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Hi, back from divings and eager to show you more interesting NGOs and Civil Societies.
Picture by Suntorn Suntornrat, a smart Thai Dive Instructor from Bang Tao /Phuket.
Yes, water, sunlight on it and sea life was exactly like that …
Traprock Center for Peace and Justice
The Traprock Center for Peace and Justice, formerly called the Traprock Peace Center, has a long history of working for peace, nonviolence, and economic and social justice in the Hampshire/Franklin County area … (about 1/2).
Homepage;
Peace and Social Justice Studies Program at GCC; Calendar; News;
Volunteers; Board of Directors; Resources; Focus Areas; Allied Organizations;
Address: Traprock Center for Peace and Justice, 24 Miles Street, Greenfield, MA 01301, USA;
Contacts.
About 2/2: Our mission is to work in community to end violence against Earth, her people, and all living beings and to support all endeavors to bring about a just world. Continuer la lecture de « Traprock Center for Peace and Justice »
globalgiving.co.uk
UK registered charity no 1122823
- All organisations and their projects are vetted by GlobalGiving to ensure they are genuine and charitable in nature.
- You browse the website, and pick a specific project that matches your interests and passions.
- You make a donation (for any amount above £5). For each project you can also see illustrated examples of what different donation amounts can potentially ‘buy’.
- We combine your giving with other donations to the same project. We then send the money to the organisation once a meaningful total (minimum £250) has been reached, and whenever possible within 60 days to ensure the money has an immediate impact.
- We ensure that 90% of your donation (including any Gift Aid) goes to your chosen project. The remaining 10% is used to help cover our own costs as a small UK charity, well below the overhead levels of traditional charities … (full text how it works).
Homepage; Sitemap;
Find projects; Project stories; Watch; Read; Globalgivers; Get involved; FAQs;
Address: GlobalGiving, The Hub, 5 Torrens Street, London EC1V 1NG, UK;
Map and Contact.
About: GlobalGiving.co.uk enables you to support well-vetted, grassroots projects all over the world. Continuer la lecture de « globalgiving.co.uk »
Sustainabilitylive 2010
- Sustainabilitylive! is the home of five leading environment exhibitions, including BEX, ET, IWEX, NEMEX and SB – The Event. These exhibitions include hundreds of exhibitors, insightful seminars and conferences, interactive feature areas and lots more.
- The 2010 show will take place a month earlier this year; on 20-22 April 2010 in halls 3 and 3a at the NEC, Birmingham, UK. For more information on exhibiting or visiting please click on the relevant tabs. … (full text Welcome Page).
Exhibitor Zone Login; Visiting; Register; Awards; Seminars, events; Partners; Brochure;
Address: Faversham House Group, Faversham House, 232a Addington Road, South Croydon, Surrey, CR2 8LE, UK;
Contact.
Are we sustainable? As the sustainable industries event we are conscious of the fact we need to be leading the way and doing the best we can to make our event as sustainable as possible.
With this in mind for 2010 we have implemented a variety of initiatives to help Sustainabilitylive! work towards becoming a more sustainable event. Continuer la lecture de « Sustainabilitylive 2010 »
Canadian School of Peacebuilding CSOP
at the Canadian Mennonite University – Linked with Peace and Justice Studies Association PJSA.
Admission criteria:
- Facility in spoken and written English;
- A secondary-school diploma and at least two years of university or equivalent work experience in peacebuilding, restorative justice, relief and development, trauma recovery, human rights, or other closely related fields.
… (full text admission).
Homepage;
General Info; Brochure; Courses, Instructors; Apply form; Events; Download a map of the entire CMU Shaftesbury Campus;
Address: Canadian School of Peacebuilding, 500 Shaftesbury Blvd, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3P 2N2, CANADA;
Contact and sponsors.
Course requirements & Materials: Continuer la lecture de « Canadian School of Peacebuilding CSOP »
Peace and Justice Studies Association PJSA
Our mission: PJSA works to create a just and peaceful world through:
- The promotion of peace studies within universities, colleges and K-12 grade levels
- The forging of alliances among educators, students, activists, and other peace practitioners in order to enhance each other’s work on peace, conflict and non-violence
- The creation and nurturing of alternatives to structures of inequality and injustice, war and violence through education, research and action.
