aid
Transferring resources from developed to less developed countries. Bilateral aid is from one donor to a recipient country, while multilateral aid comes from a group of countries. Emergency aid is ...
Amnesty International
An independent international organization in support of human rights, especially for prisoners of conscience, founded in London in 1961. The organization was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977.
Article 9
Article 9 of the Japanese constitution has been, and continues to be, a significant restraint on Japanese militarism. In 1946, when the new constitution was enacted, Japanese militarism was seen ...
association
The activities and goals that link people together in associations have been a primary subject of sociological and anthropological research. In English, the term has been used to translate Ferdinand ...
associativity
The principle of association by which people act in collective, self-organized ways in organizing their cultural life. Associativity is a crucial element in civil society. French political scientist ...
civil religion
In the 1960s a number of sociologists (including Talcott Parsons, Edward Shils, and Robert Bellah) distinguished civil religion from institutional (church-based) religion, arguing that societies such ...
civil rights
In countries that have victimized certain groups in society, this means emancipation, elimination of segregation, equity, and equality of access to the services and institutions of society. See also ...
communitarianism
n. an approach to ethical problems that rejects excessive emphasis on the individual and focuses instead on social cohesion and community interests, arguing that every single person is embedded ...
Community Peacebuilding Initiatives, Faith-Based
As faith-based community peacebuilding initiatives proliferate around the world, the distinction between peacemaking and peacebuilding is important to understand. Peacemaking means defusing a ...
Community Peacebuilding Initiatives, Local NGOs and
With the shift from traditional peacekeeping approaches, intended to stop direct violence, toward longer-term peacebuilding processes, aimed at addressing the root causes of armed conflict and ...
corruption
The use of bribery to influence the actions of a public official. More generally, corruption refers to obtaining private gains from public office through bribes, extortion, and embezzlement of public ...
cosmopolitanism
The philosophical idea that human beings have equal moral and political obligations to each other based solely on their humanity, without reference to state citizenship, national identity, religious ...
Culture of Peace
The concept of a culture of peace derives from the much older concept of peace, which has often been defined as the absence of war. In this regard, one can ...
Democratization and Peace within States
Democratization is a political process marked by a transition from an authoritarian regime to a more open and representative form of government. Although democratization is often seen as a state ...
Dialogue Process
Dialogue has been a celebrated form of social discourse since antiquity, with the Platonic dialogues being perhaps the most widely recognized historical form. Over the centuries, dialogue has ...
disorganized capitalism
A term used to describe the fragmentation of socio-economic groups in the economy, state, and civil society of advanced capitalism (see, for example, S. Lash and J. Urry, The End of Organised ...
Eastern European Revolutions of 1989
In January 1989 communist regimes were in power in the six Eastern European states allied with the Soviet Union: Hungary, Poland, the German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and ...
exclusion
A process by which individuals or households experience deprivation, either of resources (such as income), or of social links to the wider community or society. During the 1980s, the language of ...
globalization
In a general sense, the increasing worldwide integration of economic, cultural, political, religious, and social systems. Economic globalization is the process by which the whole world becomes a ...
Globalization and Peace Issues
The term globalization emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century as a popular description of trends, patterns, and processes purportedly reshaping economic, political, and social life ...
