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Book SynopsisFor many liberal commentators at the turn of the 1990s, the collapse of the Soviet Union represented a final victory for Western reason and capitalist democracy. But, in recent years, liberal norms and institutions associated with the post-Cold War moment have been challenged by a visceral and affective politics. Electorates have increasingly opted for a closing inwards of the nation-state, not just in the democratic heartlands of Europe and North America, but also on the periphery of the world economy. As the popular appeal of the 'open society' is thrown into question, it is necessary to revisit assumptions about the permanence of its enabling political and ethical projects. Previously promoted by the US and its allies as a necessary complement to liberal capitalist culture and the globalisation of markets, humanitarian multilateralism seems to have lost strategic currency. In this collection of essays, public intellectuals, scholars, journalists and aid workers reflect on the relationship between humanitarianism and 'liberal order'. What role has humanitarianism played in processes of liberal ordering? Amidst challenges to liberal order, what are the implications for the political economy of humanitarianism, and for the practices of humanitarian agencies?Trade Review'This brilliantly curated and genuinely troubling collection shows how, amid anxiety over the "liberal order", humanitarian moralities have been pressed back into service, entrenching existing hierarchies and obscuring noxious continuities. Essential reading for our moment.' -- Samuel Moyn, Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence, Yale University, and author of 'Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World''A fascinating collection. Its impressive contributors deploy history, memoir and political theory, reflecting on the high watermark of neoliberal humanitarian aid, and wondering if the next era of humanitarianism can ever be free of economic oppression, racism and human damage.' -- Hugo Slim, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, University of Oxford'Discusses every question that has perplexed me as a humanitarian actor for 25 years. Is humanitarian work humane? Is humanitarianism above politics, or intimately connected to the world in which it operates? What is genuine solidarity? Read this book and find out.' -- Lynne Jones, FXB Center for Health & Human Rights, Harvard University, and author of 'The Migrant Diaries''With probing and informed contributions from humanitarians and commentators across the globe, this important work raises many pertinent questions about humanitarianism in the current era. Amongst its many virtues, the book will stimulate debate about the international liberal order.' -- Michael Newman, Emeritus Professor, London Metropolitan University, and author of 'Humanitarian Intervention: Confronting the Contradictions'

