He will set up a new commission on social cohesion.
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Undoubtedly, church fish fries and picnics help build social cohesion.
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The stakes are enormous, for individual opportunity and for social cohesion.
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But it makes no sense when the aim is social cohesion.
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There are even sizable grants for projects that address social cohesion.
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HONG KONG LEADER CARRIE LAM CALLS FOR FOR SOCIAL COHESION AMID CORONAVIRUS
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Focusing the debate around social cohesion and integration doesn't help counter-terrorism.
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We hope this agreement will bring back social cohesion to the country.
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When speaking about trauma, he strongly emphasizes the importance of social cohesion.
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Quebec's minister of justice, Stéphanie Vallée, said the law fostered social cohesion.
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"The lack of development is more important than social cohesion," he said.
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Nor did it have, any longer, the social cohesion of Chinatown around 1900.
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Sweden has long been admired for its blend of prosperity and social cohesion.
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First, as mass immigration increases diversity, it reduces social cohesion and civic trust.
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" He added, "Social cohesion is essential for those who have capital to invest.
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The vital role of the family in maintaining social cohesion is universally acknowledged.
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I think in the proposals that we've made, we really care about social cohesion.
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The protests have threatened not just the tax but the social cohesion of France.
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But that wasn't what the village needed to maintain its social cohesion, he said.
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I'd love to see a tax code that punished pollution but encouraged social cohesion.
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Low social trust and a pervasive sense of unfairness are diminishing basic social cohesion.
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It is leading to the unravelling of social cohesion and sense of a common destiny.
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Far beyond economics, this strategy places social cohesion, public safety, and civil liberties at risk.
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Quebec's minister of justice, Stéphanie Vallée, said the law fostered social cohesion, but critics disagreed.
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It attempts to answer these questions: Will our neighborhood's social cohesion and sustainability be diminished?
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We could use these tools to undermine our common identity as a species and social cohesion.
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"Social cohesion, trust and shared commitment to the community," Sharkey says, vary from neighborhood to neighborhood.
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Unfortunately, in 2010 Ukraine's inter-group social cohesion ranked 85033th in a survey of 158 countries.
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Japan has long prized racial purity, seeing a largely homogeneous population as crucial to social cohesion.
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Are these counties marked by high social cohesion, economic dynamism, surging wages and healthy family values?
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Racial diversity or other factors associated with social cohesion also show little correlation with gun deaths.
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A "cool" political culture needs a code that insiders can quickly recognize to create social cohesion.
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The numbers didn't change much when unemployment or social cohesion or religiousness was taken into account.
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It shows the "multi-benefits approach of resilience, adaptation to climate change and social cohesion", said Maire.
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If you want to have things function and maintain social cohesion, you don't want vast population movements.
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Papers on a jobs-friendly climate policy, elderly care and social cohesion are promised later this year.
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Some analysts have said the public outcry and demonstrations could affect the social cohesion in Hong Kong.
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Showing the face is a constituent element for our communication, the way we live, our social cohesion.
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But fostering social cohesion and interactions are also crucial for sustainable cities of the future, he said.
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However, economic factors remain a certain contributor to achieving social cohesion and overall happiness, the report finds.
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The attack was reportedly carried out by a Syrian national, which also threatens social cohesion inside Turkey.
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Rising economic inequality is shredding the political norms and social cohesion on which a healthy democracy depends.
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"There usually is a sense of pride, there is usually a sense of social cohesion," he acknowledged.
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The third controversy is not of Australia's making but could damage social cohesion if it is mishandled.
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"It is a city in disarray, where there are no more rules or social cohesion," she added.
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" It added: "Illegal forced evictions are acts of vengeance that are detrimental to national reconciliation and social cohesion.
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"Strict austerity policies do not help if we ignore social cohesion or repercussions on vulnerable groups," Anastasiades said.
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It is that rule, in the minds of these elites, that makes for social cohesion and civic vitality.
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"Excessive inequality could erode social cohesion, lead to political polarization, and ultimately lower economic growth," the report said.
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Memes are a form of social cohesion, a shared agreement about what's funny, what's weird, what's beneath contempt.
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The social cohesion and social trust of where you live is a key to having the good life.
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But if local people can be involved, and profit too, "there's a social cohesion that starts to form".
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"In terms of tension, social cohesion and fractures within society, it's a lot worse now," Berger told Reuters.
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Even among some of the most established democracies like Britain, distrust of institutions is rising, weakening social cohesion.
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These events have an impact on communities, on individuals, on social cohesion, on foreign policy, and so on.
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Social cohesion is "something that has been forgotten in big cities, and we want to reinforce it", he added.
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"(He is) not only a threat to peace and social cohesion, but also to economic development," she had said.
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The free flow of information within and between nation states is essential to business, international relations and social cohesion.
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Besides the economic benefits they produce, savings groups also have benefits for social cohesion, particularly in post-conflict areas.
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National assets—such as the national language, cultural know-how, local attachments and social cohesion—turned into a burden.
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Japan's relative social cohesion helps to curb its appetite for drugs, says Yuko Kawanishi, a sociologist of mental health.
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You can't shred the norms of reciprocity that make social cohesion possible and expect to have a functioning democracy.
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Some further argue that better understanding of different religions helps in the development of social cohesion and opposition to extremism.
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"We need to fight unemployment, guarantee social cohesion and, in the refugee crisis, ensure order and humanity," Mr. Faymann said.
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Saudi authorities brook little public dissent and frequently detain activists on charges of undermining social cohesion and participating in demonstrations.
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Some might argue that the long-term costs of believing fictional stories outweigh any short-term advantages in social cohesion.
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Argenteuil's soccer team was created to help with "social cohesion": It gave young people somewhere to go, something to do.
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However, China will show its resilience in trade and social cohesion as long as the trade war enters a stalemate.
