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.
It may play useful roles in building up civil institutions in war-torn areas, although it has exhibited little competence in that endeavor in Bosnia.
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.
Corporations need to recognize how important these partnerships are , allocate more resources to building better relationships with civil society organizations and measure the results of these key joint efforts.
Our TechGirls kicked off their adventure with three days in New York City, organized by Legacy International whose mission is to strengthen civil society and foster peace-building and conflict resolution worldwide.
In Iraq, UNESCO is supporting the two Ministries of Education in planning, curriculum revision and material development, as well as mobilizing and building the capacity of civil society organizations who are delivering much of the literacy programming.
We welcomed the efforts this year of Indonesia, Republic of Korea and the United States to orient the ARF Inter-sessional Meeting on Maritime Security to include civil maritime law enforcement cooperation and capacity building.
WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting
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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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.
Some civil servants who doubted the wisdom of the house-building measures have been left to clear up the mess.
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.
That is far easier said than done and not just because almost every government building was toppled, and nearly one in five civil servants died.
The neighborhood is also home to the Richmond University Medical Center, on Bard Avenue, and the Staten Island Civil Courthouse, in an 83-year-old Georgian Revival building on Castleton.
"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.
When we sat down for our official dialogue in Naypyidaw, we were able to convey the concerns raised in these meetings to our counterparts, while also stressing the importance of their building an inclusive reform dialogue that would seek inputs from Burmese civil society.
"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.
The Civil Works Administration employed more than four million men and women at jobs from building and repairing roads and bridges, parks, playgrounds and public buildings to creating art.
The opponents, backed by the Catholic Church and conservative opposition, say France already has civil partnerships for homosexual couples, and extending rights to marriage undermines an essential building block of society.
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.
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.
Key discussion topics include the value of sport to civil society, education and culture, most notably with respect to reinforcing family structures and building community.
My hunger for change in Scotland - tackling global warming, building the role of young people in our country and stopping the slide of civil liberties - is no less now than when I started in politics 25 years ago.
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.
The foundation of the house of civil rights is in all of us who gathered up our will, to raise it up and keep on building.
CNN: Transcript: White House Deputy Counsel Mills' statement
Capacity building efforts, the Group agreed, should reach national, regional and school levels, as well as civil society.
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