Mois : octobre 2007

Linked with Spasenija Moro – Croatia, and with the Center for Peace, Nonviolence, and Human Rights.
The Network: The core membership of the GPPAC network is comprised of regional and international civil society organizations and networks involved in conflict prevention and peacebuilding activities. Wherever possible, the network engages in active partnerships with individual governments, intergovernmental organizations, private sector associations and other relevant bodies to pursue conflict prevention and peacebuilding activities. (full text).

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About: GPPAC is the world-wide civil society-led network to build a new international consensus on peacebuilding and the prevention of violent conflict. GPPAC works on strengthening civil society networks for peace and security by linking local, national, regional, and global levels of action and effective engagement with governments, the UN system and regional organizations.

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Linked with Spasenija Moro – Croatia.

According to Marina Skrabalo, an Open Society Institute International Policy Fellow and External Evaluator: « For five years, the Center for Peace, Nonviolence and Human Rights in Osijek, Croatia, has worked effectively to support capacity development in eight communities in Eastern and Western Slavonia through a project called « Building a Democratic Society Based on the Culture of Nonviolence. » The project promotes partnerships among a wide array of local state and non-state actors, mobilizes local peace constituents, and integrates « participatory action research » into each stage of its work from needs assessment to evaluation. The project is unique in the post-Yugoslav context as one of the most ambitiously envisioned community-based peacebuilding endeavours, undertaken by an indigenous peace organization and enriched by international, national, and local partnerships.

« The Center for Peace, Nonviolence and Human Rights was conceived in 1991 in a basement during the shelling of Osijek when the people seeking shelter there began to discuss peacemaking civic action. The Center has grown into a network with more than 150 members, 30 full-time activists, a budget of more than $2 million, and three basic programs-education, human rights, and peacebuilding. In 1998, it partnered with the Life and Peace Institute from Sweden to obtain funds from the European Union and other private funders for the « Building a Democratic Society Based on the Culture of Nonviolence » project.

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Linked with Mina Ahadi – Iran.

Homepage: Those strongly in favour of faith schools often cite the rights of religious parents, as taxpayers, to ensure that their child has State schooling within a school that promotes their faith. However, in areas where faith schools are over-subscribed, there is a real risk that non-religious parents, who are also taxpayers, do not have the same rights of access. Also, should the number of faith schools substantially increase, many parents may lose the right to ensure that their child goes to a community, non-faith, school. Parental choice, although a mantra of the present government, is not without cost: one parent’s choice (and their ability to exercise it) has an impact on the choice of others. Ultimately, with regard to the most popular schools, choice is exercised far more by the schools than by the parents. (Position Statement on Faith Schools, Association of Teachers and Lecturers).

Welcome, excerpt: … The only way to prevent the kind of religious power-seeking that leads to conflict is to make both religious discrimination and religious privilege constitutionally impossible.

We need a secular constitution that will:

• End the privileged input of religious bodies to policy making and law-making;
• Keep all public services free from religious control so that that they remain equally available to all on the same terms;
• Abolish the established church and all its privileges (including 26 bishops in the House of Lords);
• Put an end to the divisiveness of publicly funded religious schools by making them open to all without discrimination on grounds of religion, or lack of it, and bringing them under local authority control;
• Abolish blasphemy and similar repressive laws, rather than extend them.

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Linked with Parshuram Rai – Nepal.

Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds … Mahatma Gandhi.

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Linked with James Bovard – USA, with Are Presidents Entitled to Kill Foreigners? and with Breaking Down an Innocent Man.

Mission: The mission of The Future of Freedom Foundation is to advance freedom by providing an uncompromising moral and economic case for individual liberty, free markets, private property, and limited government.

Freedom Daily is our journal of libertarian essays, which has been published monthly since January 1990 …
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INDIA’S NATIONAL MAGAZINE, from the publishers of THE HINDU

Linked with Are Presidents Entitled to Kill Foreigners? and with Breaking Down an Innocent Man.

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See two of the latest articles:

JAMMU & KASHMIR, Signals from ceasefire, published on FRONTLINE, by PRAVEEN SWAMI in Srinagar, Volume 24/Issue 21 – Oct. 20-Nov. 02, 2007: The United Jihad Council is desperate to join in the political dialogue on Jammu and Kashmir’s future, but it may be too late …

and: POLITICS, No-win situation, published on FRONTLINE, by VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN, Volume 24/Issue 21 – Oct. 20-Nov. 02, 2007: Electoral compulsions and the prospect of some NSG countries opposing the Indo-U.S. deal forced the government’s climbdown …

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Linked with Jamal Saadeddine Ibrahim – Egypt.

In the name of God,The Compassionate, The Merciful – Oh mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that you may know each other (Not that you may despise each other). 49;13

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About/(TAM info): The American Muslim is dedicated to the promotion of peace, justice, and reconciliation for all humanity. We strive to:

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Linked with Ashanti Alston Omowali – USA.