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Book SynopsisWomen in conflict zones face steep challenges, and nowhere is this clearer than in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, regions that face reduced foreign aid, foreign occupation, violence, instability, ingrained social conservatism and perpetual political crisis. Yet the stereotypical view that women are unable to act politically in the socially conservative contexts of the Middle East is a long way from the truth. Here Ibrahim Natil shines a spotlight on how young Palestinian women work through civil society organizations (CSOs) to improve their communities’ and their own resilience and empowerment. He first outlines the impact of CSOs upon peaceful struggle, human rights and community development relief assistance, highlighting how CSOs respond rapidly to the needs of the population by delivering social, health, cultural and educational services to all sectors of society during humanitarian crises. He then asks how empowered Palestinian women contribute to CSO missions and how CSO missions reciprocally contribute to Palestinian women’s empowerment. Ultimately, young Palestinian women’s engagement with CSOs proves to strengthen cooperation, communication and cross-fertilization between CSO groups, which in turn increases these young women’s agency. Conflict, Civil Society, and Women’s Empowerment: Insights from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip is a little-known success story, one that makes for required reading for scholars of development, peace studies, conflict resolution and conflict strategy, and which will inspire women’s rights activists around the globe.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. History of Civil Society Organisations: Activism, Intervention and Shifts Chapter 3. Leadership of Civil Society: Culture and Constraints Chapter 4. Challenges of Violence to Participatory Civic Engagement Chapter 5. Internationally Sponsored Programs: EU Aid and Women Empowerment Chapter 6. Women’s Grassroots Peacebuilding Engagement Chapter 7. Grassroots Non-violent Activism and Engagement Chapter 8. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe African continent is colloquially referred to as the youngest in the world. Seizing on a topic underexplored in African research, Youth Development in South Africa: Harnessing the Demographic Dividend confronts the issues, challenges, and opportunities facing South Africa’s youth, resulting in a rich exploration of the South African corpus on youth development. Bringing together a diverse range of topics and research methodologies, contributors focus on the demographic dividend, South Africa’s relatively large population of young people, and the implications of harnessing this for economic growth and development within this country. Analysing model institutional and policy initiatives for youth development, contributors present a unique translation of ideas into practice, as well as attention to solutions. Highlighting challenges such as health pandemics, social media, and climate change, chapters cover questions surrounding youth aspirations, employment, and inclusivity. Showcasing the voices of researchers from across South Africa and the larger African continent, Youth Development in South Africa: Harnessing the Demographic Dividend is a compelling snapshot of thirty years of South Africa’s democratic dispensation and what it has meant for the youth of the country, as well as how its demographic dividend can be harnessed for a fairer society in the future.Trade ReviewThere are numerous studies by scholars and policy-makers about youth, particularly youth in the developing world. Many of these studies fall under two categories: the youth as a market, or the youth as either a demographic dividend or a demographic time-bomb. The youth tend to be studied out of curiosity – an anthropological subject that is observed but not engaged. This book presents a paradigm shift in how youth is studied. It offers insights into the complex contradictions, geo-histories, ideologies and experiences that shape the present realities and futures of South African youth. It presents youth not only as products of history, but as architects of new thinking and imaginations that are futuristic. -- Malaika Mahlatsi, Bestselling Author of Memoirs of a Born Free: Reflections on the Rainbow Nation and Corridors of Death: The Struggle to Exist in Historically White InstitutionsTable of ContentsIntroduction PART ONE – UNDERSTANDING YOUTH AND THEIR DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDEND Chapter 1. Demographic dynamics of South Africa’s youth and the implications for harnessing the demographic dividend; Nompumelelo Nzimande PART TWO – PANDEMICS AND YOUTH Chapter 2. Youth and HIV in South Africa: LIVING AND THRIVING WITH HIV; Nompumelelo Zungu, Warren Parker, Inbarani Naidoo, Mokhantšo Makoae, and Salome Sigida Chapter 3. Young People, Social Media and Exposure to STIs: A Semi-Ethnographic Experiment; Busani Ngcaweni PART THREE – YOUTH TRANSITIONS Chapter 4. Building Maps of the Future; Botshabelo Maja Chapter 5. Youth Career Decision Making: The Influence of Horizon for Action and Navigational Capacity; Lucky Maluleke and Lesley Powell Chapter 6. Breaking Barriers, Transforming Lives – Youth Transitions to Work and what it takes: A Case Study of the Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator; Sharmi Surianarain and Rob Urquhart PART FOUR – YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH Chapter 7. Right to Quality Education in Africa: A Critical tool for a sustainable development agenda; Rita Ozoemena Chapter 8. A Holistic Approach to Personal Transformation in the Youth Sector; Lucille Meyer and Rajendra Chetty PART FIVE – YOUTH EMPLOYMENT Chapter 9. A conceptual frame for reviewing Youth Employment Interventions: based on a review of opportunities for youth in South Africa; Carmel Marock, Sindile Moitse, and Josephilda Nhlapo-Hlope PART SIX – YOUTH PARTICIPATION, INCLUSIVITY, AND SOCIAL PROTECTION Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe first detailed account in English of an unprecedented moment in Sri Lanka’s history, Debt Crisis and Popular Social Protest in Sri Lanka chronicles the 2022 popular uprising where mass protests forced the country’s autocratic president to flee. Exploring how the uprising, triggered by a debt crisis, relates to deeper problems of democracy, civil war and development, Janaka Biyanwila challenges numerous misunderstandings about the protests and uncovers how global financial markets and platform economies contributed to the upheaval. Locating the crisis within Global North-South dynamics, Biyanwila outlines how market-driven economic growth strategies restrain public involvement in decision making while asserting ethno-centric collective identities and hypermasculine cultures. Framing citizenship as well as justice in terms of cultural recognition, economic redistribution and political representation, chapters foreground the role of democratic social movements that encourage artistic engagement and collective learning as central for renewing citizenship as well as democracy. Reimagining development that embeds Global Production Networks within local communities and rethinking democracy across multiple tiers of governance, Biyanwila concludes by shifting his narrative to a broader focus on the Global South, and South Asia specifically. Fusing the regional with the global, Debt Crisis and Popular Social Protest in Sri Lanka widens its perspective from a distinct, national moment to an international interdependency with the power to ripple across every corner of the globe.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: The Challenges of Democracy, Development and Popular Movements Chapter 2. The Popular Uprising: Collective Action, Activists and Strategies Chapter 3. The Rajapaksa Regime: Development, Regional Alliances, Militarization and the Pandemic Chapter 4. Reasons for the Crisis: Financialisation, Commercialization of the State, Popular Discontent and Inequality Chapter 5. Prospects of Democratic Renewal: Patrimonial Capitalism, Representative and Movement Politics Chapter 6. Lessons: De-Militarization, Development and Democracy

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Book SynopsisNew Frontiers in Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Peace Science explores the uncharted land of conflicts, human security and peace. Bringing together a diverse, world-leading researchers, this 29th volume of Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development focuses on some of the most serious challenges to human security posed by intra-state conflict and terrorism, interstate wars, predatory globalisation, failed development, poverty and inequality, environmental problems and climate shocks, inefficient governance and man-made and natural disasters. In so doing, this book contributes to the crafting of well-grounded academic and policy responses to global problems that urgently require novel solutions. For its breadth and depth of research, this book is essential reading for researchers working in peace studies, conflict studies, sustainability studies and economics. It is also of keen interest to policymakers in all of these areas.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Partha Gangopadyay Chapter 1. Rethinking Augustines Law: Armament Costs and Evolving Military Technology; Jurgen Brauer, Keith Hartley and Stefan Markowski Chapter 2. Multilateral Arms Races; Frank C. Zargare Chapter 3. Build Back Better, even Before Disaster: Adaptive Design of Communicative Process, Place and Practice; Norio Okada Chapter 4. Managing Climate-Related Financial Risk: Prospects and Challenges; Biswa Nath Bhattacharyay Chapter 5. Spillover Effects of Transport Infrastructure And Regional Conflicts In Spain; Fernando Barreiro-Pereira Chapter 6. Conflict and Migration; Uma Segal Chapter 7. On the Impacts of Globalisation on Public Employment and Human Security in India: A Long-run Analysis; Partha Gangopadyay, Agung Suwandaru and Walid Bakry Chapter 8. Is India backing out from its Commitment to No First Use of Nuclear Weapons?; P. M. Kamath Chapter 9. Health Security and Equity: A Global Health Histories Perspective; Sanjoy Bhattacharya Chapter 10. Business and Violence; Laszlo Zsolnai Chapter 11. Gender & Conflict with special reference to Representation of Women in EUs Energy Sector; Madhumita Chatterji and Anindita Chakrabarti

