和谐社会与公安工作

构建社会主义和谐社会是我们党从全面建设小康社会、开创中国特色社会主义事业新局面的全局出发提出的一项重大任务。公安机关作为武装性质的国家治安行政力量和刑事司法力量,应从构建社会主义和谐社会的内在要求和公安工作的实际出发,担负起“维护社会稳定、促进社会和谐”的时代重任。     

Analysing social-change practice in the Peruvian Amazon through a feminist reading of participatory communication research

This article analyses the social-change practices of Minga Perú, an NGO in the Peruvian Amazon which promotes gender equality and reproductive health through radio broadcasts and community-based interventions. This analysis, grounded in participatory research methods, reveals a feminist and gender-equitable approach, allowing participants to take the role of leader rather than of passive research subject. Such participatory research methods helped to empower both individuals and their communities in the Peruvian Amazon, encouraging the development of more productive group dynamics and leadership.     

Facilitators of development or Kapos for capital: the primrose path to GATS

This article arose from work undertaken on behalf of a UK-based NGO developing a policy response to the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). It looks at GATS as a key to locating development NGOs (NGDOs) within the broader field of development aims and practices, examining the long-term implications of GATS with respect to the idea of a ‘fourth position’ for such NGOs. It is argued that this theoretical position fails to take into account changing imbalances of power between NGDOs and their Southern counterparts that began under structural adjustment, as a consequence of which many NGDOs now occupy a position from which effective mediation between civil society, the state, and the market would be difficult if not impossible. In addition, GATS represents a step-change along the evolutionary path towards a market-oriented ideology whose verticalist worldview represents a profound contradiction to the avowedly progressive aims of most NGDOs.     

Diary of a participatory advocacy film project: transforming communication initiatives into living campaigns

In August 2007, the government of Tanzania made a commitment to doubling the number of training places for skilled midwives, following a five-year campaign by the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood in Tanzania (WRATZ), which culminated in the first television screening of a participatory film, ‘Play Your Part’. With contributions from a range of health professionals, communities, a pop singer, and the Minister of Health, the message was that everyone at every level has a part to play in saving mothers' lives. WRATZ was successful because it was able to promote its message in a way that provides a model for advocacy, combining the reactive creativity of journalism and the methodological rigour of participatory video to bring about a tangible impact.     

‘Situating’ active citizenship: historical and contemporary perspectives of women's organising in the Pacific

This article examines a 40-year history of women's organising in Fiji, in order to show how the political goals pursued by active citizens can be shaped by an interplay of domestic and international political contingencies. This approach challenges the common and somewhat idealised definitions of active citizenship that focus upon actors' capacity to mobilise collectively behind political goals independent of those that motivate the state or the market. Rather, active citizenship is viewed as a realm of political activity constituted in ways that both reflect and contest contingent factors prevailing globally and locally.     

和谐社会的人际伦理

在现代社会中使用"和谐"的说法,需要作与现代政治、社会有关的释义,方能明确它的现代含义.我们可以用现代民主、宪政、法制、权利、权威等概念来解释"和谐"的现代政治含义,也可以用别类现代概念来解释"和谐"其它方面的现代意义.著名伦理哲学家马各利特(A.Margalit)在<记忆的伦理>中提出的一系列有用的伦理哲学概念,为我们解释"和谐"的现代社会人际伦理意义提供了一种可能.     

关于工会参与构建和谐社会的工作思考

工会是党和国家工作大局中的一个重要组成部分。配合大局工作,既要系统对接又要有所侧重,还要有自己的特点。为此,当前要重点思考做好这四项工作:扩大覆盖面、唱响主旋律、擦亮维权牌、磨炼基本功。     

制度公正——构建社会主义和谐社会的基石

构建社会主义和谐社会已成为全党全社会的共识,以制度公正来促进和保障和谐社会的建设,是我们构建社会主义和谐社会最具根本性的路径选择.制度公正是剖析社会问题的理论利器,和谐的制度必然蕴涵公正的伦理诉求,只有加快公正制度的建设,才能为和谐社会的构建奠定牢不可破的基石.     

How partnership works

Partnerships can achieve results, but they do not develop smoothly. Members must explore their differences before they can perform well together. Some agencies look inwards at their own priorities and expect their partners to follow them. This leads to a blend of co-operation and competition. Other organisations turn outwards and look for partners who can contribute to shared results. They see themselves as others see them. They do not look back to make sure that others are following. This leads to a blend of mutual respect and reciprocity which is as important for success as finely honed memoranda of understanding.     

东亚市民社会:新兴组织与中产阶层

长期以来学界对东亚市民社会形成状况的宏观研究比较多,但是从中产阶层和社会组织视角进行的微观研究比较少.市民社会在东亚的形成受政治、经济、文化等多种因素制约,找到其中起重要作用的因素一直是一个比较大的难题.文章通过对中产阶层和社会组织的功能进行分析后指出:在东亚,决定市民社会形成的关键因素是兴起于草根社会的各种各样的具有"公共性"的社会组织,而西方学者指出的"伴随中产阶层登上社会舞台,必然形成市民社会"这一命题却不具有普适性.