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Religious Peacebuilding and State Context
2016
In this chapter, Steen-Johnsen outlines how academic debates on religious peacebuilding have moved from focusing on opportunities toward being increasingly critical of the potential of such initiatives. A few theorists, like Brewer, Higgins and Teeney, have acknowledged that religious peacebuilding initiatives must be considered as interlinked with, and influenced by, the political context in which they are situated. In this chapter, Steen-Johnsen expands the discussion of how political context affects religious peacebuilding. She suggests that understanding how the political strategies of state authorities aimed at regulating the civil sphere are affecting religious peacebuilding initiativ…
State and Politics in Religious Peacebuilding in Kenya, Zanzibar and Rwanda
2016
In this chapter, Steen-Johnsen argues that the question how do the political strategies of the state to regulate to the civil sphere and the enactment of these strategies influence the scope of opportunity for religious actors to build peace is relevant in contexts beyond Ethiopia. Steen-Johnsen presents three different African contexts: Kenya, Zanzibar and Rwanda, where political strategies to regulate the civil and religious spheres exist in different forms. Steen-Johnsen outlines how state authorities in these contexts, through different means, have launched political strategies to curb, or to some extent control, conflicts with religious dimensions. This, she argues, prompts the questio…
Theory on State and Politics in Religious Peacebuilding
2016
In this chapter, Steen-Johnsen offers an overview over theoretical perspectives which allow us to consider how the political strategies of a state to regulate civil society influence the opportunities of religious peacebuilders. Drawing upon theories of state–civil interactions, she suggests that religious actors engaged in peacebuilding can be considered as being affected by political strategies aiming at regulating the civil sphere. Steen-Johnsen argues that the state and civil spheres are interlinked and mutually influential but warns against viewing actors in the civil sphere as dictated by the political strategies of a state authority. Religious actors should rather should rather be co…
The Secondary Reality of the Media
2018
In this chapter, the author explores the relationship between Bourdieu’s idea on communication and his political philosophy. Bourdieu’s approach to communications was dominated by a paradox: on the one hand, he held communication to be a key social activity; on the other hand, he reach as a scientist for a level of existence where reality is not so much communicated as it is imposed on us. The author focuses on two central questions: Bourdieu’s analysis of the social activities as sign activity and his analysis of political representation and its links to civil society on the one hand and the critique of representative democracy on the other hand.
Zakres pojęć "poradnictwo obywatelskie" oraz "świadczenie poradnictwa obywatelskiego" w rozumieniu ustawy z dnia 5.08.2015 r. o nieodpłatnej pomocy p…
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Perspectives of environmental protection in a new African state: Experience in Eritrea
1998
Il lavoro descrive le prime iniziative dello Stato eritreo in materia di tutela dell'ambiente
Assessment of Social Services’ Disaster Risk Management: Case Finland
2017
Local actors are crucial in disaster risk management; thus, their capacities should be assessed periodically. In this study, local social services’ preparedness plans were assessed using Emergency Management Program Measurement and quantitative document analysis. The specific aim was to study how social service areas of various sizes were prepared for disasters in Finland. The results showed that disaster risk management capacity varied significantly between large and small service areas. Larger areas were better prepared for supporting management, and had better procedures to activate their response, modern public information and deeper cooperation with the private sector and the civil soc…
La vía europea de la razón pública
2012
El futuro de Europa es una cuestión que aglutina todas las energías y recursos culturales, sin excluir a nadie. El elevado grado de conflictualidad presente en Europa se ha debido en buena parte a la consolidación de formas de vida nacionales, ligadas auna larga elaboración histórica en la que los aspectos religiosos y civiles se han entrelazado de modo inextricable. La amenaza representada por reivindicaciones de libertades despreocupadas del bien común invierte la óptica rawlsiana de la razón pública. ¿Cómo sociedades políticas preexistentes pueden acoger el pluralismo sin ser abrumadas por una progresiva e ineluctable fragmentación de la esfera pública?. La vía europea de la razón públic…
Asediar la fortaleza sin ánimo de conquista: La incidencia política de la sociedad civil en Habermas
2012
El objeto de este trabajo es analizar el concepto de la sociedadcivil presentado por Jürgen Habermas y su lugar en el contexto de los debatessobre la teoría democrática. Se introducirá el concepto de democracia deliberativa,haciendo hincapié en su relación con la noción de comunicación y opinión pública. De acuerdo a esta perspectiva la capacidad de la sociedad civil para influir en elcampo público-político puede tender un puente entre las concepciones de la democracia de raíz liberal y las de raíz republicana. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the concept of civil societypresented by Jürgen Habermas and his place in the context of discussions ondemocratic theory. It will introduce th…
La educación en América Latina hoy en el horizonte de la agenda educativa post 2015
2016
The year 2030 marks the renewed limit adopted by the international community —through its governmental and non-governmental organizations— for the achievement of the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the six goals of the Education for All (EFA). We present here a general approach to some of the issues that define and condition the current state of education in Latin America in the wake of the post-2015 agenda. To this end, some key conditioning factors of the context, such as the social and economic inequality that characterizes the region, will be addressed. Likewise, documents generated within the governmental and institutional fields —directly related to education at all level…