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May's allies maintain that such constraints are essential to maintain the social cohesion of Britain's inner cities in the future.
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We envision a future in which technology is transformative, but not at the expense of our values and social cohesion.
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So we need a president that will support the fundamental ideas of the European Union, which is solidarity, democracy, social cohesion.
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Perhaps it is failing social cohesion of the kind bemoaned in "Bowling Alone", an influential book by American sociologist Robert Putnam.
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According to recent studies in evolutionary science, human beings developed the ability to feel shame because it helped promote social cohesion.
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The Economist: If this is the future of how we consume political ideas, it sounds like a threat to social cohesion.
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Over time, Facebook's algorithm change may be necessary to promote social cohesion and make the internet less exploitative and more meaningful.
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Theresa May on Monday rejected the idea of holding a second Brexit referendum, saying it would threaten "social cohesion" in Britain.
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Such staggering levels of wealth inequality threaten our democracy, compound racial and class divisions, undermine social cohesion, and destabilize our economy.
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The shift is not only straining political and social cohesion, but also threatening the region's postwar principle of peace through prosperity.
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These not only helped the recovery of food production, but catalysed the spread of community organizations and helped restore social cohesion.
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The Swiss government had urged voters to reject the campaign, saying the scheme would cost too much and undermine social cohesion.
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I mean, I care about helping to address these problems of social cohesion and understanding what economic problems people think exist.
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De Maiziere said baring one's face and being able to look other people in the eye was key to ensuring social cohesion.
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I'm curious if you have a view on that and where that's positive versus where that creates a lack of social cohesion.
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Was making art critical to the social cohesion that enabled our early human ancestors to make the transition into the European continent?
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It stems less from worries about the effect of immigration on wages or jobs than from a perceived threat to social cohesion.
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The program – designed to stem retaliatory violence and rebuild social cohesion within communities – cost $28500 million, which directly supported community-led programs.
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Singapore, like many other countries, is trying to deal with the spread of falsehoods online, which can undermine democracy and social cohesion.
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Yet, for all the innovations, Akporiaye says the social cohesion that old tontines offer has restrained his company from starting new ones.
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It's important in the current context of terrorism and risk to our social cohesion to unite all French people around our hymn.
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Durkheim argued that norms, values and rituals were the linchpins of social order; they provided the basis for solidarity and social cohesion.
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In Beirut, gatherings devoted to sharing true stories are promoting tolerance and social cohesion, breaking taboos and allowing marginalised voices to be heard.
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The key is the elevation of "order above law": arguing that maintaining social cohesion and safety is a value above the law itself.
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Voters with poorer health and lower social cohesion, as measured by low expressed willingness to co-operate with others, also favoured Mr Trump.
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Profoundly, these extinct humans buried their dead, a funeral act that anthropologists say is indicative of social cohesion, social roles, and mutual support.
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France, which will let teenagers work in a civil organisation rather than the armed forces if they prefer, hopes to foster social cohesion.
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The government had increased the DSU (urban solidarity and social cohesion budget), he argued, even if it had cut the DPV (cities' budget).
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Connected technologies risk "increasing inequality and decreasing social cohesion", he added — suggesting too that such concerns have the potential to fuel damaging populism.
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Social cohesion began breaking down, drug addiction rates rose, and anger at the elites who were seemingly letting this happen grew and hardened.
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"I hope that the vote today not only promotes respect between different opinions but also brings more social cohesion and peace," she added.
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Jeff Bezos is famous for hating "social cohesion," that tendency people have for finding consensus for no other reason than it feels good.
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This is not a political gift for killing Israelis but a humanitarian act of social cohesion that every country provides for its poor.
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Hate crimes are despicable and destructive acts that not only hurt the immediate victim, but threaten social cohesion, basic security, and democratic ideals.
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Teams of American economists thought that if you privatized property correctly, the law and order and social cohesion would take care of themselves.
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With violence and disorder multiplying in many parts of the world, we must strengthen not only our military defense but our social cohesion.
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And who knows what would happen to productivity and wages, to politics and social cohesion, if immigration took off on an unprecedented scale?
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"The combination of fear of downward mobility, weak safety nets, and eroding social cohesion likely contributes to the high levels of desperation," they suggest.
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Morawiecki told Trwam television on Friday his priorities would be economic development, social cohesion, fighting tax evasion and an improvement of Poland's reputation abroad.
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Above all else, it means promoting national social cohesion: overcoming political and social polarization and rebuilding a sense of shared community and national destiny.
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If we respect AIs as societal equals, it would go a long way in ensuring social cohesion and in upholding a sense of justice.
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The idea is a re-imagining of transport that will limit vehicle traffic, increase pedestrian space and, the city council claims, promote social cohesion.
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All three are "not only a threat to peace and social cohesion, but also to economic development," Gabriel told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper.
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It undermines social cohesion, and, finally, creates the conditions for what the social contract is meant to preclude: a war of all against all.
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The playground was also intended to improve social cohesion in a multicultural and underserved part of London, while also appealing to different age groups.
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These aspects of the Nordic model may sometimes sound socialist, but they have helped to spread wellbeing, improve social mobility and maintain social cohesion.
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In a survey of residents from a Southeastern U.S. city, social cohesion was negatively associated with health impacts of summer heat and winter extremes.
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"I hope that the vote today not only promotes respect between the different opinions but also brings more social cohesion and peace," Merkel said.
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"This trajectory contributes to the recovery of income and the improvement of social cohesion levels," the government said in the plan, seen by Reuters.
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However, managed correctly, there is an argument to say that it could promote social cohesion and help pad out ever-diminishing public funding budgets.
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But amid growing concern about social media's negative impact on social cohesion, that can't be taken for granted any more, and Zuckerberg knows it.
