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Or clergy and teachers engaging in civil disobedience to block water shutoff trucks.
It's the path of civil movements, that are based in a mentality shift.
Civil aviation is something that we know very well.
I was sure that I was going to actually experience what it felt like to be a leader of the civil rights movement or a ten-year old boy living on a farm during the dust bowl or an emperor of the Tang dynasty in China.
Whether the Egyptians and Tunisians will make it through the transition, or this will end in bloody ethnic and religious conflicts, whether the Syrians will maintain nonviolent discipline, faced with a brutal daily violence which kills thousands already, or they will slip into violent struggle and make ugly civil war.
Mao Zedong used to refer to them as the European civil wars, and it's probably a more accurate way of describing them.
We could never have done the convention against anti-personnel landmines and the convention that is banning cluster munitions unless we had done diplomacy differently, by engaging with civil society.
In the future, I believe, we should draw examples from these different illustrations, not to have diplomacy which is disconnected from people and civil society.
How are we going to solve climate change through negotiations, unless we are able to make civil society and people, not part of the problem, but part of the solution?
Now, I hope, in the coming years, that we are able to demonstrate through some concrete examples that fear is receding and that we can take courage from that alliance with civil society in different countries to support their problem-solving, among the Afghans, inside the Palestinian population, between the peoples of Palestine and Israel.
And occurrences of civil war and repression have declined since the end of the Cold War.
It is this participation in peacekeeping missions that has led to the resolution of many civil wars.
The good news is that technology is making it possible to fundamentally reframe the function of government in a way that can actually scale by strengthening civil society.
We love copying and sharing, and we love civil liberties.
It's going to take the civil rights litigators, the community organizers, the academics, the media, the philanthropists, the students, the singers, the poets, and, of course, the voices and efforts of those who are impacted by this system.
The key to all this is reinforcing civil society.
Because civil society is key to raising awareness among vulnerable groups of their legal rights.
The military council has cracked down on civil society and protests and the country's economy continues to suffer.
The key is that civil GPS signals are completely open.
To some, this has terrifying privacy and civil liberties implications.
To others it foretells of an era of greater privacy and civil liberties protections, but privacy and civil liberties are of fundamental importance.
What it does is it creates an adversarial relationship between civil society and government over the control and ownership of information.
So when I did the calculations for the lunar data and the solar data at that location on Earth at the time of the incident of the shooting, all right, it was well past the end of civil twilight and there was no moon up that night.
So I teamed up with a gentleman called James Leahy, a civil engineer and a recent master's graduate of the Sustainable Development program at DIT, and together we drafted the simplified model network, which I could then go ahead and visualize.
Well, reducing the market is really one for governments and civil society.
When we originally looked at bringing civil actions against terrorists, everyone thought we were a bit mad and mavericks and crackpots.
A civil action was brought from 1998.
Civil affairs and civil society initiatives.
Because despair, civil war, hunger and famine, although they're part and parcel of our African reality, they are not the only reality.
We have civil wars only in six countries, which means that the media are covering only six countries.
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