groupes en action

The Henry L. Stimson Center

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Founded in 1989, the Henry L. Stimson Center is a nonprofit, nonpartisan institution devoted to enhancing international peace and security through a unique combination of rigorous analysis and outreach. The Stimson Center’s work is focused on three priorities that are essential to global security:

• strengthening institutions for international peace and security;
• building regional security;
• reducing weapons of mass destruction and transnational threats;

… (about 1/2).

Homepage;
Events /Fact sheets;
Experts; Research Programs;
Publications; Press Room; Press Releases;
Address: The Henry L. Stimson Center, 1111 19th Street NW, Twelfth Floor. Washington, DC 20036, USA;
Contact.

About 2/2: … The Center’s approach is pragmatic — geared toward providing policy alternatives, solving problems, and overcoming obstacles to a more peaceful and secure world. Through in-depth research and analysis, we seek to understand and illuminate complex issues. By engaging policymakers, policy implementers, and nongovernmental institutions as well as other experts, we craft recommendations that are cross-partisan, actionable, and effective.

Vision and Motto;
History of the Stimson Center;
About Henry L. Stimson.

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The Why Democracy House describes a real house in Cape Town, South Africa, where a group of young people from all parts of the world lived and worked together to create an online global conversation about democracy. The Why Democracy House was open from June untill October 2007. Members of the Democracy House still contribute to Why Democracy? (about).

Homepage;
The blog The Why Democracy House;
The bog WHY DEMOCRACY, with recent entries; blog contributors;
10 documentaries; Who’s involved;
News (with videos);
The debate /categories; The debate /discussions;
Library; Voting room; 10 questions;
Documents and downloads; About /participants;
Address: Don Edkins, Executive Producer STEPS International, PO Box 21545, Kloof Street, 8008, Cape Town, South Africa;
and: Mette Heide, Executive Producer STEPS International, Axeltorv 12, byg C., DK – 1609 Copenhagen V, Denmark;
Contact.

Introduction: Democracy is arguably the greatest political buzzword of our time and is invoked by everyone – but what does it mean? Can it be defined, measured, safeguarded? Can it be sold, bought, and transplanted? Can it grow? Can it die? What does it mean to people who can’t even talk about it? What does it mean to people who don’t believe in it? What does it mean to you?

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Picked up on Weitzenegger’s Website for International  Development Cooperation, and its Newsletter.

• To provide down-to-earth training for 20,000 participants in agriculture, developmental topics and other income generating activities by year 2010.
• To build a community for the Canadians abroad called « Maple Village » in a centrally located area in Africa for African-Canadians by 2015.
• To be actively involved in, committed to and promote rural and community development projects in Canadian communities and in Africa.
• To collaborate with both national and international institutions, development and donor agencies with simillar aims and objectives like CEFARD.
• To establish one-stop intitutions and vocational training centres and render consultancy services and knowledge sharing and information bank on agriculture and developmental issues.
• To render consultancy services to individuals, organizations, government agencies and institutions. (Initiatives).

Homepage;
Publications; Photo Gallery;
Institutional Collaboration;
Partners; Membership;
Foundation;
Job Opportunities /Network of Consultants;
Address: Headquarter Office, 1850 Albion Road, Unit 3, Toronto, Ontario M9W 6J9, Canada;
Contact.

About: CEFARD is a not-for-profit, non-governmental, and humanitarian organisation. CEFARD’s mandate is to champion the course of global poverty alleviation through agricultural resources and developmental tools mostly in the developing nations of the world.

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Linked with Elizabeth Betita Martinez – USA.

The NNIRR works to defend and expand the rights of all immigrants and refugees, regardless of immigration status. As part of a global movement for social and economic justice, we are committed to human rights as essential to securing healthy, safe and peaceful lives for all. (Homepage).

Upcoming event;
Programs; Accomplishments;
News; Resources and Information;
Get involved;
Alerts archive;
Newsletter: link in the left column of all pages;
Board of Directors;
Contact.

About: MISSION: The NNIRR is a national organization composed of local coalitions and immigrant, refugee, community, religious, civil rights and labor organizations and activists. It serves as a forum to share information and analysis, to educate communities and the general public, and to develop and coordinate plans of action on important immigrant and refugee issues. We work to promote a just immigration and refugee policy in the United States and to defend and expand the rights of all immigrants and refugees, regardless of immigration status.

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Linked with James Zogby – USA, and with James Zogby and the Politics of Perception.

The Arab American Institute (AAI) represents the policy and community interests of Arab Americans throughout the United States and strives to promote Arab American participation in the U.S. electoral system. AAI focuses on two areas: campaigns and elections and policy formation and research. The Institute strives to serve as a central resource to government officials, the media, political leaders and community groups and a variety of public policy issues that concern Arab Americans and U.S. – Arab relations … (about AAI /mission).

Homepage;
Sitemap;
The 2009 Inaugural Celebration;
What we do;
Press; Issues;
Washington Watch;
Recources; Student Resource Center;
Why join AAI;
AAI Foundation;
Address: Arab American Institute, 1600 K Street, NW Suite 601, Washington, DC 20006, USA;
Contact.

About Arab-Americans: We’re an active constituency with a vital stake and voice in the issues dominating US public debates today. Read more about our votes, our opinions, and how Arab Americans are getting involved, in Get Involved.

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