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Equity Workshop: Equity in international environmental lawIIED
A presentation by Elisa Morgera, Annalisa Savaresi, Elsa Tsioumani and Louisa Parks, Edinburgh Law School and the University of Lincoln.
This presentation was given at the Expert Workshop on Equity, Justice and Well-being in Ecosystem Governance, held at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) in London, March, 2015.
The document discusses several international CSR instruments including the UN Global Compact, UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, ISO 26000 Guidance Standard, and ILO MNE Declaration. It summarizes surveys and studies on company awareness and use of these instruments, noting the UN Guiding Principles and ISO 26000 have relatively high awareness. The document also outlines challenges companies face in implementing human rights due diligence approaches and managing supply chains responsibly.
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This document discusses various types of non-state actors that play roles in global governance, including NGOs, transnational networks, experts and epistemic communities, foundations, multinational corporations, multistakeholder actors, and social movements. It provides examples of how these actors have emerged in international treaties and agreements. It also describes the roles these actors take, such as creating networks, advocating for policy changes, promoting new norms, and participating in global conferences.
The document discusses diversity and anti-discrimination policies in Rennes, France. It notes that while diversity is increasingly accepted in France, the "right to difference" is seen as a threat. Rennes promotes a universal conception of diversity that treats individuals, not groups. It works to promote the idea of a plural city comprised of natives, migrants, and their descendants. Local initiatives include convergences culturelles, a charter for relevant projects, and a diversity committee to promote public debate and citizens' understanding of migration history in Rennes.
This document discusses introductory and language courses as part of integration policy in Flanders, which is a multi-level governance issue. Integration policy in Flanders has two phases - inburgering for newcomers and integratie for longer-term integration. Inburgering includes an introductory program coordinated by welcome offices consisting of Dutch language training, social orientation, and career guidance. The program aims to encourage social participation. Integration is a partnership between various authorities at the federal, Flemish, and local levels.
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El documento habla sobre los horrores de la guerra y la necesidad de ponerle fin a este sufrimiento. La guerra significa muerte, odio, dolor y destrucción. Se muestran imágenes impactantes de la guerra para despertar la compasión humana y encontrar la forma de terminar con este flagelo que afecta a la humanidad. Se sugiere orar por la paz del mundo para dar un paso hacia el fin del sufrimiento.
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Rangkaian bel ini dirancang untuk acara cerdas cermat di televisi pada tahun 1980-an agar pelaksanaannya lebih teratur dengan menggunakan relay dan saklar. Rangkaian ini akan menyalaan lampu dan bel hanya pada meja regu yang menekan tombol terlebih dahulu melalui kontrol switch, sehingga hanya regu tersebut yang berhak menjawab pertanyaan.
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3. Rethinking approaches to include bottom-up citizen input in defining well-being and coproducing knowledge on progress.
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Communities of practice have the potential to greatly contribute to international development by increasing inclusiveness, value, and collaboration. However, there are still challenges to overcome. First, while connectivity is growing, true inclusiveness requires addressing psychological and technical barriers. Second, demonstrating clear value for participants, organizations, and sustainable development goals is difficult due to a lack of management skills and evidence of impact. Third, the current fragmented ecosystem of communities of practice results in duplication and overlap, making collaboration challenging. To realize the potential of communities of practice will require supporting their efforts to be more inclusive, valuable, and collaborative, as well as providing an enabling environment for them to thrive.
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Rangkaian bel ini dirancang untuk acara cerdas cermat di televisi pada tahun 1980-an agar pelaksanaannya lebih teratur dengan menggunakan relay dan saklar. Rangkaian ini akan menyalaan lampu dan bel hanya pada meja regu yang menekan tombol terlebih dahulu melalui kontrol switch, sehingga hanya regu tersebut yang berhak menjawab pertanyaan.
