🇩🇪 Explore the details of the recently published German #minipublic report!
Uplifting participant feedback reaffirms the project's impact: More than a dialogue space, it is empowering #citizens to actively shape important issues.
I know you are not so keen about this site, but here is @Skolinkvisition ’s mega tread of today. It’s really worth following and if you are not that good at Swedish also translate. He’s offering a full seminar about how Swedish education ended up in the catastrophic state where it is today … referencing the historic policies and legislation changes over time and their consequences https://twitter.com/skolinkvisition/status/1726191071099793753?s=12&t=BZevthLbzbU4ykoSU5vmzA
Graeber, David; Wengrow, David. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021)
I have already finished reading this long and powerful book. Now I have to meditate on the ideas it brings...
"Over the course of these chapters we have instead talked about basic forms of social liberty which one might actually put into practice: (1) the freedom to move away or relocate from one’s surroundings; (2) the freedom to ignore or disobey commands issued by others; and (3) the freedom to shape entirely new social realities, or shift back and forth between different ones."
"The Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology (formerly
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology) is a growing teaching and learning
resource. Its goal is to facilitate access to scholarship in Social Anthropology
for experts and non-experts worldwide. All entries are written and peer-reviewed
by leading academics."
”Kommunal hissar vit flagg framför vård- och omsorgskoncernerna. Det här är exakt det budskap som till exempel intresseorganisationen Vårdföretagarnas lobbyister försöker att sälja in till regeringen. Nu får de hjälp av medarbetarnas organisation.”
Interesting study by Schuster et al. suggesting that cycling in urban areas has a positive effect on the common good (i.e. political participation, social participation in organizations, neighbourhood solidarity, and neighbourly helpfulness)
In the latest episode of the Conflict Tipping Podcast, we explore the often overlooked but vital topic of mental health amidst conflict. Join us as Dr. Nawaraj Upadhaya discusses the importance of primary mental health care, and how he is trying to make it more accessible in crisis areas.
Find the episode on your podcast platform of choice, or linked below!
Any #EU#law historians around? Since when can member states not party to a direct action proceeding before the #CJEU submit observations? The oldest example I could find by a crude text search dates from 1986 [1]. That's 32 years after the first direct action was lodged that included a member state [2]. Were member states simply not allowed to submit observations before?