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Book SynopsisInternational Investment for Sustainable Development critically examines the interface between sustainability, development, and the governance of international investment. It challenges the conventional view that foreign direct investment is a 'miracle drug' for developing countries and exposes serious shortcomings in the current international investment regime. Composed of norms, agreements, treaties and regulations, the emerging investment regime expands the rights of transnational corporations (TNCs) without commensurate rewards for the common good. Drawing on both research and engaged advocacy, the contributors ultimately map out a new way forward, towards the creation and implementation of international investment rules that will promote global sustainability and equity.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Balancing Rights and Rewards in Investment Rules * Part 1: Links Between Foreign Direct Investment, Development and Sustainability * No Miracle Drug: Foreign Direct Investment and Sustainable Development * FDI and the Environment: What Empirical Evidence Does and Does Not Tell Us? * Governing Foreign Direct Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Policies and Practices Reconsidered * Sustainable Development and Foreign Direct Investment: The Emerging Paradigm in Asia * Part 2: The Governance of International Investment * All Roads Lead Out of Rome: Divergent Paths of Dispute * Settlement in Bilateral Investment Treaties * The Road to Hell? Investor Protections in NAFTA's * The Environment and the Principle of Non-discrimination in Investment Regimes: International and Domestic Institutions * Corporate Governance and Global Disclosure: Let the Sun Shine In * Bibliography, Index

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Book Synopsis'This book aims to inspire the conservation community not to regard poverty reduction as someone else's job but to take responsibility for it as part of ecosystem restoration. Though no solutions are perfect,the text and examples given offer encouraging and useful guidance.' Gill Shepherd, poverty and landscapes thematic leader, IUCN Forest Conservation Programme. 'This book could be the catalyst for a real paradigm shift - not just in capital cities and international conference centres, but also on the ground in locations where poor people are struggling to make a living.' Policy Matters (praise for the first edition). High levels of rural poverty in many of the world's ecosystems make it an ethical and practical imperative to find more equitable and realistic ways of achieving conservation. Livelihoods of the rural poor and options for conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity are so intimately entwined that they are better addressed through an integrated approach, irrespective of whether the primary motivation is one of development or one of conservation. This highly accessible book, a revised edition of the 2005 book Poverty and Conservation: Landscapes, People and Power, offers a grand overview of the issues and a conceptual framework for addressing poverty reduction in the context of conservation, and conservation in the context of poverty reduction. It will appeal to professionals working in the field as well as to students across the fields of conservation, development and sustainability. It looks at the rationale for addressing the links between conservation and poverty reduction, arguing that such a focus is both ethically essential and a source of opportunities. It alsoreviews experiences in dealing with people and conservation and identifies some key lessons and concepts. The book presents cases studies illustrating various approaches and a discussion of some of the issues that appear when implementing combined conservation and poverty reduction. The book emphasizes the importance of multiple spatial scales and negotiating trade-offs between scales. It also tackles the complex issue of institutional landscapes and the way in which changes at various institutional levels can lead to different and often more positive outcomes. The Final part summarizes some of the main features of the authors' integrated approach and identifies some of the challenges involved in efforts to combine conservation and poverty reduction. Published with IUCN - The World Conservation Union.Trade Review'The message is clear - conserving the environment makes sound economic sense' CTA Spore.Table of ContentsForeword Introduction Past Experiences Case Studies Scale, Landscapes, Boundaries and Negotiation Structures, Institutions and Rights Linking Conservation and Poverty Reduction

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Book SynopsisAimed at undergraduates and post-graduates in the social sciences, as well as development practitioners, this textbook provides an introduction to the human development and capability approach; it also clarifies key concepts and fosters debate on a number of critical issues. The book offers new perspectives on a wide range of topics, which include the conceptualisation and measurement of well-being and inequality; the role of markets and economic growth in promoting development; the importance of democracy and public debate; culture and religion; health; equality and justice; and the connections between social and economic policy in addressing poverty and inequality. Case studies from across the world are used to illustrate concepts and highlight the relevance of the approach in addressing contemporary development challenges. A set of questions accompanies each chapter for seminar discussion to help readers assimilate central points and apply the approach to diverse realities. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the human development and capability approach for students and practitioners world-wide.Trade Review'This book is essential reading for all those who wish to understand the Human Development and Capability approach to development. It both explains and advances thought on this important and increasingly influential perspective.' Frances Stewart, President, Human Development and Capability Association 'One of the most important influences of the human development approach has been through educational and teaching at all levels. In this tradition, it is great to see this new volume, which provides excellent academic foundations in ways that are accessible for a wide range of potential audiences.' Jeni Klugman, Director and Lead Author of the Human Development Report 'As poverty reduction has become the predominant objective of socio-economic development, the human development and capabilities approach provides the best methodological path to its achievement. The present volume is a major contribution towards operationalizing this approach.' Erik Thorbecke, H.E. Babcock Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Graduate School Professor and former Director of the Program on Comparative Economic Development, Cornell University 'A commendable pioneering effort, which... represents an invaluable guide for all those interested in learning about a new, if still controversial, perspective on development.' Gustav Ranis, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 'a success...represents an excellent introduction to a would-be new paradigm that is currently in the ascendancy..represents an invaluable guide for all those interested in learning about a new, if still controversial, perspective on development.' Gustav Ranis, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2010.Table of ContentsIntroductory Note Part I: Concepts 1. A Normative Framework for Development 2. The Human Development and Capability Approach 3. Ideas Related to Human Development Part II: Topics 4. Economic Growth 5. Equality and Justice 6. Measurement 7. Institutions, Markets and Economic Development 8. Democracy and Political Participation 9. Education 10. Health 11. Culture and Religion Part III: Policy 12. Public Policy Analysis 13. Policy Case Studies Appendix 1: A Human Development Pedagogy Appendix 2: Pictures

