- Academic Council on the United Nations System
The Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), is an international institution with a distinguished membership of nearly a thousand scholars, teachers, practitioners and others active in the work and study of the United Nations System and other ...
- Allende, Isabel
Isabel Allende is born in 1942 in Lima (Perú) where her father Tomás Allende is a diplomatic official of Chile, cousin of Salvador Allende.
Isabel Allende is a famous writter, commited herself with Chile's people for witch Salvador Allende died for.
- Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World
The Alliance is an informal network made of people, institutions and movements that are conscious of the complexity of contemporary problems and seek to find the necessary mutations so that we can together act on the future. This network thereby creates a ...
- Amin, Samir
Samir Amin is an Egyptian political author who was born in Cairo in 1931. He is one of the most important neo-marxist intellectual. He developed his political, economical and statistics studies in Paris. In 1957 he presented his thesis, supervised by Franç ...
- Arias Sánchez, Óscar
Óscar Arias Sánchez was born in Heredia Costa Rica in 1941.He is the current President of Costa Rica and the first Nobel Laureate to be elected as a Latin American nation's president after winning the award. In 1987 he received the Nobel Peace Prize for hi ...
- Asociación de Universidades Grupo Montevideo
Actually, Grupo Montevideo is a Virtual University with a supportive distribution of high qualified academic staff, academic material resources, installations, equipment, teams, laboratories, and libraries; it is a common broaded academic space where barri ...
- Asociación Mundial de Radios Comunitarias América Latina y el Caribe
La Asociación Mundial de Radios Comunitarias (AMARC) es el referente organizacional, político y comunicacional de un movimiento internacional constituido en torno a las radios comunitarias, ciudadanas y populares. AMARC está reconocida como organismo no gu ...
- Association Internationale des Universités
IAU, founded in 1950, is the UNESCO-based worldwide association of universities. It brings together institutions and organisations from some 150 countries for reflection and action on common concerns and collaborates with various international, regional an ...
- ATTAC
The International ATTAC Movement was created at an international meeting in Paris, on December 11-12, 1998.
The December 1998 meeting permitted the definition of three major objectives:
1. Launching of the international ATTAC movement - “ international mov ...
- Beck, Ulrich
Ulrich Beck is professor for Sociology at the University of Munich, and the British Journal of Sociology professor at the London School of Economics and Sciences. His interests focus on 'risk society', 'individualization' and 'reflexive modernization'
- Ben Ami, Shlomo
Former Israel Foreign Affairs minister.
- Better World Campaign
Since 1999, BWC has worked to strengthen the relationship between the United States and the United Nations through outreach, communications, and advocacy. We encourage U.S. leadership to enhance the UN’s ability to carry out its invaluable international wo ...
- Boff, Leonardo
Boff is the author of more than sixty books in the areas of theology, spirituality, philosophy, anthropology and mysticism. Most of his works have been translated into the main modern languages.
- Bretton Woods Project
The Bretton Woods Project works as a networker, information-provider, media informant and watchdog to scrutinise and influence the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). Through briefings, reports and the bimonthly digest Bretton Woods Update, i ...
- CADIS
Founded in 1981, CADIS is a sociological research laboratory that combines research in a wide range of areas with an integrated intellectual approach to research. At its inception, the Center was structured around three major programmatic objectives—histor ...
- California State University
California State University, Sacramento is dedicated to the life-altering potential of learning that balances a liberal arts education with depth of knowledge in a discipline. CSUS is committed to providing an excellent education to all eligible applicants ...
- Càtedra UNESCO en Tecnologia Desenvolupament Sostenible, Desequilibris i Canvi Global
L’objectiu principal d’aquesta Càtedra UNESCO és convertir-se en un espai interdisciplinari, crític, reflexiu i obert que contribueixi a reorientar la tecnologia cap al desenvolupament sostenible, a reduir els desequilibris i a enfortir la diversitat.
- Centre for Global Governance
The Centre for the Study of Global Governance is a leading international institution dedicated to research, analysis and dissemination about global governance. Based at the London School of Economics, the Centre aims to increase understanding and knowledge ...
