links for 2006-06-19
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This site collects unusual spellings of a particular kind, which have come to be called eggcorns. Typical examples include free reign (instead of free rein) or hone in on (instead of home in on), and many more or less common reshapings of words and expres(tags: English)
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The Internet’s most extensive collection of free Spanish learning tools.(tags: Español)
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Cognitive research on metaphoric concepts of time has focused on differences between moving ego
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Climbing the Mountain of Languages.(tags: ????)
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What about a grammar book for this weekend? This idea may seem awfully boring, but this time the book is dealing with our old “Darija” dialect…
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This report describes AJ, a woman whose remembering dominates her life. Her memory is “nonstop, uncontrollable, and automatic.” AJ spends an excessive amount of time recalling her personal past with considerable accuracy and reliability. If given a da(tags: Psychology)
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The Piraha˜ language challenges simplistic application of Hockett’s nearly universally accepted design features of human language by showing that some of these features (interchangeability,
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Sudanic Africa is an international academic journal devoted to the presentation and discussion of historical sources on the Sudanic belt, the area between the Sahara and the Bay of Niger, the Atlantic and the Indian Oceans. The journal typically presents
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Eurames is the organizer of the European network of Middle Eastern Studies, an academic exchange or information concerning research on the Middle East. Eurames runs the Eurames Info Service via email, and will host thematic working groups and links to Eur(tags: Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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The Centre of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (CMEIS) was founded in 1960 by Professor Arthur Arberry to foster an interest in the Middle East, particularly the modern Middle East, amongst Cambridge scholars, students and the general public, and to sup(tags: Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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A blog about keyboarding in diverse scripts, literacy and digital literacy, and random quotes selected from the history of writing system theory.
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The London Middle East Institute (LMEI) draws upon the resources of London and SOAS to provide teaching, training, research, publication, consultancy, outreach and other services related to the Middle East. It serves as a neutral forum for the considerati(tags: UK Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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Bienvenido a la página Web del Departamento de Estudios Árabes e Islámicos de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid.(tags: Spain Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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The Serious Games Initiative is focused on uses for games in exploring management and leadership challenges facing the public sector. Part of its overall charter is to help forge productive links between the electronic game industry and projects involving(tags: Public_Policy)
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The online clearinghouse for Democratic action.(tags: Democrats)
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The Fair Use Network provides information to activists, artists, scholars, and anyone else who has questions about “IP” (intellectual property) law. Our basic purpose is to support fair use and other free expression safeguards within the law, because free(tags: Writing)
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The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs. This is what sets freesound apart from other splendid libraries like ccMixter. New to this site? Read the What is Freesound(tags: Internet)
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Barcelona(tags: Spain Universities:Foreign)
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Words cannot begin to describe the awesome eruption that is created from mixing Mentos candy and soda. Eruptions of up to 18 feet are possible if this technique is done correctly. Steve Spangler shares this experiment from his television show… and a lin
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LarkNews was founded in Denver, Colorado, in 1956 as the local church newsletter for Flatiron Community Church, but its breadth of stories stirred wider interest, and by 1963 LarkNews was being mailed to subscribers in 44 states and Canada. Since then the(tags: Christianity)
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The disciplines of The Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages are History of culture, theatre and religion, Area studies of Asia , the Middle East and Africa , Oriental languages as well as several interdisciplinary subjects.(tags: Middle_Eastern_Studies Norway)
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The University of Oslo is Norway’s largest and oldest institution of higher education. It was founded in 1811 when Norway was still under Danish rule. Today the University of Oslo has approx. 30,000 students and 4,600 employees. Four Nobel Prize winners(tags: Universities:Foreign Norway)
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PRIO was founded in 1959 and became a fully independent institute in 1966. It was one of the first centres of peace research in the world, and it is Norway’s only peace research institute. Its founding and early influence were instrumental in projecting(tags: Norway World_Peace)
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As the divers scour the ocean beds, a few of its treasures float to the surface(tags: ????)
