Documents
and articles
Building
knowledge societies: the renewal of democratic practices
in knowledge societies.
Pippa Norris, John F. Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University, 2004.
Africa
South of the Sahara: International Relations
A guide to Internet sites
which focus on international relations between African
countries and other states.
Democratic
Governance and New Democracy in Africa: Agenda for the
Future
Prepared for presentation
at the African Forum for Envisioning Africa to held
in Nairobi, Kenya, 26 – 29 April 2002; by Archie Mafeje.
Reclaiming
Democracy for Africa: Alarming Signs of Post-Democratic
Governance
Samuel M. Makinda, Murdoch
University
New
Life For African Multilateralism
Human Rights Watch: World
Report 2003
African
Conflict Journal Newsletter
Serves as a forum for those
involved in the study or debate of conflict in Africa.
Democracies
Online Newswire
Launched in January 1998,
DO-WIRE connects over 2500 experts, practitioners, journalists,
and citizens across 75 countries. If you are interested
in democracy online - including politics online, new
media, e-governance, e-government, online advocacy and
activism, citizen e-participation and related topics,
then join us.
Pamabazuka
news
A Weekly Electronic Forum
For Social Justice In Africa
USAID:
Building Democracy in Africa
Africa’s challenges
are numerous and complex, but there is also much potential
and opportunity for growth and development throughout
the continent.
Links
to institutions
Africa
Recovery Online
Africa Recovery Online: United
Nations Department of Public Information
Organization running training,
consultancy, research and reflection programs for organizations
and individuals working towards democracy, development
and culture in Africa. The Internet site is in English
and French.
Media
for Democracy in Africa
This site is designed to
be a resource to journalists and other persons seeking
information or leads to information, which will be useful
in promoting accountability and democracy.The web site
will feature news from international and African news
sources on transparency, corruption, political accountability
and related issues in both the private and public sector.
Council
for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
CODESRIA is headquartered
in Dakar Senegal. It was established in 1973 as an independent
Pan-African research organisation with a primary focus
on the social sciences, broadly defined. It is recognised
not only as the pioneer African social research organisation
but also as the apex non-governmental centre of social
knowledge production on the continent.
Institute
for a Democratic Alternative South Africa
IDASA's mission is to promote
a sustainable democracy in South Africa by building democratic
institutions, educating citizens and advocating social
justice.
Kwa
Zulu Natal Deaf Association (South Africa)
Project on teaching the Deaf
Community about the voting process.
Promoting
Democracy and Good Governance
USAID is an independent federal
government agency that receives overall foreign policy
guidance from the Secretary of State. Our Work supports
long-term and equitable economic growth and advances U.S.
foreign policy objectives by supporting: economic growth,
agriculture and trade; global health; and, democracy,
conflict prevention and humanitarian assistance.
Justice
Africa
Justice Africa initiates
and supports civil society activities for human rights,
democracy, and peace in Africa.
United
Nations Electoral Assistance Division (EAD)
Major activities of EAD include:
evaluating government requests for electoral assistance,
conducting needs assessment missions, collaborating in
the design of electoral assistance project activities
with other UN system agencies and in developing the electoral
components of peace-keeping operations.
Journal
of Democracy
This Journal monitors and
analyzes democratic regimes and movements around the world.
Each issue includes scholarly analysis, reports from democratic
activists, updates on news and elections, and reviews
of important recent books.
Center
for Democracy and Development (CDD)
CDD is an NGO that aims to
promote the values of democracy, peace & human rights
in Africa and especially in the West African sub-region.
Center
for Democracy
A nonprofit, privately-funded,
program-creating organization, the Center has fostered
initiatives at critical moments in democratic transitions
abroad, while serving as a bridge in issue dialogues between
the two major political parties in the United States.
International
Institute for Democracy
The Institute's main role
is to encourage co-operation on a world-wide scale between
governmental, non-governmental and interparliamentary
organisations, as well as between national parliaments,
with a view to promoting and strengthening pluralistic
democracy.
International
Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA)
An intergovernmental organization
that seeks to support sustainable democracy in both new
and long-established democracies. IDEA draws on comparative
experience, analyses democracy trends and assistance,
and develops policy options, tools and guidelines relating
to: political participation, electoral systems, political
parties and post-conflict democracy building.