- Centre for Global Studies
The mission of the Centre for Global Studies (CFGS) is to advance understanding and action on major global issues by civil society, the private sector, governments, and international institutions. The Centre focuses on issues in the three thematic areas of ...
- Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation - University of Warwick
Inaugurated on 1 October 1997, the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR)--with initial baseline funding of £2.5 million for the first five years by the Economic and Social Research Council of the UK--is the largest research centr ...
- Chomsky, Noam
Noam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His undergraduate and graduate years were spent at the University of Pennsylvania where he received his PhD in linguistics in 1955.
Chomsky has written and lectured widely on linguist ...
- Ciencias Sociales de América Latina y el Caribe
CLACSO is an international network, non governmental and with no lucrative goals committed to the promotion of investigation, discussion and academical diffusion on a variety of fields within social sciences.
CLASCO was founded for Latin American social s ...
- Club of Athens
The Global Governance Group (or “Triple-G”) is an international initiative which aims to address the challenges of globalisation through innovative approaches to global governance. Its “Triple-G” approach applies not only to its title, but also to its thre ...
- Club of Rome
The Club of Rome is a global think tank and centre of innovation and initiative.
As a non-profit, non governmental organisation (NGO), it brings together scientists, economists, businessmen, international high civil servants, heads of state and former head ...
- Commission mondiale de l’éthique des connaissances scientifiques
In 1998 UNESCO set up the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology. COMEST is an advisory body and forum of reflection composed of 18 independent experts. The Commission is mandated to formulate ethical principles that could pr ...
- Committee for a Democratic U.N.
The Committee for a Democratic U.N. (KDUN) is a non-governmental organization registered in Germany. KDUN supports international democracy and the strengthening of the United Nations. The political mandate is laid down in a declaration of principle. KDUN's ...
- Diaz-Hochleitner, Ricardo
Ricardo Diaz-Hochleitner was born in Bogotá in 1953. He is the President Emeritus of the Club of Rome.
- EarthAction
The interrelated global problems of environmental degradation, poverty, war and the abuse of human rights threaten the future of everyone on earth. Yet most governments and corporations continue with business as usual, as if they haven't noticed. We have t ...
- Education International
Education International is the federation of organisations representing over 30 milion teachers and other education workers. Thet try to unify all teachers and education workers. EI promotes the rights of every teachere wherever they are, and the rights of ...
- EHESS
L'École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS),
est un grand établissement relevant du ministère chargé de l’Éducation nationale, de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche. Elle a pour mission la formation à la recherche par la recherche.
- Elsaadawi, Leonel
Nawal El Saadawi is a novelist, a psychiatrist and a writer who is well known both in the Arab countries and in many other parts of the world. Her novels and her books on the situation of women in Egyptian and Arab society have had a deep effect on success ...
- EURODAD
EURODAD is a network of 48 development non-governmental organisations from 15 European countries working for national economic and international financing policies that achieve poverty eradication and the empowerment of the poor.
By coordinating their know ...
- Ford Foundation
Founded in 1936, the foundation operated as a local philanthropy in the state of Michigan until 1950, when it expanded to become a national and international foundation. Since its inception it has been an independent, nonprofit, non-governmental organizati ...
- Foreign Policy in Focus
Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF), established in 1996, seeks to make the U.S. a more responsible global leader and global partner. It is a "think tank without walls" that functions as an international network of more than 650 policy analysts and advocates.
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- Forum du Tiers Monde
The Forum of the Third World (FTM), whose african office is in Dakar (Senegal), is an international association with no lucrative purpose that gathers one thousand intellectuals of Africa, Asia and Latin America. FTM aims to animate debates and product cri ...
- Foster, John
John Foster works in The North-South Institute in the examination of the relations of NGOs and other civil society organizations with multilateral bodies, such as the United Nations, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization.
- Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
The FES has representation in 70 countries of Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. It also has 33 offices in Western Europe, Japan, USA, CIS countries and Central and South-East Europe.
