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  • 13:43, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+2,005). . N Effluent(Created page with "====== Effluent ====== <font 12.000000pt font-family: 'MinionPro'; color: rgb(30.100000%, 30.200000%, 31.000000%)/ ;;rgb(30.100000%, 30.200000%, 31.000000%);;#ffffff>Wastesdi...")
  • 13:41, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+685). . N Ecosystem(Created page with "====== Ecosystem ====== A biological community of living organisms and their physical environment, functioning as an ‘ecological unit’. Examples of ecosystems include pon...")
  • 13:41, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,321). . N Ecology(Created page with "====== Ecology ====== <font 12.000000pt font-family: 'MinionPro'; color: rgb(30.100000%, 30.200000%, 31.000000%)/ ;;rgb(30.100000%, 30.200000%, 31.000000%);;#ffffff>Ecology i...")
  • 13:34, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+48). . Eco-commerce(Eco-commerce)
  • 13:34, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+928). . N Eco-commerce(Created page with "====== Eco-commerce ====== <font 12.000000pt font-family: 'MinionPro'; color: rgb(30.100000%, 30.200000%, 31.000000%)/ ;;rgb(30.100000%, 30.200000%, 31.000000%);;#ffffff>Eco-...")
  • 13:32, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+424). . N Dragomans(Created page with "====== Dragomans ====== Interpreters or guides between countries of Arabic, Turkish and Persian speaking populations who had particular importance during the Ottoman Empire. ...")
  • 13:30, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+742). . N Doha Development Round(Created page with "====== Doha Development Round ====== The Doha Development Round commenced in 2001 and is the current trade-negotiation round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) aimed at lo...")
  • 13:30, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+567). . N Documentation of Intangible Cultural Heritage(Created page with "====== Documentation of Intangible Cultural Heritage ====== Identifying those practices, expressions, traditions, and beliefs that communities and groups recognize as part of...")
  • 13:27, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+438). . N Diplomacy(Created page with "====== Diplomacy ====== The practice of interaction among different actors to gain strategic advantage and pursue one’s self-interest. In the field of international relatio...")
  • 13:26, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+780). . N Digital Diplomacy(Created page with "====== Digital Diplomacy ====== A new form of public diplomacy, also called e-diplomacy, which uses the internet and new information and communication technologies as means f...")
  • 13:25, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+760). . N Diaspora Diplomacy(Created page with "====== Diaspora Diplomacy ====== Diaspora diplomacy is similar to the concept of citizen diplomacy. It refers to diaspora communities coming together in their respective coun...")
  • 13:24, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+850). . N Dialogos(Created page with "====== Dialogos ====== A bi-annual Journal, published by the ICD Academy for Cultural Diplomacy, aimed at providing students, researchers and academics with high-quality inte...")
  • 13:24, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+556). . N Deutsche Kultur International (German Culture International)(Created page with "====== Deutsche Kultur International (German Culture International) ====== A collaborative project-based organization aimed at promoting German culture in particular, but als...")
  • 10:55, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+566). . N Deutsche Akademische Austausch Dienst (DAAD)(Created page with "====== Deutsche Akademische Austausch Dienst (DAAD) ====== German Academic Exchange Service): Founded in 1925, Deutsche Akademische Austausch Dienst is the largest institutio...")
  • 10:54, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+892). . N Détente(Created page with "====== Détente ====== Détente, a French word meaning relaxation, used in a political context means the easing of strained relations between two disagreeing parties. It beca...")
  • 10:53, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+555). . N Department of Culture, Media and Sports(Created page with "====== Department of Culture, Media and Sports (DCMS), UK ====== The Department of Culture, Media and Sports, previously known as the Department for National Heritage, was fo...")
  • 10:52, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+642). . N Deforestation(Created page with "====== Deforestation ====== Deforestation is the process by which rainforests are cut, cleared or destroyed entirely to make way for less bio-diverse ecosystems such as plant...")
  • 10:51, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+689). . N De Klerk, F.W.(Created page with "====== De Klerk, F.W. (March 19, 1936 - ) ====== Frederik Willem de Klerk was the last President while apartheid was still the official guiding principle in South Africa and ...")
  • 10:51, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+342). . N Simone De Beauvoir(Created page with "====== de Beauvoir, Simone (1908 - 1986) ====== One of the founders of the French school of Existentialist philosophy along with Albert Camus and Jean- Paul Sartre and Femini...")
  • 10:50, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+791). . N DCMS Model(Created page with "====== DCMS Model ====== The DCMS Model is a model used to define the creative industry as defined by the UK government’s Department of Culture, Media and Sport. The model ...")
  • 10:44, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+552). . N David-Fox, Michael(Created page with "====== David-Fox, Michael ====== Historian of modern Russia and Soviet History, and professor at Georgetown University. His main publications focus on the interrelations betw...")
  • 10:43, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+757). . N Darfur (Dictionary)(Created page with "====== Darfur ====== Darfur is a region in western Sudan that has been in an official state of humanitarian emergency since 2003. Although tensions had already been rising in...")
  • 10:28, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+592). . N Dante Alighieri Society (Dictionary)(Created page with "====== Dante Alighieri Society ====== An institution focused on promoting Italian culture and language around the world. It was formed in Italy in July 1889, and was named af...")
  • 10:25, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+587). . N Culture Industry(Created page with "====== Culture Industry ====== A concept introduced by Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno in the book Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944). It refers to the process of mass pr...")
