Under UNESCO s Man and Biosphere Reserve Programme , there are currently 26 biosphere reserves recognized as part of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves in the Arab States. These are distributed across 13 countries in the region. The list Below is the list of biosphere reserves in the Arab States, organized by country territory, along with the year these were designated as part of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves. The list also includes the Intercontinental Biosphere Reserve of the Mediterranean , a biosphere reserve shared between Morocco and Spain. Algeria Tassili n Ajjer 1986 El Kala 1990 Djurdjura 1997 Chr a National Park Chrea 2002 Taza National Park Taza 2004 Gouraya National Park Gouraya 2004 Egypt Omayed 1981 Wadi Allaqi 1993 Jordan Dana Nature Reserve Dana 1998 Lebanon Al Shouf Cedar Nature Reserve Shouf 2005 Jabal Al Rihane 2007 Jabal Moussa 2009 Morocco Souss Massa National Park Arganeraie 1998 Oasis du sud marocain 2000 Morocco & Spain Intercontinental Biosphere Reserve of the Mediterranean 2006 Qatar Al Reem 2007 Sudan Dinder National Park Dinder 1979 Radom 1979 Syria Argob Lajat 2009 Tunisia Djebel Bou Hedma 1977 Jebel ech Chambi Djebel Chambi 1977 Ichkeul Lake Ichkeul 1977 Iles Zembra et Zembretta 1977 United Arab Emirates Marawah, United Arab Emirates Marawah 2007 Yemen Socotra Archipelago 2003 External links http www.unesco.org mab wnbrs.shtml Searchable list of UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves Biosphere Reserves Category Biosphere reserves Category UNESCO Link FL ru ru ... more details
The tradition of women s literary circles in the ArabWorld dates back to the pre Islamic period when ... and feminism were also occurring elsewhere in the Arabworld, with the Syrian writer and scholar, Butrus ... immeasurably to literary circles, print and production in the Arabworld. Women and the public sphere ... the increasingly imagined Arabworld began to reap the benefits of education, and many of them began ... various kinds of social gatherings in the Arabworld. According to the academic and expert, Boutheina .... 59 ref The first salon The history of the literary salon gathering salon in the Arabworld, of which ... salons in the Arabworld, the gatherings bore witness to the mingling of the literary elite, with male ... circles across the Arabworld. Meetings were held at her family home, ref pages? cite book ... famous feminists in the Arabworld, through her endeavours for the women s cause. In 1914, she formed ... figure in literary circles throughout the Arabworld. Unlike her peers, Princess Nazli ... Salons And Societies In The ArabWorld Category Arabic culture Category Arabic literature ... among Arab women, and under the Umayyad dynasty , Sukaynah Bint Al Husayn established the first .... The initial pioneers of the Arab salon were women from wealthy families in Greater Syria and Egypt ... the tradition died out somewhat after the Second World War , it has left a lasting legacy on literary culture and women s issues throughout the ArabWorld. Indeed, more than one hundred years later, the UN Arab Human Development Report echoes what many people in Arab societies were coming to realise at that time An Arab Renaissance cannot be accomplished without the rise of women in Arab countries. ref cite book title The Arab Human Development Report 2005 Towards the Rise of Women in the ArabWorld publisher United Nations Development Programme, Regional Bureau for Arab States location New York ... year 1994 title The Rise of Arab Nationalism Reconsidered journal International Journal of Middle ... more details
reflist DEFAULTSORT Jews From The ArabWorld Category Mizrahi Jews topics Category Judeo Islamic topics Category Lists of Jews ArabWorld Category Arabworld related lists Category Jews and Judaism in Western Asia ArabWorld Category History of the Jews in the Middle East List ar ...Unreferenced date January 2007 Jews by country From the Umayyad Arab Expansion until the 1960s, Jew s were a significant part of the population of Arab countries. Before 1948, an estimated 900,000 Jews lived in what are now Arab states. Here is a list of some prominent Jews from the ArabWorld, arranged by country of birth. Al Andalus Maimonides , medieval philosopher and Torah scholar Algeria Jacques Attali , economist, writer Cheb i Sabbah , famous club DJ Lili Boniche , musician Patrick Bruel , singer, actor Alain Chabat , actor H l ne Cixous , feminist writer Claude Cohen Tannoudji , physicist, Nobel prize 1997 Jacques Derrida , deconstructionist philosopher Alphonse Halimi , boxer World Bantamweight Champion sup http www.jewishsports.net BioPages AlphonseHalimi.htm sup Roger Hanin , film actor & director Enrico Macias Gaston Ghrenassia , French singer Bahrain Ebrahim Daoud Nonoo , former member of parliament Houda Ezra Nonoo , former member of parliament and current Ambassador of Bahrain to the USA Egypt Eli Cohen , celebrated Israeli spy Sir Ronald Cohen , Egyptian born businessman Aura Herzog Eric Hobsbawm , historian Jewish Polish & German parents living in Cairo Edmond Jab s , poet Ranan Lurie , political cartoonist Moshe Marzouk , doctor Layla Murad , singer converted to Islam Haim Saban , TV producer Saadia Gaon Saadia ben Yosef , rabbi Sylvain Sylvain Sylvain Mizrahi , guitarist for New York Dolls Bat Ye or , historian Avraham Yosef , rabbi Yaakov Yosef , rabbi Daoud ... , world renowned French pornstar David Hassine , a liturgic poet and rabbi Dunash ben Labrat ... to Islam born Persian Jew Shalom Shabazi , poet See also Jewish exodus from Arab lands Jewish refugees ... more details