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The document discusses Society Orientation Courses for refugees in Stockholm, Sweden. It provides information on the target group, objectives, course contents, and delivery of Swedish for Immigrants (SFI) courses. The target group includes newly arrived immigrants between ages 20-64. The objective is to provide a uniform, high-quality introduction to Swedish society. Course contents cover topics from daily life in Sweden to rights and responsibilities. SFI courses aim to prepare students for the labor market or further studies and are available through various schools and providers in Stockholm.
This document summarizes a keynote presentation on the "local turn" in diversity management and political discourses in Europe. The presentation argues that [1] European citizens are increasingly urban citizens and migration is an urban phenomenon, requiring a shift from focusing on citizens to focusing on cities. [2] Cities now play a prominent role in diversity governance but face challenges of multi-level governance and coordination between levels of government. [3] Internally, cities must manage diversity and related socio-political discourses, policies, and public opinion. The presentation aims to justify this "local turn" and discuss challenges for developing a European framework centered around diverse cities.
The mayor of Rotterdam, Ahmed Aboutaleb, gave a speech at the Integrating Cities Conference on March 9, 2012. In the speech, he discussed three main topics: 1) the current state of integration in Rotterdam, noting its diverse population of over 600,000 people from 174 nationalities, with 60% expected to have foreign roots in 10 years; 2) key requirements for successful local integration, including respect for fundamental rights, personal responsibility, and government collaboration; 3) recommendations for the EU, including clear integration frameworks, addressing legal statuses, harmonizing laws, and prioritizing respect for rights and personal responsibility.
The speaker welcomes attendees to Amsterdam and discusses the city's history of diversity and inclusion. They note that Amsterdam has long been a refuge for religious and ethnic groups facing persecution. While the foundation is good, there is still work to be done to fully integrate diverse groups and address issues like intolerance and crime among some youth. Amsterdam pursues an active diversity policy and works to improve society through education, community engagement, and representation. The speaker is proud to host the conference on integrating cities as cities are best positioned to develop practices that create inclusive societies.
This document discusses structural convergence beneath ideological differences, multiple spaces of immigration, and the making of inequality and expulsions. It notes that beneath political distances, there are structural approximations between security apparatuses and citizens. There are diverse spaces that produce migrant subjects, including professionals, contract workers, business visa holders, and more. Inequality is actively made through varying economic systems and government regulations. Cities are growing due in part to expulsions from land grabs and mining that displace people to urban slums.
This document discusses the role and characteristics of think tanks. It provides examples of think tanks like Cogito, a Swedish Green think tank founded in 2005. Cogito aims to further sustainable development through broad public debate, constructive ideas, and exploring viable political alternatives. It seeks to critically examine dominant paradigms and power structures. The document also discusses how Cogito explores green political thought and praxis, addresses issues like peace and conflict resolution, and the intersection of environmental issues and social welfare systems.
The document discusses rethinking societal progress to focus on citizen well-being rather than solely economic indicators like GDP. It proposes:
1. Rethinking the goals of progress to consider multi-dimensional well-being for all generations rather than single-minded growth.
2. Rethinking responsibility for progress from states alone to shared responsibility between public, private, and civil society actors.
3. Rethinking approaches to include bottom-up citizen input in defining well-being and coproducing knowledge on progress.
The document discusses barriers to volunteering faced by migrants, including legislative barriers that prevent migrants from volunteering or lack required references, as well as a lack of consideration by officials and organizations that migrants could be potential volunteers. It provides tasks for overcoming these barriers, such as preparing an empathetic pitch about the problem, researching relevant policies, and partnering with volunteer centers.
Eldis 20th Anniversary Workshop 2016: Neil Pakenham-Walsh and Ivan KulisIDS Knowledge Services
Communities of practice have the potential to greatly contribute to international development by increasing inclusiveness, value, and collaboration. However, there are still challenges to overcome. First, while connectivity is growing, true inclusiveness requires addressing psychological and technical barriers. Second, demonstrating clear value for participants, organizations, and sustainable development goals is difficult due to a lack of management skills and evidence of impact. Third, the current fragmented ecosystem of communities of practice results in duplication and overlap, making collaboration challenging. To realize the potential of communities of practice will require supporting their efforts to be more inclusive, valuable, and collaborative, as well as providing an enabling environment for them to thrive.
