A concise, comprehensive and critical introduction to the subject of NGOs and development. This critical overview will be useful to students of development studies at undergraduate and masters levels, as well as to more general readers and practitioners.
In the last six decades, one of the most striking developments in international law is the emergence of a massive body of legal norms and procedures aimed at protecting human rights. In many countries, though, there is little relationship between international law and the actual…
Under increasingly resource-constrained conditions, both private and public donors are turning to NGOs in an attempt to achieve greater impact. This is based on the belief that NGOs can effectively reach the poorest of the poor and that their actions are in the interests of this…
Introduction: Human rights NGOs, world politics and international law Part I. 1952-1955 : Cold warriors against socialist legality 1. Recruting Free World Jurists Part II. 1956-1963: Liberal idealists for the rule of law 2. Organizing a Global network 3. Defining the Rule o…
How resources are being used to fund the community response to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is of considerable interest to the donor community and governments. In the past decade, international funding for the HIV and AIDS res…
Tracing the boom of local NGOs since the 1990s in the context of the global political economy of aid, current trends of neoliberal state restructuring, and shifting post-Cold War hegemonies, this book explores the "associational revolution" in post-socialist, post-conflict Serbi…
How do we gain authentic information and generate credible knowledge from research in difficult places and from difficult audiences? Can we do this? Are there practical solutions to the challenges and barriers often put before us? This book guides researchers in conducting resea…
Introduction: The struggle for human rights in Africa, Paul Tiyambe Zeleza. Part I: Universalism and relativism in human rights discourse 1. Restraining universalism: Africanist perspectives on cultural relativism in the human rights discourse, Bonny Ibhawoh. 2. Toward a theor…
The 1980s saw one of the largest social movements in US history, as activists fought to change the Reagan Administration's policy of supporting right-ring terror and oligarchy in Central America. Despite the size and diversity of the movement, however, it remains understudied. F…
South Sudan is one of the world's most divided and unstable countries. Since achieving statehood in 2011, the country has plunged into civil war (2013-15) and become the scene of some of the worst human rights abuses on the African continent. Despite ongoing political turmoil, s…
by Hill, Lisa, Chesterman, John, Chappell, Louise
For decades, NGOs targeting world hunger focused on ensuring that adequate quantities of food were being sent to those in need. In the 1990s, the international food policy community turned its focus to the "hidden hunger" of micronutrient deficiencies, a problem that resulted in…
For decades, NGOs targeting world hunger focused on ensuring that adequate quantities of food were being sent to those in need. In the 1990s, the international food policy community turned its focus to the?hidden hunger? of micronutrient deficiencies, a problem that resulted in …
Drawing on the global experience of Oxfam, one of the world's largest social justice INGOs, this work tests ideas on 'how change happens' and sets out the latest thinking on how citizens and others can drive progressive change.
This book provides a moral assessment of the heart of the modern human rights enterprise: the system of international legal human rights. Any attempt to achieve a moral assessment of that enterprise must first evaluate the system of international legal human rights, which includ…
