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Lebanon Papers 4
Lebanon Papers

Women’s Rights in Lebanon - The Difficulties of Reaching Gender Equality

The fourth issue of the series addresses the situation of women rights in Lebanon. Even though, important efforts have been undertaken by NGOs, international institutions and governmental entities to ensure equality, women are still discriminated against in the country’s laws, economic practices, and social and political norms.

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COVID-19 Crisis
Ivaylo Tsonev

Expressing Civil and Political Liberties in Times of Crisis

The lessons learnt from the first wave of the pandemic could provide a key as to how to adapt to the second wave. The manifold clashes of governments with their obligations to preserve individual rights and the critical public response, will surely lead to a more reasoned and citizen-oriented addressing of the issue in the future.

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Handbook on Summary of Vietnam - EU Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA)

The handbook summarizes the core content of CTTPP, especially those have direct impacts and most significant effect on the enterprises. It explains the commitments in EVFTA in the concise and most understandable way.

Renee Hatar

Meet Our Alumni: Renee Hattar

My name is Renee Hattar. I am the Head of International Studies, Programs and Projects at the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies (RIIFS). I am passionate about spreading a culture of peace and dialogue among youth, especially through music. I hold a PhD in Peace Studies from the University of Granada-Spain (specialty: Music and Peace) and a BA in French and German languages from the University of Jordan. I worked as Coordinator of the Middle East Department at the International Center for the Study of Christian Orient in Granada-Spain and taught Arabic Language and Culture at the Institute of Theology “Lumen Gentium”, affiliated to the Faculty of Theology at the San Damaso Ecclesiastical University/Spain 2006-2016. I also served as consultant of interfaith relations (Christianity-Islam) for the Spanish Episcopal Conference, 2012 to 2016. Through my work at RIIFS, I have participated in, designed and supervised many conferences, workshops, research projects and studies. 

I attended the training course “Religious Fundamentalism as a Joint Challenge-Concepts and Measures required in Europe and the Middle East”, which Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom organized in both Germany and Brussels in September 2016. I joined a group of colleagues from different NGOs whose work is related to peacebuilding, dialogue, culture and CVE coming from different countries of the Middle East. The course we attended included cultural visits, expert meetings, presentations and debates about different aspects of integration and causes of radicalization and religious fundamentalism in the European Union, with case studies from Germany and Belgium. The German experience regarding receiving Syrian refugees back then and the policies taken on a national level to adapt with the crisis was very impressive. I learned a lot and met many interesting people whose experiences were enriching and some of them became my friends. 

Behind Closed Curtains
Ivaylo Tsonev

Behind Closed Curtains: Disinformation on messenger services

Disinformation is not a phenomenon of the digital era. It has always been used to damage political opponents and destabilise societies. However, the popular use of social media and messenger services nowadays have turned the creation and the massive peer-to-peer spread of content in an easy game.

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Ivaylo Tsonev

The Black Book of Government Waste in Bulgaria 2015

A black book now compiles cases of ineffective public spending in Bulgaria and reminds citizens that they have to scrutinize the spending of their own money.

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Press Freedom

The State of Romanian Mass-Media 2020

Over the last 10 years of continued decline, the noise level grew, flooding the Romanian communities of worthless information and leaving everyone less informed. The Romanian media faces at the moment two fundamental problems: the lack of funding and the loss of credibility. Read here a report on the state of the Romanian mass-media in 2020.

Between Polarisation and Modernisation
France

New study: Between Polarisation and Modernisation

In France, Macron is often also referred to as a centrist - a political characteristic that for many decades has rather stood for unsuccessfulness, fickleness and a lack of profile in terms of content. But what is it really about in terms of content? Who are the traditional representatives of this political tradition and is a president who governs with members of the left, the right and the centre really a centrist?

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Women at Work in South Korea
Choyoung Son Darja Neufeld

Work-Family Balance, Traditions, Gender Discrimination

The decades-long economic miracle that has propelled South Korea into the top ten most efficient economies in the world has its flaws: The country is also one of the leading nations in the "gender pay gap" category, which refers to the difference in income between men and women. The two authors Choyoung Son and Darja-Neufeld derive the current situation from the historical development and present recommendations for the future.

The analysis describes the historical development of the social market economy and its basic characteristics. The special role of smaller and medium-sized companies (the Mittelstand) and family businesses is also examined. The aim is to contribute to an understanding of the German "economic miracle" (German Wirtschaftswunder) and the economic order behind it – also against the background of the manifold state interventions during the Corona crisis.
Economy
Dr. Daniel Nientiedt

Success Factors of the Social Market Economy

The analysis describes the historical development of the social market economy and its basic characteristics. The special role of smaller and medium-sized companies and family businesses is also examined. The aim is to contribute to an understanding of the German "economic miracle" and the economic order behind it – also against the background of the manifold state interventions during the Corona crisis.

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