Scriptorium

Linked with our presentation of Ana Raffai – Croatia.

Center for Peace Studies: Homepage, Contact, and address: the McMaster University, Office of Interdisciplinary Studies, Togo Salmon Hall 726, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4M2 – Canada.

Peace Studies is concerned with war and peace, violence and nonviolence, conflict and conflict transformation. Peace researchers also study concepts of justice and the ways in which people organize and wage conflict to achieve what they perceive as just ends. By focusing attention on problems of conflict, particularly of a violent nature, researchers attempt to improve our methods of analyzing and dealing with these problems. Peace studies is an interdisciplinary field, encompassing subject areas from the Faculties of Science and Social Sciences as well as Humanities.

Courses: The University Calendar is intended to let you know the range of courses that the Peace Studies program offers. We cannot offer all of those courses every year; any course in the undergraduate calendar must be offered once in every three year period. The following courses are being offered in 2005-06. Many of the courses listed are or will be linked to an electronic version of the course outline.

Events;

Undergraduate Program.

Linked with our presentation of Irina Yanovskaya – Georgia.

Implementing Partners: the Center for Regional Integration and Conflict Resolution (CRICR) in Yerevan, Armenia, the International Centre on Conflict and Negotiation (ICCN) in Tbilisi, Georgia, the International Center for Social Research (ICSR) in Baku, Azerbaijan, and Laboratory of Ethnoconflictology, Department of Social Philosophy and Ethnology, Stavropol University, Russia.

(Excerpt): Project objectives

The objective of the two-year project is the strengthening and development of the regional conflictological network created in partnership with MacArthw Foundation. The project is aimed at:

a) strengthening of the present regional conflictological and social research network, and expansion of the area of its activities, b) enlargement of the network functions, c) increasing participation activities of university conflictological centers in the network.

The expansion of the area of activities will be realized by means of involving partners from Russian university centers of Northern Caucasus. The partnership with a group of conflictologists from Stavropol University has been primarily negotiated, which will be realized in the frame of the new project. The strengthening of the present regional conflictological network will take place through equipping the center-members of the present network and newly involved centers. In particular, it is planned to make additional expenditures for equipping Stavropol University center in order to provide technical base for its involvement in the network.

The active involvement of specialists-conflictologists in the work of the network on the object of discussion of newly received information, training specialists and practical activities on conflict resolution and prevention in the region will also favor the strengthening of the network. (Read more about on this project site).

the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories

Upgraded on July 6, 2010 — Linked with Anat Biletzki – Israel, and with Edward Said (1935-2003), by Anat Biletzki.

• B’TSELEM … was established in 1989 by a group of prominent academics, attorneys, journalists, and Knesset members. It endeavors to document and educate the Israeli public and policymakers about human rights violations in the Occupied Territories, combat the phenomenon of denial prevalent among the Israeli public, and help create a human rights culture in Israel … about 1/2).
• See also B’Tselem in an interview, and on wikipedia.

Frontpage (with links for the Site in english, hebrew, arabic or russian); english Homepage;
Make a Difference; Publications; Statistics; Archive; Press; Testimonies; Photos; Videos; HR links;
Address: B’Tselem, The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, P.O. Box 53132, Jerusalem 91531, Israel;
Contact.

About 2/2: … B’Tselem in Hebrew literally means « in the image of, » and is also used as a synonym for human dignity. The word is taken from Genesis 1:27 « And God created humans in his image. In the image of God did He create him. » It is in this spirit that the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that « All human beings are born equal in dignity and rights. » Continuer la lecture de « B'Tselem »

Linked with our presentation of Irene Rodriguez – Switzerland and Argentinia.

Violence against Women: Many women are exposed to violence, which can take many forms: domestic violence, sexual abuse, rape, forced prostitution. A sustained effort is being made to combat these acts of violence and to work towards preventing further occurrences.

Service to combat violence: In 2003 the Federal Council established a Service to combat violence (FGG) with the aim of achieving better coordination of campaigns, studies and projects undertaken at federal level and in the cantons. The Swiss Conference of Gender Equality Delegates (SKG) has launched nationwide campaigns against domestic violence and created a working party to improve the effectiveness of the various cantonal projects initiated to combat violence within couples and families.

Domestic violence: Violence within the home environment and in couples takes on many forms. It can be psychological, physical, verbal, sexual and pecuniary. Domestic violence also includes malicious acts, such as neglect, depriving someone of monetary resources, bullying, disproportional control, isolating another person, etc.

Continuer la lecture de « FIZ – Women’s Information Center »

Linked with our presentation of Ismat Chughtai – Pakistan-India (1915 – 1991).

The McGill University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada – The Faculty of Arts is giving courses and Seminars in Sociopolitical, institutional and intellectual history of Muslims in India and Pakistan; Mughal India; Safavid Iran; and Modern Islamic Developments in Indo-Pakistan Subcontinent and Iran. The languages include Urdu language and literature, and classical and modern Persian. (Read here all about the programm details on Courses and Seminars).

The Institute of Islamic Studies, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1Y1, focuses in its academic programmes on the religion of Islam, on the history and civilization of the Islamic world, and on the dynamics of contemporary Muslim societies. Please see their Overview for more information.

An anonymous hotline for white-collar « whistleblowers » is being set up by Transparency International Switzerland, an anti-corruption organisation. The move comes a week after the Swiss Senate demanded better protection for whistleblowers against unfair dismissal and other forms of discrimination. The hotline had taken its first calls on Wednesday (March 03, 2006) and will advise whistleblowers on what action to take.

