Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs)

Using the analogy of a devastating series of earthquakes, Davutolu provides a new theoretical approach, conceptualization, and methodology for unde...

The development industry is worth billions. International non-governmental organizations (INGOs) have become an integral component in international...

This edited collection critically explores the funding arrangements governing contemporary community development and how they shape its theory and ...

The increasing complexity and interdependence of international NGOs has brought to the surface concerns not only about performance but about the st...

Local faith-based NGOs (FBOs) are a major force in international development. Almost all religious traditions call followers to charity and non-pro...

In The Concerned Women of Buduburam, Elizabeth Holzer offers an unprecedented firsthand account of the rise and fall of social protests in a long-s...

Why are some international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) more politically salient than others, and why are some NGOs better able to influenc...

Environmental activism in contemporary Russia exemplifies both the promise and the challenge facing grassroots politics in the post-Soviet period. ...

Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF (aka Doctors Without Borders), was founded in 1971 by rebellious French doctors. It is arguably the most respected...

The global economic crisis continue to dominate headlines, yet measures to build a social floor under the global economy and reform global governan...

By bringing together their respective competencies and resources for the greater good, governments, business, civil society and multilateral agenci...

In the first historical account of international NGOs, from the French Revolution to the present, Thomas Davies places the contemporary debate on t...

The 1980s saw one of the largest social movements in US history, as activists fought to change the Reagan Administrations policy of supporting righ...

NGO Leadership and Human Rights covers various topics of importance to those who work in development and/or advocacy organisations with human right...

The Hidden Hands of Justice: NGOs, Human Rights, and International Courts is the first comprehensive analysis of non-governmental organization (NGO...