George Soros. Multi-billionaire funder of leftwing causes and groupsFounder of the Open Society FoundationsThe prime mover behind the Democratic "Shadow Party" network See also: Guide to the George Soros Network Organizations Funded by George Soros and His Open Society Foundations The Shared Agendas of George Soros and Barack Obama Open Society Foundations Democracy Alliance Shadow Party New York hedge fund manager George Soros is one of the most politically powerful individuals on earth. Since the mid-1980s in particular, he has used his immense influence to help reconfigure the political landscapes of several countries around the world—in some cases playing a key role in toppling regimes that had held the reins of government for years, even decades. Vis à vis the United States, a strong case can be made for the claim that Soros today affects American politics and culture more profoundly that any other living person.
It was in 1979 that Soros began testing the proverbial waters of philanthropy. Organizations Funded Directly. George Soros. OpenDemocracy. Occupy Wall Street: lessons and opportunities. The Occupy movement in the United States is both similar to and different from its Tea Party predecessor. The precise combination gives it political space to grow, says Cas Mudde. If 2010 was the year of the Tea Party, 2011 is becoming the year of the Occupy movement. What started as a small local project of fed-up grassroots (non-)activists - an "occupation" of New York's Wall Street - has now spread throughout the United States (and even into Canada).
There are important similarities and significant differences between the two mass movements. A sketch of these suggests that the newer movement has opportunities to grow. The overlaps The first similarity is the two movements' self-generating, bottom-up origin. Second, the institutionalised ideological "brethren" have in each case reacted in a confused and at times even hostile way to the upstart. Fourth, neither the Tea Party nor Occupy Wall Street has a clear political agenda. The contrasts The opportunities.
Peace can be planned. Just like health. In 2002 the World Health Organisation made a bold statement in its ground breaking World Report on Violence and Health: “Violence can be prevented and its impact reduced, in the same way that public health efforts have prevented and reduced pregnancy-related complications, workplace injuries, infectious diseases, and illness resulting from contaminated food and water in many parts of the world. The factors that contribute to violent responses – whether they are factors of attitude and behaviour or related to larger social, economic, political and cultural conditions – can be changed. Violence can be prevented. This is not an article of faith, but a statement based on evidence. Examples of success can be found around the world, from small-scale individual and community efforts to national policy and legislative initiatives.”
Evidence continues to grow to support this claim. Increasingly, the ‘factors that contribute to violent responses’ are being studied and understood. Otpor. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Symbole du mouvement Serbe Otpor Le mouvement Otpor, en serbe cyrillique Отпор (« Résistance »), est une organisation politique, créée en 1998, avec le soutien de l'organisation américaine National Endowment for Democracy, organisatrice de nombreuses révoltes violentes ou non de par le monde, dans les pays opposés politiquement aux États-Unis[1] et généralement considérée comme l'un des acteurs majeurs de la chute du régime de Slobodan Milošević. Organisation[modifier | modifier le code] Alors que la classe politique serbe était fortement discréditée ou en exil[réf. nécessaire], le mouvement Otpor s'est principalement développé en dehors des structures de l'opposition traditionnelle, sous l'impulsion de jeunes étudiants en premier cycle universitaire et écoles supérieures, fréquemment membres du parti d'opposition[9].
Programme[modifier | modifier le code] Le premier objectif était bien entendu le renversement de Slobodan Milošević. Untitled. Welcome - Ethical Politics. From Ethical Politics Dictionary of Ethical Politics The Dictionary of Ethical Politics sets out to be a lexicon of new political thought centered on the relationship between ethics and politics. Written through the collaboration of leading writers, academics, journalists and activists, the dictionary is meant as a popular but serious examination of central political concepts in the light of current environmental, social and geopolitical realities.
The dictionary is being developed in the Wikipedia model using contributors who have been specifically invited to participate. At the moment, we are still working on the identification and definition of the dictionary entries. Who We Are The Dictionary of Ethical Politics was created through the partnership of Resurgence and openDemocracy.
