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OSF Call for Applications
We are pleased to announce the Civil Society Leadership Awards for master’s level studies beginning fall 2018. Awards are available to citizens of the following countries:
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Come As You Are: Women’s Advocacy and Syria’s Peace Circles
Noura Burhan, Center for Civil Society and Democracy (CCSD) Counting them off on her fingers, Noura Burhan can list Syria’s many “peace circles” without a second thought.
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New Research on Public Accountability in Syria
CCSD has published research measuring public accountability in Syria. Through the research, which was conducted in 2015, over 1,200 people from ten local communities in eight provinces of Syria were surveyed. Public accountability is an approach based on community participation in holding their decision-makers and leaders accountable.
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10 strategies of manipulation
Noam Chomsky – “10 strategies of manipulation” by the media Renowned critic and always MIT linguist Noam Chomsky, one of the classic voices of intellectual dissent in the last decade, has compiled a list of the ten most common and effective strategies resorted to by the agendas “hidden” to establish a manipulation of the population
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Perspectives of Key Syrian actors on “Freeze Zones” Initiative
Given the rising “feeling of despair and tiredness” among Syrian people concerning the deadly conflict, and as a response to the appeal to “stop this carnage”, CCSDS welcomes any initiative that is calling for an end to the violence in Syria. The only solution to the crisis in Syria is to bring the country
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