Deportation vs. Sanctuary: The Rationalities, Technologies, and Subjects of Finnish Sanctuary Practices

Bee sanctuary

The mysterious disappearance of entire bee colonies, known as colony collapse disorder or CCD, has mystified researchers for a couple of years now (see Curr. Biol. 17, R389). It was first observed in the US, where highly industrialised bee-keeping practices mean that colonies are shipped across the continent to work large areas of a single crop. But whether this stress or other factors are resp...

Philosophical Foundations and the Biblical Sanctuary Fernando

Uncovering the cultural knowledge of sanctuary apes

Behavioral differences observed between wild communities of the same species have been called "cultures" by some researchers who aimed to underline the similarities with human cultures. However, whether these differences truly result from social learning processes is debated. Despite promising recent research, data acquired in the wild still fail to exclude genetic and ecological factors from b...

A Sanctuary for Mobile Agents

The Sanctuary project at UCSD is building a secure infrastructure for mobile agents, and examining the fundamental security limits of such an infrastructure. First, what do we mean by \secure"? An obvious issue is the privacy of computation. With standard approaches for agent-based systems, a malicious server has access to the complete internal state of an agent: software agents have no hopes o...

Sanctuary: The Legal Institution in England

Within the Minster of Beverley, at its liturgical center next to the high altar, sits a stone chair that once bore the inscription, "Haec sedes lapidea Freedstoll dicitur i.e. pacis cathedra, ad quam reus fugiendo perveniens omnimodam habet securitatem."1 On these words the sanctuary seeker relied as he made his desperate way to the refuge that would protect him from the penalties that the Comm...