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The onset of democracy in South Africa provided South Africans with the opportunity to build a truly democratic, non-racial, non-sexist society in which there would be opportunity for all to make material, social and intellectual progress. This vision was enshrined in a Constitution intent on deepening democracy by treating people with dignity and ensuring that democratic participation was not restricted to a trip to the voting booth once every five years. To give democracy real meaning, the Constitution declared that municipalities, in particular, must facilitate public participation for true legitimacy in its development endeavours. Various mechanisms have been put in place to achieve this objective, but the process has not been without its impediments and difficulties. This book reviews the context, approaches and challenges to the public participation process using international comparisons.

Die von Erdbeben und Tsunamis ausgelöste Reaktorkatastrophe im japanischen Kernkraftwerk Fukushima Dai Ichi beeinflusste die Energiepolitik weltweit. Während sie den Kernenergieausstieg in Deutschland besiegelte, wächst in Japan die Konfrontation zwischen einer erstarkten Protestbewegung und Befürwortern der Kernenergie. Die von japanischen und deutschen Experten verfassten Beiträge befassen sich mit den Auswirkungen der Reaktorkatastrophe auf Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft, Umwelt und Politik in Japan. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die Chancen einer Energiewende, die Neubewertung des Restrisikos ziviler Kernkraftnutzung, Probleme bei der Herausbildung einer japanischen Zivilgesellschaft, neuere Entwicklungen im japanischen Parteiensystem sowie der Zusammenhang von Antikernkraftprotest und politischen Ausstiegszenarien.

The topic on the quality of life and working life in a comparative perspective between Japan and Germany is of high relevance for the sustainability of our societies. The interdisciplinary approaches from the diverse fields of social sciences, i. e. sociology, psychology, economics, political science, architecture and environmental studies cover the diverse issue as well from a theoretical, empirical and historical perspective. The volume assembles the 26 best contributions to the 10th meeting of the German-Japanese Society for Social Sciences, which took place in August 2008 in Osnabrück.

The book presents the contributions of an international workshop organised in November 2007 at the GSIS/SNU. Sixteen renowned authors from Europe and North-East Asia present the main lines of the European Social Integration process in the perspective which elements may be applicable to a regional integration in this part of the world. It became clear that the European Integration was first of all a political process although the economic forms seem to have been dominating. Social integration is the glue which at the end will bring and keep Europe together.

This book presents a selection of presentations during the Fifth Congress of the International Network «Regional and Local Development of Work and Labour». The congress took place at the University of Osnabrück in September 2006. However, it was not a traditional congress, but it revived the practice of «future workshops», which were invented by Robert Jungk. The book assembles 33 articles covering all social sciences by authors from 16 different Austria, Brazil, Denmark, Germany, France, India, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Spain, and Sweden. It is dedicated to the democratization of the different spheres of society from a grassroot-perspective.

Ten years after the break down of the Berlin Wall, the withering away of real existing socialism but also of the welfare state, Europe is preparing for its re-unification. Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic have already entered the NATO, nine more countries from the former Soviet Block and the Mediterranean are preparing themselves to enter the European Union. After hundreds of years of war the era of peace and welfare which seemed to be so near has vanished in new wars and atrocities. Fundamentalisms and globalisation question democracy as such. Nowadays the new term is good governance . The nation-state is stronger than imagined, and seems even to become the only refuge against global shareholder capitalism. Will the old civil societies be able to develop new forms of democracy in the heritage of our past?

Der norwegische Sozialwissenschaftler Johan Vincent Galtung, Mitbegründer und Wegbegleiter der universitären Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, erhielt im Juli 1995 die Ehrendoktorwürde des Fachbereiches Sozialwissenschaften der Universität Osnabrück verliehen. Der Band enthält die Vorträge und literarischen Beiträge der Festveranstaltung, Aufsätze von Johan Galtung sowie Hintergrundinformationen. Behandelt werden folgende Themen: Entwicklung und Würdigung des Wissenschafts- und Friedenstheoretikers Johan Galtung; Wandel der Imperialismusdiskussion und des Entwicklungsbegriffes; Kriegsfolgen und Friedensmöglichkeiten im ehemaligen Jugoslawien; Probleme und Perspektiven der Friedens- und Konfliktforschung; Friedensforschung Friedenslehre Friedensstudium. Johan Galtung ist Professor für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung an den Universitäten Honolulu (Hawaii) und Tromsö (Norwegen). Er lehrt u. a. an der European Peace University (EPU) im österreichischen Stadtschlaining. György Széll ist Professor am Fachbereich Sozialwissenschaften der Universität Osnabrück und war 1995 Dekan des Fachbereichs. Dieter Kinkelbur ist Friedens- und Konfliktforscher und Lehrbeauftragter am Fachbereich Sozialwissenschaften.