Childhood friends. Responsibility to Protect. Aylan Kurdi photo. Lost Gospels.

Concordia faculty and researchers are regularly asked to offer expert, informed opinions on many of today's most pressing problems. Read some of the latest news items about Concordians:

• Psychology professor William Bukowski is quoted in a piece on GlobalNews.ca that offers parents tips on how to help their children build friendships.
• Kyle Matthews, senior deputy director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia, is quoted in an opinion piece in The Kingston Whig-Standard about enforcement of the United Nations 'Responsibility to Protect' doctrine and the possible use of military force to protect civilian populations. 
• The Canadian Press re-posts an article quoting Matthews about Canadian reaction to the publication one year ago of a photo of Aylan Kurdi, a two-year old Syrian boy who drowned during his family's attempt to flee the civil war in their country.
• Iowa State Daily reports on a lecture by André Gagné, associate professor in the Department of Theology, yesterday, at Iowa State University. Gagné spoke about the "lost Gospels" — writings that have been left out of the New Testament.

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