The women’s protest became dangerous and a threat to the status quo when they questioned and criticized these men’s ability to fulfil their "proper" role. հայերեն
Is it really enough to ‘like’, ‘follow’, and ‘retweet’ each other’s posts and updates? Or do we need something more – co-produced meeting points and collaborative projects in our real/daily lives?
Civil society includes many NGOs that are not only conservative but are financed by Russia, and seem to be on a mission to impede Armenia from any rapprochement with Europe. Interview.
Yellow group: results of first iteration
Depending on which meaning of revolution you’re using, different activities can be classed as revolutionary.
Yellow group: results of second iteration
We disagreed:
Purple group: results of first iteration
People still have basic needs that are not met either through civil society or by the state or the private sector. So we need
On Sunday, an armed group seized a Yerevan police station. Their claims have chimed with recent civic initiatives, and reveal how the marginalisation of activism can help fuel the search for more extreme methods. Español, Português
The resurgence of fighting with Azerbaijan could hinder progressive mobilisation in Armenia, but recent environmental initiatives reveal the appetite for resistance to the economy of extraction.
Accountability practices, intended to increase trust in NGOs, can lead to a narrow focus on projects at the expense of engaging in wider campaigning for social transformation.
For now, thanks to surreptitious symbiosis, it is possible to do sustained activism to bring about social change, without becoming part of a ‘civil society industry’. From the Squares and Beyond partnership.
Squares and Beyond on LSE roof. Carsten Vogel.All rights reserved.On 3 – 4 July 2015, the London School of Economics together with openDemocracy, hosted an international workshop titled Moving