In developing countires they seek to promote peace, democr ...
- Fundação Mario Soares
Constituted in 1991, the Fundação Mario Soares is an institution of private law and public use with no lucrative ends thanks to the ex-President of the Portuguese Republic, Mário Soares.
Having as first the personality and the life of Dr. Mário Soares, th ...
- García Márquez, Gabriel
Believed by many to be one of the world’s greatest writers, Gabriel García Márquez is a Colombian-born author and journalist, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and a pioneer of the Latin American “Boom.” He first won international fame with his ...
- George, Susan
Susan George, the author of a dozen of books, was born in the United States, lives in/near Paris and acquired French citizenship in 1994. She is Associate Director of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, a decentralised fellowship of scholars living t ...
- Global Policy Forum
Global Policy Forum monitors policy making at the United Nations, promotes accountability of global decisions, educates and mobilizes for global citizen participation, and advocates on vital issues of international peace and justice.
GPF was founded in 199 ...
- Global youth ACTION Network
TakingITGlobal.org is a global online community, providing youth with inspiration to make a difference, a source of information on issues, opportunities to take action, and a bridge to get involved locally, nationally and globally.
TakingITGlobal (TIG) is ...
- Globenet
Created in 1995, on the initiative of associative structures and actors wishing to integrate into their projects the use of new technologies, GlobeNet gradually developed as a structure of methodological and technical support on the projects of use of the ...
- Grajew, Oded
Oded Grajew is the Initiator and Secretariat Memeber of the World Social Forum. He is the founder and President of the Ethos Institute for Business and Social Responsability.
- Green Cross International
Green Cross International was founded by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1993, building on the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and Agenda 21. Green Cross is a non-governmental, non-profit organization. Our mission is to help create a sustainable future by cultiva ...
- Groupement d'études et de recherches "Notre Europe"
Notre Europe organises seminars and conferences, directs studies, consultations, and publications, launches information campaigns, and carries out other types of work of European interest in collaboration with other institutions and with press organisation ...
- Henderson, Hazel
Hazel Henderson was born in 1933 in Bristol, England. She is a futurist and evolutionary economist. She has been in good part concerned with finding the unexplored areas in standard economics and the "blind spots" of conventional economists. Most of her wo ...
- Institut I. Jacques Maritain
The International Jacques Maritian Institute is a non-profit making cultural association and is a recognised legal entity. As an intellectual, international and interdisciplinary laboratory, it promotes research into, and the study of, the subjects of man, ...
- Institut Interculturel de Montréal
The Intercultural Institute of Montreal act as :
• An interreligious, intercultural and interracial centre of reconciliation, encounter and solidarity among peoples of different cultures, religions, ages and socio-economic backgrounds.
• A centre of analys ...
- Institute for Global Communications
Beginning in 1987, the Institute for Global Communications (IGC) played a formative role in bringing advanced communications technologies to grassroots organizations worldwide working for peace, human rights, environmental sustainability, women's rights, c ...
- International Crisis Group
The International Crisis Group is an independent, non-profit, multinational organisation, with over 100 staff members on five continents, working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict.
- International Federation of ACAT
FIACAT campaigns on behalf of people who are tortured, detained in inhuman conditions, sentenced to death or "disappeared", whatever their origins, political opinions or religious beliefs.
FIACAT seeks to increase awareness in the Churches and amongst Chri ...
- International Institute for Environment and Development
IIED is an independent, non-profit organization promoting sustainable patterns of world development through collaborative research, policy studies, networking and knowledge dissemination. We work to address global issues, for example; mining, the paper ind ...
- International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
IPPNW is a non-partisan, global federation of national medical organizations in 58 countries dedicated to research, education, and advocacy relevant to the prevention of nuclear war. To this end, IPPNW seeks to prevent all wars, to promote non-violent conf ...
- Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
CAHD is a non-violent, direct-action group originally established to oppose and resist Israeli demolition of Palestinian houses in the Occupied Territories. As our activists gained direct knowledge of the brutalities of the Occupation, we expanded our resi ...