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Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) is the first modern university established in Vietnam. VNU has undergone various development stages: the University of Indochina established on 16 May, 1906; Vietnam National University (November, 1945); the Univer(tags: Vietnam Universities:Foreign)
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The CSU is a leader in high-quality, accessible, student-focused higher education. With 23 campuses, 405,000 students, and 44,000 faculty and staff, we are the largest, the most diverse, and one of the most affordable university systems in the country. We(tags: Universities:California)
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The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system comprises 32 colleges and universities, including 25 two-year colleges and seven state universities. The system is separate from the University of Minnesota.(tags: Minnesota Universities)
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The Connecticut State University System is the largest public university system in Connecticut and consists of four comprehensive universities with more than 36,000 students and 150,000 alumni. The universities offer high-quality graduate and undergraduat(tags: Universities Connecticut)
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The principal mission of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) at the University of California at Berkeley is to enhance awareness of the Middle East and of its diverse peoples and cultures. The center promotes both specialized knowledge and public(tags: California Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) at the University of Arizona (UA) was created in 1975 with federal and University support and has grown to include 81 members, 65 of whom are faculty. The Center supports and promotes Middle East studies-relate(tags: Arizona Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (popularly known as BRISMES) was established in 1973 to encourage and promote the study of the Middle East in the United Kingdom. It brings together teachers, researchers, students, diplomats, journalists and(tags: Middle_Eastern_Studies UK)
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Founded and incorporated in the District of Columbia in 1982, the Institute of Turkish Studies (ITS) is the only non-profit, private educational foundation in the United States exclusively dedicated to the support and development of Turkish Studies in Ame(tags: Turkey Washington_DC)
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Founded in 1985, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy was established to advance a balanced and realistic understanding of American interests in the Middle East. Under the guidance of a distinguished and bipartisan Board of Advisors, the Institut(tags: Think_Tanks Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) is a non-political association that fosters the study of the Middle East, promotes high standards of scholarship and teaching, and encourages public understanding of the region and its peoples through programs, p(tags: Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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The Middle East Studies Program at the University of Virginia is an interdisciplinary program that coordinates and organizes events relating primarily to the Arab world, Israel, Iran and Turkey.(tags: Virginia Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies is an interdisciplinary research center devoted to the study of the modern history and contemporary affairs of the Middle East. The Center seeks to impart an understanding of Middle Eastern pas(tags: Israel Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University was created in 1966 to foster the interdisciplinary study of the modern and contemporary Middle East and to enhance public understanding of the region. The Kevorkian Center’s activ(tags: NYC Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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The Middle East and North Africa together constitute a highly diverse cultural area within a world now undergoing rapid and large-scale change, particularly in the aftermath of September 11. In this context, the mission of the Center for Middle Eastern an(tags: Michigan Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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Since its formation in 1916, the School of Oriental and African Studies - or SOAS as it’s better known - has built an enviable reputation around the globe for the calibre and quality of its courses, teaching and research. Part of the University of London,(tags: UK Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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The Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding was founded in 1993 by an agreement between the Fondation pour L’Entente entre Chretiens et Musulmans, Geneva and Georgetown University to build stronger bridge of understanding between the Muslim world and th
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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) was founded in 1954 for the purpose of furthering the study of the Middle East at Harvard University. This mandate has included a primary emphasis on the centuries since the rise of Islam and a concern