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"The goal of the organization was to shake and eventually destroy the democratic system and social cohesion of the federal republic," the GBA said.
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We are aware of the civil disruption caused when highways, bridges, and pipelines split thriving neighborhoods, resulting in shuttered businesses and disrupted social cohesion.
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They have publicly flagged Russian President Vladimir Putin's objective to undermine the US-led liberal democratic order, along with US institutions and social cohesion.
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Social cohesion is about how much you like the people you work with, and task cohesion is about how well people do their jobs.
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And in Facebook's case the cost is both individual (to your attention and your privacy); and collective (to the public's attention and to social cohesion).
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Today's massive concentrations of wealth also are concentrations of political and economic power, which are disruptive to democracy, social cohesion and economic stability for everyone.
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It's another consideration to bear in mind for those who seek to respect social cohesion as well as the rights and interests of prospective immigrants.
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"We really want to talk about the threat to social cohesion that helps characterize this presidency but also just this era," he said last month.
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That may not be enough to impress the rank-and-file members of the SPD, who care more about issues such as domestic social cohesion.
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They also discussed debt reprofiling, the fiscal impact of the migration crisis, the pension reform bill and how to "maintain social cohesion", the Greek official said.
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In Britain, for example, a recent government report on social cohesion highlighted closed communities of disadvantage where immigrants don't speak English, don't integrate and don't participate.
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But however unconventional to the Western eye, Gacaca was first and foremost involved with justice, and to an extent social cohesion—but not mental health directly.
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Showing how much everyone contributes to the common coffers is meant to increase social cohesion as well as trust in the government and the tax system.
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Across the continent there has been a resurgence of anti-Semitism, which threatens Jewish communities, social cohesion, and regional and transatlantic systems of human rights protections.
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Managing the world's stock of refugees is one thing; dealing with sudden flows from conflict areas that can strain economies, infrastructure and social cohesion is another.
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"Social cohesion" helps drive the creation of small and medium-sized businesses, promotes innovation and research, increases education and skill levels, and boosts inter-regional travel.
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Sociologists who study the Nordic model have found that social cohesion between citizens and the government goes a long way toward ensuring a (mostly) peaceful society.
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In fact, it takes quite a lot more than proximity to create social cohesion — a society that truly reflects the Enlightenment principle of equality for all.
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In that vein, the corps is developing professional military education; leadership is convening focus groups of active-duty Marines to examine gender bias and social cohesion.
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Proponents said the legislation would ensure state religious neutrality, and Quebec's minister of justice, Stéphanie Vallée, who sponsored the bill, said it would foster social cohesion.
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"We often think that things like social cohesion or democracy are just words, but in spaces like these they really come to life," Mr. Laitio said.
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They got along better because a particular set of historical forces and circumstances produced a degree of social cohesion that called on them to cooperate more.
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Nor are related theses about inequality leading to social isolation borne out: Measures of social cohesion and religiousness had no effect on low-income life expectancy.
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She said another referendum would strengthen the hand of those seeking to break up the United Kingdom and could damage social cohesion by undermining faith in democracy.
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Members would be put on regular squads, to create a sense of social cohesion: if you missed your shift, you would know whom you were letting down.
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"The project has been to use art as a medium for social cohesion and so to have contemporary art that is accessible," artistic director Raphael Cruyt said.
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These were issues that the main parties to the conflict had never brought forward but that ultimately contributed to advancing the social cohesion needed to sustain peace.
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What's less clear is whether America can find any political common ground, or even maintain its social cohesion, as that fault line grows more jagged and volatile.
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After all, a diverse set of communities cultivate a sense of social cohesion and community, and also have a habit of collaborating with more fringe YouTube users.
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Progressive on the environment and social cohesion—16 of the 27 commissioners have liberal or leftish political backgrounds—but reactionary on culture-war issues, in other words.
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But in reality, the effect will be to further marginalize immigrants, threatening social cohesion and empowering hateful demagogues who exploit insecurity and alienation to pursue violent agendas.
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It is a fix for a lack of social cohesion, and it&aposs a way to secure economic advancement and global leadership with Chinese Communist Party characteristics.
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Just under a quarter of Australians have a "negative attitude" to Muslims, according to a 2018 report from the Scanlon Foundation, a group that tracks social cohesion.
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Israel's President, Reuven Rivlin, who has spoken often about his wish to see greater social cohesion in Israel, addressed the country's Ethiopian community directly, and appealed for calm.
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"Tours and trips are a fantastic way of increasing the social cohesion within the choir, and the competitive element makes everybody work a bit harder," Mr Sandred notes.
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Even at the level of parishes, where pragmatism and a stress on social cohesion are more evident than among the bishops, the church's political rift can cause friction.
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Interestingly, similar calls made by bottlenose dolphins and orca whales "carry information on group identity" and are used for "maintaining social cohesion," the authors wrote in the study.
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Indeed, our modern reliance on digital infrastructure for information makes trustworthy connection vital not only for democratic governing, but also for the social cohesion that binds a nation.
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It is always harder for women vets who are less likely to experience true social cohesion while serving, and are more likely to deal with harassment or assault.
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And in the case of the unitary executive — where literally or metaphorically, the leader controls all the voting shares — there can be a desire for excessive social cohesion.
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"You cannot legislate for good human behavior; you cannot legislate for social cohesion," said Tusi Fokane, the executive director of the Freedom of Expression Institute, a private organization.
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Migration scholars also point out that social cohesion requires adjustments by both newcomers and long-term residents; white majorities need to assimilate to their own changing country, too.
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The Global Peace Index estimated that the economic cost of violence across the world in 2016 was $14.3 trillion, and research shows education promotes social cohesion and peace.
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"The next several months will be a stress test for Guyana's democratic institutions and social cohesion" said Jason Calder, a former representative of the Carter Center in Guyana.