Columbia
University Libraries: African Studies Internet Resources,
Human Rights and Governance in Africa
Columbia University Libraries: African Studies
Internet Resources, Human Rights and Governance in Africa
The Electoral
Institute of Southern Africa
EISA is a not for profit section 21 company,
established in 1996, based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Its mission is to strengthen electoral processes, good
governance, human rights and democratic values through
research, capacity building, advocacy and other targeted
interventions. The organisation services governments,
electoral commissions, political parties, civil society
organisations and other institutions operating in the
democracy and governance fields throughout Africa.
Association
of Asian Electoral Authorities (AAEA)
The AAEA promotes open and transparent elections,
independent and impartial electoral management bodies,
professionalization of Asian election authorities and
citizen participation in the electoral and civic process.
Association
of Electoral Administrators (AEA)
The AEA is a professional body that represents
the interests of electoral administrators in the United
Kingdom.
Association
of Caribbean Electoral Organizations (ACEO)
The ACEO promotes cooperation and mutual
assistance among electoral authorities in the Caribbean,
and the use of election processes that ensure free, fair
and peaceful elections.
Association
of Central and Eastern European Election Officials (ACEEEO)
The ACEEEO is an organization that provides
a non-partisan and independent forum for the exchange
of information among election officials and experts throughout
the region to promote open and transparent elections.
Commission
on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE)
This Commission is an agency of the US Government
charged with monitoring commitments of the 55 member countries
of OSCE.
British
Helsinki Human Rights Group
This Group monitors human rights and democracy
in the 57 OSCE member states from the United States to
Central Asia and the site contains election observation
reports.
Centre
for the Study of Public Policy (CSPP)
This Center belongs to the University of
Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, UK and it publishes
Country's Barometers Surveys, among others.
Election
Watch
Reports on recently-decided and imminent
elections in developing and post-communist nations.
Friedrich Ebert
Foundation (Germany)
Foundation committed to the principles and
basic values of social democracy and the labor movement.
It is engaged in development cooperation in more then
60 countries in the field of political development and
social promotion. The Internet site in German and English.
Human Rights
Watch
Human Rights Watch is an independent, nongovernmental
organization, supported by contributions from private
individuals and foundations worldwide. It accepts no government
funds, directly or indirectly. Contribute today or view
a HRW's financial statement first.
Initiative
on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity
INCORE's research focuses mainly on post
conflict issues, issues of governance and diversity, and
research methodology in violent societies. It was set
up by University of Ulster and the United Nations University.
International
Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development
This Centre works with individuals, organizations
and governments in Canada and abroad to promote the human
and democratic rights defined in the United Nations' International
Bill of Human Rights. The Internet site is in English
and French.
International
Foundation for Election Systems (IFES)
Organization with more than 35 field offices,
established to support electoral and other democratic
institutions in emerging, evolving, and experienced democracies.
Konrad Adenauer
Foundation
The Konrad Adenauer Foundation offers political
education, conducts scientific fact-finding research for
political projects, grants scholarships to gifted individuals,
researches the history of Christian Democracy, and supports
and encourages European unification, international understanding,
and development-policy cooperation.
National Democratic
Institute for International Affairs (NDI)
US-organization dedicated to strengthen
and expand democracy worldwide. It works with democrats
in every region of the world to build political and civic
organizations, safeguard elections, and to promote citizen
participation, openness and accountability in government.
National Endowment
for Democracy (USA)
The Endowment is guided by the belief that
freedom is a universal human aspiration that can be realized
through the development of democratic institutions, procedures,
and values. Governed by an independent, nonpartisan board
of directors, the NED makes hundreds of grants each year
to support prodemocracy groups in Africa, Asia, Central
and Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle
East.
The
Administration and Cost of Elections (ACE)
The main goal of the project is to widen
the range of choices available to electoral policymakers
and administrators. The ACE Electronic Publication strives
to provide complete and systematic election information
to those who are faced with designing electoral systems
and procedures and support those who furnish advisory
assistance to election management bodies world-wide. It
analyses the differences between electoral alternatives,
with a focus on the cost and administrative implications
of available choices, and provides sample materials, such
as forms and manuals, as well as innovative and cost-effective
country case studies for comparative purposes.