- Jauregui, Gurutz
Gurutz Jauregui is professor of constitutional law in the Universidad del País Vasco.
- Khor, Martin
Martin Khor is a journalist, economist and Director of the Third World Network.
- Küng, Hans
Professor of Ecumenical Theology, University of Tübingen, President of the Foundation for a Global Ethic (Welethos).
- Linguapax Institute
The Linguapax Institute is a non-governmental organisation located in Barcelona that was created to give continuity to a series of meetings organized by UNESCO within the framework of the Linguapax project sprung from the Kiev experts meeting in 1987.
Prom ...
- Mandat International
Mandat International and its welcome centre provide information, documentation, support and accommodation for international conferences and meetings in Geneva. It also works on issues such as NGO - UN cooperation, development, human rights, peace, humanita ...
- Mandela, Nelson
Former South African president, and the first one to be choosen by democatical means. He was one of the most important activists against the apartheid, and because of this he was sent to prision during 27 years.
- Mayor Zaragoza, Federico
Federico Mayor Zaragoza is a Spanish scholar and politician. He served as Director-General of UNESCO from 1987 to 1999. During his 12 years as head of UNESCO (1987–1999) Mayor gave new life to the organization's mission to "build a bastion of peace in the ...
- Miterrand, Danielle
Danielle Miterrand is the widow of François Mitterrand and president of the foundation France Libertés Fondation Danielle Mitterrand.She founded her foundation in 1986 with the fusion of three smaller associations started in 1981. Her support for Fidel Cas ...
- Morin, Edgar
Edgar Morin's research focuses on topics such as civilization, complexity, identity, method, politics and society.
- Naïr, Sami
Sami Naïr is a french philosopher and sociologist, he is political science teacher in the Paris III University.
- North-South Institute
For more than 20 years, the North-South Institute (NSI) has built a reputation for sound research and analysis of Canadian foreign policy, offered an independent voice on the urgent importance of world development issues, and brought those issues before th ...
- One World Trust
The One World Trust is an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. The Trust was founded in 1951 by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for World Government.
The One World Trust promotes education and re ...
- Pambazuka News
Pambazuka news is a tool for progressive social change in Africa. It offers a comprehensive weekly round-up of news on human rights, conflict, health, environment, social welfare, development, the internet, literature and arts in Africa.
Pambazuka News is ...
- Pan-African Treatment Access Movement
PATAM is a social movement comprised of individuals and organisations dedicated to mobilizing communities, political leaders, and all sectors of society to ensure access to antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, as a fundamental part of comprehensive care for all ...
- PAX Romana ICMICA/MIIC
Pax Romana ICMICA/MIIC is an international Association of Catholic professionals and intellectuals composed of local federations, groups and individuals. It works like a forum for intellectual sharing and dialogue among different cultures, generations and ...
- Ramentol, Santiago
Santiago Ramentol is a journalist and PhD in Comunication Science.
- Ramonet, Ignacio
Ignacio Ramonet was born in Tanger, the editor-in-chief of Le Monde diplomatique. He is also at the origin of ATTAC.
- Requejo, Ferran
Ferran Requejo is a Political Science Professor in the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). His main work camps are democracy teories, liberalism, social democracy and federalism.
- Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology
RFSTE was founded in Dehra Dun, Uttar Pradesh (INDIA) in 1982 by Dr. Vandana Shiva. It works on biodiversity conservation and protecting people's rights from threats to their livelihoods and environment by centralised systems of monoculture in forestry, ag ...
- Rotblat, Joseph
The Nobel Peace Prize 1995. Born Warsaw, 4 November 1908 (British citizen since 1946). Educated at the Free University of Poland and the University of Warsaw, Poland.
- Salgado, Sebastião
Born in 1944 in Aimorés, Minas Gerais, Brazil, the sixth child and only boy in a family of eight children, the son of a cattle rancher, Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado studied economics in Brazil (1964-1967) and earned his M.A. in economics in 1968 from the Univ ...
- Saramago, José
Nobel Literature Prize 1998.
