Mois : juillet 2008

Centre for developmental practice

We are a non-governmental organisation from Cape Town, South Africa. We work with development practitioners, organisations and movements who are engaged in social transformation with marginalised communities.

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About: … The establishment of a Centre for Developmental Practice indicates an intention to share the work of CDRA more widely, to attempt to disseminate and promote its approach to the benefit of a wider group of people – both practitioners and organisations. By forming ourselves into a Centre for Developmental Practice we are bringing to the sector a resource to help practitioners and organisations develop their practice, nurturing in them a developmental, and therefore transformational, way of understanding the world and intervening in it.

Continuer la lecture de « Community Development Resource Association »

Linked with Mallika Sarabhai – India.

From a small dance academy that was founded over five decades ago, today Darpana is a workshop for the arts where tradition meets technology to break down boundaries of art and life and where performers from the world over work together to open mindscapes through the arts. Established by Mrinalini and Vikram Sarabhai in 1949, for the last two decades the academy has been directed by their daughter Mallika Sarabhai. Today it has a permanent staff of over 60 people and several hundred others on projects. Its departments range from performance and teaching of the arts to their use as development communication through face to face impacting and software production. Its audiences range from arts lovers to district and supreme court judges, the less privileged across the world, children, women, tribal populations and more. With over 25000 graduates, nearly 10000 performances, audiences in 90 countries and a vibrant arts environment, Darpana today is a centre for artists committed to excellence, innovation and the excitement of using the arts for change. Darpana’s vision is a contemporary symbiosis affirming the role of creativity in culture, researching into our origins and reaching out to the unsaid or unthought of, with a language that is universal. (The Institution).

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About: Club Natarani: With new and innovative work from Ahmedabad and elsewhere in the world, overseas performing groups touring India, traditional and folk performances, films, cartoon festivals, children’s events and performances, Natarani’s wide canvas has something to offer for everyone.

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Questions the press should ask

Linked with Alberto J. Mora – USA, with Ten lessons from recent torture hearings, and with Cruelty as a weapon of war.

Great questions are a key to great journalism. But often, in the press of deadlines, the flood of raw information, manipulated news, deliberate misinformation and just plain junk, great questions are hard to develop. Reporters and editors need to know what’s happening, why it happened, who’s involved, who’s affected and what happens next … (About 1/2).

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(About 2/2): … The premise of watchdog journalism is that the press is a surrogate for the public, asking probing, penetrating questions at every level, from the town council to the state house to the White House, as well as in corporate and professional offices, in union hal Continuer la lecture de « Nieman Watchdog »

Linked with Alex de Waal – England, and with Sudan and the International Criminal Court ICC.

The SSRC builds interdisciplinary intellectual networks to address global changes. We bring varied perspectives to bear on crucial issues and mobilize inclusive and informed publics based in multiple geographical locations. In this way, these activities promote international collaboration. International collaboration operates as a “strategic emphasis” that crosscuts, and integrates with, Council-wide programmatic areas, projects and activities, while also moving the Council’s regional programs into a new generation of research and scholarship. This is achieved through:

• organizing collaborative research on regional, cross-regional and global issues;
• facilitating and evaluating cooperation amongst institutions, centers and social science donors to enable international collaboration;
• developing training and exchange activities that promote research collaboration.

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About the SSRC: The Social Science Research Council is an independent, not-for-profit research organization founded in 1923. Based in New York City, it mobilizes researchers, policy makers, professionals, activists, and other experts from the private and public sectors to develop innovative approaches to issues of critical social importance.

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Linked with Union for Mediterranean: a way to bypass human rights? and with The Med Union, dividing the Middle East and North Africa;

(Countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea: Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Gibraltar, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Libya, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Spain, Slovenia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey).

The Union for the Mediterranean (French: Union pour la Méditerranée; previously known as Mediterranean Union, French: Union méditerranéenne) is a community of European Union member states and other countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea established on 13 July 2008[2][3] by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. It was proposed by him as an alternative to Turkish membership of the European Union, which would instead form the backbone of the new union,[4] but with the scaling down of plans in March 2008 that idea has been abandoned. When Turkey was offered a guarantee in March 2008 that it would not be an alternative to the EU, Turkey accepted the invitation to participate … (full, long and complex text on wikipedia).

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The Video: Sarkozy in Tunisia, Mediterranean Union & human rights, 4.21 min, added April 30, 2008;

SARKOZY LAUNCHES MEDITERRANEAN UNION TODAY (on Shofar Minsitries), July 13, 2008.

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