Reflexivity in External Religious Leaders’ Summit Communication Sequences (2005-2012) to G8 Political Leaders

Awareness of Religious Leaders’ Fatwa and Willingness to Donate Organ

BACKGROUND It is believed that religious leaders' positive attitude towards organ donation can be an effective factor in Muslims' inclination to donate organs. OBJECTIVE To assess the knowledge of freshmen students in Mashhad University of Medical Sciences about religious leaders' fatwa on organ donation and its effect on their willingness to donate organs. METHODS This cross-sectional stud...

Educating religious leaders to create demand for medical male circumcision

Incident HIV infections refl ect the inadequacy of prevention strategies, and the failure to adequately use proven eff ective interventions. Following compelling evidence from three independent community trials in South Africa, Uganda, and Kenya, WHO and the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) recommended that voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) should be part of a comprehensive HIV ...

The Conditional Importance of Political Leaders

Priming political leaders for fateful choices

This paper presents nine proposition: (1) humanity is cascading through a rupture in its history into an epoch of “anthropo-transmutation”; (2) to prevent self-destruction and facilitate pluralistic thriving, many counter-conventional radical innovations in human values, institutions and policies are essential; (3) enlightened voluntarism cannot be relied upon; (4) human enhancement possibiliti...

Reforming from the Top: a Leaders' 20 Summit

Reforming from the Top: A Leaders’ 20 Summit F scholars and practitioners of international relations claim that the current international system is working well. Whether the issue is the nexus between international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, the growing gap in wealth between the developed and developing worlds, HIV/AIDS, or the management of water, existing institutions do not s...