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  • SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE
    ALVIN TOWNLEY
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    27,00 €

  • Universities and Non-Governmental Organisations
    Focusing on legal, cultural and socio-economic factors, this volume considers the reasons for which institutions of higher education and NGOs fail to cooperate as frequently and effectively as one might expect, comparing the Polish case with the landscape for collaboration in other European countries: Portugal, the UK, Slovakia and Austria. ...
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    76,00 €

  • USAID And Child Trafficking
    Wayne C. Robinson
    USAID and Child Trafficking: How U.S. Foreign Aid Has Funded the Exploitation of Children is a fearless investigation into one of the gravest betrayals of public trust. Drawing on declassified audits, whistleblower testimony, and once-secret internal documents, Wayne C. Robinson exposes how billions meant to lift the world’s poorest were instead diverted into networks that ensl...
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    16,41 €

  • The USAID Scandal
    Wayne C. Robinson
    The USAID Scandal: How Billions DisappearedBy Wayne C. RobinsonWhat if the very agency entrusted with delivering humanitarian aid, promoting democracy, and fighting global poverty was actually fueling corruption, funding wars, and enabling trafficking? This is not fiction-this is the shocking reality exposed in The USAID Scandal: How Billions Disappeared.Wayne C. Robinson, an i...
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    16,73 €

  • Voluntary Organisations, the Red Cross, and the Features of Humanitarian Reconstruction in Western Europe after the World Wars
    This book explores the ways in which non-government organisations have contributed to the reconstruction of, and care for populations in, Western European countries including but not limited to Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom in the aftermath of the World Wars. ...
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    267,90 €

  • Civil Society and Local Ownership in the Global South
    Ibrahim Natil
    This book assesses local civil society responses to conflict, militarism, climate change, and disease in the global south. The book will interest researchers looking for a new approach to civil society in a global south context, by focusing on local ownership, in terms of leadership culture and development in practice. ...
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    98,18 €

  • Ambivalent Humanitarianism and Migration Control
    Erika Herrera Rosales
    This book explores the complex relationships between migrants and local organisations that provide aid and support. By drawing on extensive fieldwork in Mexico, it suggests that humanitarian organisations are ambivalent institutions because they intend to help individuals whilst simultaneously reinforcing social and power inequalities. ...
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    268,31 €

  • PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERSHIP
    TAN YONG SOON / YONG SOON TAN
    What is the role of a leader? Why do you want to be a leader? Can anyone be a leader? Public Service Leadership will help you answer these questions and more.Drawing on the rich public service leadership experience of the author, this book introduces the five practices of good leadership (Clarity, Courage, Communications, Caring-ness and Culture); demonstrates how you can be a ...
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    75,66 €

  • PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERSHIP
    TAN YONG SOON / YONG SOON TAN
    What is the role of a leader? Why do you want to be a leader? Can anyone be a leader? Public Service Leadership will help you answer these questions and more.Drawing on the rich public service leadership experience of the author, this book introduces the five practices of good leadership (Clarity, Courage, Communications, Caring-ness and Culture); demonstrates how you can be a ...
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    37,81 €

  • Public Diplomacy and Civil Society Organisations
    Ibrahim Natil
    This book explores the roles of civil society organisations engaging in public diplomacy activities and their impact on community development and change. A key resource for researchers, policy makers, donors and NGO practitioners in international development, peacebuilding, civil society, politics, and international relations. ...
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    38,68 €

  • Understanding Humanitarian Diplomacy
    Hafize Zehra Kavak
    This book introduces readers to the development, principles, and philosophy of humanitarian diplomacy, before demonstrating how it works in practice, using a range of case studies from humanitarian field work. Bringing an excellent balance of theory and practice, the book will interest students and practitioners of humanitarian diplomacy. ...
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    63,50 €

  • Understanding Humanitarian Diplomacy
    Hafize Zehra Kavak
    This book introduces readers to the development, principles, and philosophy of humanitarian diplomacy, before demonstrating how it works in practice, using a range of case studies from humanitarian field work. Bringing an excellent balance of theory and practice, the book will interest students and practitioners of humanitarian diplomacy. ...
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    254,23 €

  • Community-Led Development in Practice
    In the last decade, the international development sector has been re-examining its ways of thinking, being, and doing, and we have seen a growing consensus around the need to centre communities in development. However, there is little clarity on what such centring entails and how it can be achieved. ...
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    70,05 €

  • Community-Led Development in Practice
    In the last decade, the international development sector has been re-examining its ways of thinking, being, and doing, and we have seen a growing consensus around the need to centre communities in development. However, there is little clarity on what such centring entails and how it can be achieved. ...
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    254,02 €

  • Cultural Violence, Stigma and the Legacy of the Anti-Sealing Movement
    Danita Catherine Burke
    This book injects nuance into the debate about the moral legitimacy of environmental and animal activism and explores how activism could lead to stigma and destruction of minority group identities, cultural practices, and community structures. ...
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    38,27 €