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The study of the region extending from Morocco to Kazakhstan since the rise of Islam is coordinated, encouraged, and stimulated at the University of Chicago by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES). Established in 1965, the CMES has been supported(tags: Illinois Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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CAMES’ goal to enhance understanding of the Middle East and encourage informed scholarship on the region in all academic disciplines is achieved through its program offerings, cooperative programs with other universities, its publications and the lectures(tags: Lebanon Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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Calculate and find out how to negotiate your ideal salary.(tags: Business)
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CHOICES for the 21st Century is an educational outreach program of the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. Through its curricular resources, professional development programs, and special projects, CHOICES engages secondary lev
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Like all people, Arab Americans are too often described in simplistic terms. Although the Arab culture is one of the oldest on Earth, it is, in many parts of the United States, misunderstood. There are no easy, one-size-fits-all answers. Culture, language(tags: American_History)
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From algebra and coffee to guitars, optics and universities — an alphabetical reminder of what the West owes to the People of the Crescent Moon.(tags: World_History)
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The Center’s mission is to promote effective civil-military management in international humanitarian assistance, disaster response and peacekeeping through education, training, research and information programs.(tags: Relief)
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VillageReach’s mission is to save lives and improve well-being in developing countries by increasing community access to healthcare and other essential services.(tags: Poverty)
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Our mission is to address the full range of global security issues by probing the impact of economic, social, institutional and environmental conditions that affect regional stability and global security. We emphasize non-proliferation due to its conseq(tags: Security Pacific_Northwest)
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Applying the best in social science, legal and policy expertise to the complex and controversial issues raised by international migration.(tags: Immigration Population)
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Marc Lindenberg Center for Humanitarian Action, International Development and Global Citizenship is committed to contributing to a world of sustainable development, human security, good governance and responsible citizenship from the local to the global l
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To promote a more profound understanding of Mexico and the United States by fostering international exchange and collaboration among scholars, students, institutions, and communities within the framework of innovative programs in research, education and o(tags: Mexico)
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The American Academy in Rome is one of the leading American overseas centers for independent study and advanced research in the fine arts and the humanities. Inspired by their comradeship in organizing America’s contribution to the fine arts at the World’(tags: Universities:Foreign Italy)
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The W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (AIAR) in Jerusalem is the oldest American research center for ancient Near Eastern studies in the Middle East. Founded in 1900 as the American School of Oriental Research (ASOR), it was renamed in 1(tags: Israel Archaeology)
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The American Schools of Oriental Research supports and encourages the study of the peoples and cultures of the Near East, from the earliest times to the present.(tags: Middle_Eastern_Studies Archaeology)
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Mohenjo Daro, or “Mound of the Dead” is an ancient Indus Valley Civilization city that flourished between 2600 and 1900 BCE. It was one of the first world and ancient Indian cities. The site was discovered in the 1920s and lies in Pakistan’s Sindh provinc(tags: Pakistan Archaeology)
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This Web site is designed for those interested in the ongoing excavations at Çatalhöyük, Turkey. Its aim is to provide information about the activities of the Project and of the different aspects of the research being conducted at Çatalhöyük.(tags: Turkey Archaeology)
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The American Institute of Bangladesh is a consortium of US universities and colleges involved in research on Bangladesh. Our mission is to improve the scholarly understanding of Bangladesh culture and society in the United States and to promote educationa(tags: Bangladesh)
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The American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) was founded in 1984 to promote the systematic study of North Africa among interested scholars, specialists, students, and others concerned with the region. AIMS sponsors The Journal of North African Studie
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The Tangier American Legation Museum (TALM), a thriving cultural center, museum, conference center and library in the heart of the old medina in Tangier, is housed in the only historic landmark of the United States located abroad. Saved from destruction b(tags: Morocco)
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CEMAT (Centre d’études maghrébines à Tunis) is the overseas research center of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS). It is housed in an old villa in the center of Tunis, and offers to AIMS members quiet office space, a specialized library(tags: Tunisia)
