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So explain what else is a part of Fire Drill Fridays and how we could participate in civil disobedience without the risk of getting arrested.
It's not necessary to engage in civil disobedience and risk getting arrested, but it is going to become the new normal, I think.
And I continued my career with the United Nations after my diagnosis, going to work for two years in Angola, a country recovering from 27 years of brutal civil war.
Underutilized infrastructure is not simply limited to large-scale civil engineering projects, and they can also include smaller spaces like idle restaurant corners.
In fact, they've accounted for half of all civil wars.
Governments in post-conflict situation often respond by puffing up the civil service.
In fact, you're building a long-term liability by inflating civil service.
These days, I'm much more likely to use words like civil servant.
There is something difficult and messy and vital and magical happening when civil servants partner with technologists at the city and state and national level.
I've been a civil servant, and I've been in charge of policy for this guy as well.
Surely, we should be giving the money to entrepreneurs, to civil society, for people able to create the new, not to the big, well-connected companies, big, clunky government programs.
And I think that what connects the challenge for civil society, the challenge for governments and the challenge for business now is, in a way, a very simple one, but quite a difficult one.
Well I say we have to stop thinking about the number of iPods per capita and start thinking about ways in which we can empower intellectuals, dissidents, NGOs and then the members of civil society.
And if we take that notion of a global innovation fund, we could use this time to invest not directly in government, though we would have government's blessing, nor in international experts, but in the many existing entrepreneurs and civil society leaders who already are building wonderful innovations that are reaching people all across the country.
It's not hyperbole to say that these civil society institutions and these social entrepreneurs are building real alternatives to the Taliban.
It has three ongoing civil wars, the genocide in Darfur, which you all know about, the civil war in the east of the country, and south Sudan.
We fear civil wars, death tolls, having to learn the names of new countries.
Sri Lanka still had the civil war going on, so Bali it was.
The civil war in his country frequently interrupted his architectural education.
But even in the middle of this civil war, Moses hangs on to this idea that architecture can be a way to bridge communities back together.
And people, at the time, feared that South Africa would end up going the way that Rwanda has gone, descending into one skirmish after another in a civil war that seems to have no end.
Now, what is remarkable is that civil rights in America were achieved in the 1960s.
The best civil engineers we had, the best planners, the best architects.
Joshua claims to have personally killed more than 10,000 people during Liberia's civil war.
Liberia has been devastated by one of Africa's bloodiest civil wars, which has left more than 200,000 people dead, thousands of women scarred by rape and crime on a spectacular scale.
And this is why I'm telling you this: Civil society rose to the occasion.
And, again, civil societies breathing down the neck of the establishment.
Civil society is pushing, civil society is trying to get a solution to this problem, also in the U.K., and also in Japan, which is not properly enforcing, and so on.
In Germany, we have a system where you are not allowed to bribe a civil servant, but you are allowed to bribe a deputy.
And this is possible because civil society joined the companies and joined the government in the analysis of the problem, in the development of remedies, in the implementation of reforms, and then later, in the monitoring of reforms.
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