die globale Zivilgesellschaft mitgestalten!
Abstract [en]: On the Importance of Family in Civil Society All over the world, families continue to be driving forces for the development of each individual person. Families, however, cannot exist without a surrounding civil society which gains familiar influence by prohibiting familiar violence, by demanding school attendance and by offering nursing homes for elderly care. Such developments serve for the...
Abstract [en]: Since decades Colombia has been embroiled in a spiral of violence from leftist guerilla, righist paramilitary organizations and state security forces. The everday violence has been led in a dramatic fragile statehood. Drug trafficking, repressive measures against civil society, violence and insecurity, weaken political institutions and a high degree of corruption dominated for decades the public view to...
Abstract [en]: More than 70% of the Brazilian population lives in cities, the centres of Brazilian society. Cities are the reflection of society, of processes and structures of social circumstances. The socio-spatial separation is remarkable: On the one hand, there are the often discussed poor districts (‘favelas’), on the other hand, the gated communities of the rich. The difference between...
Abstract [en]: Wind of Change or the Curse of Decadence – Contemporary Church Organization, Catholic Leadership and Ecclesiastical Executive Structure Looking at the Catholic Church from an organizational standpoint, the origin of organizations in the military field and in the field of sacred language such as e.g. in Old Egypt should be remembered because both, lines of command and the...