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The American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS), established in 1973, is a non-profit, tax-exempt, non-partisan educational organization and a member of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers. Its mission is to encourage and support researc(tags: Pakistan)
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The American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1996. The purpose of the institute is to bring together scholars from a wide range of disciplines and foster research on Sri Lanka.(tags: Sri_Lanka)
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The British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS) is the largest UK academic association for the study of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives and the South Asian Diaspora. BASAS is now in its 20th year!(tags: South_Asia)
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Project South Asia is a Web-based digital library for improving the study and teaching of South Asia, focusing especially on India and Pakistan.(tags: South_Asia)
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The West African Research Association (WARA) was founded in 1989 to enhance collaborative research and scholarly exchange between U.S. and West African scholars, educators, and institutions and to increase knowledge about and interest in Africa in the U.S(tags: Africa)
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The African Politics Conference Group promotes recognition within professional associations of the theoretical and methodological contributions to the discipline of political scientists whose research and professional interests center largely or in part u(tags: Africa)
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MATRIX, working in cooperation with the African Studies Center at MSU, and in partnership with premiere research institutions in Africa, is pioneering the African Online Digital Library. The goal of this fully accessible online digital repository is to ad(tags: Africa)
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The African Studies Association was founded in 1957 as a non-profit organization open to all individuals and institutions interested in African affairs. Its mission is to bring together people with a scholarly and professional interest in Africa. The ASA(tags: Africa)
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To improve scholarship about Palestinian affairs, expand the pool of experts knowledgeable about the Palestinians, and strengthen linkages among Palestinian, American, and foreign research institutions and scholars.(tags: Palestine Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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Founded in 1990, the Applied Research Institute of Jerusalem (ARIJ) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting sustainable development in the occupied Palestinian territories and the self-reliance of the Palestinian people through greater control
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The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII – formerly the American Association for Research in Baghdad, AARB), has been established to promote scholarly research on and in Iraq, ancient Mesopotamia. The Institute, a consortium of American(tags: Iraq)
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The American Institute of Afghanistan Studies (AIAS) is a private, non-profit organization run by scholars with the aim of promoting and encouraging the systematic study of the culture, society, land, languages, health, peoples and history of Afghanistan.(tags: Afghanistan)
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Founded in 1999, the Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) is an international, non-governmental, not-for-profit membership-based consortium of universities, organizations and individuals dedicated to study, teaching and research on Khmer civilization and the cu(tags: Cambodia)
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The American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) is a non-profit educational institution dedicated to promoting American and Turkish research and exchange related to Turkey in all fields of the humanities and social sciences. ARIT provides support for the(tags: Turkey)
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The American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) is a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1948 by a consortium of educational and cultural institutions to support research on Egyptian history and culture, foster broader knowledge about Egypt among the(tags: Egypt)
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The Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies is a new department designed to explore what is sometimes called the birthplace of Western civilization. It builds on the strengths of Brown’s former Department of Egyptology, widening the i(tags: Archaeology Egypt)
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There must be about 5 000 000 pages using the Turkish Language on the Internet. This page presents a selection of Turkish Language sites that may be useful for Turkish Language Learning. In this way we want to create a kind of virtual town (”kent”) where(tags: Türkçe)
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American Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA) aims to facilitate communication and cooperation between teachers of Arabic and to promote study, criticism, research and instruction in the field of Arabic language pedagogy, Arabic linguistics and Arabic(tags: ????)
