Soviet culture revolved around the ambition of a nation of workers to create a new individual and an alternative civilization to the West – this endeavor failed, but left many unanswered questions in its wake.
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The title of this paper, “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde: The Strange Case of the United States,” is of course a play on the title of Robert Louis Stevenson’s popular novel written in 1885 - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde.
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There are more and more people asking how did we manage to make such a mess of it all? Why did we fail to retain and capitalise on the initial advantage and positive evaluation that this country had at the outset?
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Something has happened to the Future; in a sense we have lost it. Concentrating on the moment, on the immediate fulfillment of our desires, we have forgotten how to dream.
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Selected myths, narratives, stories, and the divergent evocation of the past became the recurrent and most important element in the political discourse and mass demonstrations in transitional Hungary.
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Soft power, and the ability to shape information and images in the modern world is the most important form of power. And the real problem is that right now this power rests with Hollywood and the media corporations – says Professor Barber.
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As it crosses the largely unchartered seas of globalisation, the European Union sometimes implements policies which prove inadequate for reforming its economy, strengthening its internal decision-making or seeking greater influence internationally – not least to help shape the governance of globalisation itself.
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If the current trend to globalisation continues, the problems the East European countries on the semi-periphery experience today could become future problems in the core countries. Rather than the core being the future for the semi-periphery, the semi-periphery may well be the future for the core.
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The perpetual search for funds places a huge strain on NGOs in Romania. Often their donors insist on endless bureaucracy. Accordingly, the temptation is increasing to join the payroll of wealthy local patrons. Life usually becomes easier this way.
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The experience gained after the Chernobyl accident provides a wealth of examples. The long-term effects are extremely serious in terms of their social and economic impact and the technical and political challenges they give rise to. Are there any lessons that can be derived for planning for future national emergencies?
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Globalization has greatly increased the flow of people, ideas, goods and capital across borders. This can either lead to a growing concentration of wealth and power in fewer and fewer hands, through a series of vicious cycles, undermining human security for all; or it can lead to a decentralization of power and an overall improvement of human security.
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The international community’s idealized conception of civil society differs dramatically from the actual conditions in which Bosnian civic groups and organizations function.
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One of the main instruments in fighting against corporate fraud in the new EU member states could be corporate social responsibility. CSR is, however, a relatively new phenomenon in the new member states. It sometimes seems paradoxical to new entrepreneurs as well as to managers of former state enterprises to be asked to take on an active role in society again.
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Ten of the world's top photographers were commissioned to capture images around the world to illustrate the impact of climate change. The result is an exhibition entitled NorthSouthEastWest.
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A small example of civil society: the organization of a social campaign for collecting books for orphans in Bucharest - an attempt to turn orphans from institutionalized children into individuals whose merits can be acknowledged.
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Food security (along with energy security) may well be the major issue of our time. The issue is not just access to food as such; it is also the access to food production and to decent opportunities for doing productive work.'
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Today Csaba Böjte has become a well-known figure both in his country and abroad. A Franciscan priest from Transylvania, Father Böjte travels untiringly and goes looking for runaway and homeless children to take them home.
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Without the added values of civil society, democracy could be seriously undermined and further deteriorate both at the EU and at member state levels.
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Civil societies in Europe are a set of colorful, interacting and networking associations, movements and institutions which are not necessarily willing and/or able to address transnational/European issues at the moment but which have the potential for expanding their horizons and scope of action.
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The year 2004 brought the first important change in the behavior of civil society in Romania. It was the first time since the 1989 Revolution when Romanian civil society brought to public attention the corrupt practices of present political actors.
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The story of the Juniata Coffee Revolution is a story about civil society, about consciousness and about citizens demanding a higher standard of social responsibility from the corporations with whom they do business.
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Politicians, run the country! Broadcasters, do the broadcasting! Managers, have the courage to tell the politicians to go away! Politicians, have the courage, have the strength, have the bravery, have the decency to stand up and do the right thing: stop interfering!
