Memorias y actores by Lorena Soler

“…This paper aims to analyse actors and meanings that, either from civil society or from the State, were displayed around the possible memories of the Stroessner-Era. …”
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Marcas da Memória: a atuação da Comissão de Anistia no campo das políticas públicas de transição no Brasil by Roberta Camineiro Baggio

“…The project is a public policy created by the Brazilian Amnesty Commission of the Ministry of Justicein order to promote cultural initiatives of civil society that have the goal of expanding the right to memory and truth.…”
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Ceux qui sont restés : les anciens forçats en Guyane après l’abolition du bagne by Jean-Lucien Sanchez

“…This article examines the trajectories of these men and the living conditions they encountered in Guyanese civil society from the 1950s to the early 1980s. It also examines the traces they left in the contemporary local memory.…”
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An agency mapping of marginalized communities and aid providers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] by Melati Nungsari, Nicole Fong, Chuah Hui Yin, Veena Pillai

“…The process of responding to these urgent needs reflects the agency and resilience of civil society members in accessing or providing resources. …”
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Social mechanisms for countering corruption in the digital society’s youth environment by M. V. Kibakin, G. G. Korablev

“…The characteristic of sociological research conducted by the authors has been given and also the results of ranking and of determining the weight characteristics of such anti-corruption mechanisms have been outlined, as: the inevitability of responsibility for corruption offenses, publicity and openness of activities of state bodies and bodies of local self-government, implementation of the principles of “legality” and “recognition, maintenance and protection of fundamental human and civil rights and freedoms in Russia”, the integrated use of political, organizational, awareness-raising, socio-economic, legal, special and other measures, priority application of measures to prevent corruption, creating attitudes among the population not to accept corrupt actions as a way to solve their problems, forming a legal consciousness among young people that rejects corruption as an acceptable form of behavior and acceptable social practice for achieving success in life, cooperation between the state and civil society institutions, international organizations and individuals, development of digital technologies and virtual services in the system of corruption prevention, training and training of personnel in the field of theory and practice of corruption prevention, creation of public councils under the authorities with the participation of representatives of civil society, public opinion leaders, scientists, artists to develop measures to prevent corruption. …”
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Policy analysis of the Global Financing Facility in Uganda by Phillip Wanduru, Doris Kwesiga, Mary Kinney, Asha George, Peter Waiswa

“…The process was steered by technocrats from government agencies, donor agencies, academics and selected civil society organisations, along with the involvement of political figures. …”
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CHRISTIANITY, ART AND TRANSFORMATION by J.W. De Gruchy

“…The second is a paper on “Art, Culture and Transformation” presented at the Conference on Arts and Reconciliation in Civil Society, University of Pretoria, 14-20 March 2005. …”
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Naissance et dynamique de la nouvelle pensée économique bolivienne by Diego Landivar

“…With actual Financial crisis, economists’ work has been criticized by civil society. This article tries to explore the conditions and limits that lead to independent economic thoughts in relation to standard models. …”
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Le rôle des institutions nationales et internationales pour contrer le trafic illicite des biens culturels by René Teijgeler

“…Within Afghanistan international military forces could assist train the Afghan Heritage Police and civil society should include cultural heritage in their development plans.…”
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Propagande catholique et littérature populaire : l’Église face aux défis de la question sociale (1876-1902) by Solange Hibbs

“…During the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century, the Spanish Catholic Church, encouraged by the Pope Leo xiii encyclicals and the six National Catholic Assemblies which took place from 1889 to 1903, sustained an offensive strategy of rechristianization of the civil society. In order to do so, the Catholic Spanish Church benefited from the freedom of expression and association implemented after the sexenio. …”
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Resurgent Fundamentalism, Politics, and the Anti-Liberal Agenda: Challenges for South Africa’s Constitutional Democracy by Dale Wallace

“… Against the background of changes in the religion-state relationship in South Africa since 2009, this essay provides the foundational history of a resurgent fundamentalist Christian alliance that seeks to exert influence in politics, state institutions, and civil society. The discussion includes the growth of fundamentalist groups in the United States that established the religious right as a political force on which the alliance’s stringent anti-liberal agenda and strategies are modelled. …”
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La subjetividad como potencial democratizador: análisis de la esfera pública desde la teoría de la acción comunicativa by Rommy Morales Olivares, Andrea Silva Tapia

“…This experience represents either a restriction or a potential both for the development of action and the expression of civil society will in the public sphere. It shows that the more precarious the experience of change is, the smaller will be peoples ability to exercise their citizenship in the public political space.…”
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Local self-government powers: on content and correlation with related concepts by M. A. Sambor

“…The study focuses on the understanding that local self-government and local self-government bodies are a product of civil society and are called upon to regulate, promote and implement the interests of civil society, associations of citizens, in particular, on the territorial principle, as well as individuals. …”
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Perceived barriers to reaching equity in effective access to diagnosis and treatment for women with breast cancer in Chile by Carla Campaña, Báltica Cabieses, Alexandra Obach, Francisca Vezzani

“…Theoretical sampling guided the selection of diverse participant profiles, comprising breast cancer patients, healthcare professionals and a civil society leader. The strategies for the recruitment process included social networks, civil society organizations, health professionals, and the snowball technique. …”
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Le Sénégal dans l’ère de l’information (1996-2006) by Olivier Sagna

“…This evolution went along with numerous projects funded by international donors while civil society was advocating mobilization for social and societal challenges be taken in account. …”
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Caricatura, censura y dictadura: los retratos cómicos de Videla (Argentina, 1976-1981) by Mara Burkart

“…This changed and caricature reached a peak of great splendor with the reactivation of civil society and the regime’s collapse after the defeat in the Falklands War (Guerra de Malvinas).…”
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Les acteurs publics locaux et l’écologisation de l’agriculture by Pascale Scheromm, Annabel Rixen, Lucette Laurens, Christophe-Toussaint Soulard

“…Our results highlight the implication of non agricultural local actors in the emergence of these initiatives, in particular elected representatives in particular elected representatives and environmental managers, in connection with associations of the civil society and environmental managers. These results point out a plural process of territorialisation of the agroecology and its effects on the greening of the agricultural practices.…”
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Violência urbana em Novo Hamburgo: notas introdutórias by Margarete Panerai Araújo, Daniela Müller de Quevedo, Luciana Hoppe, Suzel Lisiana Jansen, Cássia Rebelo Hofstatter

“…The data lead to the conclusion that in such a context civil society is insecure and afraid of violence. They also show the importance of promoting public policies.…”
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La médiation paysagère au prisme de la recherche-action : éléments de réflexion by Samira Khettab

“…Approaching the territory through the landscape is a productive approach allowing the sharing of decision-making between local actors, and in particular through reinforcing the role of non-institutional actors and non-organized civil society. This article focuses on landscape mediation from the perspective of research and action-research providing examples of landscape mediation examined via a conceptual framework. …”
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Informação, meio ambiente e atores sociais: mediação dos conflitos socioambientais by Aloisio Ruscheinsky

“…At the same time, this study emphasizes practices of social actors in civil society and public managers in terms of decision making for other social and environmental practices, as well as attempts of public policies enforcement.…”
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