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He argues that party leaders have to draw the line on issues dear to the heart of the left: Liberals must take seriously Americans' yearning for social cohesion.
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Mr. Geuze's design for the island established a high-water mark for resilient planning, taking into account not just sea rise and storm surges but also social cohesion.
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Chef, social entrepreneur and founder of "Gastromotiva", Hertz has always had a passion for food, believing that it not only provides people with skills but can create social cohesion.
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And the doubly horrifying thing about it is that the GOP's most influential officials have been candid the whole time about the threat he poses to American social cohesion.
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"We live in an era of individualism and personal responsibility, characterized by disinvestment in social safety nets, declines in social cohesion, loss of connections, and increased loneliness," Monnat says.
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"(This) can generate serious problems of social cohesion which in some cases even translates into riots and turmoil," the analysts said, citing a 2010-2011 conflict in Ivory Coast.
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In addition to her English classes, she took a photography course and created portraits on a Galaxy S6 phone for a community project on friendship, migration and social cohesion.
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According to Emma Byrne, the author of "Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language," profanity can ease pain, increase productivity, and help foster social cohesion.
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As Iran's most popular sport, soccer — much like baseball or football in America — unifies Iranians across the ideological spectrum around a common national identity, fostering patriotism and social cohesion.
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At a time when social cohesion and active citizenship is so needed, we view not encouraging media diversity as acting against the public interest and perpetuating a social harm.
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But as festivals around the world attract more and more people, Gael hopes that calls for broader social cohesion—and harm reduction—will prevail in the United States, too.
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"I'm not sure what the cost would be in terms of a fair democratic process and social cohesion if this imbalance would be implemented in the law," said Herrenberg.
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The researchers found limited evidence to support the notion that access to health care, environmental factors, social cohesion, or local labor market conditions drive the gaps in life expectancy.
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In one scenario, Amazon could simply drop another prosperity bomb on these two already-prosperous markets, producing a regressive explosion that heightens inequality, spurs gentrification and diminishes social cohesion.
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In Stockholm, the terrorist started his car in the street where Olof Palme, the Swedish prime minister who embodied an ideal of social cohesion, was assassinated many years before.
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"Migration raises profound issues — around state sovereignty and human rights; around what constitutes voluntary movement; the relationship between development and mobility; and how to support social cohesion," she said.
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The young leaders, ages 15-18, are trained to help create this social cohesion using everything from running soccer tournaments to organizing discussions about the issues that divide their communities.
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During her visit, Mueller met senior officials in the capital, Naypyitaw, including state counselor Aung San Suu Kyi who said she was working towards "development and social cohesion" in Rakhine.
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"There has not yet been enough recognition of the way that a second referendum could damage social cohesion by undermining faith in our democracy," May said, according to The Guardian.
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What unites them is the shared experience of living in a crumbling democracy, where economic chaos, distrust of the established order, and rising violence all work to destroy social cohesion.
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The party leaders agreed their election campaign would focus on domestic and external security, family policy, social cohesion and innovation, though they will only adopt an election program in July.
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Rift in Canada: Election results showed that, as in other Western nations, an urban versus rural split and increasing regionalism have taken hold in a country known for social cohesion.
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Mayo claimed to "discover" something, too—that the management-labor conflict had not been caused by poor conditions and compensation but by a lack of social cohesion in the workplace.
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The sense of social cohesion and sacrifice inspired by the war also underpinned an egalitarian social ethos that supported higher taxes and discouraged titanic profits and pay for chief executives.
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Much of the initial DADT debate was about social cohesion and whether that would break down if gay troops could serve openly, but we now know that that's not true.
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The result: China's "lost generation" who squandered their best years in the countryside -- and a scarred nation that would see its talent pool and social cohesion suffer for years to come.
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"Whether Donald Trump, Marine le Pen or Geert Wilders — all these right-wing populists are not only a threat to peace and social cohesion, but also to economic development," he said.
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Yet what is striking today is that though Mr. Powell was cast into the wilderness for his views, arguably his warning about the challenges to social cohesion from immigration was prescient.
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"Berlin is not any old city - Berlin is the city that transformed itself from the capital of Hitler's Nazi Germany into a beacon of freedom, tolerance, diversity and social cohesion," he said.
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Institut du Nouveau Monde, for example, will host presentations and workshops in CEGEPs — pre-university colleges in Quebec — discussing social cohesion, and issues of identity and discrimination, Pamela Daoust told VICE News.
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Those countries' governments must continue to find a way to add those workers to non-farm employment or face a destruction of social cohesion that would threaten their governments' hold on power.
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Christophe Berti, the editor of Le Soir, urged readers to undertake a historical reckoning of the last 40 years, including the conditions that had led to lapses of security and social cohesion.
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Fostering broad-based agricultural prosperity can enhance social cohesion, reduce tensions over rival claims to natural resources and, by creating rural jobs, undercut the recruiting base of violent extremism around the world.
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So even though Facebook aims to promote social cohesion, it's easy to run ads that intend to create social division when companies don't see the data that advertisers bring to the platform.
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"This is a minister who is supposed to strengthen integration and strengthen social cohesion between population groups," said Natasha Al-Hariri, an integration consultant who holds a law degree and is Muslim.
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Just as Friendsgiving has become a phenomenon among urban millennials, friendship networks more broadly have become an increasingly vital part of social cohesion, replacing both extended family structures and traditional organized religious communities.
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According to Daniel Schatz, a visiting fellow at Columbia University, his country's economic success is due to its sound institutions and social cohesion, rather than the welfare state so admired by Mr Sanders.
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If the CAR government does not acknowledge the problem, how can it protect the rights of Muslims, create conditions for a future multi-faith country, or promote social cohesion amongst all CAR citizens?
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While Green bonds initially spearheaded socially responsible investments, the asset class has broadened out in recent times to so-called SRI bonds that finance various projects, ranging from education, healthcare and social cohesion.
