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The World Drug Campaign 2011 - Global health starts with drug-free communities Descripción The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is leading the global campaign to raise awareness about the major challenge that illicit drugs represent to society as a whole, and especially to the young. The goal of the campaign is to mobilize support and inspire people to act against drug use. UNODC encourages as many awareness-raising activities as possible around the globe and invites in dividuals, non-profit organizations, the private sector and Member States to get involved by: * Organizing outreach or institutional events to mark 26 June, the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking * Spreading the word about the campaign through your own networks and contacts * Using the campaign slogan and logo in promotional products, websites and social media * Donating funds to your local NGO in support to drug prevention and treatment efforts, or ma...

China apunta sus baterías culturales a Occidente Análisis de Antoaneta Becker LONDRES, ene (IPS) - El presidente de China, Hu Jintao, sorprendió al anunciar que su país se hallaba en una guerra cultural con Occidente, y al llamar a su pueblo a defenderse. Sus palabras, a comienzos de este mes, tocaron la fibra de los más leales funcionarios de gobierno en Beijing, dispuestos a promover la cultura china como nueva forma de expansión internacional. Pero intelectuales liberales expresaron su recelo, señalando que la promoción de una "industria cultural" podía esconder objetivos netamente económicos. "La cultura es quizás el último pastel sin cortar de China", afirmó Zhu Dake, investigador de la Universidad Tongji de Shanghai. "En el año de la transición del liderazgo, cuando todo es políticamente delicado, promover la cultura es fácil e incontrovertible", indicó. "Todos están interesados en obtener su parte del pastel", añadió. ...

By John B. Herbst Abstract: The growing integration of the global economy and global society, the appearance of more potent technology, and, widely distributed centrifugal political tendencies, have created a world with a growing number of ungoverned spaces. Some ungoverned spaces half a world away can pose a threat. In response to this development the United States and NATO, like some other countries and organizations, have begun to develop a capacity to conduct operations integrating military and civilian power . In the U.S. this has taken place principally through the creation [at the State Department] of the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS), which was tasked to create a system for organizing the civilian agencies for stability operations and to create a civilian surge capability. The U.S. has managed to develop a modest surge capacity in the form of the Civilian Response Corps. But it has not yet institutionalized a process for managing compl...