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Science and religion have had had a long and complicated global history of engagement. This has been shaped by a combination of factors inherent to the particular areas of scientific and religious activity involved, as well as by the prevailing historical and cultural contexts. In Hong Kong, academic scientists are more religious than the general…

We all think we know what is to be humane until we are challenged. Once we are pushed out of the comfort of our civilised armchairs, our behaviour can be one of hatred, division, violence and the demonisation of our enemies – it can happen in Mong Kok or Syria, on a university campus or…

Want to serve your community?  Dr. Kevin Lau is an active participant of various community services and charity work. He currently serves as a Steering Committee Member of the HKSAR Government Child Development Fund, Member of the HKSAR Government Criminal and Law Enforcement Injuries Compensation Board, Member of the HKSAR Government Industry Training Advisory Committee (Elderly…

Mother Teresa (HKU’93 honorary doctorate Social Sciences), a Catholic nun who devoted her life to helping India’s poor, was arguably the most influential spiritual revolutionary of her time. Canonised by Pope Francis, the “saint of the gutters” served the poor of Calcutta and challenged religious thought of people the world over. Prof Mary Poplin (Claremont…

Michael Schluter has pioneered an international movement, called Relational Thinking, which proposes that organisations and public policy should have as their primary goal harmony across the different interest groups in society. As an economist professionally he recognises the importance of finance to the building of strong and sustainable society. Given the different worldviews which currently create tensions between Hong Kong and the Mainland and within the…

In what MIT Tech Review has called the “biggest biotech discovery of the century,” CRISPR/Cas9 and related techniques promise easy-to-do, inexpensive, and highly precise genetic deletions, insertions, and functional manipulations to basic genetic processes across the full spectrum of living beings. This holds great promise for advances in agriculture, animal studies, and fundamental biomedical research,…

Co-organized by:Faith and Science Collaborative Research Forum (FaSCoRe)Faith and Global Engagement When young children begin to ask ‘why?’ they embark on a journey with no final destination. The need to make sense of the world as a whole is an ultimate curiosity at the root of all human religions. In many cultures this has motivated…

To be human is to be in some way special. Most people would assent to this idea, and yet every aspect of its consideration raises more questions. Are we special because we are human, or are we human because we are special? Is the essence of our humanity founded in our bodies, our brains, our…

The establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 (called by the Arabs “al- naqbe” – the disaster) and the results of the 6-day war in 1967 (called by the Arabs “al-naqse” – the shame) have sharpened the focus of the Jewish-Arab conflict to be on the relationship between Israelis and Palestinians. The tension has…

The Character of Leadership is a collaboration between HKU Faculty of Social Sciences, HKU Faith and Global Engagement, The Oxford Global Leadership Initiative, and The Oxford Character Project, sponsored by Templeton World Charity Foundation.