Fletcher Summer Institute for the Advanced Study of Nonviolent Conflict (June 16-22, 2013) is the only executive education program in the advanced, interdisciplinary study of nonviolent conflict, taught by leading
EU accession in 2004 did little if anything to make runaway bankers accountable; on the contrary, the so-called institutional ‘independence’ of the Central Bank making the Governor accountable to the ECB rather than having any democratic accountability to the people who would be immediately affect
Introduction
Participants in the Political Aesthetics of Power and Protest workshop at the University of Warwick and others alert to the importance of aesthetics in politics are looking at emotion
An openDemocracy conference in partnership with the Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre (NOREF), 12 February 2013.
2013 as the European Year of Citizens is a time to reflect on the current crisis and the future of European citizenship. Our partners Oecumene hold a debate on 27
Can Europe Make It? Image Credits
Towards a European Spring
A slideshow used on the openDemocracy front page 19 March 2013:
Protest of Pancyprian Organisation of Large Families in Nicosia.
This week Padraig Reidy and Brian Pellot of Index on Censorship are guest editing the openDemocracy front page. Their theme this week is the fight for digital freedom. Articles include:
Saturday March 9th at 4:30pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
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Hamza Hamouchene on Algeria, Mali: another front in the
Saturday March 9th at 4:30pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Ten years after the devastating war against Iraq and following the NATO onslaught
Will the NHS survive cuts, austerity and privatisation? An OurNHS event in London discusses. Main speaker - John Lister, London Health Emergency. Click for event details.
Does our deep desire to attain the goals of the revolution, blind us to reality and to the process that is unfolding?
