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Advancing Stability in an Era of Change [PDF]
, 2000 Argues for an integrated grantmaking strategy for world security, stewardship, and the peaceful management of change. Focuses on the individual, the nation-state, civil society organizations, private sector corporations, and multilateral ...
Jane Wales
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Legitimacy and activities of civil society organizations [PDF]
Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) play an active and noteworthy role in governance, both at the national and international level. Three questions arise: First, how do CSOs exercise their advocacy, what repertoires, strategies and resources do they use ...
Kotzian, Peter, Steffek, Jens
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Old Wine in New Bottles? The Actual and Potential Contribution of Civil Society Organisations to Democratic Governance in Europe [PDF]
, 2007 Political science literature often claims that the participation of civil society organisations increases the democratic quality of policy-making in international governance arrangements.
Dawid Friedrich
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
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Journal of Arts & Social Sciences, 2014 This research aims to determine the characteristics and functions of civil society in the Omani society, focusing on its most important constraints, and determining the mechanisms for its activation.
Abd El Rahman Sofy +1 more
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Robust, Recognizable and Legitimate: Strengthening India's Appliance Efficiency Standards and Labels Through Greater Civil Society Involvement [PDF]
, 2013 Residential use accounts for 14 percent of global energy consumption. Appliance standards alone could achieve 17 percent energy reductions in the residential sector.
Bharath Jairaj +2 more
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Activism as education in and through the youth climate justice movement
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Young people worldwide are increasingly participating in a global movement for climate justice, yet to date, little research has examined how youth climate justice activists conceive of and experience activism as education. The present study used in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews with 16 US climate justice activists (aged 15–17) to address ...
Carlie D. Trott
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Nonprofit marketing – does strategic planning help?
Mednarodno Inovativno Poslovanje, 2020 This article generally discusses the role marketing strategies play in promoting the nonprofit sector in its efforts to reach out and engage its audiences. Many nonprofit organizations consider the use of tactical marketing strategy as useful
Marina Tuneva
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NGOs and the search for Chinese civil society environmental non-governmental organisations in the Nujiang campaign [PDF]
voluntary organizations; nonprofit organizations; grass roots groups; environmentalism; civil society; advocacy; China;
Büsgen, M.
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‘Let's talk about the weather’: The activist curriculum and global climate change education
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Activist movements have garnered significant global attention on a range of sustainability issues, often involving collectives of citizens coming together. Invoked is the idea of citizens informed to act, emerging not from a common‐sense understanding of everyday life, but rather from a deep political understanding of the world—one that is ...
Richard Pountney
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