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...Tamils are clearly not going to be given autonomy over their homeland. But they must be given equal political rights and at least the majority of the say in what goes on where they live. Dr. Amartya Sen has stated that the Sri Lankan government long ago forsook the “richness of plurality” and pushed Tamils to the peripheries of power. They must rediscover that richness and bring them back into the fold. Tamils must be granted the immediate ability to not only non-violently control affairs where they live, but also to have a voice...
...AMARTYA SENGUPTA...
Nobel Prize-winning economist and University Professor Amartya Sen talked with Harvard Medical School professor Dr. Paul Farmer in a conversation moderated by University President Drew G. Faust...
...show students how they can participate in human rights work, according to Cynthia J. Mesh, assistant director of UCHRS. The capstone event will be tomorrow’s ‘Sixty Years of Human Rights: The Idea and the Reality’ panel featuring University Professor Amartya Sen and Medical School Professor Paul Farmer, which is moderated by University President Drew G. Faust. “As Harvard students, we’re in a privileged position to act on behalf of human rights,” said Quinnie Lin ’09, co-president of HCHRA...
...Amartya Sen, the Nobel Prize-winning Harvard professor of economics and philosophy, argued against what he called the mainstream theory of social justice in a talk at Harvard Law School’s Pound Hall yesterday. Sen argued that the transcendental theory of justice, which he attributed to philosophers John Rawls and Robert Nozick, overlooks important aspects of justice by concentrating narrowly on what it would take to have a perfectly just society, rather than on improving existing, imperfect social structures. “Justice-enhancing changes demand comparative assessment, not any immaculate identification of the just society...