Sentences with phrase «between civil society»

EAPN seeks to provide a platform for promoting indigenous philanthropy, strengthening the credibility of grantmaking institutions, and act as an intermediary between the civil society sector, Government and private sector.

His other areas of research interest include non-profit governance, terrorism, and the interface between civil society and terrorism.

This is a critical dimension of the relationship between civil society and the rise of criminal justice for core international crimes.

The Public Consultation on TTIP's ISDS conducted by the EU Commission indicates a clear split between civil society's rejection of ISDS and the business world's approval of it.

National commemorations operate within a framework of national identity and defined statehood — frameworks that are increasingly contested and problematic within global discourses on the shifting relationship between civil society and the state.

To build bridges between civil society networks and engage with other partners such as trade unions.

The relationship between nationalism and internationalism issimilar to that between civil society and global civil society.As civil society embraces civil and grassroots activities andthe sustained participation of people in communal affairs, global civil society also involves activities of autonomous individualsin the pursuit of pluralism.

The success of Princess Elisabeth Antarctica marks an important development in the philosophy of sustainable development, demonstrating how the climate challenge can be met through goodwill and collaboration between civil society, business and governments.

Political parties are often described as institutionalised mediators between civil society and the formal government of the state - they enable their members» and supporters» demands to be represented in government.

«Mind the gap» she said, using the message in the London tube to refer to the gap between civil society and citizens as a whole.

Imagine if they could become the missing connectors between civil society and the state?

We conservatives must have a clear idea of the distinction between civil society and state, and a way to determine what belongs to civil society and what to the state.

In determining the proper balance between civil society and government, there is much room for political debate.

Not exact matches

According to the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the U.S. faces an infrastructure funding gap of more than $ 2 trillion between now and 2025, resulting in potential losses of nearly $ 4 trillion in gross domestic product (GDP), or $ 34,000 per household.

While the directive aims to strike a balance between privacy and financial scrutiny, it also seeks to publicly disclose some of this information so that third parties and civil society at large can know who holds what currency and potentially even how much.

Last week, I shared with you that the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) just gave our nation's infrastructure a dismal grade of D +, adding that we face a huge funding gap of nearly $ 3 trillion between now and 2025.

Leaders in both business and civil society have focused too much on the friction between them and not enough on the points of intersection.

In squeezing civil society and in effacing the distinction between levels of government, the President's vision would seem to leave little room for the development or maintenance of a rightly ordered relationship between the individual and the community.

Second, partnerships between big business, civil society, and national governments have scored victories against human trafficking, environmental degradation, and sweatshop labor.

«In this arena, as in a great many others, the administration is clearly determined to see civil society as merely an extension of the state, and to clear out civil society — clearing out the mediating layers between the individual and the state — when it seems to stand in the way of achieving the president's agenda.

The signatories declared themselves to be in solidarity in their unequivocal support of the dignity and right to life of every human person, marriage between a man and a woman as divinely ordained and the foundation of civil society, and religious liberty as an essential component of human freedom.

Only they hold to the doctrine that there is a Creator (and Governor of the universe); that each individual owes a personal accounting at the time of Judgment to this Creator, a Judgment that is prior to all claims of civil society or state; and that this inalienable relation between each individual and his Creator occurs in the depths of conscience and reason, and is not reached merely by external bows, bended knees, pilgrimages, or other ritual observances.

The relations between religious and civil societies receive his attention.

By the same token, conflict between rival groups within a society may be intensified by differences in their net reproduction rates; such differences may have implications for the tenor of civil life or the composition and character of the national directorate, factors that may play a decisive role in determining the climate for development.

He is best known for his focus on the relationship between NGDOs and civil society, a new and lively topic among development experts.

• Collaboration between Member States, the United Nations system and civil society, particularly women's NGOs

By holding that the statute did not have an impermissible purpose, that its primary effect was not the advancement of religion, and that it did not require «excessive entanglement» between church and state, the Court sent a signal to the political branches that more creative uses of the structures of civil society (including churches) may now be permissible in the American welfare state.

Nevertheless the Christian doctrine of the relation between the ethics of Law and Grace, the Hindu concept of paramarthika and vyavaharika realms, the Islamic concept of shariat law versus the transcendent law, and the equivalent ones in secular ideologies like the Marxist idea of the present morality of class - war leading to the necessary love of the class-less society of the future need to be brought into the inter-faith dialogue to build up a common democratic political ethic for maintaining order and freedom with the continued struggle for social justice, and also a common civil morality within which diverse peoples may renew their different traditions of civil codes.