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Book SynopsisAlthough climate change affects everybody it is not gender neutral. It has significant social impacts and magnifies existing inequalities such as the disparity between women and men in their vulnerability and ability to cope with this global phenomenon. This new textbook, edited by one of the authors of the seminal Women and the Environment in the Third World: Alliance for the Future (1988) which first exposed the links between environmental degradation and unequal impacts on women, provides a comprehensive introduction to gender aspects of climate change. Over 35 authors have contributed to the book. It starts with a short history of the thinking and practice around gender and sustainable development over the past decades. Next it provides a theoretical framework for analyzing climate change manifestations and policies from the perspective of gender and human security. Drawing on new research, the actual and potential effects of climate change on gender equality and women's vulnerabilities are examined, both in rural and urban contexts. This is illustrated with a rich range of case studies from all over the world and valuable lessons are drawn from these real experiences. Too often women are primarily seen as victims of climate change, and their positive roles as agents of change and contributors to livelihood strategies are neglected. The book disputes this characterization and provides many examples of how women around the world organize and build resilience and adapt to climate change and the role they are playing in climate change mitigation. The final section looks at how far gender mainstreaming in climate mitigation and adaptation has advanced, the policy frameworks in place and how we can move from policy to effective action. Accompanied by a wide range of references and key resources, this book provides students and professionals with an essential, comprehensive introduction to the gender aspects of climate change.Trade Review'This book gives a profound and informative introduction and presents a wide range of case studies that will inform and inspire scholars, policymakers, advisors and students about the relevance of the interlinkages between gender and climate change. Moreover, it guides us towards appropriate policies and calls us to action.' Dr. Nafis Sadik, Former Head of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS Asia and Pacific 'The book Gender and Climate Change: An Introduction brings together a wide range of perspectives, insights and experiences from women and men from all around the world on the nexus between gender and climate change...IUCN's active involvement in gender mainstreaming and capacity building in environment and climate change will certainly benefit from this rich publication.' Julia Marton-Lef vre, Director-General , International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)Table of ContentsForeword Testimony 1. Introduction: Exploring Gender, Environment and Climate Change Part I THE ANALYSIS 2. Gender, Environment and Climate Change: understanding the linkages 3. Climate Change, Human Security and Gender Case 3.1 Climate Change and Women's Voices from India 4. Cities, Climate Change and Gender: A Brief Overview Case 4.1 Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases by Informal Waste Recyclers in Delhi, India Case 4.2 Gender Mainstreaming in the Climate Change Response of Sorsogon City, the Philippines Part II REALITIES ON THE GROUND 5.2 Gender Dimensions, Climate Change and Food Security of Farmers in Andhra Pradesh, India 5.3 The Gender Impact of Climate Change in Nigeria 5.4 Gendered Vulnerability to Climate Change in Limpopo Province, South Africa 5.5 Gender Perspectives in Adaptation Strategies: the Case of Pintadas Solar in the Semi-Arid Region of Brazil 5.6 Climate Change and Indigenous Women in Colombia 5.7 Gender Aspects of Climate Change in the U.S. Gulf Coast Region 5.8 Women at Work: Mitigation Opportunities at the Intersection of Reproductive Justice and Climate Justice Part III STRATEGIES AND ACTION 6. Establishing the Linkages between Gender and Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Lorena Aguilar, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Costa Rica 7. Climate Change and Gender: Policies in Place 8. Why More Attention to Gender and Class Can Help Combat Climate Change and Poverty 9. Women Organizing for a Healthy Climate 9.1 Climate Justice through Energy and Gender Justice: Strengthening Gender Equality in Accessing Sustainable Energy in the EECCA region 9.2 National Federation of Women's Institutes: Women Organizing for a Healthy Climate 9.3 Women and the Environmental justice Movement in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria 10. Epilogue: From Divergence towards Convergence 10.1 Gender-disaggregated Data for Assessing the Impact of Climate Change 10.2 Gender and Climate Information: A Case Study from Limpopo Province, South Africa Index

