Sentences with phrase «within civil society»

If however human rights are given a heightened position within civil society, acting as a brake on any one interest dominating and destroying the interests of others, then Indigenous people will enjoy their unique culture while still participating in the broader society.

To this end, he and his colleagues at the Natural Capital Institute have created WISER Earth, an «open source, community - editable international directory and networking forum that maps, links and empowers the largest movement in the world — the hundreds of thousands of organizations within civil society that address social justice, poverty, and the environment.»

WiserEarth, an «open source, community - editable international directory and networking forum that maps, links and empowers the largest movement in the world — the hundreds of thousands of organizations within civil society that address social justice, poverty, and the environment.»

Those negotiations are now proceeding in earnest, and they're taking place within civil society networks as well.

Quite a bit of the discussion is along the predictable and tired paths of building in some corrective measures into «business as usual» scenarios, but at least a few brave voices from within civil society and some governments are pushing for more fundamental changes in economic and political structures.

Momentum, however, seems to be gathering within civil society in making it an electioneering campaign issue.

But keeping the whole matter «in - House» would be ironic in itself — and that's why it's important this debate has begun within civil society.

Nevertheless, it is within civil society that Pentecostalism will make a key contribution to deciding the future of the region's social system.

In redefining marriage and the family, the state not only embarks on an unprecedented expansion of its powers into realms heretofore considered prior to or outside its reach, and not only does it usurp functions and prerogatives once performed by intermediary associations within civil society, it also exercises these powers by tacitly redefining what the human being is and committing the nation to a decidedly post-Christian (and ultimately post-human) anthropology and philosophy of nature.

Not exact matches

The Jewish scholar Joseph Klausner, for example, holds that the Pharisees and Sadducees were justified in their attacks on Jesus because he imperiled Jewish culture at its foundations, and that by ignoring everything that belongs to wholesome social life he undercut the work of centuries.2 Others within the Christian tradition have felt considerable uneasiness lest the words of Jesus about nonresistance imperil the civil power of the State, or his words about having no anxiety for food or drink or other material possessions curtail an economic motivation essential to society.

Ultimately, the Church's limitation of the state depends on our ability to recover a genuine understanding of the Church's true nature and to regard ourselves not simply as a so - called intermediate association within the state and civil society but as the true whole, the heavenly city, that precedes and transcends them.

In contrast, young Pentecostals, converted to Christianity within a communist society, were displaying some of the same audacity so evident among southern black Pentecostals in the 1960s during the civil rights demonstrations.

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.

«We have failed as a civil society by not confronting the historical, social, and political demons within us,» a Pakistani businessman wrote in a letter to the Pakistan daily the Nation.

However, there seems to be a general consensus among Christians that the civil government has a general duty and obligation to establish order within society for the purpose of protecting its citizenry from physical harm intentionally inflicted by others.

According to Luther, the affairs outside of the home include those of the Church because the Church is an estate within the kingdom of the world and is, therefore, guided by the same laws that pertain to civil society.

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.

The third EAT Stockholm Food brings together some of the world's brightest people in the fields of science, politics, business and civil society to shift food systems toward greater sustainability, health, security, and equity within the boundaries of our planet.

As a democratic society, we continue to witness unfortunately obscene mass worker transfers, forced resignations, politically motivated «proceed on leave» directives and unlawful termination of engagements within the public and civil service under the President Nana Akuffo Addo leadership.

We must come together in a new partnership with our faith - based institutions, civil society, businesses and government to create a powerful locomotive for transformation so that our President's coordinated program of economic and social development policies will create «an optimistic, self - confident and prosperous nation through the creative exploitation of our human and natural resources and operating within a democratic, open and fair society in which mutual trust and economic opportunities exist for all.»

Ghanaian civil society groups within the tax space, have urged Parliament to investigate tax waivers granted a Chinese Petrochemical Corporation, the SINOPEC Group, through an Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning (EPCC) agreement in 2014.

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.

The decision, which has drawn protests from different groups and civil societies, has generated controversies within the academic circle.

It had not occurred to me that such a exploration of the «integral society» was important — or even significant — or that it was necessary to fathom the means and ways that I was situated in the larger social order, immersed in an internally differentiated yet dialectically unified nation state called Canada, living in the fringes of a civil society consisting of an ensemble of practices and relations of power dialectically interpellated by and integrated within the state.

3.1.1.1) Government, migrant workers, civil society organizations and the private sector collectively need to shape a comprehensive migration policy reflecting all kinds of migration, i.e. short - terms, long - term and irregular migration within South Asia.

Within K - 12 education, it seems to me that any study of school choice environments should include an analysis of civil society and the role it plays in enabling the delivery of high - quality public education.

So, it is frustrating to discover within this survey, posted on the website of the School Choice Campaign, a flagship project of the Centre for Civil Society to bring about reforms in schools in India, a high rate of attrition among teachers in the developing world, which averages about 19 % across the countries studied.

Political theorists, going as far back as John Stuart Mill and John Dewey, have long argued that exposure to diverse perspectives is vital both to a robust civil society and to the development of individuals within those societies.

Furthermore, as our new report shows, there is a complete absence of a compulsory and organised curriculum of peace education within UK schools, despite some good work being done by civil society providers.

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.

This exhibition places this local reflection within a broader global consideration of the role of artists in the imagination of emergent states of the early 20th century and a contemporary reflection on the task of the artist in relation to civil society.

National governments, subnational governments, the aviation industry, international institutions, the private sector, and civil society must do more to harness viable technological and policy solutions to sharply reduce the sector's emissions by 2050 and fully decarbonize within the second half of the century.

It is our view — and will no doubt be the view of many within the media, and civil society — that the presence of a UNFCCC official (not least the Executive Secretary) at such an event represents a serious conflict of interest and critically undermines the legitimacy, perceived and actual, of the entire the UNFCCC process.

They were actively involved in planning mass civil society actions within the UN.

ESM 283 - Environmental Negotiation [4 units] Jostes For 2017, the curriculum for environmental negotiation has been substantially revised to focus on the tools and behaviors necessary to deal with polarized politics and the vaporization of trust within and between communities - in politics and in a not - so - civil society in general.

Civil society was totally fragmented throughout, even within the same constituency.

FCEA understands governance to include any system of formal or informal rules intended to control or influence research into or deployment of climate engineering, either internationally, transnationally, within a single country, or within nongovernmental organizations or civil society more broadly.

But secondly, empowering other civil society organizations within Africa to expose them to this new area of work that - you know, where they can make positive impact, as well.

A contributing factor to the low dropout rate and high rate of participation was the involvement of civil society (such as key people within Somali associations and having different information meetings about the research project).