Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection, now established, is the only workable explanation we have for the remarkable fact of our own existence, the vast diversity of plant and animal life, the compelling illusion of design in nature, and the architecture of the human mind. We are risen apes, not fallen angels. Our different races and ethnicities hide an essential truth: we are all African...

©FFPRHC J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2007: 33(4) Background Violence against women (VAW) is one area of reproductive health that has not been given due consideration in Nigeria despite the fact that Nigeria is a signatory to many international conventions on eliminating violence against women and promoting human rights.1,2 VAW is increasingly being recognised as a serious public health issue,...

The Catholic Church has had a strong influence on the Chilean legal and social landscape in ways that have adversely affected victims of intimate partner violence; e.g., it succeeded until just five years ago in blocking efforts to legalize divorce. At the same time, quantitative studies based on survey data from the United States and other countries show a generally favorable influence of reli...

In the current paper, we report a large-scale randomized field experiment, conducted among Jewish Israelis during widespread violence. The study examines the effectiveness of a "real world," multichanneled paradoxical thinking intervention, with messages disseminated through various means of communication (i.e., online, billboards, flyers). Over the course of 6 wk, we targeted a small city in t...

Violence is now becoming a way of life to deal with political, economic and social issues. Ever since independence, the agitational methods employed during the days of our struggle for freedom have continued to be applied even against our own Government. With the passage of time bitterness, violence, disrespect for authority and tendency towards mob rule have been growing. Non-violence and the ...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate risk and protective factors for intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization in a high-risk sample of predominantly minority young adults from low-income urban communities. Participants were 1,130 individuals (57.9% women) ages 21 to 26 who participated in a telephone interview assessing IPV victimization, violence-related behaviors, and sexu...

<p align="left">Religious conflict is not only a matter of religion, but also human life who wants peace in life. By understanding the Islamic strategy building Indonesia, we can find resolution that must be developed This study argues and Islam’s overcoming violence truth claims religion. Thus, this formulates question how religious strategies Indonesia are? uses library research to sour...

according to plantinga’s reformed epistemology, as perceptual beliefs, religious beliefs are properly basic, and therefore need no additional justification. but as it has been said frequently, this idea may lead to relativism. in this paper, first, we argue that not only its relativistic aspect allows for religious extremism, but also it could be used to justify that kind of extremism. then, re...

objective: spouse abuse is a major worldwide health concern and includes a wide range of emotional, physical and sexual maltreatments. the objective of present study was to determine the prevalence and risk factors of spouse abuse among women who were registered with health centers in the city of sari. methods: we distributed two specifically designed questionnaires among one thousand women who...