Links
Research groups on social movements
• Groupe de recherche sur la citoyenneté active (GRECA).
• Research Group: Civil Society, Citizenship, and Political Mobilization in Europe.
• Center for the study of democracy, University of California, Irvine.
• Center for the study of social movements and social change.
• Program for the study of contentious politics.
Websites of persons of interest in the field of social movement research, which may contain useful information
• Javier Auyero
• Mario Diani
• Olivier Fillieule
• Jeff Goodwin
• James M. Jasper
• Martin Klimke
• Doug McAdam
• Pamela Oliver
• Christopher Rootes
• Dieter Rucht
• Sidney Tarrow
Research networks on global issues
• CIVICUS - World Alliance for Citizen Participation.
• Euromovements - Action Research Network for the ESF confluence process.
• Focus on the Global South.
• Lunaria.
• Oxford Internet Institute.
• Political parties, interest groups and other social movements.
• Research Working Group on Transnational Social Movements of the University of California, Riverside.
• SHUR. Human Rights in Conflicts: The Role of Civil Society.
• The Association for Progressive Communications - Internet and ICTs for Social Justice and Development.
• Transform! Italia.
• Transnational Institute.
• Workshop on Transnational Contention at Cornell University.
Reports on globalization and civil society
• An x-ray of the participation to the WSF 2005 (by IBASE).
• Flash Eurobarometer 151 - Iraq and Peace in the World.
• Flash Eurobarometer 151b – Globalisation.
• A fair globalization - Creating opportunities for all (by ILO).
• Democratising the Global Economy. The role of civil society (by Jan Aart Scholte).
• Global civil society Yearbook 2001.
• Global civil society Yearbook 2002.
• Global civil society Yearbook 2003.
• Global civil society Yearbook 2004/2005.
• Globalisers from below (by Mario Pianta and Federico Silva).
• Global Civil Society Events: Parallel Summits, Social Fora, Global Days of Action.
• UN World Summits and Civil Society Engagement.
• The World Social Forum: challenging empires (pdf version of the book).
Other links of interest
• European Political Science Review
• European Social Forum
• European University Institue
• Indymedia
• Le Monde Diplomatique
• Orçamento Participativo
• World Social Forum
• Social movement studies
• Social problems
• Mobilization
• Università degli Studi di Firenze