Conflict as a Positive or Negative Roommate and Its Effect on Seeking Justice and Peace
When things do not work well or work out between individuals, groups, communities or even nations, it is often because fundamental or confused elements are introduced into the contexts of interaction. Such elements are often guarded intensely by each individual or group, and the willingness to approach any kind of conversation toward some resolution is usually generally difficult. Read the rest of the article »» 
Factors Vitiating Against the Effectiveness of the Nigeria Police in Combating the Criminal Exploitation of Children and Women
(Published in African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies, 2007)
Trafficking in women and children for the purposes of economic and sexual exploitation is a transnational organized crime which is a hybrid of corporate, syndicated, and street forms of crime. Many scholars have described trafficking in human beings as a contemporary slave trade (Farr, 2004; U.S Department of State, 2007). Read the rest of the article »»
War and Spiraling Injustices in Africa
(Published in Contemporary Justice Review, 2007)
This paper has five elements. The first is a brief overview of the wars in Africa. The second connects Africa and its wars to social injustices which were historically constructed and fostered by exploitative external and internal factors. The third examines the implication of increasing injustices in Africa (intensified by wars and civil conflicts) and connects colonialism, postcolonialism, neocolonialism, or eternal colonialism to internal/external political and economic manipulation, poverty, degenerating social conditions, and conflicts that result in wars. Read the rest of the article »»
Outdoor Wood Boilers: A Critical Issue in Environmental Justice
This paper discusses the difficult issue of the Outdoor Hydronic Heaters, specifically the Outdoor Wood Boilers (OWB). The installation of OWB machines has gained popularity among individuals who believe they are paying too much for heating fuels in the United States. The issue generates an inordinate amount of conflict between proponents and opponents for and against the use of these units. Read the rest of the article »»
Language, Domination, and Oppression
(Published in International Research Journal of Arts and Humanities, 2006)
Besides its indispensable utility, language is extremely interesting and powerful. These features are manifested in many ways. Language is useful in advancing romantic, respectful, provocative, and somber expressions, or moods of disinterest, disrespect and/or indifference, and much more. All of these moods are characterized by the specific centrality of geography which contextualizes uses and speech patterns. Read the rest of the article »» (navigate to page 30 of document)
The Human Being: A Brief Revisit
The human, the entity simply known as the human being, is simultaneously a material, an immaterial, an intricately indefinable reality, and much more. The concern to be unraveled here is the contemporary notion that the human being is actually easily definable. Read the rest of the article »»
Tony Blair and Economic Justice for Africa
When the issue of poverty, impoverishment, and the destitution of poor nations becomes news in Western nations, specifically in the United States, it is usually an effort to draw attention not to the problem, but to how life is so much better compared to the lives of those in poor and impoverished nations. National governments are not usually massively interested in directly dealing with the amelioration of desperate conditions for poor nations. Read the rest of the article »»
New Orleans: The Uses of Power, Justice, and Privilege in the United States
It appears that poverty and destitution are important social realities in the United States so that significant effort is made to ensure their existence. The irony is that they are masked and tucked away by those who seek to present the image of the nation as free, democratic, and advanced. Read the rest of the article »»
Understanding Social Justice in the Context of the Tsunami Disaster of 2004
There are damaging and non-damaging Tsunamis. From the National Geophisical Data Center, U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the list of the most damaging Tsunamis worldwide are as follows. Keep in mind that before 1923, all the data shown here are approximated figures. Read the rest of the article »»
The Fabrication of Poverty in the United States
Poor people are created by those who claim to be better in various ways. Once poverty takes hold and becomes popular, it is almost impossible to understand its extensive and pervasive nature. Poverty is the embedded consciousness that there is a social and material difference between human beings, and that some people are better than others hence deserving of better living conditions. This view eventually prevails in society allowing various forms of the fabrication of poverty. Read the rest of the article »»
