with “international norms that underscore the Asia-Pacific’s security architecture”. America and China’s neighbours worry that China may eventually declare an “Air Defence Identification Zone” (ADIZ) over the South China Sea—requiring aircraft to identify themselves to the Chinese authorities before entering. In November 2013 China alarmed the region by establishing an ADIZ over the East China Sea, covering islands claimed by Japan (see map). It said its armed forces had the right to take “defensive emergency measures” against those failing to comply. America quickly sent two unarmed B-52 bombers through the zone without notifying China. Some Chinese experts believe that China is unlikely to declare an ADIZ in the South China Sea soon because it would be even harder to enforce over such a vast area. On May 26th, however, a Chinese foreign ministry official said his country would decide whether to establish one partly on the basis of “whether and to what extent the security of airspace is threatened”—a clear warning to America. Chinese academics say that testing China’s resolve could prove dangerous. Should America sail a naval ship close to one of the reefs it “may very well force Beijing to respond forcefully,” says Zhu Feng of the China Centre for Collaborative Studies of the South China Sea at Nanjing University. No Chinese leader, he says, wants to be seen as a “chicken”. Neither, however, does America. It is relieved that China’s neighbours are beginning to speak out more forcefully about the problem as well. In April the ten-member Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), which is usually at great pains not to antagonise China, called the island-building a threat to “peace, security and stability”. ASEAN countries welcome America’s military presence in the region. But privately they have also been asking the Americans to avoid ratcheting up tensions. No Asian country wants to be forced to make a clear choice between backing America or backing China. For America, staying out of trouble will be tough. |
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