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  • SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE
    ALVIN TOWNLEY
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    27,00 €

  • PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERSHIP
    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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    77,20 €

  • PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERSHIP
    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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    41,66 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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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    73,51 €

  • 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 €

  • 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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    35,89 €

  • Disaggregating Diasporas as a Force in Role Contestation
    Matthew K. Godwin
    Using a Role Theory lens, this book addresses this shortage of work through investigating Tamil diaspora mass movements and interest groups as forces of domestic foreign policy influence. ...
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    73,33 €

  • 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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    241,03 €

  • Sphere Sovereignty
    Abraham Kuyper / George Kamp
    'Sphere Sovereignty' by Abraham Kuyper offers a theological and philosophical framework, emphasizing the distinct, God-ordained authorities within various spheres of life-such as the church, state, family, and education. Kuyper argues that each sphere has its own autonomy, directly under God, without interference from the others, particularly the state. This work not only navig...
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    9,15 €

  • 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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    126,81 €

  • Global Environmental Institutions
    Elizabeth R. DeSombre
    Global Environmental Institutions provides the most accessible and succinct overview of the major global institutions attempting to protect the natural environment describing their creation and operation, decision-making processes, interactions with other institutions, and impact. ...
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    66,65 €

  • Global Environmental Institutions
    Elizabeth R. DeSombre
    Global Environmental Institutions provides the most accessible and succinct overview of the major global institutions attempting to protect the natural environment describing their creation and operation, decision-making processes, interactions with other institutions, and impact. ...
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    241,17 €

  • Global Governance and Advocacy Compass
    Francisca Oliviera / Priyasa Banerjee / Sam Polkar
    Navigate the complex landscape of global governance with 'Global Governance and Advocacy Compass: A Handbook for 2024.' Published by Advocacy Unified Network, this comprehensive guide sheds light on the significant events, policy shifts, and advocacy strategies that defined the year 2024.Dive into the intricate world of international relations, from the reformation of the Unite...
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    24,21 €

  • Authoritarian Practices and Humanitarian Negotiations
    Andrew J Cunningham
    Utilising a wide variety of perspectives and examining a range of contexts, the book considers how humanitarians assess and engage with authoritarian practices and negotiate access to populations in danger. Useful for students and practitioners with the fields of international politics and humanitarian studies. ...
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    66,36 €

  • Authoritarian Practices and Humanitarian Negotiations
    Andrew J Cunningham
    Utilising a wide variety of perspectives and examining a range of contexts, the book considers how humanitarians assess and engage with authoritarian practices and negotiate access to populations in danger. Useful for students and practitioners with the fields of international politics and humanitarian studies. ...
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    240,86 €

  • The Humanitarian Parent
    Merit Hietanen
    Drawing on the author’s own experiences as an aid worker, as well as extensive original interviews and desk research, the book looks at the challenges faced by those who aspire to a family life, from dating and finding a partner who is happy to move, to being away from home and family, finding childcare, and settling children in new places. ...
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    59,51 €

  • The Humanitarian Parent
    Merit Hietanen
    Drawing on the author’s own experiences as an aid worker, as well as extensive original interviews and desk research, the book looks at the challenges faced by those who aspire to a family life, from dating and finding a partner who is happy to move, to being away from home and family, finding childcare, and settling children in new places. ...
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    240,77 €

  • Nonprofit Moneyball
    Ryan Ginard
    The 'Moneyball' thesis is simple: Using statistical analysis, small-market baseball teams can change their odds for success by accruing assets that are undervalued or overlooked by other teams (and selling overvalued ones). Through a nonprofit lens, this thesis could be compared to a small organization regularly securing large donations traditionally captured by larger national...
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    24,84 €

  • Global Perspectives on NGO Communication for Social Change
    Giuliana Sorce
    This book examines the central role media and communication play in the activities of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) around the globe, how NGOs communicate with key publics, engage stakeholders, target political actors, enable input from civil society, and create participatory opportunities.An international line-up of authors first discuss communication practices, strate...
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    73,38 €

  • Citizen Humanitarianism at European Borders
    This book explores the emerging trend of citizen-led forms of helping others at the borders of Europe. It is key reading for advanced students and researchers of humanitarian aid, European migration and refugees, and citizen-led activism. ...
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    73,41 €

  • Researching Development NGOs
    Susannah Pickering-Saqqa
    This book offers a critical insight into how the study of NGOs can be more theoretically grounded and methodologically creative. The role of NGOs in global development has been the focus of considerable research and scholarship for the last four decades. More recently, scholars and NGO practitioners have begun to explore their relationships and how research can better inform pr...
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    65,12 €

  • The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Philanthropy and Humanitarianism
    This handbook builds a shared understanding of the troubling politics of philanthropy and the disturbing history and practices of humanitarianism. While historical work on philanthropy has long suggested a link between imperial rule and humanitarian aid, these insights have only recently been brought to bear on contemporary forms of giving. In this book, contributors link the l...
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    335,28 €

  • Handbook of Civil Society and Social Movements in Small States
    This volume is unique because of its focus on small states. There are many studies on civil society and social movements, but none that specifically deal with this category of countries. As is well known, small states have particular characteristics, including a limited ability to reap the benefits of economies of scale, a high degree of exposure to forces outside their control...
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    334,92 €


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