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Book SynopsisFrom international NGOs to UN agencies, from donors to observers of humanitarianism, opinion is unanimous: in a context of the alleged 'clash of civilizations', our 'humanitarian space' is shrinking. Put in another way, the freedom of action and of speech of humanitarians is being eroded due to the radicalization of conflicts and to the reaffirmation of state sovereignty over aid actors and policies. The purpose of this book is to challenge this assumption through the analysis of the events that have marked MSF's history since 2003 (when MSF published its first general work on humanitarian action and its relationships with governments). It addresses the evolution of humanitarian goals, the resistance to these goals and the political arrangements that overcame this resistance (or that failed to do so). The contributors seek to analyze the political transactions and balances of power and interests that allow aid activities to move forward, but that are usually masked by the lofty rhetoric of 'humanitarian principles'. They focus on one key question: what is an acceptable compromise for MSF. This book seeks to puncture a number of the myths that have grown up over the last forty years since MSF was founded and describes in detail how the ideals of humanitarian principles and 'humanitarian space' to operate in conflict zones are in reality illusory. How in fact it is the grubby negotiations with varying parties, each of whom have their own vested interests, that may allow organisations such as MSF to operate in a given crisis situation -- or notTrade ReviewThis book challenges the perception that humanitarian organisations cannot speak or act freely and that their influence is on the wane. * Law Society Journal *Thank goodness for MSF. Where else would we find such candour and self-criticism? Laid out here are unblinking accounts of the dilemmas facing the humanitarian agencies in a chaotic world, and clear-eyed appraisals of how MSF tries, and sometimes fails, to respond with its principles intact. Let's hope the other relief agencies are paying attention. -- Peter Gill, journalist and author of 'Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia since Live Aid'These stories and reflections illustrate the tragic humanitarian paradox: to act morally, one can't always be principled. Neutrality and impartiality disappear into the pantheon of defunct ideals, as MSF defends a robust opportunism in the best sense of the word: reality-based situational ethics. -- Dirk Salomons, director of the Program for Humanitarian Affairs at the School of International Public Affairs, Columbia UniversityThis is a book about realism: the art of doing what's possible in impossible situations, and preserving reputation and skills to provide relief in the next crisis, in the next country. Through seven case studies and an insightful history of modern humanitarian action, this collection of essays represents a maturing of MSF's view of the world. Gone is the fundamentalist rant of 'our principles at any price' and in its place is a more nuanced pragmatic approach which keeps its eye firmly on the goal of alleviating suffering but understands the need to compromise and invent, choosing the best possible path to reach the goal. -- Dr. Peter Walker, Director, Feinstein International Center, Tufts University'Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed' is a very good and extremely useful book. It brings important new information and candid discussions of ethical and operational decision-making to important parts of humanitarian studies and international relations. ... Clear, practical, and easy to read, this book is exceptional for its frank and public self-scrutiny. In this respect, it breaks new ground, demonstrating a truly reflective NGO that is not afraid to learn in public. A rare text in humanitarian and organizational studies. -- Hugo Slim, author of 'Killing Civilians: Method, Madness and Morality in War'For many commentators, the 'golden age' of humanitarian intervention is over. The War on Terror and the rise of strong states in the global South has reduced the room for manoeuvre for humanitarian agencies. Western governments are once again constructing value-blind international alliances as a cornerstone of their own national security. Drawing on its own history and recent experiences, in this important and timely book MSF unflinchingly surveys this new operational terrain. The result is highly readable and challenging appraisal of what it means to be a humanitarian actor in today’s rebalancing world. With a refreshing honesty, it explores the thin line that humanitarian agencies tread between saving lives and supporting oppressors. This brave and informative book reconfirms MSF as an organisation that thinks as well as acts. -- Mark Duffield, Professor of Development Politics and Director, Global Insecurities Centre, University of BristolThe most detailed and self-critical inside account of the deals aid agencies are forced to negotiate, often with groups and regimes which abuse human rights, to continue their work. -- Peter Beaumont, GuardianWhilst MSF has acquired a reputation for 'speaking out' on behalf of the victims of conflicts and disasters, this fascinating and timely book shows that this tradition, always rather ambiguously adhered to, is today very much under threat. Longstanding concerns that public declarations will jeopardise MSF's aid operations have now been supplemented by concerns that these declarations will add weight to calls for military intervention and for prosecutions in international courts, thereby further jeopardising MSF operations on the ground. Meanwhile, a range of governments in conflict-affected countries are reining in free speech through formal contracts with NGOs. Using a series of illuminating case studies, the book highlights the shifting dilemmas faced by aid workers. It brings out the perennial dangers of silence and stresses the continuing need to highlight the hidden victims of 'just wars' (whether these are civil wars, Western wars, or both). The book also exemplifies MSF's traditions of self-criticism and internal disagreement, traditions that -- in an age of public relations and self-promotion -- are now more valuable than ever. -- David Keen, Professor of Conflict Studies, London School of Economics and Political ScienceA great fact-filled book that will broaden your horizons on the very admirable work of people involved in the Medicins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) organization. * Bizindia *

