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Catalysts for Change: Three Case Studies of Quality Education Worldwide [PDF]
, 2007 Public education is the cornerstone of democracy and is absolutely fundamental to a democratic, civil and prosperous society. Beyond the boundaries of the United States, other countries are working to provide quality education to their children through ...
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In the balance? Civil society and the peace process 2002-2008 [PDF]
, 2010 As Sri Lanka slid back towards open hostilities in 2006, existing patterns of civil society engagement in peace negotiations came under widespread criticism on the grounds that they had failed to broaden participation and that they had largely excluded ...
Saravanamuttu, Pakiasothy +1 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
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Alberta’s Civil Society Pre- and Post-COVID-19: What’s government got to do with it?
The School of Public Policy Publications, 2020 The 2020 provincial budget prioritized civil society as a critical partner to improve wellbeing for Albertans. A Premier's Charities Council is being proposed "to advise government on how best to assist the efforts of civil society groups in helping to ...
Alina Turner, Camilo Camacho Escamilla
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Resisting the Global Crackdown on Civil Society [PDF]
, 2013 Civil society is increasingly coming under assault around the world, as authoritarian governments grow more bold and sophisticated in stifling independent groups that monitor elections, expose corruption, or otherwise give citizens a voice in how they ...
Daniel Calingaert
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australia's Robodebt scheme, an automated debt recovery program introduced in 2016, was exposed by the Robodebt Royal Commission (RC) as a serious failure of public administration and source of significant harm for thousands of Australians. Through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Australian news media, this study explores whether the RC'
Rebecca Coleman‐Hicks +1 more
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Financial Position and Sustainability of Associations in Croatia
Central European Public Administration Review, 2019 This paper emphasizes the economic importance of the civil society sector in the national socio-economic context. There is a systematic neglect of the economic and financial components of civil society organizations and non-profit sector in Croatia even
Davor Vašiček +2 more
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Nothing to See Here: Researching Non‐Recent Child Abuse in Schools and the Politics of Silence
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While institutions, including schools, have responsibilities to protect children from harm, responses to instances of child sexual abuse have often exhibited avoidance and denial. Recent public inquiries in Australia revealed that some institutions, particularly in the Catholic sector, employed a deliberate strategy of silence which was used ...
John Crowley +2 more
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Women’s Civil Society Organizations: A Sociological Study
Antakiyat, 2018 From the perspective of thehistorical process of non-governmental organization (NGO) presence, it is asocial reality for today. In the past two decades, women’s non-governmentalorganizations as another social reality has intensively increased.
Mehmet Ali Kırman +1 more
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The Danube strategy in the context of development of rural areas in Eastern Croatia: The role of civil society organizations [PDF]
Geographica Pannonica, 2017 The analyses made on the Danube Strategy shows that it is highly applicable in the economic segment of development of rural areas in Eastern Croatia (Croatian Danube Region).
Demonja Damir +1 more
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