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Context-Sensitive Development: How International NGOs Operate in MyanmarAnthony Ware Focusing on Myanmar, with its perfect storm of extreme poverty, international sanctions, and egregious political repression, Anthony Ware shows how context sensitivity can help development organizations to better meet the needs of their client populations.
Ware points out that, while practitioners have questioned universal economic prescriptions for development, they have been less rigorous in More > | |
Peacebuilding Through Community-Based NGOs: Paradoxes and PossibilitiesMax Stephenson and Laura Zanotti Max Stephenson and Laura Zanotti explore the contested, but increasingly relevant, role that nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) play in resolving conflict and bringing about peace and security in the global arena.
The authors draw on case studies from Haiti, Serbia, and Northern Ireland to highlight the range of ways that NGOs are involved in postconflict reconstruction efforts. In the More > | |
The Time of Youth: Work, Social Change, and Politics in AfricaAlcinda M. Honwana Most young Africans are living in a state of "waithood," argues Alcinda Honwana, finding themselves suspended in limbo between childhood and adulthood. Failed neoliberal economic policies, bad governance, and political instability have caused stable jobs to disappear; and without jobs that pay living wages, these young people cannot become fully participating members of society. But that More > | |
Domestic Politics and Drought Relief in Africa: Explaining ChoicesNgonidzashe Munemo Ngonidzashe Munemo challenges the conventional wisdom that African governments lack the technical capacity and political will to respond to drought and the threat of famine.
Through a comparative analysis of three politically disparate countries—Botswana, Kenya, and Zimbabwe—Munemo demonstrates that differences in the ways that governments face similar drought-induced food crisis More > | |
Sex Slaves and Serfs: The Dynamics of Human Trafficking in a Small Florida TownErin C. Heil Erin Heil explores the global problem of human trafficking in the context of a small Florida town—one typical of the many rural communities that confront modern day slavery in their own backyards.
Drawing on two years of interviews and observation, Heil lays out the dynamics that allow both agricultural and sexual forced labor to flourish. She also highlights community antitrafficking More > | |
Orphan Care: A Comparative ViewJo Daugherty Bailey, editor It is estimated that there are some 140 million orphans worldwide, most of them in transition countries such as Russia and Brazil or poorer regions of the developing world. In Orphan Care, contributors from Botswana, Brazil, China, Russia, Thailand, and Zimbabwe provide insider, on-the-ground perspectives on orphan care in their respective countries, covering the historical and socioeconomic More > | |
Confronting Homelessness: Poverty, Politics, and the Failure of Social PolicyDavid Wagner with Jennifer Barton Gilman Choice Outstanding Academic Book!
Whose fault is homelessness? Thirty years ago the problem exploded as a national crisis, drawing the attention of activists, the media, and policymakers at all levels—yet the homeless population endures to this day, and arguably has grown. David Wagner offers a major reconsideration of homelessness in the US, casting a critical eye on how we as a society More > | |
The Emerging Church: Religion at the MarginsJosh Packard If a church resists rules, rituals, and dogma, what holds it together? Josh Packard explores the inner workings of the Emerging Church, revealing how a movement that rejects organizational trappings and embraces a do-it-yourself ethic has managed to create a distinctive place for itself at the margins of mainstream Christianity.
Packard demystifies the More > | |
Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: International Law, Local ResponsesTonia St. Germain and Susan Dewey, editors The authors of this groundbreaking book explore the gap between policy and practice in international responses to conflict-related sexual violence. Drawing on their research in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, and Latin America, they offer fresh perspectives on, and practical approaches to, achieving justice for women who have survived wartime sexual assault. More > | |
Governing Africa’s Changing Societies: Dynamics of ReformEllen M. Lust and Stephen N. Ndegwa, editors What is the cumulative impact of the immense social, economic, and political changes that Africa has undergone in recent decades? What opportunities do those changes present to improve the lives of the continent's citizens?
Countering the prevailing mood of pessimism in the face of disappointed expectations, the authors of Governing Africa's Changing Societies demonstrate the More > |