  • Truffles and Trash
    Kelly Alexander
    On a fragile planet with spreading food insecurity, food waste is a political and ethical problem. Examining the collaborative, sometimes scrappy institutional and community efforts to recuperate and redistribute food waste in Brussels, Belgium, Kelly Alexander reveals it is also an opportunity for new forms of sociality. Her study plays out across a diverse set of locations—in...
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    127,07 €

  • Truffles and Trash
    Kelly Alexander
    On a fragile planet with spreading food insecurity, food waste is a political and ethical problem. Examining the collaborative, sometimes scrappy institutional and community efforts to recuperate and redistribute food waste in Brussels, Belgium, Kelly Alexander reveals it is also an opportunity for new forms of sociality. Her study plays out across a diverse set of locations—in...
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    38,22 €

  • Forced Migration and Humanitarian Action
    Forced population movements are a defining feature of almost any humanitarian crisis, shaping the design, targeting, and delivery of emergency responses. This book’s operational and theoretical insights will be useful for a range of readers, from humanitarian and migration researchers and students to practitioners and policymakers. ...
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    254,74 €

  • Agency and Ownership in Reconciliation
    Caitlin Mollica
    Drawing on the cases of South Africa, East Timor, Sierra Leone, and the Solomon Islands, examines how Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs) have engaged with youth in ways that represent their stories and reflect their substantive participatory capacity as political stakeholders.The importance of youth’s substantive participation for the realization of inclusive reconcili...
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    44,49 €

  • Depoliticising Humanitarian Action
    Is it possible to separate humanitarian action from politics? Drawing on the expertise of practitioners and researchers, and balancing theoretical insights with empirical grounding, field examples and policy recommendations, this book is an essential guide to the thorny interplay between what are too often considered as separate worlds. ...
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    74,44 €

  • Depoliticising Humanitarian Action
    Is it possible to separate humanitarian action from politics? Drawing on the expertise of practitioners and researchers, and balancing theoretical insights with empirical grounding, field examples and policy recommendations, this book is an essential guide to the thorny interplay between what are too often considered as separate worlds. ...
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    267,88 €

  • Corporate Social Responsibility and Civil Society in India
    Nandini Deo
    This book explores how the partnerships between big businesses and civil society organizations are influencing the development and rights landscape in India. Can these collaborations lead to win-win solutions for marginalized groups or will they destroy civil society’s resistance to market forces? ...
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    158,70 €

  • Responding to Violent and Hateful Extremism
    This book surveys the state of knowledge regarding development and humanitarian non-government organisation (NGO) responses to preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE).The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Conflict, Security & Development. ...
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    241,16 €

  • The Governance of Philanthropic Foundations in Authoritarian China
    Qian Wei
    This book is the first monograph to provide a multi-level analysis of power dynamics underlying the governance of philanthropic foundations in the authoritarian context of China. ...
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    77,81 €

  • European Civil Society and International Development Aid
    Balázs Szent-Iványi
    This book explains how and why European non-governmental development organisations (NGDOs) engage in advocacy towards the European Union (EU). It analyses the heterogenous structure of the sector, with examples ranging from large multinational networks to essentially single person NGDOs. ...
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    77,56 €

  • The INGO Problem
    Deborah Doane
    ’The INGO Problem’ delves into the stories of leaders across all sectors of global civil society. It builds on the work of the RINGO Project, a systems-change endeavour to 'Reimagine the INGO' and its relationships, and offers ideas for new systems of accountability, risk, funding, governance and more. ...
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    71,71 €

  • The Capability Approach and the Sustainable Development Goals
    Brian Vincent Ikejiaku
    This book demonstrates how the capability approach to human development can contribute to the realisation of the 2015 UN Sustainable Development Goals. With insights from various fields, this book will interest researchers and practitioners from law, politics, international relations, sociology, public policy, area and development studies. ...
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    240,54 €

  • Faith in Foreign Aid
    Susan Turner Haynes
    The USA contributes more foreign aid than any other state in the world, and is often recognized as a leader in engaging religious organizations in aid delivery. The book will be of interest to researchers across public policy, development, religion, and political science, as well as to practitioners at USAID and development organizations. ...
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    241,32 €

  • The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Movements
    This volume provides up-to-date knowledge on environmental movements, activism, and is a reference point for international work in the field. It offers an assessment of environmental movements around the world, macrostructural, microstructural and social-psychological dimensions, current trends and prospects for social change. ...
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    93,59 €

  • New Leadership of Civil Society Organisations
    Ibrahim Natil
    This book investigates the political, social, and economic dynamics and structures that influence the leadership of Civil Society Organisations at the local, national, and global levels. Of interest to researchers across the fields of global development, business studies, peacebuilding, international relations, and civil society. ...
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    38,60 €