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Educational
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Global
Policy Forum
Global Policy Forum (GPF) monitors policy making at the
United Nations, promotes accountability of global decisions, educates
and mobilizes for global citizen participation, and advocates on
vital issues of international peace and justice.Located strategically
across the street from UN headquarters in New York, GPF is a non-profit
with consultative status at the United Nations. Founded in 1993
by an international group of concerned citizens, GPF works with
partners around the world to strengthen international law and create
a more equitable and sustainable global society. GPF uses a holistic
approach, linking peace and security with economic justice and human
development, and places a heavy emphasis on networking to build
broad coalitions for research, action and advocacy.
Some of the subjects explored extensively on GPF's website include:
UN Security Council, Social & Economic Policy, NGOs, Globalization,
America as Empire?, the Crisis in Iraq, Nations & States,
International Justice, UN Financial Crisis, UN Reform, and UN
Secretary General. An "Opinion Forum" allows visitors
to express their ideas.
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 International
Development Research Centre
International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is a Canadian
public corporation, created by the Canadian government, which
works in close collaboration with researchers from the developing
world in their search for the means to build healthier, more equitable,
and more prosperous societies. The IDRC website is an excellent
source, in French and English, of free online publications on
the UN and development issues.
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To
the World (in Canada)
Extremely useful web resources related to international development
and global issues developed by The International Development Research
Centre (IDRC) Library in Canada.
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Global
Interactions
Global Interactions, Inc is a non-profit organization facilitating
professional partnerships and development in education, science,
technology, and business. Through exchanges with international counterparts
it promotes domestic and international partnerships that will accelerate
the exchange of best practices, research, and technologies, thus
furthering communication and understanding worldwide.
Its VISION is an international network of dynamic partnerships that
promote enrichment and enhancement of individuals and systems worldwide.
Its MISSION is to accelerate global partnerships through education
and worldwide professional exchanges.
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Third
World Traveler
Third World Traveler "puts up magazine articles and book excerpts
that offer an alternative view to the corporate media about the
state of democracy in America, and about the impact of the policies
of the United States' government, transnational corporations, international
institutions, and the corporate media, on war and peace, democracy,
free speech, social and economic justice, and human rights, in the
Third World, and in the United States. It also provides information
and links to aid international travelers."
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International
Forum on Globalization
A very useful site on issues regarding globalization.
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United
Nations Homepage
The United Nations official homepage with wealth on information
in English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Russian and Arabic
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”Crossing the Divide: Dialogue among Civilizations” is the result
of an international endeavor whose seeds were planted in 1998
by President Mohammad Khatami of the Islamic Republic of Iran
during an address to the United Nations General Assembly. The
time had come to bring the world together in a discourse aimed
at replacing hostility and confrontation with mutual acceptance
and understanding. Looking back, it is fateful that the UN proclaimed
2001 as the Year of Dialogue among Civilizations. Now, more than
ever, a meaningful dialogue is necessary to address our political,
religious, ethnic and cultural differences and even more so, to
realize our similarities and embrace our diversity. In addition
to addressing these issues, “Crossing the Divide” illuminates
the pathway for a new paradigm of global relations for present
and future generations.
To examine the different and shared values in today's cultures,
and better understand how increased globalization will affect
and alter relations among nations and peoples, UN Secretary-General
Annan appointed an international group of eminent persons to lead
the Dialogue among Civilizations. The eminent persons include
former heads of state and government, Nobel laureates and renowned
scholars. They were led by former UN Under-Secretary Giandomenico
Picco, best known for his role as chief hostage negotiator and
for gaining the freedom of the hostages in Beirut, Lebanon.
”Crossing the Divide: Dialogue among Civilizations” is published
by the School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton
Hall University, also the coordinating Secretariat for the United
Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations.
Kofi Annan: "Crossing the Divide: Dialogue among Civilizations
appeals to war will be met with appeals to compromise. Hatred
will be met with tolerance. Violence will be met with resolve.
A dialogue among civilizations is humanity's best answer to humanities
worst enemies… If one doubted the need for a dialogue among civilizations,
let them doubt no longer. 11 September made the need for such
a dialogue crystal clear."
Giandomenico Picco, Head of the Dialogue & Former UN Chief
Hostage Negotiator: "A Dialogue among Civilizations is a
dialogue between those who perceive diversity as a threat and
those who do not. Crossing the Divide is more than just a call
for Dialogue. It is the anti-terrorism manifesto."
Visit the Seton Hall University website for very useful information
and publications on what follow-up steps have been taken after
2001 as the Year of Dialogue among Civilizations to cross the
divide globally at: http://diplomacy.shu.edu/
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 United
Nations Millennium Declaration & Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs)
United Nations Millennium Declaration adopted by
the heads of State and Government, gathered for a Summit at United
Nations Headquarters in New York from 6 to 8 September 2000, at
the dawn of a new millennium, to reaffirm faith in the UN Organization
and its Charter as indispensable foundations of a more peaceful,
prosperous and just world.
By the year 2015, all 191 United Nations Member States have pledged
to meet the 8 UN Millennium Development Goals adopted in the Millennium
Summit.
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 United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
UNDP is the UN's global development network, advocating for change
and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources
to help people build a better life. UNDP's Annual Reports are
highly informative and can be easily accessed at this site.
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Get
to Know Your World: UN Maps and Geographic Resources
This United Nations site provides information and maps on every
country of the world.
