Nelson Mandela Research Center – Peace Studies

LusoGlobe Research in Charge

LusoGlobe Research in Charge: Paulo Mendes Pinto

End

01 January 2016

Abstract

The Nelson Mandela Research Center – Studies of Humanism and Reflection for Peace is now in the Area of Science of Religions, in a new dynamic with Alexandre Honrado (coordinator), Maria Filomena Barros and Joaquim Franco. . Born as a university research unit at the Centre for Research and Social Studies of ULHT, with its own autonomous dynamics, it currently works under a regular protocol with the research line in Religion and Society of the Area of Religious Sciences of ULHT. Its activity gained a new dimension in 2013. Among other initiatives, it is currently preparing a postgraduate course within its object of study; Its researchers have been editing theoretical papers and promoting conferences.

Researchers

Alexandre Honrado Maria Filomena Barros Mariana Vital Joaquim Franco Miguel Feio (Collaborator researcher)

Outputs

Birds and Angels – separate flights, Alexandre Honored 1st International Congress Birds in Natural History, Prehistory and History, September 23 to 25 Birds in Biodiversity: education and ecology, Mariana Vital, 1st International Congress. Weekly Chronicle, Jornal Online Tornado: • We are so needy • Rousseau's children or those of an unknown father? • Fatima Global Sacred Place • France, the breaches in the wall • Teixeira de Pascoais • Sensitive intelligence • Terrorism. A thing of failures •Fatima. Christian vision in cultured language • Patrícia Reis and the construction of the void • Why I still like History • Our little nature • Tchaikovsky's Left Leg • Memories of Raul Brandão • French legislation has lifted a veil on freedom • Portuguese prisoners of World War I • Before the fear disappears • Blind people who lead other blind people • We know nothing of the art of war • It costs a lot to live in a world of the dead • The funnel through which democracy flows • The enormous effort to understand what is happening to us • Homeland, only Homeland • A disoriented world • Trump, a blessed sinner • Mário Soares and religion (Also? Also!) • From 1917 to 2017, searching for what we are • It's Christmas • Us all in 2017. One hundred years later • Aleppo and our shame • "Who Rules the World?" • This Christmas offer Islam • All the magic of ballet with La Bayadère • A passion for the unthinkable •Concentration • And now something completely different • The Tornado Newspaper (and little else) • With an Angel in front of your eyes • Tolerance and Intolerance •Turbulence • Memory as an auxiliary of the Future • The size of the stool that allows you to reach the pot • Iraq, the United States and bad faith (the death of Human Rights) • Human Rights – Return to the theme • The hoarse voice of mad war • Human Rights (which we don't have) • Guterres faces the swamp • Bringing the teaching of religions to schools • We are so equal in our differences! • End of Summer at the Observatory for Religious Liberty • Burqas and Discoveries • Violence on French beach forces woman to undress in public • Violence as a necessity • Flying over a bridge • Educating for Peace • Where is Somalia? • Turkey – A destination more than a tourist destination • The (almost) religious gift of prophecy • Istanbul (where I cry now) • Europeans have gone mad • Think mind • Clandestine spirituality inhabits the essayist • There are things of the devil. Ago? • We Barbarians • The May Disappearings • We are very ignorant • The 13th of May in the hand grave •Convicted • The praise of fundamentalism (almost) • We are afraid of what we do not know • Between believers and murderers • The blood map of a long history of misunderstanding • Looking at Islam • The Battle That Awaits Us • Mortgaged hope • Lawrence of Arabia, Syria and Iraq • The lack of morals and the lack of ethics • We, the ones who suffer history • Learning religion as an act of survival • Religion and Philosophy • Utopia – Between the torment and anguish of believing • Thinking – An exercise that is never slimming but very healthy • Religious freedom and the shadows of the Apocalypse •Religion? I don't think so

References

https://cienciadasreligioes.ulusofona.pt/nucleo-de-investigacao-nelson-mandela-estudos-para-a-paz/