Homepage, Sitemap;
Membership; Conference; Resources; Networking; Calendar; Donations;
New partnership with Canadian School of Peacebuilding CSOP;
Address: Peace & Justice Studies Association, Prescott College, 220 Grove Ave., Prescott, AZ 86301, USA;
Contact.
About / who we are: Continuer la lecture de « Peace and Justice Studies Association PJSA »
Physicians for Global Survival PGS
in french: Médecins pour la Survie Mondiale
- Physicians for Global Survival (PGS), a charitable organization formed in 1980, is the Canadian affiliate of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), which is the only international medical organization dedicated to preventing nuclear war.
- PGS recognizes that the catastrophic health and environmental consequences of a nuclear war are at the extreme end of a continuum of armed violence that undermines health and security … (full text About /Mission).
Homepage;
Abolish; Prevention; Non-Violence; Social Justice; Sustainable World;Resources; Join; Newsletter;
Address: PGS Headquarters, 208-145 Spruce Street, Ottawa, ON K1R 6P1, Canada;
Contact.
Our work: PGS recognizes that the catastrophic health and environmental consequences of a nuclear war are at the extreme end of a continuum of armed violence that undermines health and security. Continuer la lecture de « Physicians for Global Survival PGS »
International Network of Engineers and Scientists' Project on Ethics INESPE
A one page website – with links to past Symposia/Courses and Publications by Antje Bultmann and Tom Børsen Hansen – Linked on our blogs with INES, and with INESAP.
INESPE is a registred project under International Network of Engineers and Scientists for global repsonsibility INES.
- The INESPE network is lead by Ph.D. Tom Børsen, an Associate Professor at Department of Education, Learning and Philosophy at Copenhagen Institute of Technology.
- INESPE is an international research network on science, engineering, and technology ethics. The network has as its purpose to undertake research and teaching activities in that area on an international level in collaboration with relevant partners. Our activities fall in three categories.
INESPE:
- organizes symposia and lectures on ethical issues related to the practise and teaching of modern technoscience,
- offers international and transdisciplinary PhD courses on techno-scientific ethics, and
- does consultancy work on ethical issues related to the scientific and technological development and practise.
Homepage and Contact. – Link to SINAPSE, a web communication platform.
International Network for Engineers and Scientists against Proliferation INESAP
Linked on our blogs with INES, and with INESPE.
- INESAP is the International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation and was founded in 1993. It is a non-profit, non-governmental network organization with participants from all over the world.
- INESAP is part of the world-wide activities of the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES), which currently comprises more than 60 organizations from 25 countries. INES is a UN accredited NGO … (full text What is INESAP).
Homepage and News;
Bulletins; Publications;
Meetings;
Discussion List;
Membership;
Address: INESAP, c/o IANUS Darmstadt University of Technology, Alexanderstraße 35-37, Geb. S3/04, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany;
Contact.
Projects: Currently, INESAP focuses on the following issues: Continuer la lecture de « International Network for Engineers and Scientists against Proliferation INESAP »
International Network for Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility INES
Linked on our blogs with INESAP, and with INESPE .
- The International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES) is an independent non-profit organisation committed to influencing the role and the impact that science and technology have on society.
- INES efforts focus on disarmament and international peace; ethics in science; responsibilities of scientists and the responsible use of science and technology;just and sustainable development.
- INES was founded in 1991 in Berlin at the international congress “Challenges – Science and Peace in a Rapidly Changing Environment“ and has become a network of over 200 organisations and individual members … (what is INES 1/2).
Homepage;
Events 2010; Campaigns; News 2010; Peace … ; Energy; Education; Member orgs; Links;
Address: INES, Schützenstr. 6a, D-10117 Berlin, Germany;
Contact.
What is INES 2/2: … Innovative Reorganisation: A thorough reorientation of science and technology is necessarily based on integrated system approaches and the acceptance that science can never claim to fully tackle all aspects of reality. Only through innovative reorganisation and public accountability can the scientific and engineering communities meet their obligation to contribute to a sustainable future. Continuer la lecture de « International Network for Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility INES »
Project Ploughshares
Project Ploughshares is an ecumenical agency of the Canadian Council of Churches established in 1976 to implement the churches’ call to be peacemakers and to work for a world in which justice will flourish and peace abound. The mandate given to Project Ploughshares is to work with churches and related organizations, as well as governments and non-governmental organizations, in Canada and abroad, to identify, develop, and advance approaches that build peace and prevent war, and promote the peaceful resolution of political conflict … (full text Homepage).
