Learning to Struggle

Imam Khomeini’s Approach to Political Struggle

The developments in the contemporary world, particularly the revolutions, coups and wars, have led to development of many theories about social movements. One of the methods used in social movements to bring about sociopolitical change is nonviolence. Nonviolent method of struggle was theorized by Gene Sharp, who collected and introduced 198 methods of nonviolent actions, protest and persuasion...

Learning from Romanian women's struggle to manage their fertility.

The commentary by Horga et al. on the consequences of Ceauşescu’s attempt to ban abortion in Romania is a stark reminder of what happens when women are prevented from accessing safe and legal means to end problem pregnancies. In short, they end their pregnancies using means that are unlawful and/or unsafe, sometimes with tragic consequences. Although it is difficult to compare any country today...

A Machine Learning Approach to Evaluating Illness-Induced Religious Struggle

Religious or spiritual struggles are clinically important to health care chaplains because they are related to poorer health outcomes, involving both mental and physical health problems. Identifying persons experiencing religious struggle poses a challenge for chaplains. One potentially underappreciated means of triaging chaplaincy effort are prayers written in chapel notebooks. We show that re...

Struggle to Return

How to struggle against torture.