ID 21264&URL DO DO TOPIC&URL SECTION 201.html Memory of the World Register Arab States Memory of the World ...The first inscriptions on the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme Memory of the World Register Memory of the World Register were made in 1997. ref name 1997 report cite web title Third Meeting of the International Advisory Committee of the Memory of the World Programme url http portal.unesco.org ci en ev.php URL ID 24079&URL DO DO TOPIC&URL SECTION 201.html publisher UNESCO Memory of the World Programme accessdate 2009 09 06 ref By creating a compendium of the world s documentary heritage manuscripts ... web title UNESCO MEMORY OF THE WORLD PROGRAMME The Asia Pacific Strategy url http www.geocities.com seapavaa whatsnew memory.htm date 1999 04 17 publisher UNESCO Memory of the World Programme accessdate ... materials. ref name 2003 memory cite web title Twenty three new inscriptions on Memory of the World ... and short films, and accounts documenting changes in the world s political, economic and social stage. Of these, six properties were nominated by countries from the region of the Arab States. List ... for all alphabets in the world. ref name alphabet class wikitable sortable border 2 cellpadding 2 cellspacing ... ci en ev.php URL ID 23069&URL DO DO TOPIC&URL SECTION 201.html publisher UNESCO Memory of the World ... DO DO TOPIC&URL SECTION 201.html publisher UNESCO Memory of the World Programme accessdate 2009 09 07 ... URL ID 22476&URL DO DO TOPIC&URL SECTION 201.html publisher UNESCO Memory of the World Programme ... Memory of the World Programme accessdate 2009 09 07 ref Lebanon Commemorative stela of Nahr al Kalb ... UNESCO Memory of the World Programme accessdate 2009 09 07 ref Saudi Arabia Earliest Islamic Kufic ...&URL DO DO TOPIC&URL SECTION 201.html publisher UNESCO Memory of the World Programme accessdate 2009 ... by the Memory of the World Programme. refend References reflist 2 Notes refbegin note 1 A. Names and spellings provided are based on the official list released by the Memory of the World Programme ... more details
World Phenomenology Institute is an learned society academic organization founded in 1976 originally named the WorldInstitute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning to promote scholarship in the area of Phenomenology philosophy phenomenology . The organization was founded by Anna Teresa Tymieniecka . External links http www.phenomenology.org WPI website See also Emmanuel Levinas Paul Ricoeur Hans Georg Gadamer Stephan Strasser Category Phenomenology Category Philosophical societies ... more details
Notability date March 2009 The Instituto del Mundo del Trabajo Spanish language Spanish for World of Labor Institute is and Argentina Argentine labor research institute, with offices in Buenos Aires , Mar del Plata and other cities. Its current chairman is Julio Godio . External links http www.mundodeltrabajo.org.ar indexeng.htm Official website Veiga, Gustavo 2009 . http www.pagina12.com.ar diario deportes 8 132473 2009 09 27.html Nikita, fugaz wing de Estudiantes de La Plata , P gina 12, 27 09 2009. Category Politics of Argentina argentina stub ... more details
Unreferenced date July 2010 Notability date July 2010 This is a List of largest cities in the ArabWorld . File AbassidQasr Baghdad Iraq.jpg thumb Baghdad, Abbasid Palace File Khartoum.jpg thumb Khartoum, Overview File PyramidsofGiza at night.jpg thumb Giza, Pyramids of Giza and Sphinx File Courtyard2 js .jpg thumb Damascus, Ummayad Mosque File Riyadh city.jpg thumb Riyadh File Hassan II Mosque in the evening js .jpg thumb Casablanca, Hassan II Mosque File Jeddah Seafront.jpg thumb Jeddah, Seaport File Aleppo UNESCO.jpg thumb Aleppo, Citadel of Aleppo File Egypt.Alexandria.BibliothecaAlexandrina.01.jpg thumb Alexandria, Bibliotheca Alexandrina File Mosqu e Ketchaoua.jpg thumb Algiers, Ketchaoua Mosque File Amman Citadel.jpg thumb Amman, Jabal al Qal a File Kuwait City cropped.jpg thumb Kuwait City, Overview File Serail Hill.jpg thumb Beirut, Grand Serail File Kaaba at night.jpg thumb Mecca, Kaaba File Sheikh Zayed Mosque.jpg thumb Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Zayed Mosque File Rabat Tour Hassan Mausolee.jpg thumb Rabat, Hassan Mausoleum File Sanaa.JPG thumb Sana a File Al Hadba.jpg thumb Mosul, Al Hadba File Tripoli cityscape.jpg thumb Tripoli, Old Medina File Traffic congestion in Al Bayda, Libya ..jpg thumb Bayda, Libya Bayda , Traffic congestion File PortSaidEgypt2 byDanielCsorfoly.JPG thumb Port Said File 2. Abu Dhabi 1 .jpg thumb Dubai File Koutbia.jpg thumb Marrakech File The Profit Mosque.jpg thumb Medina File Mahdi s Tomb in Omdurman 001.jpg thumb Omdurman File Hawler Castle.jpg thumb Arbil border 1 class wikitable sortable cellpadding 2 Rank Country City Population br est. 2007 Foundation Date 1 EGY Cairo 17,856,000 969 AD 2 IRQ Baghdad 8,092,000 762 AD 3 SUD Khartoum 4,969,000 1821 AD 4 EGY Giza 4,779,000 4500 BC 5 SYR Damascus 4,500,000 8000 BC 6 SAU Riyadh 4,260,000 100 ... LBN Jounieh 203,000 1000 BC Category Arab League Category Lists of cities by demography Arab League Category Geography of the Arab League Category Lists by population Category Superlatives ar ... more details