World
Alliance for Citizen Participation
CIVICUS' programmes and organisational structure
take into account the diversity that exists between countries
and cultures, as well as the realities of continual change.
World
Movement for Democracy in Africa
This Web site provides links to existing
networks in the region, including the Africa Democracy
Forum, which was launched at the Africa preparatory meeting
for the Second Assembly of the World Movement in November
2000.
WMD is a global network of democrats, including activists,
practitioners, academics, policy makers, and funders,
who have come together to develop new forms of cooperation
to promote the development of democracy.
Centro
de Asesoria y Promocion Electoral (CAPEL)
In Spanish, some information also available
in English. The Center is a specialized IIHR program.
It provides technical assistance on electoral matters
and promote elections and democracy.
Civil Practices
Network
Civic Practices Network (CPN) is a collaborative
and nonpartisan project bringing together a diverse array
of organizations and perspectives within the civic renewal
movement.
International
Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES)
IFES provides targeted technical assistance
to strengthen transitional democracies. Founded in 1987
as a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, IFES has developed
and implemented comprehensive, collaborative democracy
solutions in more than 120 countries.
International
Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
IDEA, an intergovernmental organization
with member states across all continents, seeks to support
sustainable democracy in both new and long-established
democracies.
Amnesty
International
Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide
movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized
human rights. AI’s vision is of a world in which
every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined
in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other
international human rights standards.
Human
Rights Council of Australia (HRCA)
The Human Rights Council of Australia Inc
is a private non-government organization which promotes
understanding of and respect for human rights for all
persons without discrimination through adherence to the
International Bill of Rights, and other human rights instruments,
internationally and within Australia.
Human Rights
Education Associates
Human Rights Education Associates (HREA)
is an international non-governmental organisation that
supports human rights learning; the training of activists
and professionals; the development of educational materials
and programming; and community-building through on-line
technologies. HREA is dedicated to quality education and
training to promote understanding, attitudes and actions
to protect human rights, and to foster the development
of peaceable, free and just communities.
Canadian
International Development Agency (CIDA): Human Rights
Human rights, democracy
and good governance (HRDG) are important in their own
right for the security and fulfillment of individual children,
women and men. Together, they create the framework of
society within which the development efforts of its members
can be effective and sustainable. They promote Canada's
three foreign policy objectives as defined in Canada in
the World, and they stand as one of the 6 programming
priorities that guide CIDA's development work.
Norwegian
Center for Human Rights
The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights -
NCHR - is an independent national human rights institution,
a centre for national and international research on human
rights, a centre which promotes rights-based development
and a centre for human rights education. The NCHR is a
centre within the University of Oslo, Norway.
The
Danish Institute for Human Rights
The work of DIHR includes research, analysis,
information, education, documentation, and complaints
handling, as well as a large number of national and international
programmes. DIHR takes a multidisciplinary approach to
human rights, and the DIHR employ staff from the areas
of law, political science, economics, and others.
HABITAT
International Coalition
HIC is an independent, international, nonprofit
movement of some 400 organizations and individuals working
in the area of human settlements. Members include NGOs,
CBOs, academic and research institutions, civil society
organizations and like-minded individuals from 80 countries
in both North and South. A shared set of objectives bind
and shape HIC's commitment to communities working to secure
housing and improve their habitat conditions.
International
Council on Human Rights Policy
The International Council on Human Rights
Policy conducts applied policy research on issues that
face organisations working in the field of human rights.
The approach is international, multidisciplinary and consultative.
The aim is to produce work of practical relevance
Asia
Foundation
A non-profit, non-governmental organization
committed to the development of a peaceful, prosperous,
and open Asia-Pacific region. Through its 17 offices across
Asia, the Foundation collaborates with private and public
partners to help improve governance and law, economic
reform and development, women's participation, and international
relations. In the past decade, the Foundation has supported
programs to promote free and fair elections and an informed
electorate in more than a dozen countries across the Asia-Pacific
region.
Organization
for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
ODIHR is the principal institution of the
OSCE responsible for the human dimension. Internet site
include information on election observation and assistance,
democratization and human rights.
Organization
for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
OSCE is a regional security organization
with participating States from Europe, Central Asia and
North America. It is active in early warning, conflict
prevention, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation.
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