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"Shared courtyards and intersecting walkways were designed to encourage social cohesion among the residents," Natasha Egan, executive director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago, writes in a book essay.
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" During Mr. Obama's presidency, his chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities undertook a "Civility Tour" to resist what he called "polarizing attitudes" that "can jeopardize social cohesion and even public safety.
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In a small town, and especially the place up here where the winters are really brutal and there's a real survival aspect to making it through, you have to have that social cohesion.
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It emphasizes the need for social cohesion, a powerful central government, and a strong, independent foreign policy — making it skeptical of both the European Union and the United States' role in continental affairs.
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"After the elections, we need to flee from short-term measures and promote a reformist agenda with a long-term vision, inclusive growth and social cohesion," Santander chairman Ana Botin told shareholders on Friday.
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More from VICE: Unequal communities in the United States experience lower levels of social cohesion, civic engagement, and trust, which has a corrosive effect on the way people act toward their fellow community members.
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Interior Minister Henri Wanzet Linguissara said two individuals on a motorcycle approached revelers attending a concert organized to foster reconciliation and social cohesion late on Saturday night and threw a grenade into the crowd.
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The researchers urge that "policies supporting mental health should be intensified in periods of uncertainty," as events such as Brexit also affect psychological well-being, which in turn impacts economic performance and social cohesion.
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Even if we need to pay some price for deactivating our rational faculties, the advantages of increased social cohesion are often so big that fictional stories routinely triumph over the truth in human history.
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Fortunately, it seems likely (to me, at least) that nations with good health systems, strong social cohesion, and competent leadership will be able to push the curve down into a manageable "hill" distribution instead.
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Even if inequality has not increased as much as some thought, the evidence is clear that reducing inequality would lower death rates, strengthen social cohesion and social mobility, and decrease homicides, incarceration and crime.
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External genitals allow female bonobos, for example, to engage in genito-genital rubbing, in which pairs of females rub their genitals together in a behavior thought to be vital for tension reduction and social cohesion.
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The Routine Activity Theory founders, they argue, since so much violence happens between friends and family inside the home, and because people getting together in public places actually increases (PDF) social cohesion, among other factors.
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The key question is how do you still create enough social cohesion on the level of a country and increasing also on the level of the entire globe in order to tackle our main problems.
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"The application of this cease-fire with good faith will allow for the assurance of the security of people and their property (and) promote social cohesion, the key to peace and stability," Ag Ghali said.
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At a time when many people fear that our digital lives are but echo chambers, engaging in structured deliberations with as broad a public as possible can help build a shared identity and social cohesion.
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Everything standing in the way of scaling Facebook's usage is, under the Zuckerberg regime, collateral damage — hence the old mantra of 'move fast and break things' — whether it's social cohesion, civic values or vulnerable individuals.
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It was only until the emergence of diverse, multi-ethnic empires with populations exceeding a million people that moralizing gods began to appear—a change to religious beliefs that likely worked to ensure social cohesion.
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Errol Mendes, a University of Ottawa law professor and human rights expert, said the 2015 barbaric practices hotline was a "desperate attempt ... that failed miserably" and as a result did limited damage to social cohesion.
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"Whether Donald Trump, Marine le Pen or Geert Wilders — all these right-wing populists are not only a threat to peace and social cohesion, but also to economic development," Germany's Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said.
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In the Seine-Maritime department in Normandy, Chantal Nallet, sports advisor at the Regional Directorate of Young People, Sport and Social Cohesion of Normandy, is trying to tackle homophobia and sexual violence, amongst other things.
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Weaker social cohesion and higher crime rates in dense urban areas increase psychotic symptoms in children, including hearing or seeing things that others do not, found a 2016 study published by U.S.-based Duke University.
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Lam delivered her speech in Mandarin, the national language of China, but she spoke briefly in Cantonese, the mother tongue of most Hong Kong residents, to read the lyrics of a song about social cohesion.
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But I do wonder if, in a time of encroaching breaches of cultural norms and social cohesion, it was a quiet statement consciously made by a man who truly understands what Scouting is all about.
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We will be suspect to Russian active measures designed to discredit our system of government and social cohesion only if we fail to recognize it as the dangerous threat it really is to our democracy.
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The OECD deputy secretary-general said that for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to achieve its 2021 goal of social cohesion, getting women and youth to trust institutions and be involved in policy conversations was crucial.
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May, once a reluctant supporter of EU membership who won the top job in the turmoil following the 2016 Brexit referendum, has warned thwarting that vote will threaten social cohesion by undermining belief in British democracy.
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" Greater Germany has been explicitly critical, with German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel saying Trump offers "a way back into a fairytale world" and is "a threat to peace and social cohesion, but also to economic development.
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The Economist: I want to probe more about social infrastructure's answer to populism, authoritarianism, post-truth and the open society—not simply social cohesion, which is its first-order effect... There is something far deeper here.
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A few massively powerful tech platforms controlling so much public debate is not just terrible news for social cohesion and media pluralism, given their algorithms have no interest in sifting fake from real news (au contraire).
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As for China, it remains unclear how much digital intrusion people there will tolerate in the name of efficiency and social cohesion—to say nothing of people in other countries that are tempted by Beijing's model.
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"At the end of this legislative period, I would like people to conclude that our society has become more humane, that divisions and polarization were reduced and perhaps even overcome, and social cohesion increased," Merkel said.
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She refused to rule out a no-deal Brexit, warning that another referendum would strengthen the hand of those seeking to break up the United Kingdom and could damage social cohesion by undermining faith in democracy.
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If you're a Democratic politician who believes believe that immigrants depress native-born wages, or undermine the social cohesion necessary to maintain liberal democracy, then you're probably willing to gamble that all the research is wrong.