The World Savings Banks Institute is an international banking association. It currently gathers 109 members in 92 countries throughout the world, comprising approximately 7,000 savings and retail banks. These institutions operate some 209,000 branches & outlets and employ around 2.5 million people. At the start of 2010, total assets of WSBI members amounted to .8,959 billion. ref http www.wsbi.org uploadedFiles WSBI Key figures WSBI 20Member 20Statistics 202009 20lay 20outed.pdf WSBI Key figures ref WSBI was founded 1924 at the occasion of the First International Thrift Congress in Milan. Until the Second World War the headquarters of the International Savings Banks Institute remained in Milan. But since Milan had suffered from heavy bombings the Institute moved to Amsterdam in 1948. In 1963, WSBI s sister organization, the Savings Banks Group of the European Economic Community was created to represent European Savings Banks from the merging European markets. This institution was renamed European Savings Banks Group in 1988. The International Savings Banks Institute was again relocated in 1969, this time to Geneva where it remained until 1994 when it was dissolved. In its place, a newly created World Savings Banks Institute WSBI was established in Brussels on 9 June 1994. Both WSBI and ESBG are today managed by a World Savings Banks Institute European Savings Banks Group WSBI ESBG common secretariat, located in Brussels. WSBI is the global representative of its members, typically savings and retail banks or association thereof, and fosters cooperation between them. It works closely with international financial institutions and publishes research papers and studies on current ... Directory WSBI Bot generated title ref See also World Bank World Savings Day Notes Reflist References ... factfile detail.jsp?idioma I&documento 16323 External links http www.wsbi.org WSBI World Savings Banks Institute http www.esbg.eu ESBG European Savings Banks Group Category Banking institutes ... more details
The Brooks World Poverty Institute BWPI http www.bwpi.manchester.ac.uk is a research centre at the University of Manchester dedicated to multidisciplinary research on poverty , Economic inequality inequality and growth. It was created in 2005 following the donation of 1.3 million to the university by the Rory and Elizabeth Brooks Foundation, one of the largest known gifts to fund poverty research in Europe. In September 2008, The Rory and Elizabeth Brooks Foundation awarded a further 1.4 million to the Brooks World Poverty Institute over three years. BWPI has received additional research funding from the University of Manchester, the Economic and Social Research Council ESRC , the Department for International Development DFID , the Sustainable Consumption Institute SCI and the Chronic Poverty Research Centre CPRC . The Institute has built international partnerships with practitioners and researchers around the world, including BRAC Development Institute, Bangladesh, the University of Zimbabwe , the Universit de Thi s, Senegal and Rimisp in Latin America. Professor Joseph Stiglitz , former Chief Economist of the World Bank , chairs BWPI s research. BWPI provides research funding to a number of PhD and post doctoral students as well as employing established academic staff working on aspects of poverty. It organises research around the following major themes Poverty and Social Protection Global Poverty Reduction Institutions and Policy Working Out of Poverty including Capturing the Gains research programme http www.capturingthegains.org Urban Poverty and Conflict including research programme on Poverty and Climate Change in Urban Bangladesh http www.bwpi.manchester.ac.uk research climurb index.htm . It is also home to the Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre http www.effective states.org . Notes reflist University of Manchester Category Poverty Category University of Manchester ... more details
The World Trade Center Institute WTCI operates as a private, non profit, and non political membership organization located in the Baltimore World Trade Center building on the Inner Harbor of Baltimore , Maryland . Financed in cooperation with area businesses and the State of Maryland, WTCI s mission is to drive the growth of Maryland s global business community. ref http pobdirectory.com World Trade Center Institute.html ref WTCI is one of the 320 members of the World Trade Center Association WTCA , which operates WTCs in 96 countries around the world. ref http wtcaonline.com cms wtca locate contact a wtc groups ref Maryland Governor William Donald Schaefer founded WTCI in 1989 along with Chairman of RTKL Associates , Harold Adams and a Board of Directors. After partnering with the Maryland Port Administration in 1991, WTCI was granted the World Trade Center Association license, making it the official proprietor of the World Trade Center Baltimore and a subsidiary of the World Trade Center Association. ref https www.wtci.org about history founders ref WTCI was recognized in 2010 by the Baltimore Business Journal as the Largest Association in the Baltimore area ref Book of Lists 2011 Baltimore Business Journal 17 Dec. 2010 Vol. 28 ref and in 2009 as the Largest Business Networking Organization ref Book of Lists 2010 Baltimore Business Journal 18 Dec. 2009 Vol. 27 ref . In March 2011, WTCI was selected by the World Bank to act as the Mid Atlantic region s Private Sector Liaison Officer PSLO . The PSLO enables the region s business community to use the World Bank program as a way to engage the private sector in international development programs. WTCI joined three other organizations in the United States with the World Bank accreditation, including the Chicago Global Mid West ... http baltimore.citybizlist.com 1 2011 3 10 World Trade Center Institute Baltimore Selected as World ... via the Article Wizard Category World Trade Centers Category Organizations based in Baltimore, Maryland ... more details
