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FPIF's Featured Citizen Group The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation seeks to be a source of hope and inspiration in the creation of a peaceful and secure future based upon nonviolence, justice, and human dignity. It strives to offer the highest quality research and information, educational programs, and policymaking guidance on critical issues of global peace and nuclear nonproliferation. NAPF works to attain a world at peace, free from the threat of war, and free of weapons of mass destruction. |
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What Is A Citizen Agendas: New Directions
for Global Affairs It is a grassroots agenda, one that arises from citizens' concerns and becomes part of the policy debate. Under democratic governance, this percolation of grassroots issues into policy debates is a normal part of the political process. Although rarely approaching the ideal--of the people, by the people, for the people--citizen agendas advancing everyday, domestic concerns (gun control, campaign finance reform, gay rights, etc.) routinely shape national political debate. |
Citizen movements organizing across national borders are increasingly a key factor in reshaping global affairs policy at both the national and international levels. To further its own mission to reform U.S. foreign policy--"making it a more responsible global partner and global leader"--Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) is committed to strengthening and advancing citizen movements concerned with global affairs. As part of that effort, we are drafting profiles of many of the most prominent citizen-based global affairs agendas. We encourage readers who would like to get more involved in these transborder movements to contact the groups listed below each agenda profile.
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Date
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| Ratifying Treaties Controlling Toxic Chemicals |
October 2002
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| No Unilateral Military Strike Against Iraq |
June 2002
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| U.S. Arms Trade and Human Rights Abuses |
June 2002
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| End the Nuclear Danger |
June 2002
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| Food Security |
June 2002
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| Demilitarization |
May 2001
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| International Financial Institutions |
May 2001
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| Protecting Labor Standards in the Global Economy |
April 2001
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| Protecting the Environment in the Global Economy |
March 2001
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| Democratizing Access to Essential Medicines |
March 2001
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| Drug Policy Reform |
March 2001
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| Halting U.S. Military Involvement in Colombia |
March 2001
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We welcome your comments, suggestions, and critiques of these agendas.
Please send your comments to Tom Barry at
<tom@irc-online.org>.