Truth and Reconciliation

Looking Ahead for Egypt -- Check Out Peru

Maria McFarland | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt Protests, Fujimori, Peru, Egypt Transition, Egypt Revolution, Egypt, National Democratic Party, Truth and Reconciliation, Torture, World News

How is it possible for Egypt to create a legitimate, rights-respecting government out of the discredited status quo? Peru successfully navigated a similar transition not too long ago.

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A Citizen's Reflections on Race, Violence and Power

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Citizenship, East Timor, Atlanta, Morocco, Crime, Chicago, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Violence, Washington DC, Legacy of Slavery, Democracy, Power, Race, Los Angeles, Interracial, South Africa, Peru, Segregation, Civil Rights Movement, Intraracial, Institutional Racism, Truth and Reconciliation, Slavery, Rochester, Racism, Quality of Democracy, Discrimination, Detroit, Baltimore, Trc, Politics News

Originally published on December 16, 2007 at Truthout.org. In recognition of International Human Rights Day, upcoming on December 10th. Three ye...

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Iraq's Political Turmoil Could Lead to Civil War

Firas Al-Atraqchi | Posted 05.25.2011

This is a crisis that cannot be understated. The post-election period reveals that no election result is safe from court intervention and constitutional brigandry in the new Iraq.

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The World Cup: Lessons from South Africa's Transition

Nicholas van Praag | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corruption, South Africa, Nelson Mandela, Unemployment, World Bank, Truth and Reconciliation, Mexico, Violence, Election Results, Cape Town, Inequality, World Cup, World News, wdr2011, World News

Amidst the cheers at the World Cup kick-off on Friday we should not forget the sheer power of sport in South Africa's history.

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Reconciliation Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry

Yvonne Malan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Truth and Reconciliation Commission, South Africa, Reitz Four, Truth and Reconciliation, World News

The world loved the Rainbow Nation success story and chose, along with many South Africans, to ignore that reconciliation can easily be used to justify impunity.

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Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection XIV: Group Selection in the Laboratory

David Sloan Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Evolutionary Models, Group Selection, Multilevel Selection, Politics, Science, Inclusive Fitness, Kin Selection, Truth and Reconciliation, Evolution, Green News

For the evolutionary community at large, the rules governing the acceptance and rejection of group selection are not a storybook portrayal of science.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Won't Forgive, Can't Forget: Oliver Hirschbiegel on Five Minutes of Heaven

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Violence, Film, Liam Neeson, United Kingdom, Exclusive, Terrorism, Politics, Drama, Movies, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Television, Northern Ireland, Guilt, Interview, James Nesbitt, Great Britain, Truth and Reconciliation, Uvf, Entertainment News

Could it just be coincidence? Could it just be that, by some random alignment of the planets, we have two films about the conflict in Northern Ireland opening on the same weekend?

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Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection XII: Multilevel Selection Theory, Salsa Style

David Sloan Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Selfishness, Evolutionary Models, Group Selection, Altruism, Multilevel Selection, Politics, Inclusive Fitness Theory, Science, Kin Selection, Truth and Reconciliation, Evolution, Politics News

No matter how the groups are formed, no matter how flexible the choice of behaviors, altruism is locally disadvantageous and requires higher-level selection to evolve.

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Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection XI: Dawkins Protests (Too Much)

David Sloan Wilson | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Evolutionary Models, Group Selection, Richard Dawkins, Politics, Science, Kin Selection, The Selfish Gene, Truth and Reconciliation, Evolution, Healthy Living News

Richard Dawkins did not invent naïve gene selectionism but he spread it far and wide with the publication of The Selfish Gene.

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Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection X: Naïve Gene Selectionism

David Sloan Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Evolutionary Models, Replicators, Group Selection, Naive Gene Selectionism, Politics, Science, Kin Selection, Truth and Reconciliation, Evolution, Politics News

Even when genes function as replicators, they have no bearing upon the group selection controversy because they function as replicators regardless of which level of selection prevails.

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Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection VIII: Anatomy of a Model

David Sloan Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Science, Group Selection, Kin Selection, Evolutionary Models, Truth and Reconciliation, Politics, Evolution, Politics News

The haystack model had an enormous impact on the rejection of group selection and the conceptualization of kin selection as an alternative to group selection.

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Truth or Reconciliation?

Russ Baker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Bush Investigation, Pat Leahy, Patrick Leahy, Investigation, Truth and Reconciliation, Media News

Official investigations of the Bush administration are on the way. Politicians will appear heroic. The media will get a hot story they won't have to do a bit of digging for. And the rest of us?

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Getting Ready for the Bush Pardons

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 05.25.2011

It would be wrong for an outgoing President who presided over disastrous... enterprises like the torture program to unilaterally slam the door on all future investigations into that conduct.

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Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection IV: The Great Reckoning

David Sloan Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Science, Politics, Evolution, Altruism, Truth and Reconciliation, Group Selection, Modern Synthesis, Politics News

By the 1960's, evolutionary theory had settled into a comfortable paradigm called the Modern Synthesis.

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Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection III: Naïve Group Selectionism

David Sloan Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Evolution, Multilevel Selection, Adaptation, Truth and Reconciliation, Group Selection, Science, Politics News

Pre-Darwinian notions did not come to an abrupt halt with the advent of Darwin's theory. Instead, they often became repackaged in superficially Darwinian terms.

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Truth and Reconciliation

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War Crimes, Warrantless Wiretapping, CIA Interrogations, Bush Administration, Truth and Reconciliation, Justice, Iraq, Politics News

Criminal prosecutions of the members of the Bush administration will not enable us to do what we most need to do, which is to gain a full public understanding of what was done over the past eight years.

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