File World Resources Institute logo.jpg right thumb World Resources Institute logo. The World Resources Institute WRI is an environmental think tank founded in 1982 based in Washington, D.C. in the United States . ref name wri.org World Resources Institute. 2009 . About WRI. Retrieved March 8, 2009, from ... their capacity to provide humans with needed goods and services. ref World Resources Institute ... countries in adapting to climate change . The report is a collaborative product of World Resources Institute with the World Bank , United Nations Environment Programme and United Nations Development ... envoy to lead influential institute ref References reflist External links http www.wri.org World Resources Institute Category Environmental organizations based in the United States de World Resources Institute fr World Resources Institute nn World Resources Institute pt World Resources Institute ... of greenhouse gases and help humanity and the natural world adapt to unavoidable climate change ... biennial publication, the World Resources report, a well regarded collection of data and in depth analysis on current environmental issues. The most recent edition of World Resources , entitled ... a serious gap in information about the condition of the world s natural resources, WRI launches World Resources , a biennial global assessment of environmental conditions and trends that for the first ... Institute for Environment and Development IIED NA merges with WRI to become the Center for International Development and Environment and the largest program within the Institute. 1990. The United ..., environmental and labor CEOs joined by five cabinet secretaries. 1996. The Management Institute for Environment .... WRI convenes a core team of civil society organizations from around the world to establish The Access ... trends that shape our world. 2001. WRI and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development ... poverty by meeting the needs of the world s poorest people at the base of the economic pyramid. WRI ... more details
WIP WorldInstitute of Pain was founded in 1994 as organization to better educate pain physicians for the 21st century. br WIP is a large organization for specialist physicians involved in pain treatment. The organization s Fifth world congress was held on March 13 16, 2009 in New York . This congress had interventional pain treatments such as pulsed radiofrequency and many others as its main focus. WIP s 6th World Congress will be held in Seoul, South Korea, April 29 May 1, 2011 and is expected to attract 2500 international participants for a comprehensive program representing the very latest evidence based and best practice based pain medicine in all disciplines. External links world congress official website http www.kenes.com wip br Category Pain ... more details
The World Bank Institute is the capacity development branch of the World Bank . It provides learning programs, policy advice and technical assistance to policy makers, government and non government agencies and development practitioners of developing countries . Capacity for Development is defined by the WBI as the ability of individuals, institutions, and whole societies to solve problems, make informed choices, order their priorities and plan their futures, as well as implement programs and projects, and sustain them over time ref http web.worldbank.org WBSITE EXTERNAL WBI 0,,contentMDK 20097853 menuPK 204763 pagePK 209023 piPK 207535 theSitePK 213799,00.html About the World Bank Institute ref History and accomplishments The WBI was previously named the Economic Development Institute which was founded in 1955. It was renamed World Bank Institute in 2000. According to the WBI website, the WBI in 2006 delivered 800 learning activities to more than 90,000 clients and awarded 211 scholarships. The Global development learning network of the WBI links distance learning sites with high speed communication technologies. Approach WBI activities are adapted to the individual needs of countries. The WBI Governance Program first develops a wide set of governance and anti corruption indicators and the Knowledge for Development W4D program evaluates a country s preparedness for the knowledge era. From these assessments, specific action plans are developed on a country by country basis. The learning programs WBI provides learning programs, most of which can be delivered face to face or via an e learning platform. These include themes such as Community Empowerment and Social Inclusion CESI , helps create the conditions that enable the poor and the excluded to shape their own development ref http web.worldbank.org WBSITE EXTERNAL WBI WBIPROGRAMS CESILPROGRAM 0,,menuPK 459702 pagePK 64156143 ... www.gdln.org Global Development Learning Network Category World Bank Category International development ... more details