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Adalah is an independent human rights organization, registered in Israel. It is a non-profit, non-governmental, and non-partisan legal center. Established in November 1996, it serves Arab citizens of Israel, numbering over one million people or close to 2(tags: Israel)
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Call for respect of human rights and fundamental freedoms of all citizens and residents of the Arab world; defend any individual whose human rights are subjected to violations which are contrary to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Intern(tags: Egypt Human_Rights)
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Kav La’Oved is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the rights of the most disadvantaged workers in Israel, primarily: migrant workers, Palestinians from the occupation territories, personnel company employees, and new immigrants.(tags: Israel Civil_Rights)
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THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF TURKIC LANGUAGES, founded in 1985 as the American Association of Teachers of Turkish, is a private, non-profit, non-political organization of individuals interested in the languages of the Turks. In 1993, the member(tags: Türkçe)
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The Sustainable Development Networking Programme (SDNP) Pakistan is a part of the Education, Communication and Knowledge Management Group of IUCN - The World Conservation Union’s Pakistan Programme. Formerly a global programme of UNDP, SDNP has been worki(tags: Sustainable_Development Pakistan)
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The Princeton Online Poetry Project is a collection of poems in various languages, synchronized to digital audio recordings of the texts, read by native speakers. Users of this interactive courseware can enhance their learning experience by access
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Music, song and dance.(tags: Middle_East World_Music)
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Best-selling author Bernard Goldberg has a new book called 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America, in which he lists… well, 100 people who are screwing up America. I guess the name is self-explanatory. Anyway, I like this idea, so, not to be outdone…(tags: People)
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A Plague on Both Your Houses(tags: Fake_News)
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The Center for Internet Studies (CIS) is an interdisciplinary unit at the University of Washington for the study of the global networked society. The Center’s work focuses on the intersection of the Internet and other information and communication technol
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The Global Trade, Transportation, and Logistics Studies Program at the University of Washington prepares students for careers in international trade and transportation systems. Through a multidisciplinary approach, GTTL provides the knowledge and skills t
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The Global Health and Justice (GHJ) Project at the School of Law is a multidisciplinary project encompassing academic and educational activities at the Law School, as well as field activities in developing countries in collaboration with the Seattle-based(tags: UW Health_Care)
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Fritz Institute is a nonprofit organization bringing private sector expertise to address complex challenges in delivering humanitarian relief to vulnerable people.
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Global Partnerships is an innovative leader in the fight against poverty around the world through microlending programs to help the poor help themselves, the development and sharing of model programs that offer sustainable solutions to poverty, and throug(tags: Microcredit)
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NPower’s mission is to ensure all nonprofit organizations can use technology to better serve their communities.(tags: NGO)
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PATH is an international, nonprofit organization that creates sustainable, culturally relevant solutions, enabling communities worldwide to break longstanding cycles of poor health. By collaborating with diverse public- and private-sector partners, we hel(tags: Health_Care)
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The Population Leadership Program brings together professionals from developing countries to expand their leadership skills, and partners with them to create systemic improvements in population issues, familyplanning, and reproductive health at the local,(tags: Inequality UW)
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The Transnational Studies Initiative explores the forms and consequences of transnationalism from a variety of analytical, normative, and practical perspectives. Our goal is to compare social dynamics and relations that cross borders and boundaries and to(tags: Population UW)
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Growing Knowledge about Globalization consolidates and grows knowledge about global transactions and develops tools and materials for displaying and transforming data for analysis and presentation by scholars, educators, and policymakers.(tags: Globalization)
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To be the University of choice in nurturing innovation and talent in science, technology, and development.(tags: Kenya Universities:Foreign)
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The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) is the United Nations office responsible for promoting international cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space. The Office serves as the secretariat for the General Assembly’s only committee(tags: Space_Policy)
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Organizations in various countries established to deal with the various aspects of space matters, including policy, research, development, and engineering efforts.(tags: Space_Policy)
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The Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies (1979) is the infamous “Moon Treaty”. It was killed by a handful of L5 Society Society activists who were the first to see that it would outlaw property rights in the(tags: Space_Policy)
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Since 1958, the IISL has held annual colloquia on space law, the proceedings of which are published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The IISL presently has individual and institutional elected members from over 40 countries wh(tags: Space_Policy)
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The goal of this web site is to help reduce the impact of plagiarism on education and educational institutions. At present, it distributes free software to detect plagiarism and provides links to other resources.(tags: Writing)
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There’s an uneasy co–dependence between those who report disasters and those who bring relief, says BBC Developing World Correspondent David Loyn.(tags: Relief Journalism)
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Did PowerPoint make the space shuttle crash? Could it doom another mission? Preposterous as this may sound, the ubiquitous Microsoft “presentation software” has twice been singled out for special criticism by task forces reviewing the space shuttle disast(tags: Software)
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Behavioral economics explains why we procrastinate, buy, borrow, and grab chocolate on the spur of the moment.(tags: Psychology Microeconomics)
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NGO-in-a-box offers a set of peer reviewed and selected Free and Open Source software (F/OSS), tailored to the needs of NGO’s. It provides them not only with software, but also with implementation scenarios and relevant materials to support this.(tags: NGO)
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IDRC is a Canadian Crown corporation that works in close collaboration with researchers from the developing world in their search for the means to build healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous societies.
