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How should Rwanda remember the genocide?
History & The Arts

How should Rwanda remember the genocide?

...concept of justice than punishing perpetrators. And there is a huge desire for spaces for dialogue about how memories of genocide emerge impact everyday life. These spaces would bring together survivors, perpetrators, returnees, and ordinary citizens. There is also a great desire for knowledge about how to use these memories to seek justice, validation, and promote...
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Article 5 mins
An introduction to public leadership
Money & Business

An introduction to public leadership

...concepts and ideas informed closely by the work of practitioners. It builds on some of the traditional foundations of the study and practice of leadership, such as the development of styles and skills based on well-established theory, while identifying the distinctive features and problems of leading in the public sphere. Chief among these distinctive features are the...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
An introduction to crime and criminology
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to crime and criminology

...concept’...An introduction to crime and criminology: 2.1 Graffiti: crime or free expression? - Graffiti can take many different forms. It can include stencil art, freestyle artistic expression, and tag graffiti (a graffiti writer’s personalised signature). It may be commissioned and legally painted, such as murals, or it may be sprayed illegally on public or private...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?
OpenLearn Ireland

Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?

...concept that is generally accepted, however, when you try to be stick to a strict diet, you ultimately fail and are left back at square one. This impacts negatively on how you feel about yourself and can lead to any subsequent diet failures becoming more difficult to accept. Will one more diet work? Or should you embrace the size that you are? A little bit of brain...
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Article 5 mins
Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...concept, some broad way of understanding parts of the world that are all connected to each other. The discipline of systems thinking, on which many of the ideas in the course rest, is concerned with understanding systems and their nature. A short definition of a system, within the tradition of systems thinking that has long been used at the Open University, is ‘a set of...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Who belongs to Glasgow?
Society, Politics & Law

Who belongs to Glasgow?

...concept...How is your image of a place influenced and changed? Does it depend on whether you are a resident or an outsider? How do government and tourism campaigns and stories in the media affect your perception? This free course, Who belongs to Glasgow?, uses images of Glasgow to explore this multifaceted concept....Who belongs to Glasgow?: Introduction - This course...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Taking your first steps into higher education Badge icon
Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...prompt more people to answer ‘no’ to questions (a) and (c) than will Raphael’s Madonna of the Meadow. The range of answers for the second part of question (c) is likely to be particularly wide. Personally, while I feel that Madonna of the Meadow is quite peaceful and seems to convey a feeling of warmth and tenderness, I find Mother and Child (Divided) to be pretty...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing International Relations

...prompted Western powers to reassess their engagement with the continent. As a result, African countries are strategically playing these partners against each other to extract more benefits. Rwanda, for example, has adeptly managed relations with various partners – including China, the United States and the European Union – to support its ambitious development goals....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs