From: "TSCF-Conference Management" <[log in to unmask]>
The Social Capital Foundation invites all interested persons or
organizations to present a paper at its upcoming international,
interdisciplinary seminar on social fragility that will be held on June
16-18, 2006, at the American University in Bulgaria, in Blagoevgrad,
Bulgaria.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
1. Definitions of social fragility,
2. Components and factors of fragility and precariousness in our societies,
3. Assessment of social fragility. Is social fragility on the rise?
4. Mutations in community links, family links and social networks,
5. Moral values and social cohesion,
6. Mental and physiological public health issues,
7. Economic precariousness and social bond,
8. Ethnic and cultural contradictions,
9. Mechanisms of the emergence of new major risks.
Additionally, the THRACE project (Targeting Human Research for Anchoring
Cooperative Evolutions in Europe) supported by The Social Capital Foundation
will be presented at the seminar. It is an investigation on how to use
social capital to favor transborder cooperation in the border regions of
Europe, and to elaborate appropriate tools for doing so.
For more information please go to
http://www.socialcapital-foundation.org/conferences/synopsis.htm.
With best wishes,
TSCF
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The Social Capital Foundation
Head Office:
Ave. Eugene Castaigne 16
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Tel: + 32-2-654.10.86
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Website: http://www.socialcapital-foundation.org
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