Continuer la lecture de « Transparency International Switzerland »

Linked with our presentation of Faith Bandler – Australia.

The Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship, and the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI), were both formed in 1957.

As general secretary of FCAATSI,Faith Bandler led the campaign for a constitutional referendum to remove discriminatory provisions from the Constitution of Australia. The campaign, which included several massive petitions and hundreds of public meetings arranged by Bandler, resulted in the 1967 referendum being put to the people by the Holt government.

Continuer la lecture de « Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship »

Full of practical information, tools and guidance, this toolkit covers a range of subject areas about supporting NGOs and CBOs working in HIV/AIDS. More than 500 resources have been collated and updated from different organisations, with detailed guidance and suggestions based on the experiences of the Alliance. This CD-ROM brings together resources for people who are establishing, managing or studying support programmes or systems for supporting NGOs and CBOs. While the toolkit is primarily designed for programmes that aim to deliver both funding and technical support to local NGOs and CBOs, many of its resources will also be of interest to organisations that provide only funding or only training. (Read the rest on this site).

Order here the CD.

link:

‘Who we are‘;

Alliance NGO support net.

They say about themselves: Rights Action (tax-charitable, non-profit organization in USA and Canada) funds community-controlled development, environmental, human rights and emergency projects in the global south, particularly Guatemala, Chiapas (Mexico), Honduras and Haiti. We do education and activism work with North Americans and help form north-south alliances to address and remedy global exploitation, repression, enviro-destruction and racism.

Continuer la lecture de « Rights Action.org »

International Events: exchange of good practice in youth work between Europe and Africa, the Caribbean, Pacific (ACP), Asia, Latin America – This Call aims at supporting projects which promote an exchange of experience and good practice in the field of youth between the European Union, candidate countries and EFTA/EEA on the one hand, and countries of Africa, the Caribbean, Pacific (ACP), Asia and Latin America on the other hand.

Continuer la lecture de « Youth Express Network »

Linked to our presentation of Thakaraprambil Kochukuttan Omana – India.

From the arid land of Rajasthan to the hilly and forested climes of Wayanad. So varied has been the fields that T. K Omana has covered in her nearly three decades of activities as a social worker.

Omana who is among the 92 women from India nominated for the Nobel peace prize for 2005, is a full-time social worker and Director of the Rural Agency for Social and Technological Advancement (Rasta), in Wayanad.

Continuer la lecture de « The Rural Agency for Social & Technological Advancement RASTA – India »

The Virtual & Global Social Democratic Party – Worldwide Political Exchange & Education Project (See here their website).

You’ll find there:

Continuer la lecture de « The Virtual & Global Social Democratic Party »

Linked with Ibn Warraq – another Muslim with a Fatwa, also with When Ibn Warraq met Edward Said, and with IBN WARRAQ on the World Trade Center Atrocity.

The Institute for the Secularisation of the Islamic Society, ISIS Publishes on its Homepage:

Our Mission: We believe that Islamic society has been held back by an unwillingness to subject its beliefs, laws and practices to critical examination, by a lack of respect for the rights of the individual, and by an unwillingness to tolerate alternative viewpoints or to engage in constructive dialogue.

The Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society (ISIS) has been formed to promote the ideas of rationalism, secularism, democracy and human rights within Islamic society.

ISIS promotes freedom of expression, freedom of thought and belief, freedom of intellectual and scientific inquiry, freedom of conscience and religion – including the freedom to change one’s religion or belief – and freedom from religion: the freedom not to believe in any deity. Continuer la lecture de « Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society »

Linked with our presentation of Zilda Arns Neumann – Brazil.

And linked with our presentation on Improving Children’s Environmental Health.

The Pastoral da Criança is regarded as one of the most important community organizations all over the world working with health, nutrition, and children education, since antenatal and to six years of age. It also works stopping preventing violence in the family environment, where the participation of families and communities is a requirement.

Continuer la lecture de « The 'Pastoral' of the Child / Pastoral da Criança – Brazil »

Linked with our presentation of Yael Lerer – Israel.

And linked with our presentation on The Word in Times of Crisis.

Homepage of the editor, publishing Arabic literature, translated in Hebrew:

Bridging over the Conflict … by Hannah Amit-Kochavi, she writes: Arabic literature has been translated into Hebrew by Jews, Arabs and Druze for over a century. However, Hebrew target culture, which has always welcomed translations from a variety of foreign languages that enriched it and provided models for its development, has assigned Arabic literature a minor position. This is mainly due to political circumstances – the ongoing century-old conflict between Jews and Arabs as well as between Israel and several Arab countries has been but partially resolved through peace contracts. Arabs and their culture have been perceived by Western-oriented Israeli culture as either arch-enemies or as abstract figures representing attractive oriental images and even as the Biblical forefathers of the Jewish people. Arabic language and culture are little known to most Israeli Jews, with the exception of those many Israeli Jews who are natives of such Arab countries as Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and Yemen and those relatively few who have studied Arabic at the high school and university level.

Translations from Arabic into Hebrew, then, have been relatively few and they have failed to exert any long term influence on Israeli Hebrew literature and culture. And yet, since the advent of Zionism and up to the present, there have been attempts by Jewish individuals and groups to reconcile Jews and Arabs and in the process mastered and cherished the Arabic language and culture. Translations of Arabic literature into Hebrew have been incessantly made, disseminated and used in an attempt to bring about Jewish-Arab mutual understanding and coexistence in the naive belief that literary translation could help bring about peace between Jews and Arabs on an individual basis as well as between Israel and the Arab neighboring countries. (Read the rest ofthis long article here).

Continuer la lecture de « The Andalus Publishing House »