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Book SynopsisIn the past decade, the need for oil in Asia's new industrial powers, China and India, has grown dramatically. The need for oil in Asia's new industrial powers, China and India, has grown dramatically. The New Kings of Crude takes the reader from the dusty streets of an African capital to Asia's glistening corporate towers to provide a first look at how the world's rising economies established new international oil empires in Sudan, amid one of Africa's longest-running and deadliest civil wars. For over a decade, Sudan fuelled the international rise of Chinese and Indian national oil companies. But the political turmoil surrounding the historic division of Africa's largest country, with the birth of South Sudan, challenged Asia's oil giants to chart a new course. Luke Patey weaves together the stories of hardened oilmen, powerful politicians, rebel fighters, and human rights activists to show how the lure of oil brought China and India into Sudan - only later to ensnare both in the messy politics of a divided country. His book also introduces the reader to the Chinese and Indian oilmen and politicians who were willing to become entangled in an African civil war in the pursuit of the world's most coveted resource. It offers a portrait of the challenges China and India are increasingly facing as emerging powers in the world.Trade Review'As Mr Patey writes, despite worsening returns and growing unease, Sudan remains the "largest overseas achievement" of the state-owned oil companies of both China and India. [...] Patey's book has pen-portraits of the individuals who spearheaded and maintained exploration programmes in Sudan, ... the "new kings of crude" [who] may yet have a role in trying to quell the violence in the two Sudans.' * The Economist *'Over thirty-five years, Sudan has been a crucible for both American and Asian oil policies: not only have Sudan's war and government been deeply influenced by the politics and finance of oil, but the battles over Sudan's oil production have had a remarkable influence on the global petroleum business. Luke Patey's remarkable book - an indispensable and comprehensive account of the encounter between big oil and Sudan - includes important new material on China's strategy of internationalizing oil production and India's seminal but under-recognized entry into the global oil business.' - * Alex de Waal, Executive Director, The World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School, Tufts University *'Luke Patey has written a thoroughly engaging book on the impact of Africa's longest-running civil wars in Sudan on the global ambitions of Chinese and Indian national oil companies. He lucidly explores how this now divided country shaped and constrained the aspirations of these oil giants, and explains excellently the influence and limitations of Asia's two powerful countries, particularly China, on their national oil companies.' - Comfort Ero, Africa Program Director, International Crisis Group 'To grasp the new world of oil, you must plumb China's role in Africa. Only, no one has penetrated it - until Luke Patey in his very welcome new book.' * Steve LeVine, author, The Oil and the Glory *'The New Kings of Crude is a clear-eyed account of the machinations of the newest players in the global oil business... Patey sketches deft portraits of the principal personalities and institutions that shaped the development of the petroleum sector in Sudan, China and India.' * Business Standard *

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Book SynopsisIf businesses and other organizations are to meet the many and complex challenges of sustainable development, then they all, both public and private, need to embed sustainability considerations into their decision-making and reporting. However, the translation of this aspiration into effective action is often inhibited by the lack of systems and procedures that take sustainability into account. Accounting for Sustainability: Practical Insights will help organizations to address these issues. The book sets out a number of tools and approaches that have been developed and applied by leading organizations to: Embed sustainability into decision-making, extending beyond an organization's boundaries to take into account suppliers, customers and other stakeholders Measure and link sustainability and financial performance Integrate sustainability into 'mainstream' reporting, both to management and external stakeholders In-depth cases studies from Aviva, BT, the Environment Agency, EDF Energy, HSBC, Novo Nordisk, Sainsbury's and West Sussex County Council show in detail how accounting for sustainability works in practice in a wide range of organizational contexts. Published with The Prince's Charities: Accounting for SustainabilityTrade Review'A rich and diverse collection of case studies to help all those organisations looking for a practical way of addressing ... sustainability-related issues.' Charles Tilley, Chief Executive, CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) 'A good overview of the challenges and dilemmas companies face as they evolve their sustainability thinking ... a useful addition to the body of emerging knowledge in this space.' Elaine Cohen, sustainability consultant and reporter at Beyond Business, for CSRWire 'This fascinating book presents a great opportunity for pro-active quality professionals to rise beyond our roots and contribute to mankind's future... an inspiring book that I would thoroughly recommend reading.' Qualityworld Magazine 'Most companies still don't have a clue about the full extent of their impacts on the environment - let alone the full monetized cost of those impacts. The eight case studies provide an invaluable starting point in terms of accounting more intelligently for those impacts.' Jonathon Porritt, Founder Director, Forum for the Future 'A comprehensive and wide-ranging series of case studies that collectively make the business case for connected reporting, while providing a rich source of practical advice on how to make sustainability part of an organization's DNA.' Lord Sharman of Redlynch OBE, Chairman, Aviva plc 'Increasingly, a company's market value reflects the value attributed by investors to people, knowledge, trust and relationships, none of which are visible in traditional financial and management information. Accounting for Sustainability is a thoughtful assessment of how we can develop accounting and reporting to better reflect what is material to assessing corporate performance today.' Lise Kingo, Executive Vice President, Novo Nordisk Ltd 'The Connected Reporting Framework is the most practical way of reporting an organisation's strategic approach to sustainability available today. This publication will provide helpful guidance to anyone keen to learn from early adopters of the methodology.' Sir Michael Rake, Chairman, BT Group plc 'Accounting for Sustainability provides a rich and diverse collection of case studies to help all those organisations looking for a practical way of addressing the major challenges and risks posed by sustainability-related issues.' Charles Tilley, Chief Executive, CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) 'All too often when discussing sustainability issues the focus is on performance reporting and assurance - whilst the real focus of our attention really ought to be the embedding of sustainability principles, resulting in real change. This text provides excellent examples of real change in action and will be of interest to a broad spectrum of managers and accounting professionals.' Helen Brand, Chief Executive, ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) 'This book is a significant contribution to the practice of sustainability, demonstrating why and how it can be embedded in an organisation's thinking and action. This is done through a series of very perceptive case studies that move us beyond the theoretical to the practical.' Michael Izza, Chief Executive, ICAEW (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales) 'This book provides major learning points on how environmental sustainability can be embedded in organisations and reported on, and the issues likely to arise. This should significantly reduce any 'reinventing the wheel' in embedding sustainability in corporate culture.' Alan Thomson, President, ICAS (The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland)Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Prince's Accounting for Sustainability Project: Creating 21st Century Decision-Making and Reporting Systems to Respond to 21st Century Challenges and Opportunities 3. Sainsbury's: Embedding Sustainability in the Supermarket Supply Chain 4. Using the Connected Reporting Framework as a Driver of Change within EDF Energy 5. A Golden Thread for Embedding Sustainability in a Local Government Context: The Case of West Sussex County Council 6. Building from the Bottom, Inspired from the Top: Accounting for Sustainability and the Environment Agency 7. Evolution of Risk, Opportunity and the Business Case in Embedding Connected Reporting at BT 8. Sustainability and Organizational Connectivity at HSBC 9. 'One Aviva, Twice the Value': Connecting Sustainability at Aviva PLC 10. Integrated Reporting at Novo Nordisk 11. Conclusions

