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Mapping the role of civil society across the western Balkans [PDF]

open access: yesEURINT
The six Western Balkan countries are experiencing simultaneous democratization and EU integration processes. The EU has been leveraging the possibility of EU membership and EU conditionality for the implementation of a range of policies and promotion of ...
Jubjana Vila, Ingrit Melani
doaj   +1 more source

Smart Bioinspired Material‐Based Actuators: Current Challenges and Prospects

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.
This work gathers, in a review style, an extensive and comprehensive literature overview on the development of autonomous actuators based on synthetic materials, bringing together valuable knowledge from several studies. Furthermore, the article identifies the fundamental principles of actuation mechanisms and defines key parameters to address the size
Alejandro Palacios   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global Civil Society and the Challenges of Global Democracy

open access: yesJournal of Modern Science
This article analyzes key phenomena and social processes related to the shaping of the global social space. This includes the development and specificity of global society, global civil society, and global democracy, as well as their interrelationships ...
Andrzej Niesporek
doaj   +1 more source

Structural problems without structural solutions? Youth leaders' perceptions of their community

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract As young people explore and reflect on the conditions of their neighborhoods and communities, they can forge a critical consciousness—merging their perspectives and analysis to direct both individual and collective actions. Photovoice is a methodological tool that allows participants to document their perspectives and analysis and discuss with
Linnea L. Hjelm   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Islam and Civil Society

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 2003
Book Reviewed: Sohail H. Hashmi, ed. Islamic Political Ethics: Civil Society, Pluralism, and Conflict. Foreword by Jack Miles. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. 227 pages.
Ibrahim Kalin
doaj  

Social Responsibility of the Civil Society: Debatable Theoretical Issues (Part 2)

open access: yesСоциологическая наука и социальная практика, 2017
The article deals with the theoretical aspects of social responsibility of the civil society at a modern historical stage. The author critically analyzes concepts existing in Russian and foreign science on the selected research topic and expresses his ...
Evgeniy Ya. Vittenberg
doaj   +1 more source

Civil society and the 'commanding heights' the civil economy: past, present, future [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Civil society associations can run businesses and they can run organisations that aim to influence businesses. Together, these two sorts of association help to grow a civil economy.
Paton, Rob, Spear, Roger
core   +1 more source

Delivering a family‐based child mental health promotion program among two resettled refugee communities during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Lessons learned in a hybrid type II implementation‐effectiveness randomized controlled trial

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Resettled refugee families face elevated mental health risks, compounded by structural and cultural barriers. The Family Strengthening Intervention for Resettlement (FSIR), co‐developed with resettled refugee communities, aims to improve family functioning and child mental health.
Euijin Jung   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social Responsibility of the Civil Society: Debatable Theoretical Issues (Part 1)

open access: yesСоциологическая наука и социальная практика, 2017
The article deals with the theoretical aspects of social responsibility of the civil society at a modern historical stage. The author critically analyzes concepts existing in Russian and foreign science on the selected research topic and expresses his ...
Evgeniy Ya. Vittenberg
doaj   +1 more source

The contested spaces of civil society in a plural world: norm contestation in the debate about restrictions on international civil society support

open access: yes, 2017
Civil society organizations are facing increasing political restrictions all over the world. Frequently, these restrictions apply to the foreign funding of NGOs and thus curtail the space for external civil society support, which, since the 1990s, has ...
A. E. Poppe, Jonas Wolff
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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