Scriptorium

Linked with Muhammad Anwar Dar – Pakistan.

… GIFT is a dynamic, modern university with high standards of education, learning, facilities and a growing reputation in the region. GIFT is a safe, friendly and welcoming place, which attracts students from across Pakistan. The University is committed to ensuring that students get the most out of their time spent with us and enjoy enhanced prospects in their future careers … (full text).

Mission;
Goals;
Site Guide;
Study Programs;
Admission;
Student Resources;
Facts;
Location;
Contact.

President’s Message: GIFT University is a place of academic excellence and our mission is to help students fulfill their career dreams. Whether it is to support your career plans or assist you with your current responsibilities, GIFT University education can play a vital role in your success. We provide our students diverse opportunities to be creative and develop a sense of social responsibility with self-discipline. More importantly, they need to be serious towards their education and increase their knowledge and awareness.

See also: The GIFT College.

(in english, en français).

Linked with Mary Brownell – Liberia.

MARWOPNET’S vision is of a sub-region that is peaceful and prosperous inhabited by citizens who are healthy, educated, live in unity and enjoying all their human rights including equity and equality with women playing an effective role in peace and sustainable development processes within the sub region, Africa and the world.

News;
Documents;
Links;
Contact.

Objectives:

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(named on WANEP.org).

Linked with Mary Brownell – Liberia.

WIPNET was established four years ago to mobilize women, build their capacity and encourage collaboration among them to build lasting peace and promote human security in West Africa. WIPNET’s challenge remains the integration of women’s concerns and their participation in policy formulation and implementation in peace and security issues in the sub-region. To ensure the mainstreaming of gender in peacebuilding, in 2005 the WIPNET program began the process of forging partnerships with policy makers and technocrats using its wide grassroots network to advocate for the mainstreaming of women’s issues in policy formulation in peace and security.

Objectives:

• Develop policy recommendations for mainstreaming women’s issues in peace and security;
• Strengthen the nexus between policy makers, technocrats and women’s groups;
• Sustain women’s participation in formal peacebuilding in West Africa;
• Strengthen capacity of rural/grassroots women in peacebuilding at community and national levels;
• Build strategic partnerships with women’s networks in other regions.

(full text on this WANEP.org-page).

Linked with Mary Brownell – Liberia.

This group has not its own website, but is named on others (some with excerpts):

Ghana Center for Democratic Development CDD-Ghana
Mission Statement of LWI: To engage in educational activities promoting nonviolent conflict resolution and civic education.
A brief statement of Activities:

• Sustained campaign, uniting Liberian women from all sectors of society, to bring an end to the country’s civil war;
• It has directed its activities at major players in the Liberian conflict, including West African political leaders, officials of the United States, and the UN;
• Prior to 1997 democratic elections, it played a major role in bringing about disarmament, and engaged in voter education activities.

Contact Information: 11 Broad Street, PO Box 1063, Monrovia-Liberia, Tel – 231 227 095.

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Linked with Paola Battagliola – Italy.

Home; « We, Salesian Sisters, commit ourselves to the new evangelization of youth. Impelled by our charism, we evangelize by educating. We open up new ways for the education of the young, deepening within them an attitude of respect for the dignity of the human person and an openness to life in all its forms. We commit ourselves to a community lifestyle which is simple, poor, welcoming, and able to create a new educative presence among poor youth ».

Top 10 Things You Should Know About Us;
Our Spirituality;
Newsletter;
Salesian Sisters International Website: Figlie di Maria Ausiliatrice: Global foundation expounds on the vocational services it provides around the planet and relates its background story. In various languages;

Contact.

Linked with Irene Chaluluka – Malawi.

‘Why wait?’ is not a group of the Civil Society, but in Africa (Malawi and others) a program to prevent HIV/AIDS contamination. It is also a new behavior spread by christian communities. However, I have not found a website of their own, but this program, or behavior is named on other sites. Here some of them:

on Probe.org;
on Michael Rota’s believe;
on leadershipU.com;
on anabaptists.org.
and so on …

a book on amazon;
a second book on amazon;

And here a longer excerpt on intervarsity.org:

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The International Association of Educators of World Peace IAEWP
is an NGO, dedicated to UNs Goals of Peace Education, Environmental Protection, Human Rights and Disarmament.

Mission & Objectives;
Events;
Membership;
Contact.

About:
IAEWP) is a not-for-profit, non-political, and a non-governmental organization geared towards the attainment of international understanding and world peace through education. IAEWP operates as an NGO under the mandate of the United Nations. We have more than 100 chapters established throughout the world.

In 1973, the Association became a non-governmental organization of both the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). It also became a part of the United Nations Department of Public Information (UNDPI).

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• Founded in 1961, the Academy for Educational Development is an independent, nonprofit organization committed to solving critical social problems and building the capacity of individuals, communities, and institutions to become more self-sufficient. AED works in all the major areas of human development, with a focus on improving education, health, and economic opportunities for the least advantaged in the United States and developing countries throughout the world.
• AED is a bridge, a link between the problem and the solution, the need and the resource, people and their potential.

Homepage;
Projects; Tools & Publications; Donate; Stories about peoples and programs; About;
Contact.

Education: For more than 40 years, we at AED have approached our work in education as a means of serving society.

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(action for a sustainable world)

Linked with Jonathon Espie Porritt – England.