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The 12 had faced a "war council" after being associated with opposition to the 1973 coup by General Augusto Pinochet, an event that still has repercussions in politics, law and social cohesion in Chile four decades later.
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Pascal Affi N'Guessan, leader of Gbagbo's Ivorian Popular Front (FPI), confirmed on Saturday that the four men had returned by plane late on Thursday and met Defence Minister Alain Donwahi and Minister for Social Cohesion Mariatou Kone.
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"Cities must meet the crisis head on, and seize this critical opportunity to become more resilient by implementing creative solutions that uplift struggling populations and build greater social cohesion," said Michael Berkowitz, 100RC president, in a statement.
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"The project is being carefully prepared so that it does not reinforce or perpetuate movement restrictions or other forms of segregation, and that it creates new openings for social cohesion and positive exchanges between communities," it said.
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They need to revisit their curricula and promote — with the same messianic zeal that they promoted shareholders value — social cohesion by reducing income equality and including the interests of all who have a stake in the company.
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First, the accelerated decline of political parties and other institutional forms of engagement; second, the weakness of the legislative branches; third, the loss of a sense of social cohesion; and fourth, the decline in democratic state competence.
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It describes the deep-rooted fears of Rakhine Buddhists of losing resources and status to the Rohingyas, the collapse of social cohesion in Rakhine and the systematic dehumanisation of the Rohingyas, whom most Burmese regard as Bengali immigrants.
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These changes will do nothing to help France fight terrorism — it already has sweeping counterterrorism laws — and may do permanent damage to the very things the Islamic State wishes to destroy: France's democratic freedoms and its social cohesion.
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In " Black Mirror ," the anthology show set in the near future, A.I. tech that's intended to amplify laudable human desires, such as the wish for perfect memory or social cohesion, invariably frog-marches us toward conformity or fascism.
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The decision, by a chamber of seven judges, did not dispute that the denial of the parents' request interfered with their religious freedom, but it emphasized that the need for social cohesion and integration trumped the family's wishes.
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President Trump once publicly called Brussels "a hellhole," but the city has shown resilience over the last year, even as the scars from the attacks exposed endemic weaknesses in Belgian law enforcement and a lack of social cohesion.
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Mr. Homoki's rejection of allegory is unusual for "Lohengrin," an opera whose questions of faith, trust and social cohesion have often lent themselves to fanciful interpretations, like Hans Neuenfels's mouse-themed production for the Bayreuth Festival in Germany.
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"The threat, I would argue, has got to be measured not only in the number of lives but in the risk that it poses to our economy, our social cohesion, our international presence, and our leadership," she says.
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Researchers like Cole think there could have been a social benefit to the practice: Some cultures may have honored the dead by eating a mouthful of their flesh to carry their soul forward—a key to maintaining social cohesion.
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Hungary, like many other European countries, especially in the formerly communist east, is struggling with a sharply declining birth rate but is reluctant to take in more immigrants, fearing they will dilute its distinctive culture and undermine social cohesion.
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Even VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, the largest integrated healthcare organization in the Department of Veterans Affairs, has begun offering Dance for Veterans, a program that includes movement, creativity, social cohesion and relaxation to treat veterans with PTSD.
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Citizenship tests were introduced in 2011 because of a realisation by the then Labour government that the laissez-faire approach to immigration and ethnocultural diversity had not necessarily led to the integration and social cohesion that had been expected.
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The 11 Lichtenstein-like lacquer carvings represent Tsai's ideas about the essence of The Harmonious Society from which the show gets its name—a Chinese government's vision for the country's future socioeconomic development based on stability and social cohesion.
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The issues that the women's coalition brought forward in the peace process, including education and mixed housing, had previously gone unaddressed by the main parties to the conflict, but have ultimately proved to be fundamental to promoting social cohesion.
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If the economy were to substantially slip, we would not only lose significant gains that have accrued to the American worker, but also risk jeopardizing the very stability and social cohesion that allows public authorities to do their job.
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Creating jobs for Americans struggling in a global economy would improve the lives of millions of families, increase social cohesion and grow our economy by bolstering consumer resources and helping businesses get goods to market on high quality infrastructure.
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Following SXSL, we asked David Adjaye why he thinks public spaces like the William O. Lockridge Library are so important to the growth of a society or culture, and whether social cohesion is something he strives for in his work.
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They argue, for instance, that "social cohesion is reduced in more unequal societies", noting that higher inequality is associated with less willingness to help others, diminished levels of trust, and lower participation in civic groups, from recreational clubs to unions.
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"Whether Donald Trump, Marine le Pen or Geert Wilders - all these right-wing populists are not only a threat to peace and social cohesion, but also to economic development," Gabriel told Welt am Sonntag newspaper in an interview published on Sunday.
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With so many Islamic teachers and clerics whose roots and ethos are far from western Europe, they fear for social cohesion; at worst they see fertile soil for terrorism, although the internet probably inspires more extremists than any mosque or school.
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The Urban Institute found that initiatives like Cities of Service's Love Your Block neighborhood revitalization program can strengthen social cohesion among participants, and boost the social capital of program leaders—both within their communities as well as with city officials.
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"Whether Donald Trump, Marine Le Pen or Geert Wilders — all these right-wing populists are not only a threat to peace and social cohesion, but also to economic development," Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel of Germany told the newspaper Welt am Sonntag.
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Not only would these spaces be designed to improve social cohesion by providing a safe space for residents to gather in hot weather, they also draw in heat from the surrounding environment, cooling down the lower floors of nearby buildings.
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The other dimension of the new urban crisis that is not just the decline of the middle class but the decline of those middle-class neighborhoods that were the platforms for upward mobility and social cohesion and the American dream.
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We believe that in today's world, business leaders can and should actively strengthen connections between receiving communities and newcomers — not only because it's the right thing to do, but because the prosperity and social cohesion of our global communities demand it.
