Peace And Human Security LinksCedar International
Forum for the Implementation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Choike
Choike is a portal dedicated to improving the visibility of the work done by NGOs from the South. It serves as a platform where NGOs can disseminate their work and at the same time enrich it with information from diverse sources, organized in line with the perspective of Southern civil society.
Choike at the World Social Forum
The fifth edition of the World Social Forum took place once again in Porto Alegre, Brazil, from January 26 to 31, 2005.
It was opened to organisations and individuals and a new perspective and methodological approach was adopted to increase collaboration and dialogue during the event. The goal was to avoid repetitive activities on similar issues that were developed independently of each other. This initiative started from the premise that it is not possible to build another world without combining efforts, building alternatives and interlinking common actions and campaigns.
Those who participated in the previous WSFs have contributed to create a new type of organisation, which is more a process than an institution. While being extraordinarily ambitious in its diversity, in the wide range of topics it deals with and in the activities it holds, the Forum is also consciously modest with regard to its role: its Charter of Principles clearly specifies that it is not the only space of convergence.
This is just one more space within a broader process of global struggles and its function is to offer a way by means of which people who share common concerns and believe that "another world is possible" could jump over geographic, cultural and political differences and could freely develop new plans, strategies, initiatives and organisations.
It is a space for democratic debate of ideas, reflective thinking, formulation of proposals, exchange of experiences and interlinking of social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organisations. After the first world meeting held in 2001, it became a permanent process of seeking and building alternatives to neoliberal policies.
The International Council of the Forum has decided that next year's editon will be realized in a spread out manner, in different places in the world. With this, the WSF ensures it's commitment with it's Letter of Priciples, seeking for a permanet process of searching and building new alternatives, which are not limited to the events proposed.
In [the reports at this link] we offer articles, discussions from previous regional forums, news, debates and background information on the World Social Forum 2005. Coverage was also provided during the development of this event.
Global Issues in a Changing World
A new series from Zed Books of short, accessible think pieces deals with leading global issues of relevance to humanity.
Global Policy Forum
The Global Policy Forum was founded in 1993 to monitor global policy making at the United Nations. GPF has a large web site with dozens of publications on global policy issues, and thousands of pages of documents and data. GPF works in partnership with citizen organizations (NGOs) around the world and has actively sought to broaden citizen voices within the UN system. It works cooperatively with scholars, experts and research institutes in a number of countries, to produce high quality analysis and data.
Human Security Gateway
The Human Security Gateway is a rapidly expanding searchable online database of human security-related resources including reports, journal articles, news items and fact sheets. The Gateway was developed in collaboration with the Canadian Consortium on Human Security (CCHS).
Human Security Report 2005
The 2005 Human Security Report tracks and analyses trends in political violence around the world. Funded by five governments, the Report maps the incidence, intensity, causes and consequences of global violence and policy responses to that violence.
IRC Global Good Neighbor Initiative
Inspired by Franklin D. Roosevelt's vision of international relations guided by "mutual respect" and cooperation, the IRC's Global Good Neighbor Initiative is initiating a process of reclaiming this legacy by promoting dialogue and action aimed at forging a new animating vision for foreign policy in our time:
A Global Good Neighbor Ethic for International Relations.
Rethinking Globalization
This comprehensive new book from Rethinking Schools -- more than 400 pages -- helps teachers raise critical issues with students in grades 4 - 12 about the increasing globalization of the world's economies and infrastructures, and the many different impacts this trend has on our planet and those who live here.
Social Criticism Review
An outstanding selection of 1,000 online readings on the crisis of modernity: progress, science for sale, megatechnology, third world debt, counterproductive economy, globalization, corporate rule, anti-democratic media, advertising consumerism, environmental destruction, genetic manipulation, sustainable development, human rights, ethics, responsibility, citizenship, community building, arms race, war on terrorism, and much more. A useful resource for a unified protest movement.
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excellent references for SCR: www.socialcritic.org/ref.htm
The Human Security Centre
The Centre's mission is to make human security-related research more accessible to the policy and research communities, the media, educators and the interested public. The Centre's flagship publication, the annual Human Security Report, is complemented by the Human Security Gateway (an online database of human security resources), and two online bulletins, Human Security News and Human Security Research. The Centre also undertakes its own independent research and hosts workshops that bring the research and policy communities together to discuss a range of human security-related issues.
Third World Network
The Third World Network is an independent non-profit
international network of organizations and individuals involved
in issues relating to development, the Third World and North-
South issues.
Its objectives are to conduct research on economic, social
and environmental issues pertaining to the South; to publish
books and magazines; to organize and participate in seminars;
and to provide a platform representing broadly Southern
interests and perspectives at international fora such as the
UN conferences and processes.
United Nations Peace
This is the Peace area of the UN web site. It includes information on UN peacekeeping efforts, conflict resolution, disarmament and fighting land mines.
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