What we do; Abolish; Control; Reduce; Build; Support; Library; E-newsletter;
Address: Project Ploughshares, 57 Erb Street West, Waterloo ON N2L 6C2, UK;
Contact.
Who we are: A Commitment to Building Peace and Preventing War. Continuer la lecture de « Project Ploughshares »
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute SIPRI
a top global think thank
SIPRI is an independent international institute dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament. Established in 1966, SIPRI provides data, analysis and recommendations, based on open sources, to policymakers, researchers, media and the interested public. (Homepage).
Organization; Research; Vacancies; Left column: Links to recent Publications, Subjetcs, Series; Publications; Newsletter; Databases; Blogs;
Address: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Signalistgatan 9, SE-169 70 Solna, Sweden;
Contact.
About: SIPRI is an independent international institute dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament. Continuer la lecture de « Stockholm International Peace Research Institute SIPRI »
Canadian Pugwash Group CPG
more than 50 years of working for peace and security
The purpose of the Pugwash Conferences is to provide scholarly insights into the prevention and resolution of armed conflict, including nuclear abolition and nuclear and conventional disarmament, control of the arms trade, the peaceful resolution of ethnic and other disputes within and among states, and to contribute to the solutions for socioeconomic and environmental threats to human security.
Nuclear disarmament is and has always been of central importance to Pugwash. Canadian Pugwash participates annually in the international conference, and on the Pugwash Council. (Nuclear Disarmament).
Homepage; Sitemap;
Global Security Issues; Corr with Gov; Member Articles; Links; Donate;
Address: Canadian Pugwash Group, ATTN: Adele Buckley, 6 Tepee Court, Toronto, ON, M2J 3A9, Canada;
Contact.
About: We are the national affiliate of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, an international organization, awarded the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize, together with its founder Sir Joseph Rotblat. Continuer la lecture de « Canadian Pugwash Group CPG »
Science for Peace.ca
peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be achieved by understanding (Albert Einstein).
Welcome: Science for Peace is a Canadian organization consisting of natural scientists, engineers, social scientists, scholars in the humanities and people from the wider community. We seek to understand and act against the forces that make for militarism, environmental destruction, and social injustice here and abroad. Membership in Science for Peace offers one avenue to influence wider society about these crucial problems … (full text Homepage).
Sitemap;
Events: coming, past; Brochure; Newsletter; Links; Donate;
Address: Science for Peace.ca, A306 University College, 15 King’s College Circle, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3H7, Canada;
Contacts.
What we do: Conferences, forums, and seminars … Working Groups and Projects, Day to day research, information dissemination and public outreach of Science for Peace occurs through its Working Groups and through specific Projects. Continuer la lecture de « Science for Peace.ca »
Reaching Critical Will
Linked on our blogs with Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom WILPF.
- Reaching Critical Will strives for the abolition of nuclear weapons. As a project of the oldest women’s peace organisation in the world, RCW recognises that nuclear weapons play an integral role in the militarism, ecological destruction, and social injustice plauging our world today. Therefore, RCW works not just for nuclear abolition but also for total and universal disarmament, the reduction of global military spending, and demilitarisation of politics and society.
- Disarmament cannot be for the sake of disarmament itself. It must be for the promotion of true human security and all life on the planet. To advocate successfully for nuclear disarmament and human security, civil society needs to establish a discourse that helps us to understand the relationship between nuclear weapons and the structures that maintain them and to identify those who benefit from the maintenance of nuclear weapons. Reaching Critical Will seeks to help this discourse … (about 1/2).
Homepage;
Staff, Interns; News; Action; Critical Issues; Treaties;
Address: Reaching Critical Will, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom WILPF, UN Office, 777 UN Plaza, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10017, USA;
Contact.
About WILPF. Continuer la lecture de « Reaching Critical Will »