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New Book - Civil Society Under Strain: Counter-Terrorism Policy, Civil Society and Aid Post-9/11
Following George W. Bush’s declaration of a global War on Terror in the wake of the September 11 attacks, political leaders around the world introduced a swath of counter-terrorist legislation an...
Tagged: political, freedom, law, aid, ngos
Started Dec 2
Are you from one of 81 missing countries? CIVICUS needs you!
From the CIVICUS website: CIVICUS works to protect the rights, strengthen best practice, and increase the influence of civil society around the world. But CIVICUS cannot accomplish these goals alo...
Tagged: participation, CIVICUS, society, civil
Started Oct 26
New Book - From Political Won't to Political Will: Building Support for Participatory Governance
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Despite a recent wave of democratization around the world, traditional systems of representative democracy seem to be in crisis. Citizens in both the North and the South lack opportunities, right...
Tagged: politics, political process, democracy, citizenship, citizen
Started this discussion. Last reply by James M Thogkow Oct 13.
Imagining a Peaceful Society: A Vision of Children’s Literature in a Post-Conflict Zimbabwe
Imagining a Peaceful Society addresses the marginalization of children’s literature from the discourse on conflict and peace-building in Africa. By presenting a unique perspective on how writers of...
Tagged: Zimbabwe, Post-Conflict, Literature, Children
Started Sep 3
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- Kumarian Press was founded in 1977 by Krishna Sondhi and Ian Mayo-Smith to respond to the expressed need for books on international development and management that were geared to the needs of developing countries.
Kumarian's range of topics has expanded over the years to include issues of globalization, peace and conflict resolution, the environment, women and gender, NGOs, civil society, microfinance, human rights, governance and international health. The company pioneered publishing books emphasizing a people-centered approach to development.
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- http://www.kpbooks.com
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- Civil Society, Conflict Resolution, Democratization, Development, Diplomacy, Gender, Health, Humanitarian Relief, Organizational Development, Refugees, Social Entreprenuership
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- Communication
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- For the Love of God: NGOs and Religious Identity in a Violent World - Shawn Flanigan
Examines the ways history and religious identity influences FBOs in Lebanon, Sri Lanka and Bosnia Herzegovina and finds that they often reinforce rather than transcend schisms found in the larger society. Based on over 100 interviews with FBO staffers in these countries, Flanigan reveals the darker, more ambivalent side of altruism.
Building Peace - Craig Zelizer and Robert Rubinstein
The Alliance for Peacebuilding, one of the leading networks in the field, has brought together 13 stories of innovative peacebuilding practices from around the world.
Multi-Track Diplomacy - Louise Diamond
Taking a systemic approach to conflict resolution, this book identifies the players and activities that contribute to the peacemaking and peacebuilding process in a community.
Ritual and Symbol in Peacebuilding - Lisa Schirch
Underscores the importance of incorporating symbolic tools, including ritual, into traditional approaches to conflict.
Reducing Poverty Building Peace - Coralie Bryant and Christina Kappaz
Draws attention to the global nature of poverty and its link to conflict.
Peace Operations Seen From Below - Beatrice Pouligny
Explores the many ways local populations think about and respond to peacekeepers.
Zones of Peace - Landon Hancock and Christopher Mitchell
Examines sanctuary as it relates to historical and modern conflicts from the Philippines to Colombia and Sudan. The authors chart the formation and evolution of these varied "zones of peace" and attempt to arrive at a "theory of sanctuary" that might allow for new and useful peacebuilding strategies.
Peace through Health - Arya, Neil
We typically define and talk about wars using the language of politics, but what happens when you bring in a doctor’s perspective on conflict? Can war be diagnosed like an illness? Can health professionals participate in its mitigation and prevention? The contributors to this book engage with these ground-breaking ideas and describe tools that can further peace once war is understood as a public health problem.
How the Aid Industry Works - Arjan de Haan
Provides a basic description of what aid practices are and how they evolved. The arguments of both proponents and opponents of aid are presented and analyzed, along with real-life examples of projects and programs in context.
Freedom From Want - Ian Smillie
Freedom From Want traces BRAC’s evolution from a small relief operation indistinguishable from hundreds of others, into what is undoubtedly the largest and most variegated social experiment in the developing world.
Transacting Transition - Keith Brown
Scholars and practitioners with first-hand knowledge of foreign assistance programs, recount what happens when democracy goes local, and principles like transparency, gender equality, interethnic tolerance and cooperation, run up against particular realities-political agendas, self-interest and memories of conflict.
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When the Culture of Disbursement Meets the Culture of Corruption
William Savedoff's recent review of The World Bank and the Gods of Lending has sparked an interesting discussion about how the World Bank might prevent funds from being wasted and stolen.
In his review, Savedoff says:… Continue
Posted on November 11, 2009 at 11:33am —
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A Life Changing Moment in Somalia - 417 Magazine
Ken Rutherford’s story is not a pretty one. After suffering huge injuries when his vehicle was wrecked by a land mine in Somalia, he was left with only his will. But with that will he survived to turn his story into one of hope and inspiration.… Continue
Posted on September 3, 2009 at 9:00am —
Book Released Today on BRAC
Freedom from Want tells the story of how – in a cou… Continue
Posted on April 15, 2009 at 4:15pm —
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- At 4:05am on April 3, 2009,
WARIS ALI said… - Hellow Kumarian Press
Very nice to hear that you are publisher of Peacebuilding,Conflict Resolution & Human Rights material.I would like to congratulate you for your contribution towards Better Globe.
I am at Lahore,Pakistam and intend to move Woodbridge,VA within few months and hope to see you.
In Peace
Waris Ali
Lahore,Pakistan.
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Events
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EMU Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) 2010 accepting applications
November 5, 2009 to January 8, 2010 – Eastern Mennonite University
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Canadian School of Peacebuilding 2010 - Accepting Applications
November 10, 2009 to April 1, 2010 – Canadian Mennonite University, Winnipeg, Canada
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10TH JAN TINBERGEN EUROPEAN PEACE SCIENCE CONFERENCE
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Association for Conflict Resolution, September 2010 Conference, Call for Workshop Proposals
September 1, 2010 at 6pm to September 4, 2010 at 7pm – Chicago
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