The Dynamism of Social Justice: The Case of Camilo Torres
Camilo Torres arrived at the Catholic University of Louvain (KUL) with a sense of adventure. He was eager to improve his academic experience. This experience was not going to be one of simply going to class, listening to professors and taking notes. A number of social events in his home country had forced him into a questioning stance, and his Louvain education in sociology would cement his ability to understand the broader implications of these events. Read the rest of the article »»
I Do Not Want to Look Like My Father or Mother: The Coming Biogenetic Solution
In recent years, it has become quite possible to unravel mysteries such as reasons for various debilitating diseases that cause extensive physiological and/or psychological traumas. Previously, many of these health and physiological issues were considered inexplicable, hence incurable. Many religious folks enjoyed suggesting that such illnesses were indeed the wrath of the divine.. Read the rest of the article »»
18 Significant Points based on Randall Robinson’s The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks
After a service or job is performed, especially one that is extremely well done, would you agree that Johnny and Sarah are at fault if they do not pay what they owe to those who performed the service? How should Andrea or Anderson recover their money in this type of situation? Through negotiation, through legal process, or by pure brutal force? Read the rest of the article »»
Ethics and Technology: An Uncertain Rendevous
When Harvey Cox (1969) in his Feast of Fools tried to explain the dynamics of the popular culture in the 1960s, many events had come, gone, and/or were still in active duty. Cox’s perspective on festivity and fantasy was a remarkable acceptance of the new age populism that was ushered in by the civil rights, and every other new movement that directed itself at the redefinition of ethics, social life, and human dignity. Read the rest of the article »»
Does Business and Ethics = Business Ethics?
Is any person conducting any public commercial activity to be understood as engaged in some form of business? And is that activity to be understood as involving a process that needs to function with a set of norms that society commonly refers to as ethics? Can business and ethics meet and be called business ethics? What is the domain of business ethics? Who defines it and how does it function in any society?. Read the rest of the article »»
The Triumph of Panic Sexual Interaction
My lament over the loss of genuine sexual interaction appears to have increased with the increase in economic and technological diversity. The more materialistic society gets, the more it loses its sense of natural social interaction and cohesion. Society – as in the human beings living in it – encourages less and less interaction among people. Read the rest of the article »»
Students and Teachers in the Postmodern Scene
The attention span of students in the postmodern generation has simply dangerously diminished. Hearing, listening, and learning are now radically subjective. Almost all students studying in American colleges and universities focus on singularity, have minimal sense of the historical relevance of any subject, and therefore overwhelmingly relapse into the limitation of the pleasurable option for disconnected bits rather than the whole. Read the rest of the article »»
Post-postmodernism, Civility, and the 21st Century
The movement for civil rights in general clearly launched the postmodern social scene in the United States. The postmodern agenda was to break with a valueless modern social scene replete with divisive individualism, alienation, and violence to insert lasting dignifying values of equity, interaction, and friendship in society. Read the rest of the article »»
Consumerism and Violence
Active consumerism is implicated in many serious social elements. Its most significant activities are the insatiable consumption of huge amounts of resources as fast as possible, and the total failure to replenish them. Active consumerism moves at break-neck speed at all times. Read the rest of the article »»
Active and Passive Consumerism: Predicting an Impending Austerity
Human beings are obsessed with material things. The phenomenon of the obsession to acquire and consume material things afflicts nearly all members of all societies. The nurse, the professor of obstetrics, the high school dropout, or the village plumber are all tempted in the same ways to buy or acquire new commodities and all equally get hooked and desire more. They usually all have perfect reasons to acquire consumer products. Read the rest of the article »»
A Brief and Different Response to David Jablonski and Susan M. Kidwell’s (University of Chicago) “Given the lessons of the fossil record, is the human species itself at serious risk of extinction?”