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CUSO is a leader in international cooperation. We bring Canadians and the world together to address poverty, human rights issues, HIV/AIDS, inequality, cultural loss and environmental degradation. Skilled CUSO volunteers are working to MAKE CHANGE HAPPEN
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Our mission is to enable absolutely poor people to achieve major improvements in their lifestyles which are sustainable without ongoing support from Concern. To this end we will work with the poor themselves and with local and international partners who s(tags: Relief)
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All the things I didn’t do in Granada, including botelloning.(tags: Granada)
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The mining sector is a major contributor to the Mongolian economy, accounting for about 17 percent of GDP, 65 percent of industrial value added, and 58 percent of export earnings. The formal mining sector employs over 12,000 people and the informal (artis(tags: Natural_Resources Mongolia)
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The atlas arose out of a need to gain a better understanding among Government agencies and civil society about the spatial distribution of poverty across the country. The atlas includes information on a range of different indicators of the well-being of t(tags: Tajikistan Poverty)
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The European Commission provides assistance to third countries in many different forms. In Central Asia, there are two main components – humanitarian assistance to vulnerable groups, and disaster preparedness and prevention. During the 1990s, DG Humanit
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This poverty assessment for Mongolia provides recent trends in monetary and non-monetary aspects of poverty and establishes baseline poverty information based on the first nationally representative household survey. It also analyzes poverty related issues
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REGNUM News Agency is a Russian federal news agency covering news from Russia and neighboring countries. REGNUM obtains information from its correspondents, affiliate news agencies, and partners. REGNUM news coverage embraces all the regions of Russia, ne(tags: Russia:Media)
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The Daily Star established its place in the media scene of Bangladesh on 14 January, 1991. It started its journey with a sense of challenge and a feeling of humility to serve this nation as a truly independent newspaper. The Daily Star made its debt at a(tags: Bangladesh)
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Bangladesh’s Independent News Source(tags: Bangladesh)
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Asia Monitor Resource Centre (AMRC) is an independent non-government organization (NGO) which focuses on Asian labour concerns. Founded in 1976, AMRC has been leading the way in promoting workers’ rights and democratic labour movements in Asia and the P
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The following text of a talk given by Professor Williamson at a conference for history teachers presents historical background and detail on the striking rise of certain sectors of the Indian economy. He discusses, as well, the prospects for the
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Focus on the Global South is a program of Development Policy Research, Analysis and Action. It was founded in 1995. At present Focus on the Global South has three offices in Bangkok, Thailand, Mumbai, India and Manila, Philippines.(tags: Inequality)
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Game Theory .net provides resource materials to educators and students of game theory, including the application of game theory to economics, business, political science, computer science, and other disciplines. Primarily, the site is directed at less rig(tags: Microeconomics)
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Making a billion just isn’t what it used to be. In our inaugural ranking of the world’s richest people 20 years ago, we uncovered some 140 billionaires. Just three years ago we found 476. This year the list is a record 793. They’re worth a combined $2(tags: People)
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The index is compiled using the Fund for Peace’s internationally recognized methodology, the Conflict Assessment System Tool (CAST). It assesses violent internal conflicts and measures the impact of mitigating strategies. In addition to rating indicators(tags: Conflict Corruption)
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His 17-year-old son says he may have to start wearing a paper bag over his head to Newton North High School. His 19-year-old daughter has forbidden him from ever doing such a thing again. Brian Camenker now knows there are few worse ways to score points w(tags: Daily_Show)
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The ACE Electoral Knowledge Network encourages professionals to generate, share and apply knowledge, solve problems, help build common methods, and improve the professionalism of those engaged in activities related to credible, sustainable, peaceful and(tags: Elections)
