Tag: Civil Society
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‘The King Is Good, the Political Class Is Bad’: A Tired Myth
Following this year’s “Throne Day” speech on 29 July 2017, commentators were unanimous: Morocco’s King Mohammed VI’s offensive against political parties was more violent than ever. In Morocco, however, the “crisis,” “weakness,” and “dysfunction” of parties is a repeated refrain.
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Feminism in Crisis? Gender and the Arab Public Sphere Conference
In the midst of geopolitical and economic crises sweeping the region, and between state feminism’s lip service to women’s rights on one hand and the NGOization of activism and political participation on the other, this conference asks: what can feminism accomplish?
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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.
