Sentences with phrase «force for social change»

The Curry Stone Design Prize was created to champion designers as a force for social change.

«This joint program,» says CCS Bard graduate program director Paul O'Neill, «expands our commitment to investigating the political dimensions of artistic practice and how art can be a productive force for social change.»

By creating freedom portals, survivors and allies together became a force for social change.

Science fiction as a force for social change?

Rather, they can be a compelling force for social change.

To apply evidence of where in the world and how religion has acted either as a conservative force or a force for social change.

To evaluate the theories which claim that religion can act as a force for social change.

FPG has a proud history of serving as an objective, knowledgeable force for social change to enhance the lives of children and families.

«That is why, at least in Latin America, a Pentecostal experience focused on day - to - day reality may well become a major force for social change.»

4:32 The philosophy about business as a force for social change, being ethical, and that business can be profitable with social change business models.

Brett Wigdortz, CEO and Founder of Teach First, said: «We know great teaching and leadership are among the most powerful forces for social change, and for improving children's life chances.

Not exact matches

The gays, on the other hand, have organized with bis and transgender people for years now, as a social - change force to be reckoned with.

But I would just mention them, namely the science - based technology which gives power to humans to control and engineer with material, social and even psychic forces to achieve purposes and goals for the future chosen by humans; the revolutionary social changes produced by the revolts of the poor and the oppressed in all societies; and the break - up of the traditional religious integration of societies and their reintegration by the State.

Normally, a church task force has to have a community change agency with which it can link itself, and through which it can channel its energy for social change.

He grew up in the Church, but that supernatural feeling that takes Christianity from an intellectual pursuit, a moral challenge and a social force for change into a life - altering, real experience, remains elusive.

The driving force behind this process — i.e., the «factors making for growth in the halakhah» — is, first, the «necessity to respond to new external conditions — social, economic, political, or cultural — that pose a challenge or even a threat to accepted religious and ethical values,» and, second, the «need to give recognition to new ethical insights and attitudes and to embody them in the life of the people, even if there [is] no change in objective conditions.»

Biodynamic and Demeter farms have a social and spiritual component as well; which connects them to the surrounding communities, and integrates them into the world as a force for positive change and a healthy world.

We are a global brand, and we want to be a force for change in both reducing our social and environmental impact and confronting head on the challenges facing the fashion industry now and in the future.

Always more pleased with itself than its record would warrant, social democracy must now make a true reckoning with that history if it is to emerge from the current crisis as a continuing force for progressive change.

For example, if Labour is serious about radical economic change then it needs to consider how it can build an alliance of social and political forces to support it.

By being actively involved in real and virtual social networks, and becoming known as positive forces for change, Conservatives will start to overcome the negativity or suspicion that still exists towards them in many parts of the country.

Austerity may help fuel the demand for a second referendum, but that still doesn't tell us how the SNP can move from being a social democratic (or social liberal as Gregor Gall argues) force, to one that embraces fundamental social change.

For pre - and / or postconflict stabilization operations, DARPA seeks advanced concepts and technologies to give U.S. forces capabilities to quickly and accurately understand and deal with changing social and environmental circumstances that could undermine a combatant commander's objectives.

Whether our purposes are to network with business opportunities or network for social or political purposes, we are reaching a point where the use of eLearning will be needed in order to tame and harness the forces of technological change, pedagogy, and change management which are creating a perfect storm as mentioned earlier.

Theatre, as a meeting ground of all the arts is a powerful engine for development, a dynamic force for learning and a facilitator for social change to create the womb of values — from apathy and greed, to caring and sharing.

And forget about the massive changes in instructional schedules as schools have been forced to reduce «specials» like art, music, PE and academic subjects like social studies to make room for the Common Core mandated subjects.

Because movement conservatives of that time such as William F. Buckley Jr., and Barry Goldwater didn't view state - sanctioned racism as the great moral question that it was, because their fetish for preserving tradition led them to believe that the federal government didn't have the obligation to address segregation, because of their concerns about communism and the expansion of federal government, and because they viewed the civil disobedience by activists such as Martin Luther King (as well as their push to force social change) as an affront to the order they craved, they essentially gave succor to Jim Crow segregationists even if that wasn't their original intent.

The Task Force is the country's premier social justice organization fighting to improve the lives of LGBT people, and working to create positive, lasting change and opportunity for all.

Spend enough time on social media, and it's not hard to concede that Albert Einstein had a point — but it can also be a great conduit for ideas between like - minded people, a mobilizing force for positive change.

Citing Lipman's commitment over 40 years as Executive Director at IATA (International Air Transport Association), President of WTTC (World Travel & Tourism Council), and Assistant Secretary General of UNWTO (UN World Tourism Organization), Aidi said that «He has always been a leading advocate of travel and tourism as a force for positive change — economic, social, and above all environmental.»

«This is and was a memorable moment for the mine workers in Limburg, which forces us to remember the 100 years of coalmining in Europe, the social struggle of the coal miners and to acknowledge the impact the closure of coalmining and the conversion processes afterwards had on our current industrial and social changes and structures,» Hedwig Fijen, Director of Manifesta, told A.i.A. via email.

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Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»

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The report anticipated «radical changes» from the «revenue raising power of government... converted into an instrument for forcing acceptance of sudden new ideas of industrial and social reorganization,» an allusion to using taxation as a tool to influence social and industrial policy.

In the most sweeping reform of Japan's legal system since World War II, the doors are opening wide for a flood of new lawyers to handle cases in an increasingly litigious society.Experts say the reforms underscore a big shift in social attitudes that is forcing Japan to change its policy of keeping the number of lawyers low.

«Rachel's track record of strengthening and growing mission - driven organizations into national forces for legal, political, and social change made her the clear choice to lead Lambda Legal going forward,» said Tracey Wallace and Stephen Winters, co-chairs, Lambda Legal Board of Directors.

I suggest that although this notion that laws cause social change still persists — our government changes the Criminal Code to «get tough on crime,» for example — it's force has been on the wane since the sixties.

Impassioned leaders in the civil rights movement, like Milano and the other women who transformed #MeToo from a hashtag to a movement, continue to be prove that in the right hands social media can be a positive force for change.