This document provides an overview of systems theory and discusses neoliberalism. It defines critical ecologies and outlines the lecture, which conceptualizes social, biophysical, and psychic systems. It then examines neoliberalism as the alignment of political and economic systems to prioritize markets and profit. While neoliberalism aims to maximize efficiency, the document notes Jevons Paradox shows this may increase resource consumption and environmental impacts rather than reducing them.
This document outlines the topics and assignments for a sociology of migration class. It discusses integration, including dimensions of integration and theories of assimilation and segmented assimilation. Prejudice reduction programs are assigned as a group project. The dimensions of integration policy in the Netherlands are reviewed from the 1980s to present. Measurement of integration is discussed.
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Local integration policies in a multi-level governance framework
1. Local integration policies in a multi-level governance
framework
Leadership of cities?
Leadership within local integration policies?
Master class of the Integrating Cities V conference on “Making Integration work
in Europe’s Cities”
Amsterdam, March 8, 2012
By Rinus Penninx
Coordinator of the IMISCOE Research Network
www.imiscoe.org
2. Overview in steps:
1. The context: empirical paradoxes from the local perspective
2. Conceptualising the object of policies: the process of integration
3. The nature of integration policy, its making and implementation
4. Cities and national and EU-policies: explanations for paradoxes
5. Leadership of cities? On what? Over whom?
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3. Step 1: The European Context: General features
Facts:
• By 2000, 56 million immigrants lived in Europe: 7.7 % of the population
• These migrants come from all over the world
• They come for varying reasons (demand and supply driven)
• Immigrants tend to flock to cities
Framing:
• No `nations of immigrants’ tag as in classical immigration countries
• Often explicit: `not immigration countries’ on various arguments
• Europe is ‘an unwilling immigration continent’
Policies:
• Paradox of free movement within EU and restrictions for outsiders
• Increasing restrictionist admission for non-EU, non-developed countries
• Variable integration policies: from non-policies to enforced assimilation
• Integration (argument) increasingly used for selective immigration
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4. Step 1 (continued): The European context: Cities, immigrants and integration
Facts:
• Major and quick population changes in most larger European cities
• New forms of heterogeneity and diversity, `super-diversity’
• Problems of insertion and accommodation
Framing and Policies:
• Variable integration polices: from non-policies, even exclusion, to active
reception and accommodation policies
• Sometimes practice-driven local policies in the absence of national policies
• Variable, but less ideological local frames: more pragmatic
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5. Step 1 (continued): Questions: policy paradoxes from the local perspective
• Why did some European cities have local integration policies before national and
EU-policies came into existence?
• Why are local policies in their implementation so similar in some domains (hard
socio-economic ones) and so different in other domains (legal and
cultural/religious ones)?
• Why have tensions and discrepancies between local and national policies
increased, particularly in countries that have politicized the topic?
• Why do we see so many cross-national ‘horizontal’ initiatives of policy learning
of European cities recently?
• Why do many cities and their local actors – in recent times – make use of EU-
facilities and funds? Why did the EC create such facilities and funds?
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6. Step 2. An operational definition of integration
• “Integration is the process of becoming an accepted part of society”
• A two-way street of interaction between immigrants and the dominant society.
• There are three dimensions of becoming an accepted part of society
– The legal/political dimension
– The socio-economic dimension
– The cultural/religious dimension.
• The process of integration takes place at three levels simultaneously:
– The individual level
– The organisational (collective) level of groups
– The institutional level (including specific integration policies)
• The process takes place (and is measurable) mainly at the local level: in what are migrants supposed to
integrate?
• Since (local) contexts and characteristics of immigrants vary significantly, the form and outcome of the process
varies.