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A study conducted by the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center and the Associated Press showed that residents of neighborhoods with low levels of social cohesion—as measured by how much people said they trusted their neighbors—reported longer recovery times.
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In truth, social media is not a telescopic lens — as the telephone actually was — but an opinion-fracturing prism that shatters social cohesion by replacing a shared public sphere and its dynamically overlapping discourse with a wall of increasingly concentrated filter bubbles.
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For Lee, whose son, Lee Hsien Loong, is now prime minister, the answer to social cohesion lay in creating a culture of meritocracy, rather than adopting policies of positive discrimination to boost the chances of advancement for Singapore's Malay and Indian minorities.
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" In addition, Elibiary said that when this demographic "is past their college years and more established in their career, they tend to understand that there are economic stagnation subcurrents to social cohesion issues like the Islamophobia in the political sphere we see today.
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The Paris Principles assert that resolving the fate of missing and disappeared persons and protecting persons against disappearance are integral to fulfilling the responsibility of states to support peace, reconciliation and social cohesion, and they are key elements in upholding basic human rights.
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"We can no longer afford to put the prosperity of future generations at risk with such an outdated infrastructure and underfunded education system," Hoffmann said, adding that more public investment would also strengthen social cohesion and promote equal living conditions across the country.
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What is so shocking is that Mr. Trump, who has more than 43 million Twitter followers, should so casually proliferate content tweeted by an organization that actively subverts the social cohesion of a country that is, at least notionally, America's closest ally.
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They also weren't able to demonstrate that factors in the physical environment (such as air pollution) in poorer areas might be shortening people's lives, or that the unequal life spans were related to a lack of social cohesion or local labor market conditions.
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Or you could step inside and find a man named Rick Patel, who has owned and run Ohm for 25 years, and a group of regulars who come for a social cohesion sometimes lost in the swirl of change in the neighborhood.
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This is the first step in the process of repatriation after the UN in June signed a "Memorandum of Understanding" with Myanmar in which the government agreed "to create the conditions for safe, voluntary and sustainable return while fostering social cohesion," McDonnell said.
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He has theorized that "group size" of both humans and nonhuman primates — the number of people (or, say, chimpanzees) one can maintain social cohesion with — correlates to "relative neocortical volume," or the ratio of the neocortex to the rest of the brain.
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As we invest in humanitarian aid, the question that needs to remain central at each step is what can be done now to plant the seeds of full recovery and social cohesion in societies that are in the midst of protracted, violent conflicts.
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They planned to meet with representatives from the OM Group, Our Minds Matter (OMM), Luton Council of Faiths and Grassroots, groups which are working together to raise awareness and address stigma in the field of mental health among faith groups and encourage social cohesion.
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If we allow social consensus to be edited out by a tiny number of massively dominate content distribution platforms which are algorithmically bent on accelerating a kind of totalitarian individualism, the existential question that raises is how can we hope to maintain social cohesion?
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The presidential election of 2016 revived the debate about the merits of universal programs and the risks of targeted policy: Universal programs are not only resilient, the argument goes, but can create social cohesion, a sense of shared purpose, and political benefits for their advocates.
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BERLIN, June 30 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday she voted against legalising gay marriage given her personal view that marriage should be between a man and a woman, but she hoped parliament's approval of the measure would lead to more social cohesion.
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But recent layoffs of some state employees and petrol price increases - reforms hastened by the sinking energy market - have refocused attention on indebtedness and the problems it could present to social cohesion if citizens start to press their relatives and the government heavily for help.
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He has suggested that mass immigration reduces social cohesion and civic trust, and once wrote an entire column about how much he missed the heyday of the WASPs — that is, the days before women and people of color were allowed to equally participate in society.
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The change can be traced to the neoconservative elements of the counter-jihad movement: It was successful lobbying by Policy Exchange and the Centre for Social Cohesion (now part of the Henry Jackson Society), both widely regarded as neoconservative think tanks, that secured it.
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Second, targeting categories — and the advertising auctions and algorithms that deliver ads based on those categories — should not make it easy for advertisers to undermine the platforms' own stated goals, whether it is Facebook's desire for social cohesion or Twitter's goal of healthy discourse.
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Miners and autoworkers, laborers in the clothing and electrical and transportation industries, had a social cohesion based on the fact that they worked and sweated and lived and suffered together, creating a tangible product that seemed to them imbued with national, even world-historical, significance.
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David Rodriguez, commander of U.S. Africa Command, describes it as a failed state that has become a way station for foreign fighters, weapons and illegal migrants that is feeding instability in Syria and Iraq and lacks the government institutions or social cohesion that would help stabilize it.
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In his latest book, "The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust" (MIT Press, 2018), Mr Werbach explains how, far from being a radical technology that makes government obsolete, the blockchain relies on the social cohesion, political stability and rule of law that governments often provide.
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"We believe that when economic development benefits all groups in society, then that will by itself contribute to stability and social cohesion," Ulrich Zachau, the bank's director for Southeast Asia, told journalists at the launch of a report on getting Thailand's economic growth back on track.
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More than 1.6 million migrants, many from the Middle East, have arrived in Germany since 2014, prompting concerns about social cohesion and security, and boosting support for the far-right Alternative for Germany, which entered the national parliament for the first time in last year's election.
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It's easy to have nostalgia for an older period of relative wealth and social cohesion (for white families, at least), when one wage was enough for a single family, when families did not have to outsource childrearing to undocumented laborers, and when abortions were less common.
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And yet, as with other politicians, religious political actors are also judged by their ability to adopt economic and ethical, political policies that prioritize social cohesion, reconciliation, fair property rights, access to healthcare, and the operation of local municipalities to ensure security, education, and transparent governance.
