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2011年5月6日 星期五

明天5/7 [中文 伊斯蘭文化論壇] 敬邀參加!



Dear MUNers,

明天很榮幸請到台北一清真寺教長蒞臨 Forum, 與我們分享伊斯蘭文化!
期待各位能在此難得機會直接接觸穆斯林, 與之對話, 解開神秘面紗.

隨著全球化的影響, 我們有越來越多的機會和不同文化碰撞或合作.
又在此之際, 關於伊斯蘭在神學(權)或世俗政權相遇所產生的事件, 已是關心世界局勢的各位所不容忽視的議題.

模聯社敬邀 各位明天 5/7 上午 9.30, 綜合大樓302 一同認識世界三大宗教之伊斯蘭與其相關議題和文化!
本次Forum將以中文進行! 請各位不吝邀請親朋好友共襄盛舉!

2011年4月9日 星期六

Nuclear Debate

Check this out.
The Blue letters are For nuclear energy.
The Green letters are Against nuclear energy.

BBC 10/17/2005
Analysis: Is nuclear power the answer?

With Prime Minister Tony Blair calling for an "open-minded" debate on the future of nuclear power in the UK, the BBC's Alex Kirby explores the pros and cons of atomic energy.

Nuclear power looks as if it should be the answer to all our energy conundrums, and perhaps even to climate change.
It provides a steady stream of energy, and does not depend on hydrocarbon supplies from unstable regimes.
It is the nearest thing we have to a non-polluting energy source, apart from natural renewables.
But it still engenders massive distrust, so much that many people say it can never be part of the way to avoid a disastrously warming world.

2011年4月7日 星期四

Debate: Does the world need nuclear energy?

4/9 Workshop: Debate

Hi all,

the schedule for the coming workshop would be as followed.


0930- 0945 Debate intro
0945-1030 Group Discussion
1030-1100 Argument Competition
1100-1150 Debate
1150-1210 (Group)Critique


Resolved: That states should invest more strongly in nuclear energy now and support it as the energy source for the future.


Grouping:

Affirmative
Logan, Mark, Cindy, Ruby, Spe, Sean, April, Jacklyn, Katy

Negative
Roverzon, Lucy, Danny, Miranda, Yana, Kyra, Erin, Jessica



*** Members must do research prior to the Workshop, based on the groupings.
Laptops are allowed and encouraged in class.

*** Please draft your debate content, if possible, with the "format" of: 'Assertion+Reason+Evidence'


If your name is not in any of the groupings, please send an e-mail to: mun.ntnu@gmail.com


See you on Saturday!

Weighing in: Nuclear Power, a Long-Term View

March 23, 2011

By Danny Wilson

Despite being an isolated island nation devoid of great natural resource wealth, Japan ranks third globally in national energy production. As industrialization in Japan increased exponentially after World War II, the nation gradually diversified its energy sources. A key component of this diversification was the incorporation of nuclear power; before the disaster at the Fukushima Plant, 30% of Japan’s energy came from nuclear sources. In comparison, the United States receives roughly 8% of its energy from nuclear power. Nuclear power is the largest single source of energy in Japan, and has had an enormous role in its quest for energy independence.

2011年3月4日 星期五

News Analysis-Libya Revolution-02-26-2011


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iQazFbvhRI


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur-mB6FnYBQ


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLGu9soHsko

WikiLeaks Leads To Revolution In Tunisia



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdcUfIyeQoI

Workshop II-Anti-government Movement in the Middle East and North Africa

Revolution in Egypt and Tunisia-It's not over yet

The countries that started the wave of Arab change both have a long way to go

The Economist: Mar 3rd 2011

TUNISIA is small and tidy, with a large, well-educated middle class amid its 10m-plus people and a long tradition of quiet politics. Egypt is big and messy, with a lot more people living in its capital, Cairo, alone than in the whole of Tunisia. Its few rich and its throngs of poor live in starkly different worlds, and endured a century of wars and shifting ideologies before the enforced 30-year slumber of Hosni Mubarak’s rule. Yet the revolutions in each country, barely a month apart, followed notably similar patterns. The wobbly aftermaths of those convulsions also look much the same, as Tunisians and Egyptians grope their way into a more complex new world.

Workshop-Anti-government Movement in the Middle East and North Africa

ANALYSIS: Israel watching Egypt anti-government movement closely

By Ofira Koopmans Jan 28, 2011, 14:32 GMT
Tel Aviv - Israel has no wish to see Hosny Mubarak go.
For the past three decades, eight different Israeli prime ministers have nurtured relations with the now 82-year-old Cairo leader.
So Israel is anxiously watching where the anti-government movement in the country to its southern border - its most important peace partner in the Middle East - will lead.

