The intersection between mindfulness and human rights:The case of Falun Gong and its implications for social work
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The author reports on a qualitative study conducted with Falun Gong practitioners in Canada, and explores how a mindful meditative practice can facilitate peaceful resistance to global human rights violations. Falun Gong is a Chinese traditional meditative practice rooted in Buddhist and Daoist philosophies. The Falun Gong experience illuminates a global peace praxis that harmonizes an inward spiritual focus with an outward social action that integrates ethics, morality, and inner transformation in a collective manner through mindful meditative practice. Articulating a few lessons learned from the research, the author discusses how the mindful meditative practice of Falun Gong and practitioners’ peaceful resistance can help to expand social work’s engagement in the protection of human rights of people of faith on a global scale. The Chinese traditional mindful meditative practice of Falun Gong can help integrate personal, collective, and social transformation to uphold justice and to protect the human rights of all people of faith, which has implications for social work.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.037 | 0.047 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".