Ricken Patel

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Ricken Patel (born January 8, 1977 in Edmonton , Alberta , Canada ) is a British-Canadian environmental, peace and human rights activist. He is the founding president and executive director of Avaaz , a global organization with the largest number of online activists in the world and over 48 million supporters.

Life

Patel was born in Edmonton in 1977 to a Kenyan- born Gujarat father and a British mother.

As a boy he attended a school on an Indian reservation and was subjected to bullying there. In an interview with The Times, he said: “I have always felt solidarity with people who have been treated unfairly. My explanation for this is that I got so much love from my mother that I always had it left to pass on. "

Patel studied philosophy , politics and economics at Balliol College of Oxford University , where he participated in 1998 in the campaigns against the introduction of tuition fees in the UK. He was the best of his year and took on leading tasks in student self-administration. He later received a Masters in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard , where he used his Oxford experience to help raise the public profile of a project aimed at "fair wages" for university employees ( The Harvard Living Wage Campaign ).

Act

After completing his studies, Patel worked as a consultant in Sierra Leone , Liberia , Sudan and Afghanistan , including for the International Crisis Group , an NGO that deals with peace and conflict research.

Patel became the founder and executive director of ResPublica , a globally active human rights organization that, among other things, set itself the task of ending the genocide in Darfur and promoting a global ethic of responsibility in US politics. ResPublica's stated aim was to promote “good governance, civic virtues and participatory democracy”. During his stay in the United States, Patel was involved in the online organization MoveOn.org , where he also acquired the tools and skills to run Internet campaigns.

In 2007 Patel founded Avaaz (Persian: voice ), initially as a purely online campaign organization with the aim of "closing the gap between the world as it is and the one that most people everywhere want". Avaaz is actively committed to human rights, social justice, environmental protection, media freedom, and peace and security issues both on and off the internet. Avaaz says it has members in all countries of the world, currently more than 48 million. Patel speaks of Avaaz as a community and a technology platform that "gave the global hunger for more democracy only one voice".

During the Syrian civil war, Avaaz supported the establishment of an independent network of journalists and organized risky evacuation operations for kidnapped journalists.

In the American presidential election campaign in 2016 Avaaz committed against the candidacy of the later 45th US president elected Donald Trump .

The current focus of Avaaz and Patel's work is climate change .

reception

In 2013, Patel graced the cover of the May / June issue of Intelligent Life magazine . The Guardian described Patel as the "global protagonist of online protest" with an "inspiring sense of optimism."

Patel was from the Huffington Post voted "Ultimate changer in policy mode" and in the list of world's top 100 thinkers of Foreign Policy magazine, added. At the World Economic Forum he was named one of the “Young Global Leaders” . The Guardian speaks of him as the "global leader of online protest".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wakey wakey-: Electronic activism is stirring a lot of citizens into life, whatever leaders think , The Economist . February 17, 2007. 
  2. ↑ https://secure.avaaz.org/page/de/%7C Retrieved September 11, 2018
  3. ↑ Avaaz founder Ricken Patel: The man who gives you your voice , The Economics Times . September 5, 2011. 
  4. ^ A b c d Andrew Anthony, "Ricken Patel: The Global Leader of Online Protest , The Guardian , March 16, 2013.
  5. ↑ https://www.thetimes.co.uk/ , quote currently not available, September 11, 2018
  6. ↑ a b The Man Behind Avaaz . The Intelligent Life (The Economist) . 2013.
  7. ↑ a b Profile: Global campaign group Avaaz . In: BBC News , February 29, 2012. 
  8. ^ ResPublica . Archived from the original on April 22, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 11, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / therespublica.org
  9. ^ Sarah Bentley: Can Avaaz change the world in a click? . In: The Times , February 9, 2011. 
  10. ↑ Ulrike Putz: Activist group Avaaz in Syria: Die Journalisten-Schmuggler. In: Spiegel Online . February 29, 2012, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  11. ↑ https://www.taz.de/Archiv- sucht/!5099302&s=Ricken%2BPatel /
  12. ↑ Aziza Kasumov: The world is afraid of Donald Trump. In: FAZ.net . May 27, 2016, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  13. ↑ https://www.zeit.de/wissen/umwelt/2014-09/klimawandel-weltweit-demonstrationen
  14. ↑ Christoph Seidler: Summit start in Paris: Climate of fear. In: Spiegel Online . November 30, 2015, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Arianna Huffington: HuffPost Game Changers: Your picks for the Ultimate 10 , Huffington Post . October 8, 2009. 
  16. ↑ 100 Top Global Thinkers 2012 . Foreign Policy .
  17. ^ Ricken Patel, Executive Director of Avaaz, to deliver Commonwealth Lecture . The Commonwealth . Archived from the original on April 22, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 13, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thecommonwealth.org
personal data
SURNAME Patel, doe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-British environmental, peace and human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Edmonton , Alberta , Canada