World Suffering Archive

A New Framework for Suffering-Alleviation

Ron Anderson | 2017-07-08

Society’s institutions to address major world suffering can be divided into four social sectors: humanitarian, social policy, informal caregiving, and the spiritual. Each social sector has suffering-alleviation

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Politics Paves Path to Bullying World

Ron Anderson | 2017-03-09

Bullying in general means intimidating or overpowering someone weaker. Racial bullying refers to bullying based on race or country-based discrimination, which is called xenophobia. Bullying severity ranges from

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Suffering of the Poor

Ron Anderson | 2014-06-08

Suffering in Word Pictures: While we generally associate extreme poverty with other parts of the world, it can be found in tragic proportions in wealthy countries, especially the

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Violence of Men against Women: A Top Cause of Human Suffering

Ron Anderson | 2013-11-02

Contemporary human suffering is the focus of Independent Lens PBS film documentary, Half the Sky, named after the book by Kris Kristof and Wu Dunn. This documentary aired on

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Why do we often fail to fund adequate disaster relief?

Ron Anderson | 2010-07-17

“The worst disaster ever seen,” said the UN Secretary General today in describing the Pakistan floods in the summer of 2010. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has seen