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 TomDispatch:
Alternative Perspectives on Pressing Global Issues
TomDispatch.com is researched, written and edited by Tom Engelhardt,
a fellow at the Nation Institute in New York, for anyone in despair
over the global mainstream media coverage of our world and ourselves.
Every few days, TomDispatch focuses on a new pressing global development/issue
by providing an invaluable context on it and by pulling together
the best articles available on it from all over the world.
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 The
Globalist: For Global Citizens, By Global Citizen
The Globalist is a daily online feature service that covers the
biggest story of our lifetime — globalization, available for free
to registered users. Each day, it offers a feature on a key global
issue written by the in-house team or a diverse group of contributors
— promoting global dialogue to an audience in over 120 countries
around the world.
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 International
Herald Tribune
The International Herald Tribune electronic edition is an exact
copy of the printed paper, based in Paris. It provides world news
and views from a truly global perspective in a concise package,
six days per week. Make sure to click on the "Regions"
at the top toolbar to see more coverage of your region of the
world.
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 Weekly
Standard
Do you want to read the thoughts of the U.S. neoconservatives, the
influential group that has shaped most foreign policy decisions
in the George W. Bush administration, including the invasion of
Iraq? Then read The Weekly Standard.
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 The
Nation
Do you want to read the thoughts of the U.S. progressives who
oppose the neoconservative policies and are highly critical of
the Bush Administration policies? Then read The Nation, the oldest
liberal magazine in America--"Unconventional Wisdom Since
1865."
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 Far
Eastern Economic Review
Far Eastern Economic Review, published every Thursday in Hong Kong,
is Asia's premier business magazine. It is wholly owned by Dow Jones
& Company, publisher of The Wall Street Journal. The first issue
of the magazine appeared on October 16, 1946. Since then, the REVIEW
has reported at first hand the momentous developments that have
shaped modern Asia.
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 Middle
East Report
Middle East Report (published by The Middle East Research and Information
Project (MERIP), based in Washington, D.C.) provides news and perspectives
about the Middle East not available from mainstream news sources.
The magazine has developed a reputation for independent analysis
of events and developments in the Middle East.Understanding of the
Middle East in the United States and Europe is limited and plagued
by stereotypes and misconceptions. Middle East Report successfully
addresses these limitations by addressing a broad range of social,
political and cultural issues, and by soliciting writings and views
from authors from the Middle East not often read in the West.
A leading diplomat, Mohamed Sahnoun (former Special Representative
of the UN Secretary-General in Somalia) says, "Middle East
Report's independent and well-informed coverage of issues of governance,
social trends and economic development make is a unique resource
for people who need to keep abreast with the situation in the
Middle East..." Middle East Report does not hesitate to be
critical of US foreign policy in the region and is respected for
its independence. According to a leading analyst, Graham Fuller
of the Rand Corporation, "Middle East Report is the single
most valuable periodical I receive on Middle East affairs, offering
a wealth of material unavailable elsewhere. This outstanding journal
provides truly fresh, unconventional, insightful information and
views that are still essential to my research even years after
publication."
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 World
Citizen Foundation
The World Citizen Foundation is a nonprofit nonpartisan think-tank
dedicated to the design of solutions to international problems based
on the fundamental principles of equal human dignity, liberty, democracy
and constitutionally protected basic rights of all.
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 Global
Nomads Group
Founded in 1998, the Global Nomads Group (GNG) is a non-profit organization
dedicated to heightening students' understanding and appreciation
for the world and its people. Using interactive technologies such
as videoconferencing, GNG brings young people together face-to-face
to meet across cultural and national boundaries to discuss their
differences & similarities, and the world issues that affect
them.
GNG recently returned from the frontlines of the crisis in Sudan
- and it wants to tell students about it. Check GNG's Sudan program
on its website.
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The
Project for Global Democracy and Human Rights
The Project for Global Democracy and Human Rights, at the World
Policy Institute of the New School University, explores issues
of democracy and human rights in the context of globalization.
It identifies problems and points to solutions, with an emphasis
on multilateral approaches. Ultimately, the solution to the problems
of globalization is to expand democratic institutions and the
rule of law to regional and global levels. The project studies
and popularizes these developments and offers policy recommendations
for their further elaboration into a world order that secures
fundamental human rights and democratic decision making for all
human beings. The project recognizes internationally-accepted
definitions of human rights, as codified at the global level in
the United Nations Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and
the U. N. Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and
as codified at the regional level in the European Convention on
Human Rights and the American Convention on Human Rights.
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OpenDemocracy.net
openDemocracy.net is dedicated to opening up a democratic space
- free thinking for the world. Written by and for people across
the world, from South and North, from the powerless to the influential,
it seeks to bring together those who are not well-known with writers
and thinkers of international repute.
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A
Debate on Democracy in Iran
Iran embodies 21st-century world politics: a geriatric, Islamic,
post-revolutionary, nuclear state with a youthful, idea-hungry,
proto-democratic, networked society. Iranians - from Tehran to Los
Angeles via Berlin - rethink their country’s identity and
future on openDemocracy.net. Iran's streetwise youth need democracy
not mullahcracy, says former regime loyalist Mohsen Sazegara. A
virtual majlis responds: Roya Boroumand, Bahman Kalbasi, Bezhad
Yaghmaian, Farideh Farhi, Kaveh Ehsani, Mansour Farhang, Afshin
Molavi
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Journal
of Democracy
Founded in 1990, and published by the Johns Hopkins University Press,
the Journal of Democracy is one of the most widely read and cited
publications on the problems of and prospects for democracy around
the world.
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