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Documents relating to Civil Society on Laetus site Those marked (ref) only provide a link to bibliographical information on the document. An indication of the size of accessible documents is given in kilobytes (eg 42k) -- meaning 42,000 characters. Where a document has active weblinks to other documents, this is given as (42k, 15w) -- meaning 15 weblinks Keywords: association / associations / associative / bodies / citizens / civil / group / ingo / ingos / interorganizational / ngo / ngos / nongovernmental / transnational / uncivil / voluntary Documents for years: 2010 + | 2000-09 | 1990-99 | 1980-89 | 1970-79 | 1962-69 | ALL years [2008] Configuring Global Governance Groups: Experimental animations and video sequences (9k, 19w) [2008] Configuring Global Governance Groups: Experimental visualization of possible integrative relationships (19k, 33w) [2008] Dynamics of Symmetry Group Theorizing (130k, 109w) [2008] Engendering the Future through Self-reflexive Group Initiatives (108k, 126w) [2008] Governing Civilization through Civilizing Governance: global challenge for a turbulent future (113k, 273w) [2008] Group Rhythm, Harmony and Transposition of Key (4k, 9w) [2008] Interweaving Demonic and Daimonic Associations in Collective Memory (132k, 111w) [2007] Archetypal otherness -- "DNA vs. I Ching": Climbing Elven Stairways (Part B) (97k, 75w) [2007] Célébrant le siècle institutionnel de l'UIA (1907-2007): sénilité, immortalité ou réincarnation ? (46k, 14w) [2007] Celebrando il secolo istituzionale del UIA (1907-2007) (39k, 16w) [2007] Celebrating an Institutional Century of the UIA (1907-2007) (34k, 28w) [2007] Climbing Elven Stairways: DNA as a macroscopic metaphor of polarized psychodynamics (190k, 130w) [2007] Comemorando o século Institutional do UIA (1907-2007) (41k, 16w) [2007] Das Institutionsjahrhundert der UIA (1907-2007) feiern: Altersschwäche, Unsterblichkeit oder Reinkarnation? (40k, 21w) [2007] Einstein's Implicit Theory of Relativity -- of Cognitive Property? Unexamined influence of patent office procedures (59k, 35w) [2007] Existential challenge of "The Other": Climbing Elven Stairways (Part A) (97k, 80w) [2007] In Further Quest of "Meta-Union"? Interplay of generic dimensions of any "union of international associations" (26k, 36w) [2007] In Quest of "Meta-Union"? Interplay of generic dimensions of any "union of international associations" (12k, 27w) [2007] Potential Psychosocial Significance of Monstrous Moonshine: an exceptional form of symmetry as a Rosetta stone for cognitive frameworks (226k, 186w) [2007] Spanish version: Celebrating an Institutional Century of the UIA (1907-2007) (41k, 16w) [2007] Three-stage Emergence of a Union of Imaginative Associations: Reclaiming the heritage of misappropriated collective endeavour (125k, 96w) [2007] Windows on the Union of International Associations (12k, 50w) [2006] Coactive Contextual Relationships: necessary underdefinition and resonant associations of ITER-8 (43k, 39w) [2006] Human Values Stock Exchange: Investing in shares in a value market of fundamental principles (178k, 157w) [2005] Cui Bono: Groupthink vs Thinking the Unthinkable? Reframing the suffocating consensus in response to 7/7 (305k, 452w) [2005] Exploring Intelligible Associations: ontological issues, integrative metaphors and knowledge organization (5k, 23w) [2005] Global Civilization of Vampires: Metaphor of Governance via Demons and Vampires on Spin? (90k, 129w) [2005] Information Culture of the Union of International Associations (16k, 34w) [2005] Presumption of Guilt by Association: reframing extremism in the response to terrorism (41k, 57w) [2005] Union of Intelligible Associations: remembering the dynamic identity of a dodecameral mind (194k, 202w) [2004] Dynamically Gated Conceptual Communities (163k, 156w) [2004] Future of United Nations - Civil Society Relations: 257 questions in assessing the Report of the Panel of Eminent Persons (65k, 64w) [2004] Recent Breakthroughs in Civil Society Research: Reactive vs Proactive Exploration of Opportunities and Alternatives? 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Group 92 (ref) [1975] Transnational Associations and their Functions (140k, 4w) [1974] Comments on the UN Secretary-General's Unofficial Draft Report on Improving Coordination and Liaison with Nongovernmental Organizations (ref) [1974] Conceptual Distortions from Negative Descriptors: non-governmental vs. anti-governmental (21k) [1974] Groups and Networks by Yona Friedman (ref) [1974] New UN Action on INGOs (ref) [1974] NGO Interventions (ref) [1974] Transnational network of research and service communities: organizational hybrid (70k, 5w) [1973] De Principes van de Transnationale Actie: Een poging tot het uitwerken van enkele richtlijnen (36k, 6w) [1973] Des Principes de l'Action Transnationale: Un essai d'élaboration de quelques lignes directrices (42k, 5w) [1973] Inter-organizational relationships: in search of a new style (61k, 7w) [1973] Principles of Transnational Action: an attempt at a set of guidelines (33k, 5w) [1973] Transnationale Handlungsprinzipien: Ein Versuch zur Ausarbeitung bestimmter Direktiven (38k, 5w) [1973] UN Environment Programme Wastes NGO Resources: how to butcher the "Spirit of Stockholm" (ref) [1973] UN - 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