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Mustapha Kara-Ali is a Research Fellow in Science and Religion at Harvard University

Prior to his Research Fellowship appointment at Harvard University, Dr Kara-Ali won the Australian Endeavour Award for his doctorate (2013) on science and religion. His PhD Dissertation has been considered a pioneering study, as it brought together discussions on the three foundational disciplines of epistemology, philosophy of science and religious hermeneutics to study the foundations of the Scientific Revolution.

Mustapha has presented his research in papers at Harvard University, Oxford University, Notre Dame University, Melbourne University, Sydney University, the Lowy Institute for International Policy, and various other government and academic forums and conferences. Prior to his affiliation with Harvard University, Mustapha was associated with the American University of Beirut, the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) and the University of New South Wales (UNSW).

As part of his teaching and community engagement, Dr Kara-Ali founded Diwan Al Dawla as a guild that provides human and spiritual development, as well as, a framework for practice based upon a unitarian epistemology and narrative. Prior to that he led a number of community initiatives in Australia and the Middle East.

Mustapha completed his Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering at the University of New South Wales (Honours class) with a dissertation on human cognitive modelling and Artificial Intelligence, and he was awarded a CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industry Research Organisation) Intern Scholarship.

https://scholar.harvard.edu/mustapha_kara-ali/home

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www.aldawla.org

Symbolism check please….

Read the strategy here, its quite interesting. I highlighted the last bit as i found it worth a thought.

The strategy that Diwan Al Dawla employs to meet its mission is framed within the 3 i’s inform-integrate-inspire. The strategy is centered on the following two broad objectives:

Objective 1To counsel, mentor and inspire individuals in order to enhance their capacity to tackle religious disadvantage by living a spiritual pious life.

Strategy 1

Diwan Al Dawla has developed an educational model that tackles structural religious disadvantage by aiding the process of building communion. By way of mentoring, religious disadvantage can be addressed through a spiritual relationship that is accompanied by a community integration scheme.

The guild's mentoring program involves narratives that aid an individual to lead a spiritual life that is socially detached from secular lifestyles. Such knowledge when accompanied by an active and engaging missionary scheme can empower individuals, particularly youth, by serving as an inspirational force in their lives.

Objective 2To relieve religious disadvantage through the mission of building a free-spirited benevolent enterprise that helps the needy.

Strategy 2

The problem of disengagement and marginalisation targeted by the guild is based on a sense of grievance that is driven by structural religious disadvantage. The risk of disenfranchisement to be alleviated can, therefore, only be eliminated once the vulnerability factors that underpin this form of disadvantage are countered and a corresponding community scheme is put in place.

Diwan Al Dawla aims to achieve this through a spiritual service that provides a social scaffolding that is grounded in an active community framework. An autonomous spiritual approach, when accompanied by a charitable mission, can be a motivational force that engages individuals and inspires them to join the guild's oath of duty and sacrifice.

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Oaths and duty of service??

Need to dig on the CSIRO. IIRC they had a bit to do with mind control (fiona barnett) and their scope encompasses other fields that may ve of interest.

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No environment officials at Turnbull meeting about $443m reef grant to tiny charity

No environment department officials were present at a meeting in which the prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, and the environment minister, Josh Frydenberg, discussed a plan that led to a $443.8m grant to a small Great Barrier Reef charity.

The charity, the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, has also confirmed that its founders were wealthy businessmen and philanthropists with links to the resources industry, and one was a senior public servant in the Bjelke-Petersen government.

In hearings this week for a Senate inquiry examining how the foundation came to be awarded the funds, its managing director, Anna Marsden, said the foundation’s chairman, John Schubert, was informed there would be a budget allocation at a 9 April meeting with Turnbull, Frydenberg and the secretary of the Environment and Energy Department, Finn Pratt.

But in a letter to the inquiry’s committee, Marsden has corrected her statement to say Pratt was not present.

“In the hearing I stated that the secretary of the Department of Environment and Energy, Mr Finn Pratt, attended the meeting with our chair on 9 April 2018. This is incorrect, Mr Pratt was not present in this meeting,” the letter states.

Marsden told the hearing the foundation “did not suggest or make any application for this funding” and was first informed of the plan at the 9 April meeting.

Guardian Australia can also reveal the idea for the foundation was conceived by Sir Sydney Schubert, a Queensland public servant who served as coordinator general under the Bjelke-Petersen Queensland government and was a founding director of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and a chancellor of Bond University. He died in 2015.

A spokesperson for the foundation said: “It is our understanding that Sir Sydney Schubert’s idea for forming the foundation was to create a charity to bring science and business together with a common purpose of protecting the Great Barrier Reef.”

The foundation, which has previously not disclosed who established the charity, confirmed the remaining three founders were its current chairman, John Schubert, John Boyd Reid, who was a chairman of his family’s business James Hardie, and Sir Ian McFarlane, a businessman who sought to develop shale oil projects in Queensland.

Australian Securities and Investments Commission records for the Great Barrier Reef Foundation show it was registered as a company in 1999. Its first four directors were Sir Sydney Schubert, McFarlane, Reid and David Windsor, who was an executive director of the Association of Marine Park Tourism Operators.

“At the Senate inquiry on 30 July, the Great Barrier Reef Foundation was asked about the origin of the foundation. The managing director agreed to make further inquiries,” the foundation spokesperson said.

“Further to these inquiries, it is our understanding that in 1999: an initial meeting to discuss the formation of a charity to assist the Reef was held; those who attended that meeting included Sir Sydney Schubert (a founding director of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority), Sir Ian McFarlane, Mr John B Reid AO and Dr John Schubert AO.”

The spokesperson added that in 1998 “the first severe mass coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef occurred”.

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https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/aug/01/no-environment-officials-at-turnbull-meeting-about-443m-reef-grant-to-tiny-charity