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Founded in 1972, The Environmental Careers Organization (ECO) is a national, non-profit organization that develops professionals for the environmental field through paid environmental internships that provide highly professional, on-the-job learning exper(tags: Jobs Environmentalism)
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American Humanics is a national alliance of colleges, universities, and nonprofits; our mission is to educate, prepare, and certify professionals to strengthen and lead nonprofit organizations.(tags: NGO)
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EPLO aims to influence the EU so it promotes and implements measures that lead to sustainable peace between states and within states and peoples, and that transform and resolve conflicts non-violently. EPLO wants the EU to recognise the crucial connection
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The Foreign Policy Association (FPA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring the American public to learn more about the world. Founded in 1918, FPA provides independent publications, programs and forums to increase public awareness of, and fo(tags: Foreign_Policy)
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Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies evolved from Thomas J. Watson Jr.’s (class of 1937) vision for a research and teaching center that would address the most pressing problems of its time.(tags: Postgrad)
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What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints? It’s amazing and completely insane. The first part of this video demonstrates a simple geyser, and the second part shows just how extreme it can get. Over one hundred jets of(tags: Chemistry)
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The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library houses one of the largest collections of more than twenty-five thousand core human rights documents, including several hundred human rights treaties and other primary international human rights instruments.(tags: Human_Rights)
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Amnesty International today released the first-ever satellite images of the wholesale destruction of a large community in Zimbabwe — providing the clearest possible evidence to date of the devastating impact of the Zimbabwean government’s policy of house(tags: Civil_Rights Zimbabwe)
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Sokwanele - Zvakwana is a peoples’ movement, embracing supporters of all pro-democratic political parties, civic organizations and institutions.(tags: Zimbabwe)
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The Kubatana Trust of Zimbabwe, incorporating the NGO Network Alliance Project (NNAP), aims to strengthen the use of email and Internet strategies in Zimbabwean NGOs and civil society organisations. Kubatana makes human rights and civic education informat(tags: Zimbabwe)
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The Zimbabwe Agricultural Welfare trust has been established to provide a focal point for International Worldwide support for the beleaguered farming community in Zimbabwe.(tags: Agriculture Zimbabwe)
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The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has been in existence since 1980, when it was formed as a loose alliance of nine majority-ruled States in Southern Africa known as the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC), with the
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The World Council of Churches (WCC) is the broadest and most inclusive among the many organized expressions of the modern ecumenical movement, a movement whose goal is Christian unity.(tags: Christianity)
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Privacy International (PI) is a human rights group formed in 1990 as a watchdog on surveillance and privacy invasions by governments and corporations. PI is based in London, England, and has an office in Washington, D.C. PI has conducted campaigns and res(tags: Civil_Rights)
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As war and civil strife subside, can governments turn to the private sector to restore basic services? Postconflict countries suffer from disproportionately low levels of private investment in infrastructure, with only small-scale service providers likely
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Companies based in RDEs are winning share in global markets, making major acquisitions, and emerging as important customers, business partners, and competitors to the world’s largest companies. Through a rigorous selection process, BCG has identified 10(tags: Business Globalization)
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MBIRA was incorporated in the State of California as a non-profit public benefit corporation in 1998. The corporation is organized and operated exclusively for educational purposes and has non-profit status from the U.S. government under Section 501(c)(3)(tags: Zimbabwe World_Music)
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The passionate loyalty of “Portenos” for their city’s soccer clubs is more than a matter of familial and local tradition, says Carlos Forment: amid social and economic crisis it becomes a source of the remaking of civic identity.