The World Trade Institute WTI is a center of advanced studies of the University of Bern . It is located in Berne , Switzerland and directed by Professor Thomas Cottier. The institute was founded in 1999 by the Universities of Bern, University of Fribourg Fribourg and University of Neuch tel Neuch tel within the framework of the BeNeFri convention, which calls for closer cooperation between the three universities of the Swiss plateau Swiss Mittelland . ref Cottier, Thomas 2010 A Decade of Growth and Learning Recalling the Origins and Evolution of the World Trade Institute WTI , in World Trade Institute ... discuss contemporary topics of the world trading system. ref World Trade Forum. http www.wti.org world trade forum retrieved 18 October 2011 ref Papers, comments and conclusions from these conferences are published in the World Trade Forum Book Series by Cambridge University Press . File Main Auditorium of World Trade Institute in Bern.jpg thumb right Main auditorium of Master students Teaching ..., information and knowledge available at the World Trade Institute without spending study time ... Reflist External links The World Trade Institute s http www.worldtradeinstitute.ch website The NCCR ... institute pdfs A5 programme anniversary web.pdf retrieved 18 October 2011 ref Dedicated to capacity building and raising global awareness of international economic law and economics, the institute maintains close ties to the Institute of European and International Economic Law IEW at the University ... and professionals, the Institute allows researchers and practitioners to establish networks and pool ... MILE , an annual summer academy, World Trade Organization WTO WTO accession and membership accession ... 18 October 2011 ref The WTI also hosts an annual World Trade Forum conference where interdisciplinary ... the world. The programme s field trip to Geneva and other extracurricular activities are integral to the Summer ... aims to provide knowledge of the contemporary legal framework governing the world trading system and is designed ... more details
century. The city played an important role in the Arab and Muslim world for many centuries because ... Issues Lists of World Heritage Sites Category Life in the Arab League Category Lists of World Heritage Sites Arab States Category Arabworld related lists World Heritage Sites Link FL uk ar ...This is a list of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the Arab States . ref http whc.unesco.org pg.cfm?cid 31&l en&&&mode table&order region World Heritage Centre World Heritage List Bot generated title ref Some of these countries are geographically ... Location style width 5 World Heritage Site Selection criteria Criteria style width 5 Area br ha ... groupings of prehistoric cave art in the world. More than 15,000 drawings and engravings record the climatic ... the modern urban area of Cairo lies one of the world s oldest Islamic cities, with its famous mosques ... world, reaching its golden age in the 14th century. ref cite web url http whc.unesco.org en list ... of the World. ref cite web url http whc.unesco.org en list 86 title Memphis and its Necropolis the Pyramid ... world religions Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. ref cite web url http whc.unesco.org en list 954 ... Arab Kingdom, Hatra withstood invasions by the Romans in A.D. 116 and 198 thanks to its high ... valley is one of the most important early Christian monastic settlements in the world. Nearby ... cities in the Hellenic world. It was Romanized and remained a great capital until the earthquake ... capital was founded in the 9th century and features the world s oldest university. The urban fabric ... B.C. in the world. ref cite web url http whc.unesco.org en list 1207 title Archaeological Sites ... and medieval world. ref cite web url http whc.unesco.org en list 1207 title Land of Frankincense ... of the ancient world. ref cite web url http whc.unesco.org en list 23 title Site of Palmyra publisher ... ref References Reflist 2 External links http whc.unesco.org pg.cfm?cid 31 UNESCO World Heritage Centre ... more details
The World Growth Institute projects itself an international NGO serving as a think tank for economic growth issues, and it says that Staff and contributing fellows comprise former trade diplomats and other government officials to discuss economic growth issues. Key U.S. economists contributing to World Growth studies include Professor Alan Blinder and Dr. Robert Shapiro , former Undersecretary of Commerce to President William Jefferson Clinton . In fact the World Growth Institute is largely a one man band operated by Alan Oxley, an ex Australian Trade official who was also director of the APEC Centre, in the School of Business at RMIT University in Melbourne. His Institute has two other employees, both from the corporate banking and trade business lobby sectors. Kristen Bondietti works both for APEC Center and as a Principle Consultant for Oxley s ITS Global consulting company. Oxley is also Managing Director of ITS Global, a strategic trade, environment and communication consultancy which appears to recruit its non Asian consultants mainly from the APEC Centre that he runs at Melbourne s RMIT University. He is also a prominent climate change denier who appears to be closely associated with the Australian libertarian think tank, the Institute of Public Affairs IPA which acts as a bridge between global corporate interests and Australian conservative governments Liberal Coalition in state and federal spheres. There is no doubt about Oxley s credentials as a career trade diplomat ... that the World Growth Institute web site says nothing about their funders or their corporate supporters. External links http www.worldgrowth.org philosophy World Growth Website http www.apec.org.au docs 050608 20 20BIO 20NOTE 20 20Alan 20Oxley.pdf World Growth CEO Ambassador Alan Oxley ... 12 pg 2 IPA Publications list Category American political websites rw World Growth Institute ... of World Growth hat when he is attacking Greenpeace which he does often , and then puts on his Australian ... more details
