Catégorie : Civil Society

Linked with Bruce Cumings – USA.

The Columbia Law School’s Center for Korean Legal Studies is the only center devoted entirely to the study of both the South and North Korean legal systems. The Center has dedicated itself to building the most comprehensive depository of Korean legal materials outside the Koreas. The Center has also created the Korean Language and Cultural Exchange Program, which matches visiting Korean scholars with law students mutually interested in improving their English/Korean language skills. Other noteworthy programs offered by the Center are the Korean Law Forum, the Annual Trade Law Seminar, and the Visiting Scholars program.

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Contact: Columbia University School of Law, Center for Korean Legal Studies, Mail Code: 4024, Box A-19, 435 West 116th Street, New York, NY 10027, PHONE: (212) 854-5759, FAX: (212) 854-4980

About: With the establishment of the Center for Korean Legal Studies, Columbia Law School became the first American law school to have a center dedicated to the study of Korean law.

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The Center for Third World Organizing is a racial-justice organization led by people of color whose mission is to achieve social and economic justice.

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Contact. Center for Third Eorld Organizing CTWO, 1218 E. 21st Street, Oakland, CA 94606, PH (510) 533-7583, FAX (510) 533-0923, WEBsite.

About: The Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO, pronounced « C-2 ») is a racial-justice organization dedicated to building a social-justice movement led by people of color. CTWO is a 25-year-old training and resource center that promotes and sustains direct-action organizing in communities of color in the United States. CTWO’s programs include training of new and experienced organizers, including the well-known Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program (MAAP); establishing model multi-racial community organizations; and building an active network of organizations and activists of color to achieve racial justice in its fullest dimensions … (full text).

Linked with Ingrid Eide – Norway.

The International Peace Research Institute Oslo is an independent research institute that is international in terms of staff, audience and perspective.

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About: International Peace Research Institute, Oslo PRIO was founded in 1959 and became a fully independent institute in 1966. It was one of the first centres of peace research in the world, and it is Norway’s only peace research institute. Its founding and early influence were instrumental in projecting the idea of peace research.

PRIO is independent and international in staff and perspective. Our working language is English. The staff at PRIO comprises 50–60 people, of whom two-thirds are researchers (including PhD students). In addition to this, there are 5–10 MA students, who are provided with work spaces and scholarships while completing their theses.

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NRC provides humanitarian assistance, protection and durable solutions to displaced persons worldwide. The majority of our approximately 2000 staff members are employed locally by the NRC in the countries where we work. All NRC projects are run directly by an efficient administration in Oslo. For more information about each of our programme countries, click on the menu to the left.

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About: NRC promotes and protects the rights of people who have been forced to flee their countries, or their homes within their countries. It is the only Norwegian organisation that specialises in international efforts aimed at this target group.

The majority of our approximately 2000 staff members are national employees in NRC’s projects in around 20 countries in Africa, Asia, America and Europe. All our projects are run from a small and efficient administration in Oslo.

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Linked with Demba Moussa Dembele – Senegal, with What Is Development Ethics, with People’s Strugles, People’s Alternatives, with EUROPE SELF-SERVING IN TRADE TALKS WITH AFRICA, with Millennium Development Goals and debt cancellation, and with the Jubilee South Network JS.

The Forum is dedicated to challenging the neo-liberal agenda in Africa and to proposing alternative policies. We have been involved in these activities for a long time. Almost three years ago, in December 2000, we organized a conference on debt cancelation in Senegal. I was the co-ordinator of that conference. That conference organized a big march in Dakar in which over five thousand people participated. Since then we have had other marches in Africa – in Nigeria, in Ghana. In South Africa a few weeks ago, during the World Summit on Sustainable Development,we organized a big march that overshadowed the official march sponsored by the government … (full text).

There is no website, but Google search shows many items with the key words ‘African Alternatives’:

• Books about ‘African Alternatives‘ on amazon;
• Institute for African Alternatives;
• East African Alternatives;
• AEGIS European Conference on African Studies;
• Agricultural Biotechnology Reconsidered: Western Narratives and African Alternatives, African Studies Review, Dec 2006;
• Same on AWP;
• Research projects in the Department of Social Anthropology, Univ. Cambridge, August 2007.

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