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The Global Development Network (GDN) is a worldwide network of research and policy institutes working to provide a fresh and relevant perspective to the development challenges of our time. At GDN, we strongly believe that policy-relevant research, if prop(tags: Third_World Sustainable_Development)
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In the past, the international community’s efforts to combat corruption have largely focused on promoting regulatory frameworks or codes; and while public integrity requires a set of explicit rules, complex regulations alone do not reduce corrupt practi(tags: Corruption Parties)
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Today, few informed commentators question that the private sector plays a critical role in growth and poverty reduction. The ideological debates of the past are giving way to more pragmatic discussions about how best to unleash and expand that contributio
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In support of intercultural dialogue, fair sustainable development and human rights.(tags: Egypt)
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“A view of Africa and Africans with a focus on entrepreneurship,innovation,technology,practical remedies and other self sustaining activities.”…..Emeka Okafor(tags: Africa Sustainable_Development)
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The team, which currently manages the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, is one of the few groups that were able to switch over from underground activity to openly working under democratic conditions without difficulties. The members of the Helsinki Co(tags: Poland Human_Rights)
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The Institute is officially recognised by the United Nations as a non-governmental organisation having consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and operational relations with UNESCO.(tags: International_Law)
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The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers is a university-chartered research center associated with the Department of History of The George Washington University.(tags: American_History)
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The Center aims to occupy the middle-ground between theory and practice in the study of ethnopolitical conflict. Thus we produce research that can generate ideas, tools and resources for the practice of conflict transformation, and we draw on practical ex(tags: Conflict)
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The Mapuche International Link is an international organisation whose purpose is to promote the interests of indigenous peoples and nations of Chile and Argentina.
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3D -> Trade - Human Rights - Equitable Economy promotes collaboration amongst trade, development and human rights professionals, to ensure that trade rules are developed and applied in ways that promote an equitable economy.
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Human rights, peace and democracy are the main areas of concern of the South Asia Forum for Human Rights. SAFHR set up in 1990, is a regional public forum for the promotion of respect for universal values of human rights, the interdependence of rights and(tags: South_Asia Human_Rights)
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Adva Center is a non-partisan, action-oriented Israeli policy analysis center.(tags: Israel)
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Rights & Democracy (International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development) is a non-partisan organization with an international mandate. It was created by Canada’s Parliament in 1988 to encourage and support the universal values of human rights(tags: Canada Human_Rights)
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PATAM is a social movement comprised of individuals and organisations dedicated to mobilizing communities, political leaders, and all sectors of society to ensure access to antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, as a fundamental part of comprehensive care for al
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WOFAK is a national non-governmental organization established to provide quality care, support and empowerment to women and children infected and affected, to enable them live positively with HIV/AIDS.
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A central figure in development economics for the past two decades, Jeffrey Sachs has his sights set on Africa with his most ambitious project yet. Can Sachs lead the world to eradicate extreme poverty on the planet by 2025?(tags: Poverty)
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Online virtual worlds have developed the complexities and comprehensiveness of “real world” society. Affording control and replicability, these synthetic societies are becoming the laboratories of economists and other social scientists.
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During 2005 Tearfund and WaterAid produced an online game to highlight issues of EU aid for water and sanitation. The action is no longer valid but play the game now and see how much EU money you can collect.
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NPR’s Renee Montagne talks to two experts about the past and future of Ladino, the 500-year-old language of Sephardic Jews. Sarah Aroeste has recently co-produced a CD that incorporates modern music styles with many traditional Ladino songs. Rabbi Mark An(tags: Ladino)
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Good news in Iraq has nudged the president’s approval rating up to 37 percent, according to a poll of 1,002 adults released this week by NBC News and the Wall Street Journal. Meanwhile, a recent Gallup poll of 1,002 adults found that Bill Clinton’s retros(tags: Sociology)
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Celebrating our first decade with some of our all-time favorite articles, lots of self-congratulation, and a few sharp critiques.(tags: Media:News)
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This is a web site of all the useless facts, cool trivia, and interesting information that have been collected from various sources over the past few years. True to its name, most of the facts are useless, but many of them may actually help you in the fut(tags: Random)