SerMaCaValTa

  • Institut d’études stratégiques sur la paix, la connaissance et les relations humaines
  • / Institute for Strategic Studies on Peace, Knowledge and Human Relations
  • / Instituto de Estudios Estratégicos sobre la Paz, el Conocimiento y las Relaciones Humanas

Cycle de conférences: Géopolitique, géostratégie et paix dans le monde d’aujourd’hui (8 février à 29 mars 2008);
Inscription online.

Outline: The Itinerant Master program trains the world’s future leaders. It uses current approaches and models to illuminate a leader’s role—in theory and practice. A university in the United States of America will issue a Masters degree at the end of the program. Initially, the program will bring together six students and an appropriate number of professors from each of four cities: New York, Buenos Aires, Paris and Geneva—the group studying for one semester in each city, over a period of two years. Each city, each country will offer the students and teachers in the group its own unique world-view. Students and professors from other countries will be invited to join the four-city, four-semester group, their universities eventually becoming centers of study, in the same four-city model … (full text).

SerMaCaValTa a été créé à Genève, en mars 1996, sous la direction du Dr. Roberto Butinof, consultant institutionnel de longue trajectoire internationale et professeur en Stratégie et Relations internationales à l’Université de Buenos Aires (UBA) … (texte integral).

Links:

Régistre de Commerce;

Conférences, interventions, participations;

Firmen-Datenbank;

Association Sermacavalta.

euro|topics

Press review on Euro Topics (also in french and in german).euro|topics aims to contribute to the development of a European public sphere. In a daily press review and selected articles, the most important political, cultural and social debates are to be followed. The objective of euro|topics is to make those debates, which up to now had almost exclusively been conducted at national level, accessible Europe-wide. In this way, trans-European discussions, as well as the development of new networks of media, cultural and political exchange, are to be encouraged and supported … (about 1/2).

euro|topics is a project of the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/bpb [Germany] / Federal Agency for Civic Education) in cooperation with several partners.

Homepage and Press review;
Magazine (mostly European Topics);
Media Index;
Index of Authors;
Archive;
Newsletter;
Address: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, President Thomas Krüger, Adenauerallee 86, 53113 Bonn, Germany;
Contact: by e-mail, by website.

About 2/2: … The work done by the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/bpb) centres on promoting awareness for democracy and participation in politics.

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Women Making Peace WMP

Linked with Hyun-Sook Lee – South Korea.

Women Making Peace is a specialized movement organization formed to realize reunification and peace on the Korean peninsula and to make peace in Asia and the world.

Social Activities;
Establishment;
Other Activities;
Page in korean language;
Address: 4th floor The Women’s House of peace,
38-84 Jangchoong-Dong1ga, Joong-Ku, Seoul, 100-391, Korea;
Contact: Tel : 82-2-2275-4860, Fax : 82-2-2275-4861, e-mail.

Our organization was founded on March 28 1997. We conduct research on the conditions and methods necessary for the peaceful reunification of Korea, and present policies toward that goal from a feminist perspective.

We promote tolerance and peace of mind as general values in society, promote citizens’ peace-making skills, and in general cultivate a life-centered culture of peace for the world.

We carry out concrete social actions to facilitate Korean reunification and peace. We try to facilitate the equal participation of women in the settlement of conflicts and disputes and to promote women’s leadership in peace-making at home and abroad.

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Forum for Global Action

What we do: Through seminars, forums, and a variety of initiatives that bring participants together, the Forum nurtures the cross-pollination of ideas and experiences from a diverse set of individuals, including leaders in government, academia, youth and women?s groups, non-governmental organizations, the media, United Nations agencies, and the business community. Such diversity creates unique partnerships to address global development issues from an integrative cross-sectoral and inventive approach. The Forum for Global Action relies on knowledge and experiences from diverse organizations with local, national and international expertise in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and South and Central America. Special focus is placed on working with youth organizations such as the the African Regional Youth Initiative in building a network of global leaders. (Homepage & About & links to articles).

Programs;
THE YOUNG LEADERS FORUM APPLICATION FORM;
Consultant Services Form;
Links & Resources;
No contact link.

Who We Are: The Forum for Global Action aims to foster innovative thinking on social, economic and political issues by (1) bringing voices of marginalized people into global debates about public policy, and (2) promoting alternative ways of consulting global civil society groups and movements. Overall, the Forum strives to improve the relationship between global civil society organizations and global institutions (i.e. United Nations and the World Bank) to discuss policy challenges and brainstorm new ways of thinking and acting on global issues.

Link: The Global Fund (fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria).

The World Court Project

Linked with Pauline Tangiora – New Zealand.

The World Court Project is an international citizens’ network which is working to publicise and have implemented the 8 July 1996 Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice which could find no lawful circumstance for the threat or use of nuclear weapons. The World Court Project is part of Abolition 2000, A Global Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.

History of the World Court Project;
Newsletter;
links;
Address: Secretary, George Farebrother, 67, Summerheath Rd, Hailsham, Sussex, BN27 3DR, England;
Contact: e-mail; website.

Trident Renewal and international law, January 2007: MPs will soon face a momentous decision. Should Britain continue to deploy nuclear weapons for several more decades? A Government White Paper “The Future of the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Deterrent” was issued in December and a Commons vote will take place in 2007. The White Paper pays scant attention to International Humanitarian Law and treats the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) as a charter for the Nuclear Weapon States whilst claiming limited UK compliance with its requirements.

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