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Ronald (Ron) E AndersonProfessor Emeritus, University of Minnesota |
Contact Info: Phone: (952) 473- 5910 |
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Professional SynopsisSince 2005 I have been emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota
Current ActivitySoon after retiring from teaching, I started work on the analysis of cross-national data on social well-being in affluent societies and constructed the Good Society Index. As a result of my work conceptualizing and measuring compassion, I completed and published a paper entitled Caring Capital. In 2009, I established the Foundation for Compassionate Societies, a 501c3 nonprofit organization, to support my research and the websites. My principal website effort so far has been to build and maintain the website WorldSuffering.org. This site is intended to promote compassion and relief of suffering. Currently it functions as a repository of information, especially short essays about suffering and/or compassion. Springer in early 2015 published my edited book, World Suffering and the Quality of Life. This book of 32 chapters and 439 pages represents the best of contemporary thought and cutting edge research on world suffering. The 45 authors live in 16 countries and represent each major continent. Now I am writing a third book titled Alleviating Suffering, which I am aiming to complete by the end of 2015.
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