Civil Society

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• A Facebook Group Takes On Marriage (and God) in the Middle East

  
  gnovis - Georgetown University's Journal of Communication, Culture & Technology (CCT) — Authority: 126
  “We are witnessing a fundamental change in how individuals can interact with their democracy and experience their role as citizens.  Ideal citizens need not be seen purely as trying to inform themselves about what others have found, so that they can vote intelligently.  They need not be limited to reading the ...
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• Iraqi civil society network recognized

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 435
  The Iraqi nonviolence network La’Onf has been awarded the 2009 Rights & Democracy’s John Humphrey Award in appreciation of its work to promote peaceful and non-violent political alternatives for Iraqis.Formed in 2006, La’Onf is a network of 120 civil society groups from every region, including a number of ...
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• France in Africa: business trumps democracy?

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 435
  If it is the case that the US and Europe are finally converging on democracy support, some had better tell the French, at least if Francophone African democracy advocates are to be believed.“As democracy slips in country after country in the region, France often quietly sides, once again, with the once-and-future ...
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• The new rules of customer engagement

  
  SMLXL - Engagement Marketing and Communication principles from Alan Moore — Authority: 468
  I have been asked to make a presentation about the New Rules of Customer Engagement Monday 16th November organised by Canvas8 and takes place in the offices of the architects BDP. You can find out more information here. Also on the bench are Professor Michael Solomon : Michael will be flying in from ...
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• Problems with capitalism

  
  Teaching Comparative — Authority: 126
  About ten years ago, the joke about the Russian economy was that it took 75 years to discover that communism didnt work, but it only took 10 years to discover that capitalism didnt work. We all know that the second experiment is an ongoing project. The transition to a market economy in Russia is filled with thousands ...
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• The Future of Social-Democracy: Green, Global, and Bottom-Up

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 135
  So says one of my favorite thinkers, Mary Kaldor : Social Democracy and Human Security | Social Europe Journal via kwout And here is a fairly long but very interesting video featuring Prof. Kaldor
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• United Nations Development Programme to Honor Outstanding Zimbabwe Volunteer

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 156
  The United Nations will in December honor an outstanding Zimbabwean organization or individual who has excelled in voluntary community work during 2009 with an award. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said the winner of the Zimbabwe National Volunteer Award would be revealed during a ceremony to ...
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• Another Weak Case for Staying in Afghanistan

  
  The Beacon — Authority: 617
  Women’s rights were always a main argument behind invading and occupying Afghanistan. Now Malalai Joya , a female member of the Afghan Parliament, has called on Obama to withdraw: Eight years ago, women’s rights were used as one of the excuses to start this war. But today, Afghanistan is still facing ...
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• Democracy jobs

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 435
  Program Assistant for Middle East and North Africa- National Endowment for DemocracyThe National Endowment for Democracy is searching for a Program Assistant for Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to be based in Washington, D.C.To Apply: Applicants should send a resume, cover letter and salary requirements to ...
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• Monitoring Arab reform

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 435
  Egypt’s Islamist opposition is facing leadership challenges, writes Ibrahim el Houdaiby. Increasingly influential Salafist/Qutbi forces are striving to marginalize relatively moderate figures like Essam el-Erian and Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh.Obsessed with efforts to engineer Gamal Mubarak’s succession to his ...
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• Events

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 435
  November 16, 2009. U.S. Private and Non-U.S. Funding of Media Development, featuring: Anne Nelson, Author, Experimentation and Evolution in Private U.S. Funding of Media Development; Mary Myers, Author, Funding for Media Development by Major Donors Outside the United States. With comments by: Marjorie Rouse, Internews ...
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• Transparency and the web a rolling debate

  
  SMLXL - Engagement Marketing and Communication principles from Alan Moore — Authority: 468
  Lawrence Lessig raises what will be a increasingly intense debate, and the perils of openness in government If health care reform ever emerges from Congress, it is certain to spread nationally a project to require doctors to reveal to an Internet-linked database any financial interests they may have in any drug ...
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• Networked organisations: the starfish revolution

  
  SMLXL - Engagement Marketing and Communication principles from Alan Moore — Authority: 468
  Samples from Smartmobs and orginated by Michael Leeden Several thoughtful people have commented on an unusual element in the Iranian revolutionary movement, aka “The Green Path of Hope.”  Although there is a troika (Mousavi, Karroubi and Khatami) that inspires many of the movement’s participants, there ...
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• Volunteers Help Turkana’s Nomads Grapple With Drought and Illness (Humanitarian News / Merlin-USA / Reuters / Alert News)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 149
  Read at : Humanitarian Newshttp://humanitariannews.org/blog/20091111/volunteers-help-turkanas-nomads-grapple-drought-illnesshttp://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/merlusa/125797032396.htmVolunteers Help Turkana’s Nomads Grapple With Drought and Illness11 Nov 2009 20:06:00 GMTSource: Merlin – USAAlex Cottin, ...
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• Ten Years Ago: “Manufacturing Dissent” in Seattle

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 570
  Ten Years Ago: “Manufacturing Dissent” in Seattle Seattle and Beyond: Disarming the New World Order by Michel Chossudovsky Covert Action Quarterly – 1999-11-24 Author’s Note This article published under the title Seattle and Beyond: Disarming the New World Order was written ten years ago in ...
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• The tenuous link between breaking / b-boying and conflict resolution

  
  The Click Heard Round the World — Authority: 420
  For an upcoming workshop at Global Kids, Ive been doing some investigation into the links between conflict resolution and breaking / b-boying.  The evidence that Ive seen is very thin and unsubstantiated at this point, largely based on a few period dancers recollections and assertions.  Heres some theories: ...
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• Azerbaijan: bloggers’ sentences further proof of backsliding

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 435
  A Baku court today sentenced two opposition bloggers to prison in a case that has highlighted declining media freedoms and curbs on civil society in Azerbaijan. Emin Milli, 30, and Adnan Hajizada, 26, received sentences of two and two-and-a-half years, respectively.The verdict came on the same day as a round table ...
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• Kazakh activists’ prosecution politically-motivated

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 435
  The prosecution of leading Kazakh democracy and human rights activist Yevgeny Zhovtis is politically motivated, new reports suggest.Zhovtis, director of the Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law, a grantee of the National Endowment for Democracy, was sentenced to four years in prison last month for accidentally ...
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• Zimbabwe arrests threaten power-sharing pact?

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 435
  The arrest and detention of Lovemore Matombo, president of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, and three union colleagues highlights the resilience of hard-line security service forces within President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF.The arrests are the latest in a series of attacks on labor, student and other civil ...
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• Classical Liberalism Is All in Our Heads? Responding to Paul Harvey on Race

  
  The Beacon — Authority: 617
  In the current issue of Books & Culture, Professor Paul Harvey (not to be confused with the late radio icon) takes aim at my “imagined” (read: invented) tradition of classical liberalism on race. You can read his full review here . Harvey concedes that Race and Liberty in America rediscovers ...
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