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 [de]: Aus Erfahrungen in der Hochschullehre wird deutlich, dass ein emotionaler und persönlicher Bezug immer der beste Ankerpunkt ist, um komplexe Sachverhalte verständlich und begreifbar zu machen. So auch in Sachen Globalisierung. Anhand des Schlagwortes der Konnektivität verdeutlicht Hemel die verschiedenen Ebenen der der digitalen (Information und Kommunikation), physischen (Güter und Dienstleistungen) und ethischen (Ideen und Werte) globalen Vernetzung....
Abstract [en]: As long as the weather gods favor us. An unorthodox weather report from New York City. From Hurricane Sandy to snow storms to extreme heat, New York City has experienced the vagaries of weather in recent years. How New York reacts to the weather is very telling about its people. The rich and poor are warmed and cooled by the same winter and...
