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[list_item icon=”fa-check-circle” type=”icon”]PAX NATURA[/list_item]
[list_item icon=”fa-check-circle” type=”icon”]PAX SPIRITUS[/list_item]
[list_item icon=”fa-check-circle” type=”icon”]PAX SCIENTIA[/list_item]
[list_item icon=”fa-check-circle” type=”icon”]PAX ECONOMIA[/list_item]
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Communitalism is what Paxafricana.org is all about[/heading]
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When there is an improvement in the material well-being of the community, the health of the members of the community will also improve. This is the essence of community medicine and Communitalism.[/paragraph]
[paragraph extra=””]Unlike biohealth, which tends to focus on disease and neglect the root cause of diseases such as:[/paragraph]
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[list_item icon=”fa-caret-right” type=”icon”]financial inequality[/list_item]
[list_item icon=”fa-caret-right” type=”icon”]unjust wages[/list_item]
[list_item icon=”fa-caret-right” type=”icon”]unfair working conditions[/list_item]
[list_item icon=”fa-caret-right” type=”icon”]dysfunctional literacy etc[/list_item]
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Community medicine adopts an integral approach to health and well-being. Altogether, and integrally as such, thereby embracing worldviews, or realities, from all four corners of the globe
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[tab id=”nat” class=””]PAX NATURA[/tab]
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CommunitalismSpecifically, Communitalism is a theory of interconnectedness of knowledge and action. It states that knowledge is only complete and liberating when it is a combination of PAX NATURA, PAX SPIRITUS, PAX SCIENTIA AND PAX ECONOMIA.
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So in terms of integral research-to-innovation, a truly integral research is well grounded in the SOUTH through community activation, navigating through the EAST through catalyzation of a holistic ecosystem, emancipating and empowering the marginalised through Education (NORTH) and promoting socio-economic development through practical innovative research (WEST).[/tabrow]
[tabrow id=”nat” class=””]PAX NATURA: SOUTH, identified with Africa. Key features are: Indigenous Knowledge, Community activation, Agronomy, connection with the soil, respect and oneness with nature, a “communversity” of life. Orientation is towards NATURE and COMMUNALISM[/tabrow]
[tabrow id=”spi” class=””]PAX SPIRITUS: EAST: Identified mainly with ASIA. Key features are: emphasis on inner peace, wholeness, Culture, inner security, spirituality, higher consciousness, intuition, feelings and emotions as part of human experience. Orientation is towards HOLISM[/tabrow]
[tabrow id=”sci” class=””]PAX SCIENTIA: NORTH: Identified mainly with Europe. Fully in control of advances in scientific theories and social theories. Key features are: political systems, educational and research outputs, and control of world’s economic, political and social systems through colonisation, capitalism, socialism, neo-liberalism, globalisation etc. Orientation is towards RATIONALISM[/tabrow]
[tabrow id=”eco” class=””]PAX ECONOMIA: WEST: identified mainly with America. Known for business, enterprise, entrepreneurship, individual quest for profit and competition. Key features are: Practical application of technology for profit, business management and dollarization of world economy. Orientation is towards PRAGMATISM.[/tabrow]
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