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In the week 3 reading on Wiremu Tamihana and the Mana of Christianity, Head argued that “[h]ow Christ was reflected in the colony … rather than faithfulness to the Treaty of Waitangi, was the tool of evaluation of British rule that Māori found meaningful.” When...
I Introduction Malesevic’s reading explores different views on how conflict, social thought, as well as social structure can be connected and how they each impact one another. With this in mind, the lectures for Global History and my occasional read on Chinese history...
Hey all you cool cats and kittens- lets talk about the forgotten fallen of World War I
When we spoke about how the development of a nation or a culture can only really be achieved through conflict, it left me feeling rather despondent. In all of human existence, was every major steppingstone in our cultural evolutions spurred on by a need to overcome...
We are in the presence of history: a global conflict of sorts that our grandkids will learn about in school. This “conflict” against COVID-19 has got me thinking, and one question, inspired by a group’s reading of Malešević’s The Sociology of War and Violence has...
For the purposes of this post, I’m going to define morality as the ‘rules’ regarding the actions, ideas and identities accepted by a society at large. This form of morality is a powerful tool, typically both determined and used by the force in power. For us, this...
I’m a scientist at heart, and something I find interesting is that we believe we’re ‘pacifists’ compared to other organisms. One of our focus questions this semester was that all animals except humans have conflict for resources - why are we determined to prove...
Over the last few weeks, I have watched from my screen (and the sixth-floor window of my apartment building) as people have improvised and slowly adapted to our new reality, in a range of creative and exciting ways. Charles Allen’s lecture on Positive Peace made me...
The last lecture on positive peace and the different columns reminded me of something I have been seeing more and more recently. Over the past few weeks there have been numerous support networks popping up around different communities I visit. One of which that has...
Covid-19 and the isolation which has resulted from this global shock has provided the majority of us with unprecedented amounts of free time. Curiously, despite not being an 'artistic person' this period of conflict has resulted in me feeling somewhat guilty for not...
It is a quiet evening in the French countryside. The road to the chateaux is as innocuous as ever. About to break that serenity is an ambulance - it drives through the roads with a level of urgency seldom seen until recent times. It is filled with crates, all marked...