The Gorky Institute of World Literature lang ru . . . is a research institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow . It was founded on 17 September 1932 for the 40th anniversary of M. Gorky s literary activity. Web site http www.imli.ru coord missing Moscow Category Universities and colleges in Moscow Category Education in the Soviet Union Category Educational institutions established in 1932 Russia stub fr Institut de litt rature Gorki ru . . . ... more details
of establishing an independent school of journalism with Joel Belz , publisher of World magazine World magazine. The institute is currently the largest independent school of journalism ...Multiple issues advert October 2008 COI April 2011 notable April 2011 refimprove April 2011 The World Journalism Institute WJI was founded by Robert Case II in 1999. WJI is an independent journalism school whose mission is to recruit, equip, place and encourage journalists who are Christians in the mainstream ... cities. The institute occasionally offers seminars of particular interest, such as Amity Shlaes Bloomberg ... The institute offers multi month internships to its most promising graduates. Citation needed date April 2011 WJI Monographs The institute publishes a series of monographs on the intersection of Christianity ... Hoak, Mark Bergin and Robert Russell Drake. All the monographs are free from the institute. Citation needed date April 2011 WJI Online Newspaper Times Observer The institute posts an online newspaper ... thinker, Francis A. Schaeffer who promoted an integration of Christianity and the world of ideas and cluture. A number of intellectuals have served as the Francis A. Schaeffer Scholar at the institute ... Seminary , is the FAS Scholar for the year 2007 2008. Other intellectuals who have taught the world view component at the institute include http www.labri.org mass profiles.html Dick Keyes L Abri ... New York Times reporter, John McCandlish Phillips. Phillips has taught for the institute. Citation ... after USA Today reporter Jack Kelley , ... had been scheduled to speak at an institute luncheon around ... were raised about other institute guest instructors. ... A large part of the criticism stem med from World magazine s directed reporting philosophy, which call ed on Christian journalists to report ... ties with Olasky. Citation needed date April 2011 External links http www.worldji.com World Journalism Institute official web site Category Organizations established in 1999 Category Christian ... more details
Founded in 1925 by wealthy American philanthropist Charles R. Crane , the Institute of Current World Affairs is a Washington, D.C based 501 c 3 which provides fellowships, allowing Americans under age 36 to live in a foreign country for two years. Their observations and research are published in monthly newsletters that are distributed to members. ref www.icwa.org about.asp ref Purpose and Recent History The Institute of Current World Affairs awards fellowships to young men and women allowing them to travel outside of the United States and gain an in depth understanding of chosen topic areas. The institute is credited with launching the careers of notable foreign policy experts, including former U.S. ambassador to Kenya, the late Smith Hempstone, ref New York Times, Nov. 30, 2006 Smith Hempstone, 77, Journalist Who Became a Prominent Ambassador, Is Dead ref and the former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, the late Phillips Talbot . ref An American Witness to India s Partition. SAGE Publications, August, 2007. ref The institute says it chooses young individuals that it believes possess the ability to make a substantial contribution to public life in the United States. The institute, which pays living expenses for fellows and their families, says it has sent more than 150 people abroad on its fellowship program. The work of its fellows have appeared in numerous national publications recently, sometimes with controversy. In January, 2008, Nicholas Schmidle, working in Pakistan, wrote a Sunday magazine article for The New York Times titled Next ... to Asia by the institute. ref http www.sanjuanislander.com county elections 2001 school primary.html ref And Susan Sterner, a fellow in Brazil for the institute, documented First Lady Laura Bush ... Boris Weintraub James Workman References reflist External links http www.icwa.org Institute of Current World Affairs Category Non profit organizations based in the United States Category International ... more details