  • 10:25, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+400). . N Culture Gap(Created page with "====== Culture Gap ====== A concept used to describe the differences existing between cultural groups which hinder mutual understanding or relations. Differences exist in val...")
  • 10:24, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,108). . N Culture Cycle(Created page with "====== Culture Cycle ====== A flexible model that lays out the five possible stages for the process of producing, disseminating, and highlighting cultural expressions, as wel...")
  • 10:24, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+611). . N Culture as Social Reconstruction(Created page with "====== Culture as Social Reconstruction ====== The idea that cultures are predisposed to change as societies are constantly undergoing transformation. As new ideas enter soci...")
  • 10:23, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+528). . N Culture(Created page with "====== Culture ====== E. Adamson Hoebel, a leading anthropologist of the twentieth century, described culture as an integrated and complex system of learned behavior patterns...")
  • 10:22, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+566). . N Cultural Universalism(Created page with "====== Cultural Universalism ====== The belief that it is possible for certain values to transcend cultural and national differences. This term also claims that all cultures ...")
  • 10:21, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+755). . N Cultural Transfer(Created page with "====== Cultural Transfer (or Transmission) ====== Refers to the export and import of cultural and literary information and ideas across different cultures and societies. Lang...")
  • 10:21, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+617). . N Cultural Tourism(Created page with "====== Cultural Tourism ====== Cultural tourism has become immensely popular in recent years. It defines the movement of people to cities and regions with a range of historic...")
  • 10:20, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+754). . N Cultural Studies(Created page with "====== Cultural Studies ====== Academic field of critical theory and literary criticism initially introduced by British academics in 1964 and gradually adopted by other acade...")
  • 10:20, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+837). . N Cultural Revolution (China)(Created page with "====== Cultural Revolution (China) ====== The Cultural Revolution in China from 1965-1968 was Chairman Mao’s attempt at reasserting his power and ideologies after the weake...")
  • 10:19, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,226). . N Cultural Reproduction(Created page with "====== Cultural Reproduction ====== The transmission process of certain existing values, norms, and ideas from generation to generation. Cultural reproduction finds its meani...")
  • 10:18, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,091). . N Cultural Relativism(Created page with "====== Cultural Relativism ====== Although the theory of cultural relativism was developed by German- American anthropologist, Franz Boas early in the twentieth century, the ...")
  • 10:18, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+409). . N Cultural Policy(Created page with "====== Cultural Policy ====== Cultural policy provides guidelines for decision-making in cultural affairs to various institutions ranging from governments to local councils t...")
  • 10:17, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+938). . N Cultural Pluralism(Created page with "====== Cultural Pluralism ====== Defines a condition where minority ethnic groups continue to retain their distinctive cultural identities and values, while coexisting peacef...")
  • 10:17, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+460). . N Cultural Occupations(Created page with "====== Cultural Occupations ====== Professions which involve creative and artistic production, and heritage collection and preservation. According to the UNESCO and OECD defi...")
  • 10:16, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+639). . N Cultural Materialism(Created page with "====== Cultural Materialism ====== Anthropological theory first presented by Marvin Harris in 1968, which relates cultural aspects such as religion, beliefs, and traditions t...")
  • 10:16, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+706). . N Cultural Liberty(Created page with "====== Cultural Liberty ====== Centered on the belief that all individuals have the basic right to choose as well as express their religious and cultural identities in a plur...")
  • 10:15, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+575). . N Cultural Invention(Created page with "====== Cultural Invention ====== Refers to any development created by people that is not physical in nature. Cultural inventions include constructs such as language, belief s...")
  • 10:14, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+801). . N Cultural Imperialism(Created page with "====== Cultural Imperialism ====== The theory of cultural imperialism gained prominence in the 1970s, when it was used to define the dominance of Western nations over less de...")
  • 10:14, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+577). . N Cultural Heritage(Created page with "====== Cultural Heritage ====== Term that refers to the legacy of artifacts, monuments, and intangible cultural aspects inherited from the past and transmitted from generatio...")
  • 10:13, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+523). . N Cultural Hegemony(Created page with "====== Cultural Hegemony ====== A sociological theory formulated by prominent Marxist philosopher, Antonio Gramsci (founder of the Italian Communist Party). The theory state...")
  • 10:12, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+731). . N Cultural Expansionism(Created page with "====== Cultural Expansion ====== Cultural expansionism is the practice of exporting a country’s culture, values and norms to other parts of the world in an effort to get ot...")
  • 10:12, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+429). . N Cultural Domain(Created page with "====== Cultural Domain ====== A set of items that are of the same kind, or have something in common which makes them “go together”. Items may vary from countries to plant...")
  • 10:11, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+615). . N Cultural Diplomacy under the Ottoman Empire(Created page with "====== Cultural Diplomacy under the Ottoman Empire ====== The Ottomans shared close cultural relations with European powers from the Middle Ages up until the end of the ninet...")
  • 10:09, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+333). . N Cultural Dimensions(Created page with "====== Cultural Dimensions ====== Psychological attributes or value constructs which characterize specific cultural groups. According to Geert Hofstede, there are four main d...")
  • 10:08, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+669). . N Cultural Democratization(Created page with "====== Cultural Democratization ====== A domestic cultural policy that explains the way in which culture is developed and defined. Cultural Democratization is often considere...")
  • 10:06, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+634). . N Cultural Democracy(Created page with "====== Cultural Democracy ====== A populist bottom-up approach to providing society with access to culture. Cultural Democracy can be defined as a philosophy of practice that...")

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