Human rights lawyer Theresa Comodini Cachia yesterday invited fellow graduands to develop a little rebel in themselves.
“Maybe I am a rebel at heart and that is why I enjoy my work in the field of human rights,” she said about her research during this year’s fourth graduation ceremony at the Jesuits’ Church in Valletta.
Human rights reflect the most fundamental needs that citizens should enjoy to lead a dignified life, and a passion for human rights is “nothing more than a passion to protect the dignity of every human being”, she said, adding that authority needed to be checked against arbitrariness.
Rev. Dr Mark Sultana, from the Faculty of Theology, who also addressed the graduands, questioned the role of university.
In his concluding remarks, he said university was called to be a place of hope, nurturing and encouraging the search for meaning, truth, knowledge, freedom and rational articulation.
“These vital facets of human life are never simply achieved but are always to be sought and striven for. In this light, the university is called to become more and more epistemologically generous and imaginative.
“It is called to allow members of society to develop the competences to live purposefully in this complex world.”
Faculty of Laws
Master of Arts in Law
Sponsor: Prof. Kevin Aquilina
Aaron Bugeja and Silvana Zammit.
Master of Arts in
Financial Services
Sponsor: Prof. Kevin Aquilina
Mark Abela, Pauline Attard, Joseph Richard Azzopardi, Clint Bennetti, Katrina Buhagiar, Natasha Cachia, Sarah Casolani, Caroline Ciappara, Adrian Galea, Alison Mallia Borg, Dean Micallef, David Sammut, Jonathan Sammut, Ruth Sammut, Lucio Sciriha, Francesco Sultana and Keith Paul Tanti.
Master of Arts in Human Rights and Democratisation
Sponsor: Prof. Kevin Aquilina
Clinton Camilleri, Miriam Carabott and Solange Vella.
Master of Philosophy
Sponsor: Prof. Kevin Aquilina
Philip Magri
Faculty of Theology
Master of Arts in Theology
Sponsor: Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Agius
Angelo Buttigieg, Carmen Mangion and Rita Petrocochino.
Master of Arts in Spirituality
Sponsor: Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Agius
Joseph D’emanuele, Mario Gerada and Mary Grace Jones.
Master of Arts in Spiritual Companionship
Sponsor: Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Agius
Anthony Agius, Emanuel Cilia, Reuben Gauci and Desmond Sant.
Master of Arts in Bioethics
Sponsor: Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Agius
Jonathan Attard and Hermann Borg Xuereb.
Master of Arts in Youth Ministry
Sponsor: Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Agius
David Callaby Floridia, Lorna Flask Camenzuli, Ian Galea, Anthony Mifsud, Graziana Sciberras and Noel Zammit Pawley.
Master of Arts in Family Ministry
Sponsor: Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Agius
Leslie Caruana, Christine Galea, Moira Galea, Alfred Gatt and Antoinette Laferla.
Master of Arts in Matrimonial Canon Law and Jurisprudence
Sponsor: Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Agius
Graziella Abela Gatt, Paul Borg, Audrey Marlene Buttigieg Vella*, Mario Calleja, Maria Carmen Farrugia, Ingrid Fenech, Maria Annunziata Grech, Ann Marie Mangion, Deborah Mercieca, Denise Muscat and Danielle Pace Grima.
Licentiate in Sacred Theology
Sponsor: Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Agius
Malcolm Agius and Noel Borg.
Institute for European
Studies Master of Arts in
European Studies
Sponsor: Prof. Roderick Pace
Feras Al Ali, Rachel Bartolo, Rhys Lee Buttigieg*, Juliet Calleja, Massimo Costa, Sean George Cutajar, Sharon Farrugia, Sarah Grima, Petya Marielova Balchiklieva, Mark Seychell and Jessica Zammit.
Edward De Bono Institute for
the Design and Development
of Thinking
Master in Creativity and
Innovation
Sponsor: Dr Sandra Dingli
Peters Anayo Anyanwu, Zhonghu Ban, Joanna Borg, Luke Borg, Rachel Cassar, Stephanie Dalli, Audrey Harrison, Sophie Jozwik, Kanika Karvinkop, Jeffrey Romano, C.V. Sarath and Christine Xuereb Seidu.
Master of Science in Strategic Innovation and Future Creation
Sponsor: Dr Sandra Dingli
Andrea Agius, James Buhagiar and Chantal Sciberras*
Faculty of Laws
Doctor of Philosophy
Sponsor: Prof. Kevin Aquilina
Theresa Comodini Cachia
Faculty of Theology
Doctor of Philosophy
Sponsor: Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Agius
Edgar Vella
*In absentia