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Towards an integrated implementation of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in Central Asia Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA) The report examines the conditions for the spread of violent extremism and terrorism in Central Asia. The report is the result of a seminar organized by the UN / UNRCCA in Astana, Kazakhstan 
Strengthening Health System Responses to Gender-based Violence in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: A Resource Package Year of publication: 2014 Corporate author: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) | Women Against Violence Europe (WAVE) This collection of materials is the result of a collaboration between UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund), the UNFPA Regional Office for population for the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia and the WAVE Network (Women Against Violence in Europe) and is an updated edition of the compilation, revised in 2013-2014. It has been brought in line with new requirements in terms of enhancing the response of the health system to gender inequality; its content has been updated taking into account the latest international developments. 
Advancing Digital Equity for All: Community-Based Recommendations for Developing Effective Digital Equity Plans to Close the Digital Divide and Enable Technology-Empowered Learning Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: USA. Department of Education. Office of Educational Technology In spring 2022, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology (OET) committed to advancing digital equity through the Digital Equity Education Roundtables (DEER) Initiative. Through DEER, OET hosted a series of national conversations with leaders from community-based organizations, as well as families and learners furthest from digital opportunities. The “Advancing Digital Equity for All” resource illuminates insights from these conversation to highlight the barriers faced by learner communities and promising solutions for increasing access to technology for learning.The historic federal investments authorized by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act offer critical opportunities for broadband planning that can identify and equitably address the various availability, affordability, and adoption challenges described. Using this guidance resource as a starting point, it is essential that leaders collaborate with those most impacted by the digital divide to develop comprehensive digital equity plans that outline strategies to meet the needs of learners, their families/caregivers, and communities effectively and sustainably. 
Indicators for Monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals Year of publication: 2019 Author: Frédéric Vey | Anne-Sophie Hesse Corporate author: Université Virtuelle Environnement et Développement durable (UVED) Frédéric Vey and Anne-Sophie Hesse, from the Ministry of Ecological and Solidarity Transition, discuss in this video (12'40) the indicators for monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). After a theoretical approach aimed at defining and showing the limits of the indicators, they show how the "SDG" indicators are available from the international scale to the national scale. 
Annual Report 2021 Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: University of Sherbrooke. International Cooperation Group Our main orientations in 2021: Increase the capacities of GCIUS project management, through the development of management tools standardized; Increase outreach of the GCIUS with the student community of the UdeS, as well as with the community of practice; Promote mobilization, recruitment, and implementation of strategies equity, diversity, and inclusion in the GCIUS. 
Annual Report 2020 Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: University of Sherbrooke. International Cooperation Group The GCIUS has set itself the task of encouraging the emergence of sustainable development of local communities in the countries of intervention and UdeS students, through supportive, inclusive, and dynamic networks. The GCIUS supports students and local communities in the co-construction of multidisciplinary sustainable development projects aimed at improving living conditions for communities in need. 
When Mandela Danced in the Square: Lessons for Young Citizens from the Scottish Anti-Apartheid Movement Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: West of Scotland Development Education Centre (WOSDEC) | Nelson Mandela Scottish Memorial Foundation This resource aims to understand the context of apartheid South Africa, the life of Nelson Mandela and the connections to the Scottish anti-apartheid movement. The activities in this resource support second and third level learners within Scotland's Curriculum for Excellence to explore Scotland’s connection with Nelson Mandela and feel empowered to take action on issues of importance to them today. 
Political Participation of Young People in Kazakhstan: The Role of Digital Technologies Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: Paperlab Research Center (Kazakhstan) At the end of July, the PaperLab Research Center held a discussion on "Political participation of youth in Kazakhstan: the role of digital technologies". Experts say that after the January events, Kazakhstanis became more interested in politics. But the real political participation of young people is still limited. 
Methodology: Using Digital Media for Youth Engagement and Active Citizenship Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: Yep4Europe Consortium The training methodology “Find-Tell-Act” is the main output of the Youth e-Perspectives on Migration project. The project aimed at empowering young people to address sensitive contemporary societal issues (in our case migration and the refugee crisis) and at the same time to improve their digital and media skills. In this way, digital and technical skills developed in parallel with social values like active citizenship.The main part of the methodology is, implemented as face-to-face activities. It includes four interrelated digital media modules (or as we call them, workshops): Digital Journalism, Digital Photography, Digital Storytelling and Online Platforms, in which refugee crisis was our main theme. The methodology can be applied to any other “hot” societal topic that young people are faced with. 
Our creative diversity: report of the world commission on culture and development; summary version Year of publication: 1996 Corporate author: World Commission on Culture and Development This report is designed to address a diversified audience across the world that ranges from community activists, field workers, artists and scholars to government officials and politicians. We want it to inform the world’s opinion leaders and to guide its policy-makers. We want it to capture the attention of the world’s intellectual and artistic communities, as well as the general public. We aim to have shown them how culture shapes all our thinking, imagining and behaviour. It is the transmission of behaviour as well as a dynamic source for change, creativity, freedom and the awakening of innovative opportunities. For groups and societies, culture is energy, inspiration and empowerment, as well as the knowledge and acknowledgment of diversity: if cultural diversity is ‘behind us, around us and before us”, as Claude L&i-Strauss put it, we must learn how to let it lead not to the clash of cultures, but to their fruitful coexistence and to intercultural harmony. Just as in the tasks of building peace and consolidating democratic values, an indivisible set of goals, so too economic and political rights cannot be realized separately from social and cultural rights. The challenge to humanity is to adopt new ways of thinking, new ways of acting, new ways of organizing itself in society, in short, new ways of living. The challenge is also to promote different paths of development, informed by a recognition of how cultural factors shape the way in which societies conceive their own futures and choose the means to attain these futures. I have for some time been concerned with the “culture of peace”. There is now considerable evidence that neglect of human development has been one of the principal causes of wars and internal armed conflicts, and that these, in turn, retard human development. With government complicity and with the intention of raising export receipts, private businesses continue to sell advanced military technology, nuclear materials and equipment for the production of bacteriological and chemical warfare. The concept of state sovereignty which still prevails today has increasingly come under scrutiny. In the area of peace-keeping, the distinction between external aggression and internal oppression is often unrealistic. The predominant threat to stability are violent conflicts within countries and not between them. There is an urgent need to strengthen international human rights law. Many of the most serious troubles come from within states – either because of ethnic strife or repressive measures by governments. Conditions that lead to tyranny and large-scale violations of human rights at home sooner or later are likely to spill over into a search for enemies abroad. The temptation of repressive states to export internal difficulties is great. Consider the Soviet Union’s invasion of Hungary and Czechoslovakia after it had used domestic oppression and the persistent refusal - for many years - of the previous South African governments to grant independence to Namibia. An ounce of prevention is better than a ton of punishment.