Category: Past Events
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Book Launch: A Theory of Nonviolent Action: How Civil Resistance Works
In this ground-breaking and much-needed book, Stellan Vinthagen provides the first major systematic attempt to develop a theory of nonviolent action since Gene Sharp’s seminal The Politics of Nonviolent Action in 1973.
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Book Launch: Arab Fractures: Citizens, States, and Social Contracts
This report attempts to explore the underlying causes of the region’s turbulence. It examines the fundamental national and transnational trends playing out in the region’s human, political, and geopolitical landscapes, both horizontally and vertically–that is, the interrelationships between these trends both within countries and across them.
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Book Launch: Women’s Emancipation and Civil Society Organisations
Women are at the heart of civil society organisations. Through them they have achieved many successes, challenged oppressive practices at a local and global level and have developed outstanding entrepreneurial activities. Yet Civil Service Organisation (CSO) research tends to ignore considerations of gender and the rich history of activist feminist organisations is rarely examined.
