groupes en action

Linked with Elmi Asha Hagi Amin – Somalia, with Gender as a Tool in Building Peace, with Women defending Peace Conference, with Somalia – profiles, facts and reports, and with Save Somali Women and Children SSWC.

The International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) believes that without peace, development is impossible, and without women, neither peace nor development can take place.

IFOR’s Women Peacemakers Program (WPP) began in 1997 and works to support and strengthen women’s peacemaking initiatives.

The WPP believes that programs that specifically empower women peacemakers, and encourage women and girls to become involved in peacebuilding and civil society building, are essential for development.

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Linked with Bradford Dillman – USA, with Illicit International Transactions, and with Lessons for US Policy in the Arab World.

The International Political Economy Program: The University of Puget Sound is a leading center for undergraduate study of International Political Economy. We invite you to explore these web links and learn more about our courses and programs and the activities of our students, alumni and faculty. You can always return to this main page by clicking on the IPE beaver logo.

The International Political Economy Program offers a multidisciplinary approach to the study of modern society.

International Political Economy encourages the integrated analysis of social problems and issues, using tools and methods of political science, economics, and sociology as informed by an understanding of history and tempered by appreciation of culture and cultural differences.

IPE at the University of Puget Sound stresses the appreciation of competing theoretical perspectives, the consideration of multiple and over-lapping economic, political, and social linkages between and among global actors and events, and the application of this powerful framework to the analysis of a wide range of issues. IPE students necessarily learn to consider issues broadly, to see how issues and problems are interconnected, and to engage in critical and creative thinking.

International Political Economy Faculty (Read all the rest on ups.edu).

Linked with Isabelle Werenfels – Germany.

The Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Research Institute for International Affairs, with its more than 130 employees, is the largest research institute on international politics and security in Western Europe. Its primary function is to act in an advisory capacity to the federal government and the German Parliament (Bundestag) on foreign and security policy issues. Though funded by federal budget appropriations, the institute’s research is conducted independently, without direct government supervision or control.

The SWP was established in 1962. Under its founding director Klaus Ritter it acquired a reputation for its publications and conferences on arms control and security issues, subjects of special interest during the Cold War. Topics such as the transition in Russia and Eastern Europe, the new role of Western institutions and que Continuer la lecture de « Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik SWP »

Linked with Solange Fernex – France (1934 – 2006).

US website of WILPF. Contact: U.S. Section Office, 1213 Race Street, Philadelphia PA 19107, Phone: 215-563-7110, Fax: 215-563-5527, mail.
VISION STATEMENT: WILPF envisions a transformed world at peace, where there is racial, social, and economic justice for all people everywhere – a world in which:

• The needs of all people are met in a fair and equitable manner,
• All people equally participate in making the decisions that affect them,
• The interconnected web of life is acknowledged and celebrated in diverse ways and communities, and
• Human societies are designed and organized for sustainable existence.

MISSION STATEMENT: WILPF members create the peaceful transformation they wish to see in the world by making connections that:

• Provide continuity with the past so that knowledge of historical events and patterns informs current activities for change;
• Create analysis and action that reflect and reinforce each other;
• Link and challenge root causes of oppression, especially racism, sexism, heterosexism, militarism, economic disparity, and political disempowerment; and
• Build and strengthen relationships and movements for justice, peace, and radical democracy.

Women Challenge US Policy WCUSP; Building Peace on Justice in the Middle East(Read all on WCUSP).

Linked with Thierry Falise – Belgium & Thailand, and with Vanida S. Thephsouvanh – Laos & France.

Classified and annotated links to more than 11,000 full text documents on Burma/Myanmar.

Main Library (by subject):  Activism; Archeology; Aung San Suu Kyi; Children; Civil Society; Civil war; Dialogue/Transition; Drugs; Economy; Education; Environment; Ethnic and minority groups in Burma; Foreign Relations; Funding; Geography; Health; History; Human Rights; International Assistance to Burma; Internal Displacement; International Labour Organisation; Labour issues; Languages of Burma; Law; Migrants; Military (Tatmadaw); Palaeontology; Politics and Government; Refugees; Social policies; Society and Culture; SPDC-related sites; Sustainability; The United Nations System; Tourism; Trafficking; Women.

Reading Room (by source):  Bibliographies, universities, institutes, libraries, other research tools; Burma news (archived); Burma news (breaking); Burma news (current); Burmese Community sites; Burmese-language news sources; Conferences/seminars etc.; Discussion Groups; Electronic Newspapers; Films, videos, photographs and other images of Burma; General information, profiles, statistics; Major Burma portals; Major online locations of reports and articles on Burma; Maps (by date); Multilingual resources; Online sale of books, CDs, magazines etc.; Search engines.

Alphabetical list of subjects: Complete list of categories and sub-categories.

New: La dimension des droits de l’homme dans les relations internationales : le cas de la Birmanie / Myanmar (to be downloaded, 103 pages).
text-description in french.

reg.burma archive (1993-2001): This is the 220MB archive of the IGC online conference which was the main vehicle for online Burma communications for most of the ’90s. The archive, which is fully searchable from the reg.burma search, contains all the issues of the BurmaNet News from 1993-2001 and its predecessors, early numbers of « Burma Issues » and about 30,000 pages of other material, including some long documents. This is the conference that was searchable from the « Burmanet Gopher » which disappeared a couple of years ago. Now, thanks to IGC, ibiblio and OBL, it is back for searching (not for posting).

Burma Press Summary: Complete Text Archive (i.e. minus graphics)  of Hugh MacDougall’s abstracts of « The Working People’s Daily » and « The New Light of Myanmar » April 1987 to December 1996. Many full texts of speeches, laws etc. An important resource for Burma researchers. Warning: some big files.