Finding practical ways private and public organisations can deliver a sustainable future (homepage).

latest news;
publications;
partners;
concerning business;
concerning public sector;
events;
contact.

about: The Forum for the Future – the sustainable development charity – works in partnership with over 120 leading organisations in business and the public sector.  Our vision is of business and communities thriving in a future that’s environmentally sustainable and socially just.    We believe that a sustainable future can be achieved, that it is the only way business and communities will prosper, but that we need bold action now to make it happen …

… In an increasingly competitive business environment our close partnership with Forum for the Future has helped inform new priorities for sustainable business growth, and care for the world and society in which we live and operate. (full text).

ESSF (solidarity without border) is an association for international solidarity. Covering a wide range of topics, our website offers militant information on many struggles and campaigns, as well as in-depth articles, elements of debates, documents of varied types. We would like it to become a useful tool for all those who are fighting for a world of solidarity.

sitemap;
authors; the 100 most read articles; what about us (4 articles); theory; links; newsletter;
Contact.

about: Our website was opened publicly at the end of September 2005, with about 450 articles, though still unevenly distributed by topics or countries. New documents will be regularly added: updates on current events, introduction of new topics, complementary articles, and also early-written texts that restitute the memory and history of movements, struggles and debates. (full text).

Accueil: ESSF est une association de solidarité internationale. Traitant d’un large éventail de questions, notre site présente une information militante sur de nombreuses luttes et campagnes ; ainsi que des articles de fond, des éléments de débats, des documents de nature divers. Nous voulons en faire un outil utile à toutes celles et ceux qui luttent pour un monde solidaire.

les 100 articles les plus lus;
plan du site;
auteurs;
qui sommes nous;
théories;
liens;
lettre des nouveautés;
nous écrire.

Fin septembre 2005, quand nous l’avons rendu public, Notre site contenait environ 450 articles, encore très inégalement répartis suivant les sujets ou les pays. Des documents sont régulièrement ajoutés : mises à jour répondant à l’actualité, introduction de nouvelles questions, compléments de dossiers, et aussi textes plus anciens qui restituent la mémoire et l’histoire des mouvements, des combats et des débats. (full text).

You’ll find an URL gnn.com … and an URL gnn.TV (= GNN 2.0 Updates).

Guerrilla News Network is an independent news organization with headquarters in New York City and production facilities in Berkeley, California. Our mission is to expose people to important global issues through cross-platform guerrilla programming.

FAQ;

GNN press;

Contact.

… in any way, just full of links to hundreds and thousands of articles, headlines, videos, links to other webs, users, blogs, forums, and an E-store,

GNN 2.0 is currently in Beta stage. New features are being added weekly. For updates on GNN 2.0 progress, see developer Jessey White-Cinis’ blog, and the site design by STOLEN.

(in russian)

Linked with Gulnara Derbisheva – Kyrgyzstan;

Reducing Poverty and Promoting Peace: Switzerland invests about CHF 1.5 billion a year in combating poverty and promoting economic development in countries of the Third World and Eastern Europe. Two federal offices coordinate international development cooperation on behalf of the Swiss Confederation: the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), and the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (seco).

All official development cooperation activities aim to improve living conditions for the world’s most disadvantaged people. The SDC focuses primarily on conflict transformation, social development, good governance, promoting economic structures and safeguarding natural resources. The SDC also strives to strengthen the abilities of its partner countries to take their own initiatives. (full text).

Sitemap;
Swiss Regional Strategy in Central Asia 2007-2010;
Activities in Kyrgyzstan;
Activities in Tajikistan;
Activities in Uzbekistan;
Links;
Download the Annual Report 2004, 24 pages.

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Upcomming Congress: Communication is Peace, in Cape Town, South Africa, October 6-10, 2008. Communicators, journalists, and media activists committed to using the media to prevent conflict, advance democracy, and promote a culture of peace are invited to participate in Congress 2008. The five-day event scheduled for Cape Town, South Africa in October 2008 will focus on:

• Communication rights;
• Media and gender justice;
• Power, conflict and peace: Telling the story;
• New communication and information technologies and peace.

Online Pre-registration for the Congress;
See also the infos on the actual Homepage;
Sitemap;
Regional Associations;
WACC Programmes;
WACC Publications;
Join;
Contact.

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Linked with Bahia Hariri – Lebanon.

The HARIRI FOUNDATION was founded in Lebanon upon a wise decision taken by H.E PM Rafic Hariri. Its mission is to make education a means for the development of the young in Lebanon.

The University Loan Program;
PUBLISH BOOKS AND SPECIAL STUDIES;
Contributions & Development;
CARE FOR THE LEBANESE HERITAGE AND CIVILIZATION;
Organizing & Supporting Education.

It is a non-profit institution which responded to a dire national need that resulted from the events caused by the war in the country.
Hariri Foundation started its mission in Sidon in 1979; it was then called « The Islamic Institute for Culture and Higher Education » but has carried its present name since 1984 and moved to its its central offices in Beirut. It opened offices in Tripoli and Bekaa, in addition to those in in Sidon, in an attempt to facilitate the granting of loans to those who — regardless of their religious or dominational affiliation — had applied to join institutions of higher learning in Lebanon . Likewise, it opened offices in Paris, London, and Washington, D.C, to keep in close contact with its student proteges who had joined around a hundred universities in Western Europ, North Africa, Canada and U.S.A. (Homepage).