Sentences with phrase «political understanding»

There is a need for states to foster shared political understanding of how and where the boundaries of autonomy in weapon systems should be drawn.

Do you think reclaiming a broader, more political understanding of Catholic social teaching is part of the cure for this disease?

Many academics have readily embraced Twitter and blogging to use their own research and expertise to enliven political understanding.

Our tour managers gave us a thorough historical, cultural and geo political understanding of their countries.

Science read out of its historical context and without a basic political understanding, is as useful as the IPCC's climate models which have been extremely poor at predicting the climate we've already had, let alone, LET ALONE!

Prior to the colonial settlement of Canada, the idea of the nation - state as defined by Western political science did not exist in Indigenous political understandings.

Instead of advocating legislative change which might address those problems, the report favours a less radical approach, recommending prosecutorial guidance or greater political understanding.

When process theologians undertook to recover their relation with Biblical studies, the influence of Rudolf Bultmann was in the ascendancy, and Schubert Ogden consummated a marriage of Hartshorne's metaphysics with Bultmann's existential theology.30 Although most others did not go that far, there were few protests based on the de-emphasis of the social or political understanding of salvation that was entailed.

But that's one of the reasons that my political understanding of Paul is helpful.

«Yes,» he said, «we hope that this political understanding is not lost and that we can use elements of what was agreed to by those heads of state in government in Copenhagen, that we can use that in drafting the decisions that we are going to take in Cancun.»

Haste, H. & Torney - Purta, J. (1992) The Development of Political Understanding, New Directions in Child Development, 56 (Series Editor, W Damon), San Francisco: Jossey Bass.

Research suggests that service programs are effective in building interpersonal and communication skills, problem - solving abilities, complex thought processes, collaborative skills, ethical reasoning, and social and political understanding.

One important aspect of such inquiry is the question of the relationship between public and political understandings of educational purposes and values, on the one hand, and educational policies and practices on the other.

Through her artistic practice and her teaching, both of which are very closely integrated, she rigorously explored complex issues of class, gender, health and the body; combining personal experience, political understanding and critical theory.

As pointed out by art historian Caroline Roodenburg - Schad, critics were mainly distressed by Sandberg's political understanding of an art imbued with vitality that, according to them, he connected to an agenda of protest.

The fragility of States, as a political understanding, runs in a historic sense through all the above - mentioned works.

These characteristics dominate the public and political understanding of «geoengineering» and thus reduce support and funding for CDR research and development at a time it is urgently needed.

But shaping the message to suit the politics often involves a betrayal of scientific truth and a distortion of public and political understanding.

Today's environmentally aware consumers are turning towards a gentler, more holistic approach to problems in the garden, with a greater concern for wildlife and a political understanding of the way Grow Your Own can decrease our food's carbon footprint and air miles.