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Book SynopsisA simple to use catalogue, containing a wealth of illustrations, with a unique combination of written text and visual aids.Visual aids can provide information, provoke discussion and discovery, and make difficult ideas easy to understand. They can also improve the accessibility of a book or a poster simply by making it look more interesting. The book contains more than 1,200 drawings (over 700 new to this second edition) relating to a wide range of educational and health issues, along with advice on copying, enlarging, and otherwise changing the illustrations to make them appropriate to a particular situation, without using special equipment. There is also advice on pre-testing materials, to make sure their message will be understood by the intended audience.

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Book SynopsisHuman development may encompass social, cultural and spiritual facets as well as economic improvement, and development organizations are beginning to recognize this fact. But building into programming a wider understanding of development throws up a number of questions: how do our organizations define wellbeing and quality of life? What do target communities in the global north or south mean by a quality of life? How can we measure change in wellbeing, and attribute it to our programming? Wellbeing and Quality of Life Assessment is a practical resource for people working in social or development policy and practice who are thinking about integrating wellbeing or quality of life in their work in both the global North and South.The main body of the book presents different tools that have been developed and used in social and development policy and practice and outlines the inspiration behind their approach, how it works, what has been learnt through it, and issues and dilemmas that remain.

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Book SynopsisFrom girl's education awareness and action, to attitudes towards violence against children, communication for development (C4D) is a critical tool for sharing knowledge and creating social change. Evaluating how effective such communication has been in creating social change presents challenges. How can this information be gathered in a participatory way? How can we understand the contribution of C4D programmes to change? How can we ensure we learn and adapt communication in the process?Communication for Development reflects on the challenges and opportunities of bringing a social change framework into practice. Underpinned by an appreciative enquiry approach, the book explores the research, monitoring and evaluation of C4D - the field's leading evaluation framework.In each chapter, academic scholars partner with practitioners to draw lessons from recent collaborative action projects, which brought together researchers, UNICEF C4D and M&E teams, and selected in-country academic, NGO and government partners. As one of the largest United Nations agencies with a focus on C4D, UNICEF is seen as a leader of applied C4D research and practice.Communication for Development is essential reading for international development practitioners, students and scholars as well as programme managers, governments and donor agencies.Jessica Noske-Turner is a scholar of media and communication for development in the Institute for Media and Creative Industries at Loughborough University London. The book includes chapter contributions from several eminent scholars and practitioners in the field, including Jo Tacchi, Vinod Pavarala, Patricia Rogers, Linje Manyozo, and Rafael Obregon.

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Book Synopsis'one of the best contemporary statements of what is occurring in the growth of urban places in the Third World' Environment and Planning 'a book that should enjoy a wide appeal: as a plea for adoption of the 'popular approach'; as a text for student use; and as an accessible and stimulating guide to the urban problems of developing countries' Progress in Human Geography 'a very readable book, containing a lot of well documented information The book is especially relevant for interested lay people but many professionals will benefit from having a copy on the bookshelf' Third World Planning Review The true planners and builders of Third World cities are the poor. They organize, plan and build with no help from professionals. Drawing on their own skills, making the best use of limited resources and forming their own community organizations, they account for most new city housing. But the city, which thrives on their cheap labour, rejects them. Their houses are deemed illegal, because they do not conform to regulations and they are called 'squatters', because they cannot afford to buy sites legally. Their right to water, education and health care, even to vote, are often denied. This book challenges many common assumptions about the urban Third World - for example that urban citizens live in very large cities and that cities are growing rapidly, or that city dwellers benefit from 'urban bias' in government and aid policies. It is about the lives of the 'squatter citizens' and the problems they face in their struggle for survival.Table of Contents* Introduction * The Legal and the Illegal City * One Government Cannot Hold All Wisdom * The Search for Shelter * Shelter: the Response of Government * The Emergence of New Attitudes and Policies for Housing * Environmental Problems in Third World Cities - in the Home, Workplace and Neighbourhood * Environmental Problems at the City and Regional Level * The Dimensions of Urban Change * Outside the Large Cities * Epilogue *

