Professor Morris will also develop and maintain a regional database of religious groups and communities including research resources.
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Today corporations face a world of fragmented special interest groups and communities all making competing and even contradictory demands on business.
Douban is sort of a Chinese MySpace, popular with special interest groups and communities, and for networking around specific topics and has over 100 million users.
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Gamification describes a series of design principles, processes and systems used to influence, engage and motivate individuals, groups and communities to drive behaviors and effect desired outcomes.
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But the idea has echoes of the spirit of the coalition government's "Big Society" agenda where regulatory barriers are removed to encourage voluntary groups and communities to take action.
Jonathan Tourtellout, director of the National Geographic Center for Sustainable Destinations, says that groups and communities must impose controls like limiting cruise ship piers and the presence of global franchises.
Dr. Alexis Celeste Bunten, an anthropologist and co-chair of the tourism studies working group at the University of California at Berkeley, says that willing groups and communities need to find a way to commoditize their identity without selling out.
It is meant to pave the way for a broader reflection and indicates possible lines of action for States and individuals, groups, communities, institutions and corporations, public as well as private.
And for years, Appalachian communities and environmental groups have waged legal warfare to try to stop the coal companies, with only spotty success.
It deals with heritage that communities deem important, and strives to contribute to the promotion of creativity and diversity, to the well being of communities, groups, and society at large, enabling a peaceful development and living together.
Clashes also erupted between pro-British and pro-Irish groups at a point where predominantly Protestant and Catholic communities meet.
Councillors rejected 140 objections from local communities and groups concerned about the environmental impact of the stadium.
The dance of the Parachicos during the Great Feast embraces all spheres of local life, promoting mutual respect among communities, groups and individuals.
People, communities and groups who consume less meat have less cancer.
The process must involve as extensively as possible the communities, groups and individuals who are the custodians of the cultural elements declared in need of urgent safeguarding.
The incorporation of dramatic allusions to aspects of modern life as well as to ethnic communities, groups and individuals has established the drama as a vivid example of cultural diversity.
This living heritage, transmitted from generation to generation, gives communities and groups a feeling of identity and continuity, which is considered to be essential for respecting cultural diversity and human creativity.
The 50 participants are mostly members of youth council or civil society groups in their respective communities and a core group of young leaders have been involved in planning the event since December 2011.
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The List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding is a list of cultural elements whose viability is at risk despite the efforts of the communities and groups that practice them.
The Convention focuses on the role of communities and groups in safeguarding intangible cultural heritage, placing emphasis on living heritage that is performed by people, often collectively, and mostly communicated through living experience.
To be effective, the Panel will need to work hard to gain the trust and respect of key stakeholder groups including local communities, state governments, the federal government, NGOs, Shell Nigeria itself, and hopefully as well the other oil and gas companies operating in the region.
How communities, faith groups and businesses collected food and clothing.
This pre-inventorying work will focus on identifying and involving the bearers (individuals, groups or communities) of this element of intangible heritage, focusing particularly on how it is transmitted, and its social functions in Lebanese society today.
UNESCO: Culture Sector - Intangible Heritage - 2003 Convention
Approval of the study was greeted with enormous enthusiasm from scientists, child health advocates, and communities, and ideas were solicited from over 2500 scientists in different fields participating in twenty different working groups, as well as from government agencies, and communities around the country.
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The project intends to adopt as its working strategy the creation of a subregional and international network comprising individuals, communities, groups, cultural managers, specialists, indigenous organizations, research centres, NGOs and Governments, to promote the exchange of experience, information and training in order to strengthen capacities in the region.
While other related groups were semi-nomadic and formed coastal communities, the Moken considered themselves true nomads of the sea.
These findings are aimed at urban planners, county and city councils and other groups involved in laying out communities.
"Local forest communities and civil society groups have so far been completely excluded from the initiative, which is primarily about 'partnerships' between international conservation organisations and international loggers, " said Simon Counsell, director of the Rainforest Foundation.
It also said there were other benefits to the local area through its support of communities, schools and other groups.
Volunteers help build the lanterns and work with local government and women's groups to determine the communities most in need.
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