The committee is absolutely right to make a connection between respect for human rights and world peace.
It's funny — but it also gets at the intimacy of war, the primordial connection, the need for human contact in the face of death.
As Head of the World Health Organization's Global AIDS Program his advocacy and research on the connection between respect for human rights and vulnerability to HIV greatly influenced the response to HIV/AIDS.
Although its inspiration may be ripped from the headlines, Bill Clegg's beautifully written debut novel, "Did You Ever Have a Family," goes way deeper than lurid banner news accounts to illuminate how grief, guilt, regrets and the deep need for human connection are woven into the very flammable fabric of humanity.
In the end, connection to the past for Mr. Finney's hero, and, one suspects, for many readers, is a metaphor for human connection in general.
So if a character encounters element A and then B, and if B represents pain, that character will prioritize another pathway upon encountering A. Repeated sequences also increase the associative memory and decay if pathways are not routinely connected, which is true for human neural connections as well.
Another reason, according to Wong, the founder and CEO of Vayable, an online sharing portal that pairs travellers with its network of local citizens around the globe offering to experience their destination like a local, is the fact that technology, while connecting individuals online, has ironically left people isolated and given individuals a real need for human connection [29].
Social butterflies have lunched with Saddam Hussein and Michael Jackson, both very much alive and starved for human connection.
Bloom's article is a welcome reminder that we begin life with exquisite tools for human connection and passionate concern.