2010年12月16日 星期四

Workshop Final: ASEAN

Dear All,

我們這一學期的workshop就要在這一週暫時畫下句點,請大家都多多支持喔! =)

ASEAN Workshop 9 am. @ 正103

推薦一個部落格: 東北亞研究中心

http://blog.sina.com.tw/cnear/category.php?pbgid=33723&categoryid=82489

期待看到大家喲 ^____^

2010年12月15日 星期三

US institute of peace response to the conflict. (article for reading)

The South China Sea Dispute: Prospects for Preventive Diplomacy

August 1996 | Special Report by Scott Snyder

Key Points

  • The disputed territorial claims in the South China Sea remain a dangerous source of potential conflict in the absence of preventive measures to forestall a military or political crisis. Three periods of heightened tension over the Spratly Islands within the past ten years offer a clear warning sign of the risk of future confrontation if the core issues remain unresolved. It is in the interest of all the claimants to actively seek solutions to the disputes through political negotiations to avoid future military conflict. All the claimants have an interest in participating in a preventive diplomatic approach to the South China Sea--one that takes into account the interests of all claimants--to minimize the risk of future crises, rather than resorting to a more costly approach of military action.

Topic A: Conflict in the South China Sea ( article for reading)

Conflict in the South China Sea: China’s Relations with Vietnam and the Philippines

Ian Storey

Part I Trouble and Strife in the South China Sea: Vietnam and China

A source of serious interstate tension between some members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China for much of the 1990s, territorial disputes in the South China Sea became less contentious in the early 2000s: A less assertive stance by China being a critical component in Beijing’s Southeast Asian “smile diplomacy,” a diplomatic offensive designed to assuage the ASEAN countries’ security concerns vis-à-vis a rising China. Recent controversies, however, have underscored the seemingly intractable nature of the dispute and the continued sensitivity over sovereignty issues, particularly between the main protagonists: Vietnam, China, and the Philippines. In the first part of a two-part series, this article examines the impact of the dispute on Vietnam’s relations with the PRC.

2010年12月14日 星期二

Topic B: The Mekong River

Dear Muners:
Read the following articles about Topic B "The Mekong River Region".
And think about the three questions we will discuss about in the workshop:
1. What countries are concerned of the resources in the Mekong River Region?
2.
What are the disputes in the Mekong River Region?
Economical? Political? Cultural? Green and environmental? Military?
3. What are solutions we can suggest? What concrete things can the Mekong River Commission contribute to the peaceful and fair usage of the resources?

Article 1:
Mekong River in Chinese Wikipedia---http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/湄公河
湄公河
,幹流全長4880公里,是亞洲最重要的跨國水系,世界第六大河流;主源為扎曲,發源於中國青海省玉樹藏族自治州雜多縣。流經中國、寮國緬甸泰國柬埔寨越南,于越南胡志明市流入南海。流域除中國和緬甸外,均為湄公河委員會成員國。湄公河上游在中國境內,稱為瀾滄江,下游三角洲在越南境內,因由越南流出南海有9個出海口,故越南稱之為九龍江,總長度2139公里。

中國在瀾滄江上游的扎曲規劃了果多水電站,在昌都以下的幹流則規劃了21個梯級水電站,其中西藏境內6級,雲南境內15級(又分上游7級和下游8級)。在雲南境內的水電站中,已經建成的有漫灣水電站(1996年)、大朝山水電站(2002年),正在修建的有小灣水電站,準備修建的有景洪水電站,正在規劃的有糯扎渡水電站。電站大壩將改變湄公河流域的生態環境和自然資源,並可能引發外交爭端。

泰國在湄公河上建有Pak Mun 大壩(Pak Mun dam)。寮國、柬埔寨也有建壩的計劃。和所有的水利建設一樣,湄公河上的所有水利設施建設都有各方人士反對。

2010年12月8日 星期三

Workshop VI: Narcoterrorism

Dear all,

please check out the links as followed.


1. DEA Digging Into Al Qaeda Drug Links

2. Hezbollah, Hamas Raise Money for ‘Terrorist Activities’ From Drug Trade in South America, Congressional Research Service Says

3. Mexican Drug Trafficking
(A great bunch of news inside; please check the first post. For the rest, you may choose for yourself. Also, you are encourage to trace back to the "region" and pick up countries, eg: Columbia, Venezuela, and Afghanista, that are highly involved in the issue "Narcoterrorism" for more data.)

4. UNDOC World Drug Report 2007
Please read the introduction to build up a general idea of where and to what extent the issue is evolving.


Questions

1. What is Narcoterrorism? How is drug traficking related to terrorism?
2. What are the related issues that may be triggered by drug dealing?
Bearing that in mind, how can different committees/ organizations conspire to resolute the problem?
3. Who are the stakeholders? What is the interest of each stakeholder?
What can the government do?

