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Delivering change will take political will and require joint efforts by governments, businesses, and civil society.
The Enemy in SyriaMADRID – The Geneva II Middle East peace conference, to be held on January 22, will take place against a backdrop of singularly appalling numbers: Syria’s brutal civil has left an estimated 130,000 dead, 2.3 million refugees registered in neighboring countries, and some four million more internally displaced.
These figures, a result of three years of civil war, are simply inacceptable.
Syria’s civil war has crystallized the complex geopolitical problem that has long characterized the region: the Sunni-Shia cleavage.
Beyond the geopolitical risks that Syria’s civil war has created, the suffering of millions of human beings cries out for an end to the violence.
A university-educated Syrian civil engineer arriving in Munich will need to learn some German; but, once this is done, he or she is unlikely to have to wait too long before employers come knocking.
He forced out his competent chief secretary, Anson Chan, a veteran Hong Kong civil servant, for her colonial background, thereby signaling his mistrust of the entire civil service that the British had created.
But he was a senior civil servant, and seemed to be the only technocrat who could credibly hold together Hong Kong’s disaffected civil service, which China knew was indispensable to governing the territory, regardless of its British heritage.
In Kyrgyzstan, a landlocked mountainous nation with a history of civil unrest and quick government overthrows, local politicians are furious about the US Defense Department’s recent decision to renew a controversial fuel-supply contract for the air base at Manas, a key hub for air operations over Afghanistan.
In Xinjiang, the locals willingly participated in the political redistribution of land and wealth and looked forward to the end of a three-way civil war that had trapped the region between competing Russian, Chinese Communist, and Chinese Nationalist interests.
We know that progress is possible only with the engagement of civil society, which has a huge role to play in changing norms, driving policy reform, and providing services.
Effective demobilization and reconciliation in El Salvador, for example, ensured the consolidation of peace after that country’s brutal civil war of the 1980’s.
On the verge of civil war, Iraq just announced a restructuring of its foreign debt.
To improve matters, we need to increase dialogue and communication among journalists and those they write about: politicians, civil servants, business people, and religious leaders – in short, the voices of civil society.
Working in partnership with governments, the private sector, and the institutions of civil society, African media can become a source of relevant information, competent comment and insight, and constructive and cooperative socially responsibility, even as it remains free, independent, and commercially successful.
Then the deep divisions over Vietnam and civil rights, combined with a surge of consumerism and advertising, seemed to end an era of shared sacrifice for the common good.
The outside world can and should support the strengthening of civil society, independent media, and a true transfer of political power in 2008.
So far, the decline of what was the Soviet Union has proceeded relatively well;Russia, the principal successor state, has avoided all-out civil war and war with its neighbors.
Under “the moribund,” as the Constitution came to be known, Venezuela not only had eight peaceful presidential transitions, but also enjoyed the fruits of democratic pluralism and strong civil and political liberties.
To that end, today’s trade deals must take a cooperative approach that emphasizes capacity-building and encourages vigorous citizen participation, with civil society in each country assured the legal standing to present cases within the framework of a renegotiated agreement.
Six factors played a key role here:-- a change of generations;-- improved education;-- availability of information;-- a unified opposition respecting classic liberal values;-- growth in the influence of civil society.
As the former Justice Minister and Conservative Party Brexit leader Michael Gove famously put it, “People in this country have had enough of experts,” and “big changes” are needed to change how the government and civil service go about their business.
He repeatedly spoke of building a robust civil society, arguing that political parties will degenerate into sects if they are closed to influence from below.
Only a civil society, in which active citizens are freely engaged in public life and show altruism and solidarity with others, can keep democracy vital.
To quote Havel's close friend, the Catholic priest and philosopher Tomas Halik (whom Havel once proposed as his successor), democracy without civil society is like a body without blood circulation.
Others accused him of pursuing "non-political politics"- a concept of democracy whose protagonists wish to do away with political parties entirely and replace them with the more nebulous and perhaps more easily manipulated "civil society."
The opposition comprises most of Venezuela's organized civil society, not only business, but also trade unions, professional associations, and NGOs.
So Venezuela's polarization does not pit "the poor" against "the oligarchy," but a populist against civil society.
Thus, they chose to prioritize those civil and political rights that they viewed as the hallmarks of democracy.
In practice, this discrepancy created a category of “alpha” rights – civil and political – that took priority in the influential and wealthy countries’ domestic and foreign policy agendas.
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