Mois : août 2007

INSNA is the professional association for researchers interested in social network analysis. The association is a non-profit organization incorporated in the state of Delaware. Founded by Barry Wellman in 1978, the current president is Bill Richards, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5A 1S6. A copy of its charter and by-laws are available here.

What is Network Analysis?
Courses in Social Networks and Network Analysis;
Links to Network Researchers’ web sites;
Graduate programs that offer training or emphasis in Social Network Analysis;
different contacts & newsletters.

The principal functions of INSNA are as follows:

• We publish Connections, a bulletin containing news, scholarly articles, technical columns, and abstracts and book reviews:
• We sponsor the annual International Social Networks Conference (also known as Sunbelt);
• We maintain electronic services:
  1. A web site accessible at http://www.insna.org which includes an extensive bibliography of published network-related documents, information about network conferences, an index of websites of numerous network researchers, an extensive directory of and network analysis software, a growing selection of powerpoint presentations and pdf documents, a listing of universities offering network graduate degree programs, syllabi from many courses taught by network researchers, and on-line access to almost all issues of Connections ever published, a link to La revista REDES which publish works of quality in Castilian and Portuguese that include the perspective of the analysis of social networks, and much more,
  2. SOCNET, a ListServ electronic discussion forum, and a link to REDES, a Spanish language network listserve.
• We maintain a database of information on members, selling a mailing list to selected publishers and educator;
• We provide a way to subscribe to the journal of Social Networks, published by Elsevier and edited by Lin Freeman and Ron Breiger.

in the 6 UN languages and german

« We need business to give practical meaning and reach ro the values an principles that connect cultures and people everywhere ». Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Homepage with latest news links;
Sitemap;
How to participate;
Communicating Progress;
Participants & Stakeholders;
Networks around the world;
Issues;
News & Events;
Contact.

About: In an address to the World Economic Forum on 31 January 1999, the former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, challenged business leaders to join an international initiative – the Global Compact – that would bring companies together with UN agencies, labour and civil society to support universal environmental and social principles.

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Linked with Lesley Ann Foster – South Africa.

The MASIMANYANE WOMEN’S SUPPORT CENTRE is a non-profit international women’s organisation based in East London, South Africa. We promote the domestic implementation of international human rights standards by building the capacity of women and human rights advocates to claim and realise women’s human rights. This is done through the development of new knowledge and the utilisation of a rights-based approach.

All pages are inside the same URL, please click on activities, video, events, honorary doctor, links, contact.

OUR HISTORY: Masimanyane started in January 1996 as a crisis and support centre for women victims of domestic violence, rape and sexual assault.

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Linked with C.T. Butler – USA, with Keith McHenry – USA, and with Helping the Homeless – The Right To Food.

The main menu;
Seven steps to organizing a Food Not Bombs chapter in your community;
graphics, flyers, paintings;
Contact: Food Not Bombs, P.O. Box 424, Arroyo Seco, NM 87514, USA, 505-776-3880, 1-800-884-1136, e-mail, Webs.

Cook for Peace: You can make a big difference by having everyone you know send in A DOLLAR FOR PEACE. Food Not Bombs is as busy as ever. We are growing rice and yams in Africa, starting a movement to provide free medical assistance called Healthcare Not Warfare, organizing numerous actions for peace, social justice and animal rights, working for the release of our volunteers who are jailed in the Philippines, help finish our documentary, and most importantly we are feeding thousands of hungry people every week in hundreds of communities all over the world.

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Linked with Svetlana Slapsak – Slovenia.

ProFemina is a quarterly for women’s culture and feminism.

We have formed the Women’s World Organization for Rights, Literature and Development, or Women’s WORLD, because nowhere on earth are women’s voices given the same respect as men’s.

site map:
publications;
archives;
African women’s voices;
regional programs;
for women writers;
links;
The Crisis – open forum;
Contact.

about: We have formed the Women’s World Organization for Rights, Literature, and Development, or Women’s WORLD, because nowhere on earth are women’s voices given the same respect as men’s. In a few countries, a few women are heard some of the time; in most countries, our words are greeted with polite indifference and mere lip service is paid to our concerns; and, in far too many countries, women who try to have a public voice are met with hatred, contempt, suppression, exile, or death.

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(the Ljubljana Graduate School of Humanities, in english, in slovenscina).

Linked with Svetlana Slapsak – Slovenia.

The Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis ISH, the Ljubljana Graduate School of the Humanities was founded in accordance with the national Higher Education Act. The resolution giving consensus for its foundation was adopted on November 24, 1995 by the national Board of Higher Education at its 17th session, in conformity with Article 49 of the Higher Education Act. As an independent organisation, the ISH was entered in the register of higher education institutions at the Ministry of Education and Sport under charter number 601-736/95 … (full text).

Status Sole;
Contact (where we are).

Postgraduate education: Studies comprise of 5 programmes and 3 courses of study divided into modules.

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This Cooperatives are part of ‘Campus Cooperative Development Corporation‘, named inside our post of June 27, 2007: ‘Some alternative economy cooperatives in India‘.

Published on World Prout Assembly (Homepage) by Shrii Prabhat R Sarkar, August 13, 2007.

Providing food, clothing, housing, education and medical treatment is most important for social security. These five minimum requirements are indispensable to raise the living standard of the people. To guarantee these, the principle of production based on consumption has to be adopted. Special emphasis should be placed on agricultural production because the provision of food is of vital importance, and for this the cooperative system should be rapidly expanded.

According to PROUT, too many people should not be engaged in agriculture. Rather, a major part of the population should depend on industry. Not more than thirty to forty-five percent of the population should be employed in the agricultural sector.

