Truth Telling in Peacebuilding: A Buddhist Contribution

Truth telling has been recognized as important in the process of trauma healing and reconciliation according to modern peacebuilding theories. Studies have shown that truth telling is not a simple issue but involves problems and challenges that need research and solutions. This study contributes to this problem-solution or the question “How should difficult and painful truth be told in a way that minimizes harm and maximizes benefit for all?” by offering an alternative knowledge and method rooted in the Buddhist tradition. Based on textual study of the Majjhima Nikaya and Anguttara Nikaya, the paper argues that the Buddha’s teachings can widen the understanding and minimize potential problems with the work of truth telling whether in the collective or interpersonal context by providing a concrete systematic framework and criteria for reflection, making decision and communication of truth.

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Microbulldozing and Microchiseling

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100062580 ◽

1969 ◽

Vol 27 ◽

pp. 134-135

Author(s):

J.N. Ramsey ◽

D.P. Cameron ◽

F.W. Schneider

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽

Material Handling ◽

Microprobe Analysis ◽

Foreign Matter ◽

Specific Location ◽

Potential Problems ◽

Knoop Indenter ◽

Scanning Electron ◽

Microhardness Tester

As computer components become smaller the analytical methods used to examine them and the material handling techniques must become more sensitive, and more sophisticated. We have used microbulldozing and microchiseling in conjunction with scanning electron microscopy, replica electron microscopy, and microprobe analysis for studying actual and potential problems with developmental and pilot line devices. Foreign matter, corrosion, etc, in specific locations are mechanically loosened from their substrates and removed by “extraction replication,” and examined in the appropriate instrument. The mechanical loosening is done in a controlled manner by using a microhardness tester—we use the attachment designed for our Reichert metallograph. The working tool is a pyramid shaped diamond (a Knoop indenter) which can be pushed into the specimen with a controlled pressure and in a specific location.

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In Search of Somatic Precursors of Spontaneous Insight

Journal of Psychophysiology ◽

10.1027/0269-8803/a000188 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 32 (3) ◽

pp. 97-105 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Wangbing Shen ◽

Yuan Yuan ◽

Chaoying Tang ◽

Chunhua Shi ◽

Chang Liu ◽

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Keyword(s):

Problem Solving ◽

Direct Evidence ◽

Electrodermal Activity ◽

Cardiovascular Responses ◽

Solution Time ◽

Problem Solution ◽

Insight Problem ◽

Creative Insight ◽

Insight Problem Solving ◽

Analytic Problem

Abstract. A considerable number of behavioral and neuroscientific studies on insight problem solving have revealed behavioral and neural correlates of the dynamic insight process; however, somatic correlates, particularly somatic precursors of creative insight, remain undetermined. To characterize the somatic precursor of spontaneous insight, 22 healthy volunteers were recruited to solve the compound remote associate (CRA) task in which a problem can be solved by either an insight or an analytic strategy. The participants’ peripheral nervous activities, particularly electrodermal and cardiovascular responses, were continuously monitored and separately measured. The results revealed a greater skin conductance magnitude for insight trials than for non-insight trials in the 4-s time span prior to problem solutions and two marginally significant correlations between pre-solution heart rate variability (HRV) and the solution time of insight trials. Our findings provide the first direct evidence that spontaneous insight in problem solving is a somatically peculiar process that is distinct from the stepwise process of analytic problem solving and can be represented by a special somatic precursor, which is a stronger pre-solution electrodermal activity and a correlation between problem solution time and certain HRV indicators such as the root mean square successive difference (RMSSD).

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