The Kiel Institute for the World Economy lang de Institut f r Weltwirtschaft an der Universit t Kiel , abbreviated IfW , located in Kiel , Germany , is one of the leading economic research institutes in Germany. It is engaged in research and consulting with regard to global economic affairs, economic education and documentation. It is an independentlan non profit academic institution affiliated with the University of Kiel . Activities Report on the German economy The IfW is one of the leading economic research institutes in Germany that, twice a year in Spring and Autumn , submit a joint report on the state of the German economy, the so called Gemeinschaftsdiagnose joint diagnosis . ref German government Web site http www.bundesregierung.de Content DE Artikel 2006 10 2006 10 19 herbstgutachten bestaetigt wachstumskurs deutsche wirtschaft.html Bundesregierung Online De icon ref The other institutes are Halle Institute for Economic Research IWH , Halle, Saxony Anhalt Halle , Ifo Institut f r Wirtschaftsforschung , Munich , Institute of Advanced Studies Vienna Institute of Advanced Studies IHS , Wien , Institut f r Makro konomie und Konjunkturforschung IMK , D sseldorf , Konjunkturforschungsstelle KOF of the Eidgen ssische Technische Hochschule Z rich Eidgen ssischen Technischen Hochschule ETH , Z rich , sterreichisches Institut f r Wirtschaftsforschung WIFO , Wien , Rheinisch Westf lisches Institut f r Wirtschaftsforschung RWI , Essen . The Global Economic Symposium GES Jointly with the Ministry of Science, Economics and Transport of the State of Schleswig Holstein the Kiel Institute for the World Economy organises the Global Economic Symposium . References reflist External links http www.ifw kiel.de En icon http www.global economic symposium.org En icon Germany org stub Category University of Kiel Category Leibniz Gemeinschaft Category Research institutes in Germany Category Economic research institutes Category Non profit organisations based in Germany Category Political ... more details
The WorldInstitute for Nuclear Security is an organization which seeks to prevent nuclear terrorism and improve world nuclear security. It works alongside the International Atomic Energy Agency . WINS was formed in 2008, less than a year after a break in at the Pelindaba nuclear facility in South Africa , which contained enough enriched uranium to make several nuclear bombs. Funding WINS is funded by the Nuclear Threat Initiative , a Washington non profit group, the United States Department of Energy and the Norwegian government. ref http www.upi.com Top News 2008 09 30 Anti nuclear terrorism group launched UPI 66171222791489 Anti nuclear terrorism group launched ref See also List of books about nuclear issues List of nuclear whistleblowers List of Nuclear Free Future Award recipients Nunn Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction References references Category Nuclear terrorism ... more details
Refimprove date April 2010 Advert date August 2010 Infobox Institute name World Policy Institute image ... br New York, NY 10001 website div class plainlinks http www.worldpolicy.org div The World Policy Institute is a non partisan policy institute which claims to develop policies that require a progressive ... to national and global security. ref cite web url http www.worldpolicy.org about title The World Policy Institute & 124 World Policy Institute work worldpolicy.org year 2011 last update accessdate ... staff a group of accomplished policy analysts, journalists and writers give the institute a distinctive voice in national and international affairs. Mission statement The World Policy Institute, a non ... Founded in New York City in 1961 as the Fund for Education Concerning World Peace through World Law, the World Policy Institute has its origins in the post World War II movement of moderate internationalists ... to prevent future carnage and devastation like what the world had just experienced. In 1963, the Institute s name was shortened to World Law Fund. In 1972, it merged with the Institute for International ..., the Institute for World Order. In 1982, the World Policy Institute adopted its current name to reflect ... World Policy Journal. From 1991 2007, the Institute was part of The New School , a university in Greenwich Village , New York City. In 2007, the World Policy Institute was re incorporated as a free ... analysts serving as senior fellows of the World Policy Institute. Their research, publications ... development, media activities, and flagship World Policy Journal provide a forum for solution focused ... around the world on critical shared global issues including migration, climate change, technology ... challenges that demand cooperative solutions in an increasingly interdependent world an inclusive and sustainable ... events, collaborative policy development, media activities, and flagship World Policy Journal ... fresh ideas and new voices from around the world on critical shared global issues including migration ... more details