In this regard the contrast between Japan and the United States may be especially instructive since in Japan in the recent past and to a certain extent even today there seems to have survived a civil religion of archaic type (involving a fusion of divinity, society, and the individual), whereas the United States has a civil religion of distinctly modern type (with a high degree of differentiation between divinity, society, and the individual).4

Fairly distinct types of solution to the religio - political problem (Or fairly distinct types of civil religion) seem to correlate with the phases of religious evolution as I have described them.3 In primitive society neither politics nor religion is very well differentiated, so there is not much point in talking about the relationship between them.

Procedure takes precedence over substantive precepts and standards, not because procedures are uniquely required in plural societies — all societies require procedures — but because the rhetoric of procedure is required to justify outcomes between parties whose erstwhile religions are different.47 The rhetoric of procedure thus becomes the new common or civil religion.

As Lira points out, the creation of the commission became possible because of Pinochet's detention in England, the subsequent stripping of his immunity in Chile, and the formal dialogue opened up in Chile between the military and civil society.

Augustinian realism draws a bright line between friendship based on shared foundations in civil society and the opportunistic exercise of state power.

(22 May 2014) Discussions on the draft «Principles for Responsible Investments in Agriculture» highlight the diverging positions between governments, the private sector, civil society and farming communities.

Nonetheless, foreign students are worth at least # 8 billion a year to the British economy, the fees they pay essential to the funding of the majority of our universities, with the added benefit of future links between foreign business, government and civil society leaders with the UK.

Thus, for Hegel bourgeois civil society is not the space for freedom of expression and association, instead, he reminds us that civil society is not only the distinct product of a modern social formation (middle class and capitalism) but also an alienated reality, torn between the demand of private individual and the state.

We must at this point know that the Ghanaian condition is a reflection of the conspiracy between the administration and these civil society organisation.

Regardless of one's perspective, Marshall reminds us that worldwide membership to religious organizations dwarfs civil society in terms of numbers; given this reality, her efforts to bridge understanding between communities of faith and non-believers is particularly relevant to promoting human development.

To bridge the divide between communities and politics places a special responsibility on political parties - they could be grounded in both community (and civil society) and institutions of authority.

Devolution in Scotland followed a decade - long debate involving a wide range of organisations in civil society; «devo Manc» is the result of confidential bargains between the Treasury and a small group of local deal - makers, mostly on the City Council.

This is based on interviews with over 100 Libyans between politicians, activists, civil society leaders, and individuals over the past three years in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Italy and the UK.

By Ibrahim Musa (Rafsanjani) The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, CISLAC urges the Federal Government to act decisively in the ongoing rift between the Minister...

Inter-media groups such as Aman Ki Asha and other civil society initiatives were identified as important Confidence - Building Measures between the two countries.

He suggested for concerted efforts between government and civil society groups to find lasting solutions to the canker of head - portering.

Finally, Nick Hurd, the Cabinet Office MInister, spoke for the Government at the end of the debate: I really believe that we have barely scratched the surface of what can be achieved in this country if we strike a more effective and balanced partnership between government, business and civil society, including active citizens in our communities who want to get more involved.

«If things remain as they are - without dialogue between the electoral commission and political parties over the electoral process, as well as between the commission and civil society and the international community - and elections go on as planned, the result could be violence,» Jerome Bonso, chairman of the National League for Free and Fair Elections, told IRIN in Kinshasa.

2) As part of the ESRC Genomics Network (EGN), the Forum acts to: integrate the diverse strands of social science research within and beyond the EGN; develop links between social scientists and scientists working across the entire range of genomic science and technology; connect research in this area to policy makers, business, the media and civil society in the UK and abroad.

Based at the University of Edinburgh, the Forum runs a programme of national and international activities to draw natural and social scientists, policy makers, regulators, civil society and business into an ongoing dialogue about the relationship between genomics and society.

The donation was however met with some concerns from the public, and some civil society groups which highlighted the delicate dynamic between the two nations given the widespread involvement of Chinese nationals in the devastating illegal mining.

The issue of pre-charge detention became a symbolic battle between civil liberties activists and the Home Office under Labour, with many observers noting that the government had effectively scrapped habeas corpus, considered by many constitutional historians to be the foundation of a free society.