4. How should the problem of Narcoterrorism be solved? From which level shall we start?
Is it better to start regionally? nationally? Or internationally? Why? What are the pros and cons?
5. It is the source of $ that terrorism seeks in drug dealing. Can the financial mechanism
assist in any way? Are there any incentives?

Workshop - Kosovo and the Balkans Article and Questions

After a long and bloody struggle for self-determination, on Feb. 17, 2008, the region of Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia. The move marked the final stage in the dismemberment of the former Yugoslavia, 17 years after the process began.
Kosovo, a land of 1.8 million people, has been under United Nations protections since 1999 after NATO intervened to halt Slobodan Milosevic’s repression of the province’s ethnic Albanians, who make up about 95 per cent of its population. Ever since NATO's bombing campaign forced Mr. Milosevic to halt his violent crackdown, the question had been whether the region would eventually break away.

Workshop - Kosovo and the Balkans article Review ( background Information)

The Balkans Can Still Be Lost

As NATO, the United States, the European Union and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe prepare for summit meetings this fall, the Balkans may yet spoil the party.
The peace-building process there boasts remarkable successes — the end of the Bosnian war, the fall of Slobodan Milosevic and the rise of democratic Serbia, the independence of Kosovo, impending Croatian membership in the E.U. But failure in the Balkans is still a possibility and would embarrass Europeans and Americans alike.

Workshop - Kosovo and the Balkans background information

History of Kosovo to 1918
In medieval times, Kosovo was part of the original Serbian kingdom. Together with some neighboring areas, Kosovo entered the annals of history as Stara Srbija, or Old Serbia. The Serbian rulers from the 12th century onward built churches, monasteries, and fortresses in the area, such as those at Gracanica, Decani, Pec, and Prizren. These kings also competed for territory with the neighboring Byzantine and Bulgarian Empires.
Ecclesiastical (church) structure was very important in all medieval European kingdoms. In Eastern Europe, where the type of Christianity known as Eastern Orthodoxy was predominant (in contrast to Roman Catholicism and later Protestantism in Western Europe), churches are organized along national lines. That is why, for example, there are Russian, Greek, Bulgarian, and other Orthodox churches. The Serbs founded their own independent Christian church in 1219. At its head was a man known as the patriarch. Today, the first patriarch is known and revered as Saint Sava. The headquarters of the church soon came to be located in Pec, one of the major cit ies of today's Kosovo. Photo: A Southern Orthodox church in central Serbia. Photo by John K. Cox.
Kosovo is called the cradle of Serbian civilization because an important battle took place there in 1389. The Nemanja dynasty had died out shortly after its peak during the impressive reign of Emperor Dusan (r. 1331-1355). When the Ottoman Turks continued their push north and west from their foothold in Europe, they still faced determined resistance, however, from Serb forces and their allies, led by a prince named Lazar Hrebeljanovic.

2010年10月27日 星期三

UNDP Workshop Topic B- Health Infrastructure

Dear All,

This week we're going to focus on one issue- Health Infrastructure.
We will use the rest of the time practicing conducting Position Paper

The reason why I choose Topic B rather than Topic A (Alternative energy and sustainable development) is becuase in the Climate change week, which is the first workshop, we had already been through that before. I want everyone has the chance to know different issue =)

This selected article is very long; however, you are suggested to view the issue with a general picture first, then go to some detail later.

Poor Health Infrastructure In West Bengal; Muslims Worst Affected

by Guest Post on September 6, 2010
By Sabir S. Ghaffar,

2010年10月19日 星期二

UNHRC-Topic B: Gay Rights

Committee Topic Intro:
This topic is one that is contentious in nearly all nations, from the very industrialized to the relatively rural. What role does the gay population play in the social system, the economy, the education system, and the everyday life in a given nation? Should these people be afforded the same rights as others, and should they be allowed to even openly discuss their feelings or beliefs? This will be an issue that will be divisive for many nations, because often the issue of gay rights creates very polar opinion

Questions:
1. What are the issues/ rights that Gays fight for?
2. What is your opinion on Same-sex Marriage?
3. Should gay populations be given equal opportunities and access to the basic rights that the United Nations guarantees all people?
4.How can governments more efficiently eliminate housing discrimination and stigmas revolving around being gay?

UNHRC- Topic A: Human Rights in Kashmir (Related News and Links)


Analysis: Making determined progress
2004/09/06
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3631550.stm  
By Sanjoy Majumder
BBC News Online correspondent in Delhi

The body-language was positive, the smiles wide and the hand-shaking vigorous.
Natwar Singh (left) and Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri smiles despite their obvious differences.

But when the Indian and Pakistani foreign ministers addressed the press in Hyderabad House, a grand colonial palace in the heart of Delhi, the details were sketchy and the outcome threadbare.