202 search results for “local democratic” in the Student website
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Local Consultative Committee
The Local Consultative Committee is where Leiden University as an employer, represented by its Executive Board, meets with its employees, represented by delegates of the four unions that are party to the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities.
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Rigtje Passchier
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
r.passchier@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9400
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How democratic is our kingdom? New ministry chair for Leiden political scientist
When we talk about the Kingdom of the Netherlands, it is not just about the Netherlands. On the contrary: our Kingdom consists of no less than four countries, three of which are Caribbean islands. This structure is complex, to say the least. Although all countries are officially equivalent, in practice…
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Sarthak Bagchi
Faculty of Humanities
s.bagchi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
- Una Europa: Join Leiden University's Local Task Force
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Peter Castenmiller
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
p.g.castenmiller@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3879
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Jos Raadschelders
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
j.c.n.raadschelders@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9400
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Ehsan Jami
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
e.jami@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9400
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Rick van Well
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
r.l.van.well@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5066
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Patricio Silva
Faculty of Humanities
p.silva@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5496
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Kutsal Yesilkagit
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
a.k.yesilkagit@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9382
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Students work with local community
Problems cannot always be solved from a desk. Students on the Master’s in Governance of Sustainability therefore went to various Leiden neighbourhoods, where they tackled topics such as litter, urban biodiversity and green spaces.
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Include local communities in policymaking
Forest degradation has limited the Orang Rimba's access to forest resources. As a result, they've had to make significant cultural modifications and adaptations. Ekoningtyas Margu Wardani explains in her PhD dissertation these transformation processes among Contemporary Indonesian Hunter-Gatherers through…
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Jacqueline Vel
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
j.a.c.vel@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7260
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Amandine Lerusse
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
a.v.lerusse@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9400
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Jan Michiel Otto
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
j.m.otto@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7260
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Geerten Boogaard
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
g.boogaard@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Thijs Vos
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
t.j.vos@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Local Panama communities work with archaeologists on historic land rights
The question of land property titles is a common source of conflict between indigenous communities and federal authorities all over the Americas. A new Panamanian law have led indigenous communities to reach out to archaeologist Dr Natalia Donner. A grant from the Centre for Indigenous American Studies…
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Sustainable The Hague: Sustainable initiatives in your local area
How can you do your bit for sustainability? Students from Leiden University have launched an interactive website with 150 sustainable initiatives in and around The Hague. SustainableTheHague.nl makes it easy to find a sustainable shop, restaurant or community initiative in your local area.
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How a local shaman can help fight climate change
Who knows more about environmental governance: a professor of natural resource governance or a local shaman in the remote uplands of Myanmar?
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Femke Bakker
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
f.e.bakker@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6188
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Christoph Niessen
c.niessen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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How a Taiwanese organisation strengthens local communities through recycling
Most people think of waste as something dirty that needs to be disposed of as soon as possible, but Olivia Yun-An Dung's dissertation aims to show that this does not always have to be the case. For this purpose, she focuses on Tzu Chi recycling in Taiwan. There, an army of elderly volunteers has been…
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Thijs Bosker and Paul Behrens receive funding to develop Local Actions - set
Thijs Bosker and Paul Behrens, Professors in Environmental Sciences at Leiden University College in The Hague, have received funding from the Leiden University Fund and the Gratama Foundation to work on developing a set of Local Actions: tangible and practical exercises that students can engage in…
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Logging in tropical forests has a major social impact on local people
Exploring logging's real impact: Insights from Anthropologist Tessa Minter in the Solomon Islands.
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Call for Papers: Localizing the Women Peace & Security Agenda Across Multiple Governance Challenges
Hybrid Workshop: In person and online on 26 – 27 January 2023.
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Antoaneta Dimitrova
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
a.l.dimitrova@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500
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Leiden Law Cast #6: Geerten Boogard on (local)elections & political upheaval
Leiden Law Cast is a podcast made by Leiden Law School, Leiden University, for everyone who wants to learn more about current legal issues.
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A semester abroad: 'Locals help you experience the culture as it really is.'
And there you are. A couple of suitcases with you, in a new (unknown) country. You've arranged a room in advance. You know which university you're attending. But other than that ... Evert-Jan, master's student in Encyclopaedia and Philosophy of Law, studied at the Université Paris Panthéon-Assas in…
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Building Democratic Solidarity in Europe through Culture
Lecture
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Co-participation
As a student of Leiden University, you can join a number of co-participation bodies together with university staff members. Co-participation is an important democratic right that enables you to play an active role in university decision-making and advisory processes.
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Johan Christensen for the Global Blog about experts in global governance
Recently, Johan Christensen, Assistant Professor at the FGGA, contributed to the commentary series on technocracy and democracy in global governance that is organised by the Global Governance Centre and the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy.
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University elections
The members of the various co-participation bodies are democratically elected. This happens during university elections.
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Online database with two hundred local chronicle texts launched: A few years ago that wouldn’t have been possible'
Too expensive groceries, diseases suddenly breaking out: from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, hundreds of people documented the world around them in chronicles. A significant number of these texts have been digitised in recent years. Professor of Early Modern Dutch History and project leader…
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Policy in Practice At Home Otherwise: Rethinking Heritage through Diversity
This research project investigates diversifying and democratizing heritage through practices of “home-making”. Research may include studies of allotment gardens, displays of immigration histories, and forms of collaborative heritage, mostly in the Netherlands, with possible comparisons elsewhere in…
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Frans Jacobs
Science
f.j.a.jacobs@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5000
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Diversity and inclusion in your studies
We provide more than 125 courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level that offer the chance to study diversity from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
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Researching global inequality in the garment commodity chain
A consortium, led by Erik de Maaker (CADS, Leiden), has under the NWA scheme (Dutch National Science agenda) been awarded 98k€ for Localizing Global Garment Biographies, a two-year project to research the different ways by which users and producers attach value to garments.
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Heritage & Material Culture MSc Policy in Practice | Leiden University
Present imaginations of the past and its tangible and intangible dimensions, are a major factor in the ways in which societies, and the various groups which constitute these, imagine themselves. Research Internships that fall within this category are being offered by for example museums, municipalities…
- Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Democratized and Declassified: How outsiders challenge intelligence agencies on analysis of the Russo-Ukrainian war
Debate
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Reimaging Peace Democratization in Yemen: Women, Transnationalism and Activism in Exile
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Local and Transnational Activism and Solidarity
Lecture, Teach-In Series on Palestine and Israel
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University & Faculty Councils and Programme Committees
The university council and faculty councils are democratically elected co-participation bodies that represent both students and staff of the university and its faculties. Co-participation also takes place at departmental level through programme committees.
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Co-participation
As a student of Leiden University, you can join a number of co-participation bodies together with university staff members. Co-participation is an important democratic right that enables you to play an active role in university decision-making and advisory processes.
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Egidius Smeets
Science
e.w.f.smeets@lic.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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FAO at the crossroads: democratic reformism or "market authoritarianism"? The case of the Instituto de Capacitación e Investigación en Reforma
Lecture
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Why prisoner voting should be mandatory
If you end up in prison somewhere in the world, the chances are you won’t be allowed to vote. If it were up to researchers Tom Theuns and Andrei Poama, rather than disenfranchise felons, we would oblige them to vote. That would be a better way to express democratic values.
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Workshop 'Localizing the Women Peace & Security Agenda Across Multiple Governance Challenges'
Workshop