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The Icelandic NATO riot of March 30, 1949 is arguably the most famous riot in Icelandic history. It was prompted by the decision of Alþingi, the Icelandic parliament, to join the newly formed NATO, thereby involving Iceland directly in the Cold War, opposing the Soviet Union and re-militarizing the country. The protesters first convened behind Miðbæjarskóli, a school in the centre of Reykjavík and then marched on Austurvöllur, a small park in front of the parliament building, where a throng of people had already arrived positioning themselves between the parliament and the rioters, intending to defend it. At first the demonstrators were calm, but when a leading member of the Socialist Party announced over a loudspeaker that the leader of his party was held hostage inside the Parliament building, things became violent. Rocks were tossed at the building, some breaking the windows and one narrowly missing the head of the Parliamentary president, until the Reykjavík police force, aided by volunteers from the Independence Party intervened, beating rioters down and eventually launching tear gas grenades at the mob. ... Read more

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Reykjavík, more than most other cities, was formed in a close inter-play with nature, which in earlier times made this city, and its surrounding nature, a close unity. Much of the city's connection with nature was lost, however, during the mindless technological age when "functionalism" ruled, and the city, and human existence, were dissected and compartmentalized. This book suggests a method to achieve this integration again, to recreate lost connections and provide a new holistic paradigm. Western thinking still sees binary pairs, like city and nature or house and garden, as opposites. The book explains that these pairs, contrary to belief, not only complement each other but can be designed and planned together in such a way that the result is greater than the sum of the parts. Their union, therefore, can actually elevate cities and architecture to a higher level. ... Read more

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Title: Thar she blows!(hunitng whales leagalized, international community against the move)
Author: Colin Woodard
Publication: E (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 18Issue: 1Page: 12(2)

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The overall aim of this book is to ask what the reforms of poverty alleviation programmes and policy tell us about state reform. This can be divided into two elements. Firstly, to evaluate critically the impact of the institutional reforms mandated under the Structural Adjustment agenda on the governance of poverty alleviation programmes. Secondly, to analyse the structural, attitudinal and behavioural dimensions of the progress towards the reform of the African state in the process of poverty alleviation. A key issue that is emerging in the political development of African states is the increasing role of the World Bank and donor organisations, as well as a greater contribution of NGOs in the formulation and implementation of policy. It is hypothesised that policy is forming as a part of a triangular relationship between state institutions, donor agencies and NGOs. Poverty Alleviation Policy in Uganda Since 1986 concerns the way that active state intervention in the alleviation of poverty is decreasing, while on the institutional level, a transformation is occurring that is taking provision away from the state sector and reducing the role of public transfers to the poor. This work highlights a fundamental contradiction in the poverty alleviation agenda; namely that it has been pursued to address short-term problems, while the strategy and institutional environment are designed to yield results only in the long term. ... Read more

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Analyzing the effects of the European Union on national decision-making and the chain of delegation and accountability, the authors look at Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Iceland and Norway. The analyses are based on principal-agent perspective. ... Read more

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The interaction of the arts in public discourse features in all the interviews in the book, and they provide practicable models to theatre workers interested in applying their art toward a notion of the common good, and to those in political life interested in enlisting the theatre's close collaboration in the challenge of governing. Through the models of experience they advance, the interviewees emerge as independent and creative practitioners of feminism, both inside and outside the theatre.
Public Selves, Political Stages consists of 19 interviews with Icelandic women in theatre, politics, or both. In Iceland, there is a greater overlapping between politics and the arts than is typical of larger nations, giving theatre considerable prominence, while lending political life much of the immediacy of the theatre, even in the age of video. ... Read more

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2009 Reprint,updated,printed ""on demand"" - Argentina Tax Guide (World Business Tax Library) ... Read more

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The contributions to this volume have been brought together and edited from presentations made to a two-day technical seminar, held in Brussels with the financial and organizational support of the social affairs directorate of the European Commission, on 15th and 16th May 1995. During the course of the seminar, a substantial body of information emerged about the practical workings of regulatory mechanisms within each of the Nordic countries - covering, as well as the three Community Member States of Denmark, Finland and Sweden, also the "non-members" Iceland and Norway, with their continuing experience inside the framework created by the arrangements establishing the European Economic Area. Much emerged, too, about the underlying values which have sustained the successful social structures within those Nordic countries, as well as about the challenges which growing European Community influence in the north of the continent is considered to provoke. ... Read more