Project Philosophy Radical progressive politics have historical and cultural roots that have underplayed both the importance of the environment and the role of personal transformation in social action. Soros Says He’s Among ‘Angels’ Who Want Civilization to Survive. Daniele Archibugi. The image of the past The idea that freedom and democracy can be exported all over the world is an ancient dream. Athenian democrats, French revolutionaries, and Russian Bolsheviks, to mention only the better-known cases, were convinced that their own political system was good enough to be donated to all peoples. But not even the path to freedom is carpeted with rose-petals: enthusiasm is often mingled with fanaticism; idealism must come to terms with the harsh laws of Realpolitik (see Luciano Canfora, Esportare la liberta [Mondadori, 2007]).
Daniele Archibugi is director of the Italian National Research Council ( CNR ), affiliated to the Institute on Population and Social Policy ( IRPPS ), and professor of innovation, governance and public policy at Birkbeck College, London. Also by Daniele Archibugi in openDemocracy : " What do to with the United Nations? " " Can democracy be exported? " At the end of the second world war, democracy was a gift made by the Americans to the Europeans. George Soros News. George Soros. Profile Legendary investor George Soros retired in 2011 and turned his hedge fund into a family office, returning just under $1 billion in assets to outside investors. Soros also brought in a new investment officer to help oversee the remaining assets belonging to his family and his foundations. His fortune is down due to a reported drop in performance but also because our new estimate subtracts sums we believe he manages for his foundation.
Born in Budapest, Soros survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary and went on to study at the London School of Economics before launching storied hedge fund firm Quantum Fund Management in 1969. Outspoken on world economic policies and an unapologetic proponent of European integration, Soros has recently called the design of the euro "very flawed" and described the situation as an "existential crisis" for Europe. Open society. The open society is a concept originally suggested in 1932 by the French philosopher Henri Bergson,[1] and developed during the Second World War by Austrian-born British philosopher Karl Popper.[2] Popper saw the open society as standing on a historical continuum reaching from the organic, tribal or closed society, through the open society marked by a critical attitude to tradition, up to the abstract or depersonalised society lacking all face-to-face transactions.[3] History[edit] Popper saw the classical Greeks as initiating the long slow transition from tribalism towards the open society, and as facing for the first time the strain imposed by the less personal group relations entailed thereby.[4] Definition[edit] Popper defined the open society as one "in which individuals are confronted with personal decisions" as opposed to a "magical or tribal or collectivist society.
Critical knowledge[edit] Further characteristics[edit] Criticism[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] Further reading[edit] Open Society Institute. Grantmaking network founded by George Soros History On May 28, 1984, George Soros signed a contract between the Soros Foundation/New York City and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the founding document of the Soros Foundation/Budapest.[9] This was followed by several foundations in the region to help countries move away from Soviet-style socialism in the Eastern Bloc.[10] In 1991, the foundation merged with the Fondation pour une Entraide Intellectuelle Européenne ("Foundation for European Intellectual Mutual Aid"), an affiliate of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, created in 1966 to imbue 'non-conformist' Eastern European scientists with anti-totalitarian and capitalist ideas.[11] In 1993, the Open Society Institute was created in the United States to support the Soros foundations in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia.[6] In 2016, the OSF was reportedly the target of a cyber security breach.
In 2017, Soros transferred $18 billion to the foundation.[20] Activities Critical reception. List of projects supported by George Soros. Colour revolution. Colour revolution is a term that was widely used by worldwide media[1] to describe various related movements that developed in several societies in the former Soviet Union and the Balkans during the early 2000s.
The term has also been applied to a number of revolutions elsewhere, including in the Middle East. Some observers[who?] Have called the events a revolutionary wave, the origins of which can be traced back to the 1986 People Power Revolution (also known as the "Yellow Revolution") in the Philippines. Participants in the colour revolutions have mostly used nonviolent resistance, also called civil resistance. Such methods as demonstrations, strikes and interventions have been intended protest against governments seen as corrupt and/or authoritarian, and to advocate democracy; and they have also created strong pressure for change. List of colour revolutions[edit] Influencing factors[edit] Anti-Communist revolutions[edit] Student movements[edit] Critical analysis[edit] Armenia[edit] Budapest Open Access Initiative. A logo celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative in 2012, featuring the Széchenyi Chain Bridge in Budapest.
The Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) is a public statement of principles relating to open access to the research literature. It arose from a conference convened in Budapest by the Open Society Institute on December 1–2, 2001 to promote open access – at the time also known as Free Online Scholarship. This small gathering of individuals is recognised as one of the major historical, and defining, events of the open access movement. On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the initiative, it was reaffirmed in 2012 and supplemented with a set of concrete recommendations for achieving "the new goal that within the next ten years, OA will become the default method for distributing new peer-reviewed research in every field and country.
"[1][2] Initiative[edit] Definition of open access[edit] Signatories[edit] Funding[edit] References[edit] George Soros. Soros Foundation. 47th Munich Security Conference 2011: George Soros, Chairman of the Soros Fund Management, during the Discussion Soros foundations are autonomous institutions established in particular countries or regions, especially those emerging from behind the Iron Curtain,[2] to initiate and support open society activities.
Such countries include the former Communist bloc in Central and Eastern Europe, parts of the former Soviet Union, South Africa, and Haiti.[2] The priorities and specific activities of each Soros foundation are determined by a local board of directors and staff in consultation with George Soros and OSI boards and advisers. In addition to support from the Open Society Institute, many of the foundations receive funding from other sources. Intended programs include "the education of librarians and others; expansion of a free press, Internet, and e-mail communication; publishing; human rights; arts and culture; and social, legal, and economic reform".[2] See also[edit] Notes[edit] George Soros. Soros is a well-known supporter of progressive-liberal political causes.[11] Between 1979 and 2011, Soros gave away over $8 billion to human rights, public health, and education causes.[12] He played a significant role in the peaceful transition from communism to capitalism in Eastern Europe (1984–89)[8] and provided one of Europe's largest higher education endowments to Central European University in Budapest.[13] Soros is also the chairman of the Open Society Foundations.
Early life[edit] The Jewish Council asked the little kids to hand out the deportation notices. I was told to go to the Jewish Council. And there I was given these small slips of paper ... It said report to the rabbi seminary at 9 am ... And I was given this list of names. Soros did not return to that job, but instead went into hiding the next day. Soros earned a BSc in philosophy in 1951 and a PhD in philosophy in 1954, both from the London School of Economics.[25] Business career[edit] Currency speculation[edit] Société ouverte. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. La société ouverte est un concept développé par le philosophe français Henri Bergson[1] et repris en particulier par le philosophe Karl Popper dans La Société ouverte et ses ennemis en 1945. Une société ouverte se caractérise par un gouvernement réactif, tolérant et dans laquelle les mécanismes politiques sont transparents.
C'est une société non-autoritaire, à la base de laquelle se trouvent la liberté et les droits de l'homme. Concept[modifier | modifier le code] La conception de Popper de la société ouverte tire son origine dans sa philosophie des sciences, en particulier dans son concept de réfutabilité. Les libertés politiques et l'égalité en droits sont des caractéristiques importantes de la société ouverte, de même que la mobilité sociale[4].
Les démocraties sont des exemples de sociétés ouvertes, à l'inverse des dictatures, et à l'extrême des sociétés totalitaires qui sont des sociétés fermées. Voir aussi[modifier | modifier le code] La Société ouverte et ses ennemis. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. La Société ouverte et ses ennemis (The Open Society and Its Enemies) est un ouvrage en deux volumes écrit par Karl Popper au début de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Il y traite de la philosophie sociale, et développe notamment une critique de l'historicisme à travers trois auteurs : Platon, Hegel et Marx. N'ayant pas trouvé d'éditeur aux États-Unis, l'ouvrage a été publié pour la première fois en 1945 à Londres par Routledge.
Présentation[modifier | modifier le code] Dans La Société ouverte et ses ennemis, Popper développe une critique de l'historicisme, dans le prolongement de Misère de l’historicisme, et défend la « société ouverte » et la démocratie. Il écrit ainsi dans la préface à l'édition française de 1980[1] : « L'objet de ce livre est d'aider à la défense de la liberté et de la démocratie.
. — Karl Popper, Préface à l'édition française (2 mai 1978) Popper traite également du rationalisme et de l'irrationalisme.