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"With the prospect of boat movements increasing following the end of the monsoon season, it is increasingly urgent for the authorities to take measures to address the root causes of displacement...and create conditions which foster social cohesion and economic opportunities for all communities," the spokeswoman said.
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We might have also revered, had we known more about him, South Korea's technocratic despot Park Chung-hee, who accomplished economic goals with the help of highly trained managers, and who also appeared to reduce inequality and build what we in India sorely lacked: social cohesion.
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Alexander Burns: This is the big idea behind Mr. Buttigieg's campaign, that there is an intellectual and social cohesion to the population of voters under 40, and that only a person who shares their experiences and mind-set can address the problems common to this group.
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He is widely credited for his theory on the cyclical nature of empires in which "asabiyyah", social cohesion or tribalism, plays a role in bringing groups to power and then tearing them apart—a phenomenon that was true in the 191971th century and remains true in modern party politics.
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The populist AfD — Alternative for Deutschland —is now in the German Bundestag with more than 12 percent of last Sunday's national vote in part because mainstream parties and elites have failed to tackle sensitive, yet vitally important questions ordinary citizens have about about security, values, and social cohesion.
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"With a large proportion of young people not having any defined role in society, there is a high risk of social cohesion and of trust in public institutions being undermined, with harm for medium-term growth prospects," he said in a speech that did not discuss current monetary policy.
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The scholars pointed to breakdowns in social cohesion (meaning citizens are more fragmented than ever), the rise of tribalism, the erosion of democratic norms such as a commitment to rule of law, and a loss of faith in the electoral and economic systems as clear signs of democratic erosion.
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The release of the two reports and the interview with Toubon — who describes his role as defending civil liberties "with a view to maintaining social cohesion and a balance between security and freedom" — coincide the government's announcement that it would seek to extend the state of emergency by three months.
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"We found that the addition of taurine, an ingredient in many 'energy' drinks, appears to exacerbate risky choices in zebrafish, as well as reducing their social cohesion," Dr. Matt Parker, a co-author of the study and a Senior Lecturer in Behavioral Pharmacology and Molecular Neuroscience at the University of Portsmouth, told ScienceDaily.
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It said the pope had urged Maduro to "courageously take up the path of sincere and constructive dialogue to alleviate the suffering of the people, most of all the poor, and to promote a climate of renewed social cohesion, which will allow people to look to the future of the nation with hope".
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" "In the same spirit, the government will continue to ensure the protection of the people, to recreate the conditions of true social cohesion and to promote national reconciliation," it added, saying the "government condemns with the utmost severity this heinous act and expresses its compassion to the families of the innocent victims.
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And I think it's about time to send a very clear signal to the Greek population and also to the international markets that we are committed to an aggressive reform programme that we want to unleash the forces of entrepreneurship in Greece, we want to support private investment while at the same time obtaining social cohesion.
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Sovereignists, represented by populist parties in the West and several of the governments of the East, pine for the late 19th or early 20th centuries, the golden age of the nation state (if ever such a golden time really existed for small European nations), when governments guarded their borders, managed their economies and enforced social cohesion.
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"We are saying that the church wishes to be present in the digital sphere, and the same force for social cohesion which it strives to be in the real world, and we want to work alongside social media companies in their work to make social media a safe and enlightening space for all," said John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York.
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The full results were as follows: EMPLOYMENT (includes unemployment, youth employment, job security): 25 INTEGRITY (includes corruption, honesty, confidence): 19 PURCHASING POWER (includes economy/economic growth): 10 SOCIAL WELFARE (includes health, retirement): 7 SECURITY (includes terrorism): 7 INTEGRATION (includes discrimination): 2 OTHER (includes peace, uncertainty, youth, solidarity, hope, behavior, social cohesion, public sector): 12 Writing By Marie-Louise Gumuchian; editing by Richard Lough
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The purpose of the program — the universal national service — is to "encourage the participation and commitment of every young person in the life of the nation, to value citizenship and the feeling of belonging to a community gathered around its values, to strengthen social cohesion and boost the republican melting pot," according to a statement released by the Elysee Palace and reported by CNN.
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While introducing these varied perspectives and noting the insights that many can offer, Konner reminds the reader that people, even within the same culture or, indeed, within the same family, respond to situations differently, complicating any attempt to generalize about what one might say about any specific "human need" for religion — whether for psychological reassurance, social cohesion or any other of the most obvious answers.
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All told, the 2010s, despite considerable economic positives and transformational technological advances, might be summarized from a Western prospective as a decade characterized by a weakening of collective wellbeing and common values because of excessive focus on short-term political and nationalistic considerations, and a weakening of American and Western leadership, social cohesion and resiliency — all with profound foreign policy and national security implications.
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These high-density areas create greater social cohesion and bring more economic and environmental benefits, said Anjali Mahendra, research director at the World Resources Institute's Ross Center for Sustainable Cities in Washington, D.C. What stops such areas from becoming overcrowded environments where disease transmission can be high is the availability of good quality physical infrastructure, with planning standards that promote liveability for all, she said.
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The Facebook founder is fighting because he knows his platform is a targeted attack; On individual attention, via privacy-hostile behaviorally targeted ads (his euphemism for this is "relevant ads"); on social cohesion, via divisive algorithms that drive outrage in order to maximize platform engagement; and on democratic institutions and norms, by systematically eroding consensus and the potential for compromise between the different groups that every society is comprised of.
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In last week's wordy essay — in which Zuckerberg generally tries to promote the grandiose notion that Facebook's future role is to be the glue holding the fabric of global society together, even as he fails to flag the obvious paradox: that technology which helps amplify misinformation and prejudice might not be so great for social cohesion after all — the Facebook CEO sketches out an impending change to community standards that will see the site actively ask users to set a 'personal tolerance threshold' for viewing various types of less-than-vanilla content.
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