Beyond African religious homophobia: how Christianity is a source of African LGBT activism

The emergence of anti-homosexuality politics in Africa is often explained with reference to religion. Although religion is a major factor in fuelling homophobia in Africa, the Bible and the Christian faith are not only sites of struggle but have also been appropriated by African LGBT activists in support of their cause. Adriaan van Klinken says we need to move beyond a narrow focus on African religious homophobia as religion plays multiple and complex roles in contemporary dynamics of African sexualities

Strategic Audit of Proxibid

Proxibid is a platform for connecting buyers and sellers of high-value items. As part of their continued growth, they are running into issues with the categorization of their goods into their hierarchy since the classification of these items is becoming a monumental task that will become unreasonable for humans to do. They have dedicated employees to manually classify well over 10,000 incoming items into over 2000 categories every week. The bulk of those items come in the later half of the work week. This paper will focus on how to tackle this problem while remaining competitive and preventing future growth from overwhelming them. This is done by attempting to allocate company resources in the best way possible given internal and external factors through SWOT and PEST analysis

Broken symmetries at the origin of matter, at the origin of life and at the origin of culture

In earliest cosmic history the university started with matter and not with antimatter. Shortly after the beginning the electroweak interaction prominent in nuclear beta decay - acted as a lefthander. Much later, in prebiotic evolution, optically left-handed amino acids determined the unique signature of following terrestrial organic life. Again ae- ons later, homo sapiens appears as predominantly right handed and creates cultures with many broken symmetries. Along these pathways of history it was essential that choices were made - left or right, matter or antimatter but on several instances it seemed less relevant which choices were made. We think that biochirality occurred by global chance; perhaps by local necessity, but without causal links to the PCT theorem. In other cases - e.g. the standardization to right-handed screws - the choice will have been made by causal necessity.</p

Managing water conflicts through dialogue in Pangani Basin, Tanzania

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Religion, politics and class divisions in Indonesia

It is not easy to tell how significant either group is in today’s politics. On the one hand, the expectation that democratization in 1998 would lead to a rapid increase in the Islamic vote – the Turkish scenario – failed to eventuate. It rose to nearly 40% in 1999 but then declined to less than 30% in 2009, and of that only half or less went to Islamist parties. Polls indicate that the collapse of religious parties continues today.2 On the other hand, transgressive politics are often more religious than formal ones. Indonesia saw a spate of Islamist terror attacks in the early years of democratization; intolerant preaching is normal in most mosques, and aggressive acts against religious minorities and non- Islamic cultural icons continues to grow. Conservative regulations against alcohol and sexual freedoms are formally in place in many districts and provinces around the country (though not always enforced)