The Institute for Anarchist Studies IAS, a nonprofit foundation established in 1996 to support the development of anarchism, is primarily a grant-giving organization for radical writers. Our aim is to promote critical scholarship that explores social domination and reconstructive visions of a free society. To date, we have funded almost sixty projects by authors from countries around the world, including Argentina, Canada, New Zealand, Lebanon, Chile, Ireland, Nigeria, Mexico, the Philippines, Germany, Uruguay, South Africa, the Czech Republic, and the United States. In addition to organizing projects like the Renewing the Anarchist Tradition (RAT) conference and the Radical Theory Track at the National Conference on Organized Resistance (NCOR), we also publish a biannual magazine, Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, to cultivate community among those interested in the development of anarchism and offer a « Mutual Aid » list of IAS speakers available for public talks. The IAS is part of a larger movement to radically transform society as well. We are internally democratic and work in solidarity with people around the globe who share our values.

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About: Anarchism emerged out of the socialist movement as a distinct politics in the nineteenth century. It asserted that it is necessary and possible to overthrow coercive and exploitative social relationships, and replace them with egalitarian, self-managed, and cooperative social forms. Anarchism thus gave new depth to the long struggle for freedom.

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Linked with Rebecca MacKinnon – USA.

Global Voices is an internship program at the Kennedy School of Government. It is also a non-profit global citizens’ media project founded at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, a research think-tank focused on the Internet’s impact on society. Rebecca MacKinnon has founded Global Voices, together with Ethan Zuckerman.

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About: … Global Voices seeks to aggregate, curate, and amplify the global conversation online – shining light on places and people other media often ignore. We work to develop tools, institutions and relationships that will help all voices, everywhere, to be heard.

With tens of millions of people blogging all over the planet, how do you avoid being overwhelmed by the information overload? How do you figure out who are the most influential or respected and credible bloggers or podcasters in any given country, especially those outside your own?

Our international team of volunteer authors, regional blogger-editors and translators are your guides to the global blogosphere … (full text).

Linked with Jamal Saadeddine Ibrahim – Egypt.

CSID Boards: The CSID is managed by a Board of Directors (BOD) made up of a diverse group of influential and highly-respected scholars, activists and leaders, including some of the most respected figures in the Muslim community and mainstream North American academia.

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ABOUT: CSID is a non-profit organization, based in Washington DC, dedicated to studying Islamic and democratic political thought and merging them into a modern Islamic democratic discourse.

The organization was founded in March 1999 by a diverse group of academicians, professionals, and activists–both Muslim and non-Muslim–from around the USA who agree on the need for the study of and dissemination of reliable information on this complex topic …

… There is no narrow ideological or sectarian litmus test for involvement in CSID–the organization has no agenda other than the production and dissemination of rigorous research into Islam and democracy–but its members are united in the conviction that this subject has been widely misunderstood both in the West and the Muslim world, and that this fact has caused much fitnah (discord) among Muslims and continues to hamper attempts at cross-cultural dialogue today. (full text).

Linked with Rebecca MacKinnon – USA.

The Berkman Center’s mission is to explore and understand cyberspace, its development, dynamics, norms, standards, and need or lack thereof for laws and sanctions. We are a research center, premised on the observation that what we seek to learn is not already recorded. Our method is to build out into cyberspace, record data as we go, self-study, and publish. Our mode is entrepreneurial nonprofit.

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About: The Berkman Center is a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. We represent a network of faculty, students, fellows, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and virtual architects working to identify and engage with the challenges and opportunities of cyberspace.

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Free, independent and non-profit access to worldwide law – 865 databases from 123 countries and territories via the Free Access to Law Movement.

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8th international conference lw via the internet LEXUM, Montreal 25-26 October 2007 (en francais & in english).

The Jewish Virtual Library’s purpose is to provide information about all facets of Jewish life: Judaism, Jews in the Diaspora, the history of Anti-Semitism, the rise of Zionism and Zionist thought, biographies of prominent Zionists, The Holocaust, Israel and Jerusalem, Israel’s Wars, and Jewish holidays, Who is a Jew?

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and many more … like:
On One Foot: A Middle East guide for the perplexed, or: How to respond on your way to class, when your best friend joins an anti-Israel protest, by Mitchell G. Bard, Ph.D.;

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Library of Congress;

Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress: Spinoza’s Opera Posthuma;

From Publishers Weekly: The Library of Congress has one of the world’s great collections of Judaica … (full text);

From the Ends of the Earth, by Rizzoli on amazon.

Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) as a Tool for Fisheries Management – new Web site launched in all 6 UN languages

Published on FAO.org, 18 October 2007.

The FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department has launched a Web site to increase knowledge on the contribution of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) to fisheries management. This Web site has been developed under a project aimed at supporting the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). One section of the site presents guidelines prepared by FAO on the design, implementation and testing of MPAs as a fisheries management tool.

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About: Mission – The mission of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department of FAO is to facilitate and secure the long-term sustainable development and utilization of the world’s fisheries and aquaculture. FAO is acutely aware of the fundamental social and economic role played by these two sectors in:

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Mission Statement: Many of the practical problems associated with human rights – from civil rights violations, to genocide, to international intervention – stem from fundamental disagreements about ethical philosophy. The Rights Philosophy Forum aims to nurture understanding of competing philosophies, and to encourage everyone involved in the human rights debate to continually refine, strengthen, and even overhaul their own arguments when necessary. At the same time, the RPF hopes to cultivate a sense of cooperation and tolerance in the discussion of human rights philosophy, and to promote a healthy, fruitful interchange of ideas between peoples and countries holding vastly different viewpoints.

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