|
Showing 1 - 5 of
5 matches in All Departments
This first study of faith-based development NGOs' (FBOs) political
roles focuses on how U.S. FBOs in international development educate
and mobilize their constituencies. Most pursue cautious reformist
agendas, but FBOs have sometimes played important roles in social
movements. Nelson unpacks those political roles by examining the
prominence of advocacy in the organizations, the issues they
address and avoid, their transnational relationships, and their
relationships with religious and secular social movements. The
agencies that educate and mobilize U.S. constituencies most
actively are associated with small Christian sects or with
non-Christian minority faiths with historic commitments to activism
or service. Specialized advocacy NGOs play important roles, and
emerging movements on immigration and climate may represent fresh
political energy. The book examines faith-based responses to the
crises of climate change, COVID-19, and racial injustice, and
argues that these will shape the future of religion as a moral and
political force in America, and of NGOs in international
development.
After World War II dozens of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
emerged on the global scene, committed to improving the lives of
the world's most vulnerable people. Some focused on protecting
human rights; some were dedicated to development, aimed at
satisfying basic economic needs. Both approaches had distinctive
methods, missions, and emphases. In the 1980s and 90s, however, the
dividing line began to blur. In the first book to track the growing
intersection and even overlap of human rights and development NGOs,
Paul Nelson and Ellen Dorsey introduce a concept they call "new
rights advocacy." New rights advocacy has at its core three main
trends: the embrace of human rights-based approaches by influential
development NGOs, the adoption of active economic and social rights
agendas by major international human rights NGOs, and the surge of
work on economic and social policy through a human rights lens by
specialized human rights NGOs and social movement campaigns. Nelson
and Dorsey draw on rich case studies of internationally well-known
individual NGOs such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch,
Oxfam, CARE, ActionAid, and Save the Children, and employ
perspectives from the fields of human rights, international
relations, the sociology of social movements and of complex
organizations, and development theory, in order to better
understand the changes occurring within NGOs. In questioning
current trends using new theoretical frameworks, this book breaks
new ground in the evolution of human rights-development
interaction. The way in which NGOs are reinventing themselves has
great potential for success--or possibly failure--and profound
implications for a world in which theenormous gap between the
wealthiest and poorest poses a persistent challenge to both
development and human rights.
This first study of faith-based development NGOs' (FBOs) political
roles focuses on how U.S. FBOs in international development educate
and mobilize their constituencies. Most pursue cautious reformist
agendas, but FBOs have sometimes played important roles in social
movements. Nelson unpacks those political roles by examining the
prominence of advocacy in the organizations, the issues they
address and avoid, their transnational relationships, and their
relationships with religious and secular social movements. The
agencies that educate and mobilize U.S. constituencies most
actively are associated with small Christian sects or with
non-Christian minority faiths with historic commitments to activism
or service. Specialized advocacy NGOs play important roles, and
emerging movements on immigration and climate may represent fresh
political energy. The book examines faith-based responses to the
crises of climate change, COVID-19, and racial injustice, and
argues that these will shape the future of religion as a moral and
political force in America, and of NGOs in international
development.
After World War II dozens of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
emerged on the global scene, committed to improving the lives of
the world's most vulnerable people. Some focused on protecting
human rights; some were dedicated to development, aimed at
satisfying basic economic needs. Both approaches had distinctive
methods, missions, and emphases. In the 1980s and 90s, however, the
dividing line began to blur. In the first book to track the growing
intersection and even overlap of human rights and development NGOs,
Paul Nelson and Ellen Dorsey introduce a concept they call "new
rights advocacy." New rights advocacy has at its core three main
trends: the embrace of human rights-based approaches by influential
development NGOs, the adoption of active economic and social rights
agendas by major international human rights NGOs, and the surge of
work on economic and social policy through a human rights lens by
specialized human rights NGOs and social movement campaigns. Nelson
and Dorsey draw on rich case studies of internationally well-known
individual NGOs such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch,
Oxfam, CARE, ActionAid, and Save the Children, and employ
perspectives from the fields of human rights, international
relations, the sociology of social movements and of complex
organizations, and development theory, in order to better
understand the changes occurring within NGOs. In questioning
current trends using new theoretical frameworks, this book breaks
new ground in the evolution of human rights-development
interaction. The way in which NGOs are reinventing themselves has
great potential for success--or possibly failure--and profound
implications for a world in which theenormous gap between the
wealthiest and poorest poses a persistent challenge to both
development and human rights.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R383
R318
Discovery Miles 3 180
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R383
R318
Discovery Miles 3 180
Come Boldly
C. S. Lewis
Hardcover
R254
R182
Discovery Miles 1 820
|