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Participation is everything — a conversation with Erica Chenoweth
Over the last year and a half, an historic wave of uprisings and revolutions has engulfed much of the world and done more to legitimize the power of nonviolence than anything since the fall of the Soviet Union. Just as Tunisians kicked off this global nonviolent upheaval, Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan were putting the
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No sects please: we’re Syrian
The family that rescued us was a conservative Sunni family, but I felt closer to them than the young driver who belongs to the same sect as I do. Why? It was the day of the funeral for a martyr in Midan, the epicentre of anti-regime protest in Damascus. My friends and I were
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Civil Society’s Role in Securing Effective and Sustainable Reform
Today, there is broad agreement that corruption causes unacceptable harm and that failure to address it is irresponsible. Under pressure from civil society, which is composed of nongovernmental, nonprofit, and independent organizations, governments and international institutions have concluded anticorruption agreements and made other commitments to improve governance and accountability. The role of civil society will
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The semi-annual report in 2012
1. Several members of the work team have undertaken a number of qualifying courses in the fields of transitional justice and democratization. 2. Work has been carried out preparing a website for the Centre. This will give information about the Centre and present an overview of it’s activities and programs. It will be three
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The first course on Capacity Building
The Center for Civil Society and Democracy in Syria held its first round of online courses on the topics of Building Capacities (Strengthening self confidence) and Networking (developing and managing communications between people) . The course lasted six hours in total and were held in three separate sessions, each two hours long. ‘Building Capacities ’
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Mission Statement
The Center for Civil Society and Democracy in Syria is an independent Syrian center that seeks to support and strengthen civil society and democracy and promote the values of freedom, justice and coexistence through the analysis of the current situation and developing and implementing solutions
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