Teaching Global Citizenship - 0 views
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Bill Brydon on 18 Dec 10Pilot education course has undergrads learning in Ghana from U of A alumnus-who happens to be the village chief.
POLITICS: Tibet Critics Focus on Olympics Opening Ceremony - 0 views
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"It is increasingly clear that much of the current wave of repression is occurring not in spite of the Olympics, but actually because of the Olympics," the report said.
Can the community construct knowledge to shape services in the local state? A case stud... - 0 views
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The Labour government's stated commitment to shifting the balance of power to communities, citizens and users has been expressed in numerous initiatives to promote participatory governance in the local state. In this context achieving reliable ways of lea
euforic blog: Global governance between utopia and reality - 0 views
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The magazine 'Global Perspectives' published its March issue under the headline: Global Governance between Utopia and Reality. It was inspired by the conferences series "Global Resource Management: A challenge for peace, development and environment" o
PAKISTAN/US: Elected Gov't Wants War On Terror Reviewed - 0 views
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"The basic issue is that just as the U.S. wants to be safe from terrorism, we don't want to see bombs and missiles falling on our villages, we want our people to be safe and we don't want blood to flow in our streets. Our Parliament is sovereign and it wo
UChannel-Is it Any of Our Business? The Dilemma of Democracy Promotion in the 21st Century - 0 views
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Amb. Jeremy Kinsman, former Canadian ambassador to the EU; Diplomat-in-Residence, Woodrow Wilson School;Amb. Robert Hutchings, Diplomat-in-Residence, Woodrow Wilson School; former...
Civil Society's Role in Conflict Prevention: International Development Research Centre - 0 views
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"We are used to intervening when a crisis has erupted. We do not prepare before with some kind of preventive strategy to stop conflicts from deteriorating. The challenge is to transition from reaction to prevention."
GLOBALISATION: So, Back to Regulation, Then - 0 views
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The financial crisis around the world marks the end of neo-liberal globalisation and the beginning of a new era of regulation of the global economy, political leaders and economists say.
CHILE: Emerging Party Seeks Self-Government for Mapuche People - 0 views
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Wallmapuwen, which means "people of the Mapuche land" in the language of that indigenous group, aims to formally become a political party in July this year in the southern Chilean regions of Araucanía, Los Ríos and Los Lagos. One of its main goals is to
POLITICS-MALAYSIA: Voters Go Secular, Snub Ruling Coalition - 0 views
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the main aim of the opposition parties -- including the People's Justice Party, the Islamic party PAS, and the Democratic Action Party -- to deny the NF (or Barisan Nasional) a two-thirds majority, and thereby block unpopular amendments to the constitutio
Review Essay: Global Governance without Global Government? Habermas on Postnational Dem... - 0 views
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Habermas's starting point is eminently political. Like many other principled democrats, he worries that the ongoing process of globalization threatens popular sovereignty at the local and national levels, where it alone has been more or less successf
Cover story: 'China's new intelligentsia' by Mark Leonard | Prospect Magazine March 200... - 0 views
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Wang Hui is one of the leaders of the new left, a loose grouping of intellectuals who are increasingly capturing the public mood and setting the tone for political debate through their articles in journals such as Dushu. Wang Hui was a student of literatu
POLITICS: Sunni Insurgents Exploit U.S.-Sponsored Militias - 0 views
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The Sunni insurgent strategy of flooding the U.S.-sponsored paramilitary forces with their own fighters appears to make the Sunni insurgency stronger than ever. Far from being a device for "bottom up reconciliation", the Awakening Councils have added powd
RIGHTS-CUBA: Havana Signs Treaties - With Reservations - 0 views
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Although the minister did not clarify what those reservations will be, it could be surmised that they involve certain rights in the political sphere that the Cuban government has denied to political opposition groups on the argument that they are at the s
RIGHTS: Gender Equality Gets a Drop of the Funding Bucket - 0 views
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All of these issues will be debated at a two week session of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) Feb. 25 through Mar. 7, which is expected to draw over 5,000 participants from governments, civil society and international organisations. UN
DEVELOPMENT: Civil Society - Window Dressing for the UN? - 0 views
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Jan Aart Scholte from the School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University, asked if the voices that the civil society groups emphasise so much did not just mean the urban, western-educated elites but included less articulate grass roots groups that remain
The Defense News version | openDemocracy - 0 views
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A study released by the RAND corporation on 11 February 2008 focuses on "Building functioning local governments, improving security and creating jobs..."
Letter of Support for European University at St Petersburg - 0 views
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colleagues at EUSPb have asked us "not to politicize" the situation, in order to avoid creating more problems. Right now time is an issue - this is the middle of the semester at EUSPB, as elsewhere -and we must act quickly. We have written a petit
Russia shuts university that displeased Putin | World news | The Guardian - 0 views
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Academics at the EUSP said the move was politically motivated - and followed a row last year over a programme funded by the European commission to improve the monitoring of Russian elections. The university accepted a three-year, £500,000 EU grant to run
PERU: From Shantytown to Model for Urban Development - 0 views
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Moyano's story was movingly retold by Villa El Salvador Mayor Jaime Zea exactly 16 years later, at the World Conference on the Development of Cities held last week in Porto Alegre in the south of Brazil. http://www.aupeace.org/node/2914 Zea had tak
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