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But more than that, increasingly, local police departments are keeping records not just of people wanted for wrongdoing, but of every plate that passes them by, resulting in the collection of mass quantities of data about where Americans have gone.
When Mike Katz-Lacabe asked his local police department for information about the plate reader data they had on him, this is what they got: in addition to the date, time and location, the police department had photographs that captured where he was going and often who he was with.
Local police departments can be governed by the city councils, which can pass laws requiring the police to dispose of the data about innocent people while allowing the legitimate uses of the technology to go forward.
After six months, we would connect these women to loans and to markets where they can become local entrepreneurs in their communities.
Sughar is a local word used in many, many languages in Pakistan.
They began as very local and specific.
I feel so lucky, and I've been 35 times in my life, and all those people who come with us return home as great champions, not only for Antarctica, but for local issues back in their own nations.
And together with other teammates in the National Forest Department, we were assigned a task to join a team and find out the causes of deforestation, and make a plan to combat that at a national level, involving the local governments, the civil society, business, local communities, in an effort that could tackle those causes.
Part of that we saw and sell, and all the revenue becomes a fund that now funds conservation projects of local communities as an endowment fund.
Now this factory, unlike Western factories that are highly automated, relies a lot on manual processes in order to generate jobs for local communities.
We need local commitment, global responsibility.
The media coverage forced local journalists to revisit their Muslim communities, but what was really exciting was seeing people from around the world being inspired to take their own 30-mosque journey.
And whenever I'd go to the local butcher to purchase some halal meat, something felt off.
Local militias had attacked Isabelle's village.
Violence in Congo is in large part driven by local bottom-up conflicts that international peace efforts have failed to help address.
The second central observation is that international peace efforts have failed to help address local conflicts because of the presence of a dominant peacebuilding culture.
In addition, these international peacebuilders view local conflicts as simply the result of national and international tensions, insufficient state authority, and what they call the Congolese people's so-called inherent penchant for violence.
Many conflicts revolve around political, social and economic stakes that are distinctively local.
For instance, there is a lot of competition at the village or district level over who can be chief of village or chief of territory according to traditional law, and who can control the distribution of land and the exploitation of local mining sites.
This conflict started in the 1930s during Belgian colonization, when both communities competed over access to land and to local power.
Then, in 1960, after Congolese independence, it escalated because each camp tried to align with national politicians, but still to advance their local agendas.
And then, at the time of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, these local actors allied with Congolese and Rwandan armed groups, but still to advance their local agendas in the provinces of the Kivus.
And since then, these local disputes over land and local power have fueled violence, and they have regularly jeopardized the national and international settlements.
So we can wonder why in these circumstances the international peacebuilders have failed to help implement local peacebuilding programs.
The very idea of becoming involved at the local level clashes fundamentally with existing cultural norms, and it threatens key organizational interests.
For instance, the very identity of the United Nations as this macro-level diplomatic organization would be upended if it were to refocus on local conflicts.
The resulting inattention to local conflicts leads to inadequate peacebuilding in the short term and potential war resumption in the long term.
Local conflicts fuel violence in most war and post-war environments, from Afghanistan to Sudan to Timor-Leste, and in the rare cases where there have been comprehensive, bottom-up peacebuilding initiatives, these attempts have been successful at making peace sustainable.
And there are several other cases in which local, grassroots conflict resolution has made a crucial difference.
Instead, it is that both macro-level and micro-level peacebuilding are needed to make peace sustainable, and local nongovernmental organizations, local authorities and civil society representatives should be the main actors in the bottom-up process.
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