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8. Step 3: The Nature of Policies, the making of integration policies and implementation
• The essence of policies is that they intend to steer processes in society: in our case the integration
processes of immigrants. Explicit policies are part of a political process of normative nature in which
first the topic of integration is formulated as problem, the problem is given a normative framing and
concrete actions are designed and developed to reach a goal.
• Being defined politically by (majorities of) the receiving society there is the inherent danger of being
lop-sided, representing expectations and demands of this society rather than being based on
negotiation and agreement with immigrants themselves.
• In contrast to the long-term nature of integration processes discussed above, the political process in
democratic societies requires that policies bear fruit within much shorter time frames – the spaces
between elections. Unrealistic promises and demands that arise from this ‘democratic impatience’
(Vermeulen & Penninx 1994) – often produce backlash.
• More difficult than democratic impatience, however, are situations in which a political climate of
anti-immigration and anti-immigrant sentiments – translated into political movements and a
politicisation of immigration and integration – prevents well-argued policy proposals from being
adopted. Immigrants identify themselves more with the local than the national.
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9. Step 3 (continued): The Nature of Policies, the making of integration policies and
implementation
• Explicit integration policies are part of the institutional arrangements in a society. Not having an
explicit policy integration is also a policy. To study integration policies we should have a broad
concept of policies.
• Whose policies? Who is to be defined as relevant actors in policies. Governmental agencies at the
national and local level (mostly studied only), but also other institutional actors in civil society at
large can be defined as relevant, either as partners in governmental policies (more often at the local
level), but also as institutions that have policies themselves: employers’ organisations, trade unions,
but also churches.
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10. Step 4. Local, national and EU-Policies, the making of integration policies and
implementation
Dynamic of policies and policymaking at different levels
• Historically local policies often earlier than national policies (framing non-immigration country):
Amsterdam, Berlin, Zurich etc.
• Except Swedish (mid-1970s) and Dutch (early 1980s) national policies that `engaged cities’ in the
1980 and 1990s (integration policies as essential part of Urban Policies)
• More explicitly enforced and demanding recent integration policies (particularly expressed in the
normative civic integration programmes – as opposed to the toolkit approach before) at the national
level have increased tension between national and local actors:
- competences and resources
- problem definition: pragmatic versus principled
- context bound urgency
→ domain priorities
→ target group priorities versus generalised approach
→ tension between local and national policies
• EU-policies are new (since 2003); third pillar consensus policy; open method of coordination as tool;
soft policy tools.
• EU-policies to engage other than national governmental partners: local government, civil society
partners, NGOs (EIF-fund; Refugee Fund)
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11. Step 5: Leadership?
b) In relation to national (and EU-) policymaking
Need for more decentralisation of competences and resources; National and
EU-policies should do general framing, facilitating and fair (context-
sensitive) monitoring.
d) In relation to the city itself (its bureaucracy, its civil society and its
immigrant communities)
1. City’s vision (framing and priorities)
Empirically I see three main visions:
• Socially fair cities (equal chances, access and outcomes)
• Tolerant, culturally diverse, cohesive cities
• Entrepreneurial city
As strategic tools such visions are important mobilising tools;
At the same time, the basic dimensions of the integration process
(from the perspective of migrants) all be covered properly.
12. Step 5: Leadership? (continued)
→ City’s vision needs political leadership, but as much in two further aspects:
4. Cities as bureaucracies
• Integration policy is cross-sectional by definition; needs input from many dpts
• Coordination of policies should be backed up politically and placed high up in the
bureaucracy (cabinet of the mayor instead of dpt of welfare..)
• Facilitation and (fair) monitoring are the main instruments that work in a situation
that is politically legitimised (also here the decentralising principle..)
9. City government as community government
• Cities can only implement integration policies effectively with support of major
players in civil society such as employers (unions), trade unions, churches, NGOs.
• Cities should engage collective representations of immigrants in their policies: in the
process of making policies, and potentially also in implementing policies. (They are
part of civil society... )