In a gesture towards Palestine, Mr Bush made the good point that there is more to democracy than just elections: there is the wider challenge of building a civil society.
At the core is its multistakeholder model that leverages the collective wisdom of leaders from business, government, the media, academia, the arts and civil society by building a global platform for collaboration and action to address priorities on the global agenda.
Civil society also serves as a watchdog, building accountability in countries from the community to the central level, as well as at regional and global levels.
From its inception, Palantir Technologies has supported these ideals and demonstrated a commitment to building software that protects privacy and civil liberties.
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"The political foundations from Germany are making an important contribution to the development of democratic structures, the building of a state based on law and the encouragement of civil society, " CDU general secretary Hermann Groehe said in a statement.
"Taiwan has good building codes, like Japan, " said Hideo Ishikawa, a civil engineer from Osaka.
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And it is testing out provincial reconstruction teams, mixes of military and civil groups that are now widely touted as a key tool of nation-building.
As a result, the Constitutional Court was chosen to be constructed right next to Johannesburg's Old Fort Prison, a notorious building whose walls had served to confine two of the best know civil rights figures of the previous century.
It was typical of an era when civil servants with little knowledge of what was involved in building and maintaining a site were content to entrust the job to the "experts" at one of the few IT firms deemed substantial enough to win the contract.
John Allen, they can strengthen Afghanistan enough mainly by building up the indigenous security forces to prevent a Taliban takeover or a ruinous civil war even after U.S. forces finally start drawing down.
They also aim at building up a critical mass of experience and knowledge, both in government institutions and in civil society, so that the beneficiary countries will be equipped with an appropriate sustainable framework for safeguarding intangible heritage and implementing the Convention on a long term basis.
Other reports cover three meetings of the Consultative Forum, established to serve as a medium of interfacing and consensus-building between the United Nations organizations and agencies and other stakeholders, including civil society and the private sector.
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