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action group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration

The issues: more than two dozens of issues, from BIO… via Erosion/’other new technologies’ to Human Rights.

News;
etcStaff;
etcMaterials;
annual report;
Contact.

etcBlog: … you will find a series of articles on biofuels, originally written in Spanish by one of ETC Group’s researchers. (Unfortunately, English translations are not always available). Biofuel production is currently a much-debated topic in Latin America. The prominent farmers’ organizations in the region believe that the production of biofuels will lead to further marginalization and erosion of the lands which are currently being used for food production.

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Available in 13 languages (left column, scroll down)

Linked with Praful Bidwai – India, and with many other authors.

IPS, the civil society’s leading news agency, is an independent voice from the South and for development, delving into globalisation for the stories underneath.

Headlines;
News Service;
search;
What we do:
Projects & programmes;
Contact.

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Linked with Ronald Inglehart -USA.

… This is a place to learn more about values and cultural changes in societies all over the world.

Notice: all links (like Publications, Conferences, Organization, Online Data Analysis, Network, downloads, Contact etc. etc.) are working inside the same URL.

Yayasan Pengembangan dan Pemberdayaan Masyarakat YPPM

Linked with Hilda Djulaida Rolobessy – Indonesia.

The most potent weapon in the hands of oppressor is the mind of oppressed (Steve Biko)!

Welcome to Indonesian Peacebuilding Directory. This directory is a guide to organizations that work to promote social change and create the conditions and relationships required for peace and justice in Indonesia. The organizations in this directory are divided into three categories: Civil Society Organizations, Training Providers, and Donor and International Organizations. This directory is an on-line version of the first directory, organized by Cordaid and Catholic Relief Service in 2002. This on-line version is organized by CERIC FISIP UI. Simply, just click your left-menu to see the organizations or use « search » menu. If your organization work for peacebuilding, you are welcome to register your organization to this website, please click your right-menu. To update your data, we suggest you to send your updated data to ceric@cbn.net.id or fax to (62)(21)787 3777. Together We are Strong! (full text).

Bahasa Indonesia / Indonesian Homepage.

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E.MA 2007/2008: calendar of the Introduction week: The European Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation (E.MA) 2007/2008 will start on 17 September 2007. Structure of E.MA 1st and 2nd semesters;

EIUC Library;
Internship and Fellowship Programmes;
Documents of Reference;
e.ma-Archives;
Links;
Contact.

About e.ma: The European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) was established in Venice on 15 September 2002 with the aim of providing an institutional foundation and autonomous management to the European Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation (E.MA) and in order to enable the member universities to jointly develop additional human rights educational programmes.

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Linked with Martin Scheinin – Finland.

The Institute for Human Rights at Åbo Akademi University
operates within the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences and works in close cooperation with the Department of Law within the same Faculty. The main functions of the Institute pertain to research and education in the field of human rights. The Institute has a long experience in arranging human rights courses of high standard. Moreover, it is currently coordinating a Nordic School in Human Rights Research, for post-graduate students and doctoral candidates from the Nordic and Baltic countries. A Master’s Degree Programme in International Human Rights Law was introduced in the fall of 2006 … (full text).

(All links run under the same URL, to be clicked inside the Homepage).

There are Research, Degre Pr5ogrammes, Human Rights Courses, Projects, Networks, Documentation, Publications, Links.

And contact: Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University, Gezeliusgatan 2, 20500 Turku / Åbo, Finland.
Telephone: +358 (0)2 215 4713, Fax: +358 2 215 4699.

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UE Cellule de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Droits de l’Homme

Homepage: The Interdisciplinary Research Cell in Human Rights (CRIDHO) has been created within the Centre for Legal Philosophy (CPDR), an extra-department Institute of the University of Louvain, by scholars seeking to understand the development of fundamental rights by relying on other disciplines, especially economics and political philosophy. The CRIDHO works on the relationship between market mechanisms and fundamental rights, both at the level of interindividual relationships as at the level of the relationships between States in the European or international context. The hypothesis of the CRIDHO is that the conflict between the  » freedom  » of economic agents on the market, with the vulnerability this results in for the less well endowed agents, and the guarantee of fundamental rights, which could exclude the commodification of these rights, requires a reflection on the context in which the individual freedoms to contract and to exchange are exercised, and on the need to transform this context to enhance the autonomy of the individual. This hypothesis is tested on the different material questions which are investigated within the CRIDHO : internal market and competitive deregulation, respect for privacy in the sphere of employment, the need for an open method of coordination of fundamental rights policies in the European Union, freedom of contract and anti-discrimination law in the field of employment …

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Linked with the Open Society Institute.

EurasiaNet http://www.eurasianet.org/about/index.shtml
provides information and analysis about political, economic, environmental and social developments in the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as in Russia, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia. The web site also offers additional features, including newsmaker interviews and book reviews. Based in New York, EurasiaNet advocates open and informed discussion of issues that concern countries in the region. The web site presents a variety of perspectives on contemporary developments, utilizing a network of correspondents based both in the West and in the region. The aim of EurasiaNet is to promote informed decision making among policy makers, as well as broadening interest in the region among the general public … (full text).

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Contact: Email.

The Central Eurasia Project CEP strives to make available more and better information about human rights and the social and economic health of the South Caucasus and Central Asia both within the region and internationally. Some of its projects focus on the neighboring countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan as well. The CEP pursues this work along three lines. Research and advocacy efforts on key open society issues – outlined in cooperation with colleagues from affiliate foundations in the region – form the backbone of this strategy, which is further enhanced by public information efforts and a targeted grants program … (full text).