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Social mobilization
The Power of Social Mobilization: Advancing Minority Rights Through Collective Action Effective political participation by minority groups requires three key mechanisms: lobbying, social mobilization, and electoral engagement. However, soci…
Language Minorities in Solidarity
Russian Speakers: Israel’s Overlooked Minority Israel’s Russian-speaking community represents one of the nation’s largest linguistic and cultural minorities, rivaling the Arabic-speaking population in size. United by their Soviet and post-S…
The State of Human Development — 4 S
The Four Pillars of Democratic Governance: A New Framework for Human Development Modern states face a fundamental challenge: balancing centralized power with genuine democratic participation. While national governments claim to protect citi…
The «Vagin March» in Haifa, or the «Russian Trace» in the Israeli Elections
On October 30, 2018, Israel will hold municipal elections in which Israelis will vote for mayors and local councilors. Unlike previous elections, which were held on a normal workday, this time it was decided to declare an official all-Israe…
Human development
Human development (HD) is an ongoing process of human empowerment. Rights to participate fully in the political, economic, social and cultural life of society. We view the CR as: Model CR: CR conditions: Sustainable Development and Human De…
Game of Thrones, or Orthodoxy for Ukraine
A September 2018 authorial view of Ukrainian autocephaly, church authority and election politics.
A dictatorship of the plebs in Ukraine? A scenario
A July 2018 scenario: forms of populism, historical analogies and the gap between public and personal priorities.
Haifa Format
The Haifa Format public initiative emerged at the end of 2017 as a tool for public diplomacy. There are many Israelis in Haifa who come from Russia, Ukraine, and the regions of Lugansk and Donetsk, all of whom have been affected in one way …