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Ever since October 10th the evening newsreel of the local public service television has been showing scenes every day of people dressed in anti-septic clothing stuffing live ducks and chickens into plastic sacks, tipping them into deep holes and pouring lime over them or setting fire to them.
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Even the most seemingly minuscule practices can lead to significant changes over the long term. Activism does not require world-scale measures, merely simple, everyday actions which truly change the quality of life of the individual or the community.
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The more children are read to before they go to school, the more likely they are to be academically successful. With this goal in mind, and given the situation of Roma mothers, we started the Meséd (Mesélő Édesanyák: storytelling mothers) project with mothers as the agents for change.
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At the end of August a huge flood swept over the town of Székelyudvarhely and the neighbouring Transylvanian villages, and razed them almost to the ground in a matter of hours. Within a few hours of the disaster an unparalleled collecting campaign started not only in Hungary and Romania but all over the world, running parallel to the aid campaigns of the Romanian and the Hungarian central governments.
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'Social Entrepreneurs' have the commitment to persist with their visualization of what can be achieved until an entire system has been transformed. Assuredly this confirms that, using their initiative, entrepreneurs can reach for the moon - and land on it.
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While one part of Europe is devastated by fires, the other is covered in water. In Hungary, one week shows record cold, the other brings record heat. The question becomes relevant even to lay people - are we seeing the beginning of the much discussed climate change? What does the expert say? Bulcsú Balázs interviewed physicist Miklós Zágoni, professor of ELTE, University of Budapest.
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We have always been aware of our inability to say ‘no.’ We are fanatics. Having acknowledged this, we have been compelled to develop unique techniques for handling problems and projects. – An interview with the head of the Hungarian relief service of the Order of Malta.
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Our attitudes towards the plight of hunger and deprivation of the poorer two thirds of humanity have to change. There is, although we may not fully realize it, an immense development taking place, a new stage in the progress of the human spirit. I would call it the Consciousness of Man.
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Social entrepreneurs are ’obsessive individuals’ who see a problem and envision a new solution, who take the initiative to act on that vision and to broaden it until what was once a marginal idea has become a new norm.
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America had become a conscious and unconscious, emotional and cognitive reference point for most of the people living in the Western world. And suddenly, this symbolic axis of our world faltered and a fearful vacuum emerged. And our hearts sank.
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Despite constant warnings that it was just a matter of time until a hurricane would decimate the region, since 2001 billions of dollars were shifted from disaster relief to homeland security and the war in Iraq.
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In the near future, we can expect floods, drought, hurricanes and very cold winters in Central Europe. We must start thinking about how to resolve conflicts in such extreme conditions. Training negotiation and mediation skills helps in such situations.
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Ashoka's mission is to develop the profession of social entrepreneurship around the world. It is a global organization that searches the world for social entrepreneurs - extraordinary individuals with unprecedented ideas for change in their communities.
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In the aftermath of September 11th, Afghanistan and Iraq, some of the more thoughtful have begun to think about the intrinsically underlying causes. These could well lie at the roots of the hatred for what is seen as the insouciant arrogance and presumption of Western Capitalism.
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Do you (Visegrad Four) people really want to introduce compulsory visas? Was it you (NATO members) who bombed our country to bits? Are you (EU members) going to turn us into a banana republic?
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'The aim of the whole thing is to gain recognition for these people. History is a part of the identity of a community and there is not one community which has not got a memory.' - Katalin Katz, an Israeli social worker and lecturer wrote the history of the Hungarian Roma holocaust.
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The programme 'meeting of minds' is a method for NGOs to make their voices heard regarding any important matter affecting the society, and possibly to affect the decision-making processes that concern them.
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Where are the "corporate citizens" in East Central Europe? Why is Central Europe lagging behind global initiatives in this area? What can be done to promote good business practises in this field?
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