Image WINS logo.jpg right thumb WorldInstitute for Nuclear Security WINS The http www.wins.org WorldInstitute for Nuclear Security WINS is an organisation which aims to help strengthen the physical protection and security of nuclear material nuclear and radioactive materials and facilities worldwide. Launched in September 2008, WINS is bringing together nuclear security experts, the nuclear industry, governments and international organisations to focus on rapid and sustainable improvement of security at nuclear facilities around the world. The Nuclear Threat Initiative NTI , the United States Department of Energy and the http www.inmm.org Institute of Nuclear Materials Management INMM , partnered to develop and launch WINS, in close collaboration with the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA . About WINS WINS Vision To help improve security of nuclear and high hazard radioactive materials .... News WorldInstitute for Nuclear Security http www.wins.org WINS is based in Vienna New Organization ..., to non governmental organizations. The WorldInstitute for Nuclear Security will make an important ... of the WorldInstitute for Nuclear Security to be based in Vienna. As the full support ..., Joint Research Centre, European Commission See also World Association of Nuclear Operators Institute of Nuclear Materials Management References reflist External links http www.wins.org WorldInstitute for Nuclear Security http www.nature.com news 2008 081001 full 455580a.html World nuclear security gets welcome boost Nature journal Nature http www.nytimes.com 2008 09 29 world europe 29nuke.html ... Press Release ref Said About WINS I believe that we must be committed to the vision of a world in which ... handling nuclear materials is that a terrorist nuclear attack anywhere in the world will cast ... Kjell Bendiksen, President, Institute for Energy Technology, Norway Roger M Brunt CBE, Director ... Jo Nicholas, President, Institute of Nuclear Materials Management INMM Tero Varjoranta, Director ... more details
World Affairs Institute WAI is a nonprofit organization established in 2010 and located in Washington, DC. The organization s stated mission is to promote democratic governance as well as public education, awareness, and dialogue on international affairs and security issues through publications and non partisan public education activity. ref name About World Affairs http www.worldaffairsjournal.org About 20Us index.html About World Affairs . ref The president of World Affairs Institute is James S. Denton . WAI s formative board includes James S. Denton, Christopher Hitchens, P.J. O Rourke, and Alan Dye. World Affairs Journal WAI publishes World Affairs journal World Affairs , a bimonthly print journal established in 1837. The journal covers foreign policy and security issues. Its http www.worldaffairsjournal.org website provides essays from the print journal, as well as blogs and online features in addition to international news, opinion, and research that is aggregated from media, think tanks, and governments around the world. MENA Democracy Fellows Program In July 2011, WAI launched the http www.menafellows.org MENA Democracy Fellows Program . The program was designed to support the democratic transition in Egypt and Tunisia as well as to promote better understanding, communications, and cooperation between the countries and the United States. The program awards fellowships to emerging leaders from the region who actively promote democratic governance or independent media in their countries. During the two month fellowship program in the United States, the participants work in the US Congress, think tanks, or media outlets. Formal advisers to the program include Members of Congress, experts, and journalists from the US and abroad, including Congressman David Dreier R CA Chairman of the House Rules Committee and Congressman John Larson D CT Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus , Deborah Harding former VP of the Soros Foundation , and journalists experts, Alaa Al ... more details
Image Institute of World Politics in Washington DC.JPG 150px right thumb The Institute of World Politics headquarters in Washington, D.C. The Institute of World Politics IWP is an independent, regionally accredited ref http www.msche.org institutions view.asp?idinstitution 278 Middle States Commission on Higher Education Bot generated title ref graduate school of national security and international relations international affairs . Founded in 1990 and located in Washington, D.C. , United States U.S. , the school focuses on the development of leaders in the intelligence , national security , and diplomatic communities and the teaching of the ethical exercise of statecraft in international relations. Its faculty consists primarily of senior scholar practitioners from the intelligence, national security, and diplomatic communities. It currently offers three Master of Arts postgraduate Master of Arts degrees Statecraft and National Security Affairs Statecraft and World Politics and Strategic Intelligence Studies. It also offers Certificates of Graduate Study and continuing education courses. It is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and licensed by the District of Columbia Education Licensure Commission. Curriculum overview The Institute of World Politics offers ... at The Institute of World Politics is composed of approximately 65 recent graduates planning to pursue ... in national security, foreign affairs and intelligence agencies. Funding The Institute of World ... employed by authoritarian regimes that the United States is likely to encounter in the world. 3. The review ... Prize winning historian. Michael Novak , American Enterprise Institute. James Oberg , former senior ... the Institute provide the bulk of its remaining budget as well as long term capital funding ... and universities in the District of Columbia coord 38.9105 77.0362 display title DEFAULTSORT Institute of World Politics, The Category Universities and colleges in Washington, D.C. Category Educational ... more details
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