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03 May 2006
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In this years “Summit for the Future”, the Club of Amsterdam is bringing together international Thought Leaders to discuss significant, global challenges and opportunities on the subject of risk.
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26 January 2006
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The University College of Maastricht presents a conference about the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals. Aim of this conference is to come up with specific solutions that will give the realization of the goals in six developing countries more hope.
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25 January 2006
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The Club of Amsterdam organizes a Conference on how to improve your strategy and planning processes.
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18 January 2006
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Do democracies in Latin America have to reinvent themselves to maintain workable mechanisms for representation and control? Professor Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former President of Brazil, will address this and other questions in his lecture on Latin American democracies.
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07 December 2005
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On December 7, 2005, the John Adams Institute hosts a lecture by American sociologist Amitai Etzioni.
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31 October 2005
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Did you publish an article on human rights and democracy in the developing world, between January 1, 2004 and August 31, 2005? Submit your article to the jury of the Lorenzo Natali Prize for Journalism before October 31.
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The Club of Amsterdam presents its Season Event about the future of the USA - its role in the emerging global economy.
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12 October 2005
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Seminar on environmental justice and carbon trading in the Kyoto Protocol.
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29 September 2005
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With globalization, social and economic insecurity have been increasing. Existing systems of social protection become more and more dysfunctional. In this ASC seminar the socio-economic security performance of African countries is being compared to that of other parts of the world.
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28 September 2005
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The SNV is organizing an International Conference to help NGOs and governments achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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09 September 2005
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In the early 90s social scientists considered the social movents virtually “dead”. When social movement re-appeared with the anti-globalism, social sciences devoted serious research attention to the movement. Amsab-Institute of Social History brings some of these researchers together.
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08 September 2005
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Good governance has become the central guiding principle for developmental aid. Efforts to implement good governance often result in resistance. African Studies Centre presents fieldwork conducted in Malawi, focussing on mundane tactics of resistance and subversion.
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30 May 2005
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Workshop on community responses to armed violence
Reducing the number of arms is a means to an end, rather than an end in itself - the real objective is not just fewer guns but safer people.
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12 May 2005
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 This three-day conference, organised by the Faculties of Social Sciences, Psychology, and Law of the Free University, Amsterdam, explores the experience and meaning of security in a globalising world. Key concepts such as ‘Safety’ and ‘Human Security’ will be addressed in a series of lectures and workshops.
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22 April 2005
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ALADIN has the pleasure to invite you to participate in a Mini-Seminar at the Institute of Sociel Studies (ISS) in The Hague.
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16 April 2005
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Are media a luxury or is access to information a fundamental right? A debate with Wilf Mbanga (publisher), Nixon Mao Nyakidzino (former student leader and journalist) and Shorai Kariwa (radio journalist).
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15 April 2005
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 Search for Common Ground (SFCG) requests submissions for this annual competition to recognise and encourage journalism that contributes to a better understanding among people and to maintaining political dialogue in the Middle East.
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30 March 2005
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Conference on water resources management and the water industry organised by the Club of Amsterdam.
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23 February 2005
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Conference organized by the Club of Amsterdam about the future of the Service Industry in The Netherlands.
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21 February 2005
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In many African states development stagnates because political, economic and cultural issues seem to be solved more and more by military means. Instead of playing a rather protective role many African states have become an arena for military competition over its resources. How can civil society organisations respond effectively to this current crisis in Africa?
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13 February 2005
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 Was the bombing of Dresden on 13 Februay 1945 a military necessity or war against civilians? Sixty years of the the bombing, the historian Frederick Taylor (author of Dresden, Tuesday February 13, 1945, 2004) and writer Jörg Friedrich (Der Brand: Deutschland im Bombenkrieg, 2002) address this question with Ben Knapen, historian and former Editor in Chief of NRC Handelsblad.
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10 February 2005
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Lecture by Anthony Heath, Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford. The lecture will report initial results from a cross-national study of ethnic minority disadvantage in labour markets, including Britain, Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Sweden, the USA and Canada.
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31 January 2005
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Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round for poverty level wages. In 1998, journalist Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. The result, the book Nickel and Dimed - or (not) getting by in America', reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generousity -- a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate strategems for survival.
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28 January 2005
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Why has the veil become such a hotly debated issue today - after more than a millennium of encounters between West and East in which the veil played at best a marginal role?
Dr. Markha Valenta, Researcher in Contemporary History at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, debates this issue with Prof. Veit Bader, Chair in Sociology and Philosophy.
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26 January 2005
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The fifth World Social Forum (WSF) takes place in Porto Alegre, Brasil from 26-31 January.
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26 November 2004
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 On November 26, 27 and 28, the Dutch Social Forum will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The programme will consist of workshops and seminars, debates, culture and action.
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16 November 2004
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Streamtime invites you for a meeting with Raed Jarrar, who keeps the well-read weblog "Read in the Middle", writing from Baghdad and Amman.
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04 November 2004
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 November 6 has been set by UN as the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict. The International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons (ICBUW) calls upon you to rise to the occasion and engage in actions to ban uranium weapons.
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15 October 2004
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 The third European Social Forum (ESF) will take place from 15-17 October in London, UK.
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07 October 2004
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Book Presentation of Another world is possible if... by Susan George (Verso Books in association with TNI London/New York, September 2004)
De Balie, Amsterdam, 7 October 2004, 20h00-22h00.
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