- Sassen, Saskia
Saskia Sassen is an American sociologist and economist relevant for her analyses of globalization and international global migration. She currently is professor of sociology at the University of Chicago and at the London School of Economics.
- Savio, Roberto
Roberto Savio is the co-founder and general secretary of Media Watch Global. He is memeber of Inter Press Service.
- Sen, Amartya
The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1998.
- Shiva, Vandana
Vandana Shiva is a physicist, ecofeminist, environmental activist and author. She is one of the leaders of the International Forum on Globalization, and a figure of the global solidarity movement known as the anti-globalization movement.
- Smith, Gordon
Gordon Smith is Director of the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria and a Senior Fellow in the Liu Centre at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is Chairman of the Board of Governors of Canada's International Development Rese ...
- Soares, Mario
Mario Soares is a portuguese politician. He has been portuguese Prime Minister and portuguese President. He is currently the president of the Mario Soares Fundation.
- Society for International Development
The Society for International Development (SID) is an international non-governmental network of individuals and organizations founded in 1957 to promote social justice and foster democratic participation. Through locally driven international programmes and ...
- South Centre
The South Centre came formally into being as an intergovernmental body of developing countries on 31 July 1995, when the Intergovernmental Agreement to establish the Centre came into force.
Currently, 46 countries are members of the South Centre. The Centr ...
- State of the World Forum
State of the World Forum was founded in 1995 with the purpose of working with partners worldwide to gather together the creative genius on the planet in a search for solutions to critical global challenges. What has emerged is a community of committed indi ...
- Stiglitz, Joseph
Recognized around the world as a leading economic educator, he has written textbooks that have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He founded one of the leading economics journals, The Journal of Economic Perspectives. His book Globalization ...
- Strauss, Andrew L.
Andrew Strauss is a professor of international law at Widener University School of Law. He specializes in public international law, international economic law, international transactions and international organizations. He has been consultant to Human Righ ...
- Transnational Institute
The Transnational Institute was founded in 1974 as a worldwide fellowship of committed scholar-activists. It was one of the first research institutes established to be transnational in name, composition, orientation and focus.
In the spirit of public schol ...
- Traoré Dramane, Aminata
Aminata Traoré is a Malian author, politician, and political activist. She is a prominent critic of Globalization and the economic policies of the most developed nations. Specifically, she has voiced opposition to the western countries subsidizing of their ...
- UBUNTU World Forum of Civil Society Networks
UBUNTU's main objective is to unite and federate efforts, to build bridges of dialogue and communication amongst national and international institutions which are focused on promoting peace, endogenous development, dignity and human rights. NGO's, together ...
- Vidal-Beneyto, José
José Vidal-Beneyto is general secretary of the European Culture Agency and he is member of Amis du Monde Diplomatique.
- World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization
The World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization was established by the International Labour Organization (ILO) in February 2002.
The Commission was an independent body. It was initiated to respond to the needs of people as they cope with the ...
- World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world.
The Forum provides a collaborative framework for the world's leaders to address global issues, engaging particularly its corporate members ...
- World Political Forum
The World Political Forum was the original idea of the Nobel Prize Laureate Mikhail Gorbachev, with a specific mission: to foster contacts between politicians, scientists, high level personalities in the cultural and religious life of different continents, ...
- World Social Forum
The World Social Forum is an open meeting place where groups and movements of civil society opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism, but engaged in building a planetary society centred on the human person, c ...
- Worldwatch Institute
Founded by Lester Brown in 1974, the Worldwatch Institute offers a unique blend of interdisciplinary research, global focus, and accessible writing that has made it a leading source of information on the interactions among key environmental, social, and ec ...
- Xercavins Valls, Josep
Josep Xercavins is a permanent lecturer at the UPC, PhD in Science and coordinator of the Ad-hoc Secretariat of UBUNTU World Forum of Civil Society Networks.
He was the first academic director of the Master’s degree in Sustainability at the UPC, and also c ...
- Zepeda, José
Jose Zepeda is director of the Latinoamerican Radio Netherlands Department.
