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1	Mírumilovnost skrze misku čaje: Cesta čaje jako médium transformace / Peacefulness Through a Bowl of Tea: The Way of Tea as a Medium of Transformation Komberec Novosadová, Barbora January 2015 (has links) The Japanese way of tea has been explored with scientific rigor through the fields of anthropology, aesthetics, philosophy, religion, semiotics, and other academic disciplines. This thesis will examine the phenomenon of the "bowl of tea" (considered here as the axis mundi of a tea gathering) on three levels: as a gift, as the basis for the foundation of responsible and considerate relationships in the community, and as a medium of transformation into peacefulness. First, it will explore the nature of the gift in different social practices of exchange in general and in the way of tea in particular. Second, it will present research connecting the gift and the process of giving as a mode of hospitality in the tea gathering. Third, it will assess, through concepts of spatial semiotics, the transformative nature of the way of tea. It will conclude with a statement as to the potential of the way of tea experience to transform human experience and behaviour to others via the phenomenon of gift. Key words Japanese way of tea, Gift, Hospitality, Peacefulness, Transformation, Medium, Semiotics
2	War is Peace : A Study of Relationship Between Gender Equality and Peacefulness of a State Ostrowska, Alicja January 2015 (has links) Based on the previous studies, the hypothesis of this research is that the higher the level of gender equality in a state, the higher level of its peacefulness. It is a quantitative study using linear regression analysis with three variables, namely Global Peace Index (GPI) as a dependent variable, Gender Inequality Index (GII) as an independent variable and Human Development Index (HDI) as a control variable. The data of 139 states from year 2013 were submitted into Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software. The result shows a significant and positive linear relationship between gender inequality and a high level of conflict, which confirms the hypothesis. However, HDI shows to be less reliable as a control variable due to issues with multicollinearity (heavily related independent variables). Further studies should replace the HDI with another control variable. peace peacefulness gender gender equality conflict bivariate multivariate linear regression analysis state GPI GII HDI index international relations SPSS fred konflikt genus jämställdhet internationella relationer bivariat multivariat regressionsanalys Globalisation Studies Globaliseringsstudier Gender Studies Genusstudier Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

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Mírumilovnost skrze misku čaje: Cesta čaje jako médium transformace / Peacefulness Through a Bowl of Tea: The Way of Tea as a Medium of Transformation

War is Peace : A Study of Relationship Between Gender Equality and Peacefulness of a State