One would certainly desire to hope that many more of the human species take note of paleontological and paleobiological implications. No mater how intense and exciting the discourses are in these areas, too much more than half of the human population are bent on a dramatic self-extinction that radically differs from the extinctions of the past. Read the rest of the article »»
Something Missing
They have been watching this particular individual for a long time. His mind was beginning to assimilate the reason why there are so many universes. They thought for the first time that they had found a mind that they could put to use. This mind would join a number of others in cracking the codes that make up this universe, but without warning, this individual began to stumble around a lot. Read the rest of the article »»
Understanding the Dynamics of Encompassing Energy, Universes, and the Black Hole Phenomenon: A Different View
Energy is usually a reality that gives and receives several interactions between all matter. Energy is transferred and interacted in the ecological ambience. In other words, the ecological ambience is inactive without specific dimensions of energy. Matter posses internal partial energy and may unexpectedly collapse or reach a new dimension due to the action of the internal partial energy interacting with the encompassing energy. Read the rest of the article »»
Raising Children Against Violent Behavior: An Intensive Inclusive Early Intervention Education Process from Age 0-4 Years
Today violent behavior surfaces in the form of war, racism, homicide, battery, assault, rape, abductions, threats, vile or subtle negative language, and so on. When not confronted with the real situations of violent responses, the channels of knowledge about violence abound in television programs, movies, video games, cartoons, gangs, peer groups, and belief systems. Read the rest of the article »»
The Importance of Ethics and Spirituality in the Work Place
Let me begin by suggesting that we must acknowledge certain features of our current social conditions in terms of the erosion and emptying of history and its significance from our lives. Without a thorough (or at least a general) understanding of our society, it is nearly impossible to properly evaluate the ethical and spiritual quagmire in which we are currently submerged. Read the rest of the article »»
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Post-postmodern Social Scene
Martin Luther King, Jr. is one of the major introducers of the postmodern social scene in the United States. His postmodern agenda was to break with a valueless modern social scene replete with divisive individualism, alienation, and violence to insert lasting dignifying values of equity, interaction, and friendship in society. This agenda did not sit well with proponents and caretakers of the modern arena who sought to continue their barbarism and violence. Read the rest of the article »»
Gary Bevington’s Fantasy University: A Critical Response
Gary Bevington, an anthropology professor at Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL. (henceforth NEIU) circulated around campus a paper entitled Turning Franz Fanon U. into Fantasy U. The content of this document has some implications for students, faculty, and administrators of higher education. Read the rest of the article »»
Fatherhood: Some Significant Implications
The reality of fatherhood in the United States continues to present challenges. A considerable number of homes have no fathers. These fathers are either divorced from their spouses, have simply walked away or have been separated from their children for a variety of other reasons. Read the rest of the article »»
Evaluating Virginia Morrow’s Study on Childhood Dependency in England
Virginia Morrow’s (henceforth VM) study (1996) "Rethinking Childhood Dependency: Children's Contribution to Domestic Economy," in Sociological Review 44 (1), 58-77, challenges and submits an agenda for rethinking the sociological conceptualization of children as burdens and dependents. Read the rest of the article »»
On the Question of Illegitimate Children
Many of us have used the term illegitimate to describe children born out of non-formalized social conditions. By formal we think of such social realities as marriage (ecclesial, civil, common law, and so on). From that perspective, a legitimate child is anyone from those legally recognized processes, and an illegitimate child is anyone that is not. Read the rest of the article »»
The Postmodern "Social" Scene
The postmodern "social" scene is at best the internalization of totalistic amnesia. The postmodern culture which basically begins and ends with itself seeks to take everyone and everything along for a ride to oblivion. It celebrates biosterous glory in grandiose putridity. Its collapse began as soon as its proponents announced its arrival. Read the rest of the article »»
The Problem of the Social Self in the Post-postmodern Scene
The loss of reasonable and collective memory. The shredding of our pasts happened in the modern scene. In the post modern scene, we at least had some remnant sense of what was happening to us. Simulacra of disaster after disaster. That is why we kept making changes that were inconsistent with each other. These changes are best described as incongruent social and educational programs. Read the rest of the article »»
The Study of Order in Noise
A 50 minute cafeteria experience at a Chicago Public School yielded the following. Students gathered to eat their lunch, and a gradual interaction between individuals soon magnified into a loud open market type scenario. Read the rest of the article »»