Non-violent action has developed into a way of life for many. Promoted by many influential leaders, non-violence continues to be an alternative yet powerful tool for social change.
Check out Scilla Elworthy's TED presentation on Non-ViolenceWATCH presentation here : http://youtu.be/mk3K_Vrve-E
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Gene Sharp is a renowned scholar of non-violent action. In 2011 he spoke with Al Jazeera (English version of the Arabic-language news network) on his extensive work on non-violence. Gene Sharp, a humble, 83-year-old intellectual, has been credited with promoting non-violent struggle around the
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Find here a media release about New Zealand's health inequities that was sent out on the 25. October 2011
Time for New Zealand to step up on health inequities
25 October 2011
It’s time for New Zealand to become a leader in reducing health inequities, according to health organisations
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This report analyses the background to the incidents, the incidents themselves and agency responses to them dealing with these in the order of the 18 specific complaints addressed to the agencies concerned. It makes three overarching recommendations to assist in avoiding similar situations in the
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Report: Violence and New Zealand Young People
A summary
This report presents a snapshot of New Zealand secondary school students’ experiences of violence including witnessing violence at home, safety and bullying at school, being a victim of violence and being a perpetrator of violence.
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The Journal of Conflictology is an interdisciplinary and peer-reviewed open access journal on conflict resolution. Based on the conviction that non-violence is an effective means to wage conflict, it promotes non-violence both as a method of conflict resolution as well as a strategy of handling conf
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The 'Yes' vote - New Zealands referendum on Child Disapline 2009
New Zealand's child protection law (the legislation to prevent assault against children) is under threat by an unnecessary and expensive referendum. Barnardos, Plunket, Save The Children, Unicef, and others are on a campaign to retain
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Since 9/11, Westerners have tried two approaches to fight terrorism in Pakistan, President George W. Bush's and Greg Mortenson's.
Bush has focused on military force and provided more than $10 billion - an extraordinary sum in the foreign-aid world - to the highly unpopular government of President P
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