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Book Synopsis'John Macdonald once again turns the traditional approach to health care on its head. Instead of merely diagnosing and managing disease, he urges health services � and indeed society � to foster health ... and articulates a vision of a health promoting � a salutogenic � society'. Dimity Pond, School of Medical Practice and Population Health, University of Newcastle, Australia The vast proportion of cash spent on health care by governments and individuals in the world is spent on systems that are based on a more or less Westernized acute care model. The imbalance of these systems, with their overemphasis on cure, as opposed to care and prevention or maintenance of health, is well documented. Salutogenic health care takes a holistic view of the individual as part of a social and environmental continuum rather than as an isolated packet of symptoms, and seeks to reassess the very meaning of health. There are some indications that we, as a global culture, are moving towards this new salutogenic model, but the speed of the movement has to be accelerated. This book sets out to chart the main steps of this movement and to indicate some of the ways of thinking and action which can help form new ways of approaching health care.Table of ContentsIntroduction * Still in the Business of Fixing Up * Stepping Away from the Medical Model: The Importance of Context * The Social Determinants of Health * Learning from Other Cultures: Health as the Fit Between the Person and Their Environment * Reconceptualizing Health * An Example * The Health of Men: A Salutogenic Approach * Conclusion *

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Book SynopsisA blend of old and new meanings Who are the rural people of Africa? What does it mean to be part of a 'rural' community in contemporary Tanzania? And why is it important to debate questions of African rurality beyond the mere GDP contribution of rural land-based production? This book seeks to address questions like these. Rural people(s) in contemporary Africa are often conceived of in terms of how to efficiently integrate them into international markets and global value chains; this book analyses the question of integration of rural people in Tanzania by delving into how they deal with local-global connections and engage with policy objectives on their own terms, between local forms of associational life and global markets. In so doing, it explores local socio-economic dynamics that find little space in the national and global policy vision of a rural sector geared towards growth - a vision that is peculiar to African states, including Tanzania. Informed by anthropological theory and de-re-agrarianisation/de-re-peasantisation debates, and grounded in ethnographic evidence, the book eschews 'orthodox' approaches that see (rural) people as passive recipients of policies, and policies as instruments of oppression. Instead, it departs from the rural land/place-based practices of grazing, fishing and farming to look at rurality in Tanzania as a blend of old and new meanings, values and practices at the local-global interface, continually reshuffled as rural people encounter different social and economic spheres. As the world rediscovers the urgency of questions connected to neo-colonialism and de-colonisation, this book brings to the forefront the position, worldview and ambitions of African rural peoples intersecting with international policy models, visions and objectives.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION GRAZING. PEOPLE, METHODS, FIELDWORK CHAPTER ONE. Becoming Maasai in Tanzania: the rise of Maasai ethnic identity and the Maasai trader in the market economy CHAPTER TWO. Respatializing culture, recasting gender: Maasai ethnicity and the 'cash economy' at the rural-urban interface CHAPTER THREE. 'Being Maasai' in markets and trade: ethnicity-based institutions in the livestock market FISHING. PEOPLE, METHODS, FIELDWORK CHAPTER FOUR. "We are here to make money": New terrains of identity and community in small-scale fisheries in Lake Victoria FARMING. PEOPLE, METHODS, FIELDWORK CHAPTER FIVE. Drawing from the science 'basket': farmers' embedded knowledge and technology between performance, identity, and the agricultural expert CHAPTER SIX. Climbing the vertical chain: what 'integration' for the rural entrepreneur? CHAPTER SEVEN. Making policy: recrafting ethnographic research for participation CONCLUSION

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Book SynopsisThis book develops a detailed, disaggregated theoretical and empirical framework that explains variations in mass killing by authoritarian regimes globally, with a specific focus on Pakistan, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Using a combination of game-theoretic, statistical, and qualitative approaches, this project explicates when civilians within nondemocratic states will mobilize against the ruling elite, and when such mobilization will result in mass killing. In doing so, it illustrates the important role urbanization and food insecurity historically played, and will continue to play, in generating extreme forms of civilian victimization.Table of Contents1. Chapter 1: Introduction2. Chapter 2: Food Crises, Urban Development, and Mass Killing InNondemocratic States3. Chapter 3: Urban Development and Mass Killing: A First Look at the Data4. Chapter 4: Statistical Analysis of Food Crises and Mass Killing5. Chapter 5: Urban Development, Food Shortages and Mass Killing InAuthoritarian Pakistan6. Chapter 6: Food Riots, Urbanization and Mass Killing Campaigns: IndonesiaAnd Malaysia7. Chapter 7: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book examines engagements with financial services in contexts of conflict. Using Liberia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo as case studies, it explores informal financial and business strategies and how these shift during conflict. Through a combination of regression analyses and panel data modeling with fixed effects, the project research indicates that conflict has a stronger effect on the nature of demand for credit and savings services than it has on the actual performance of financial institutions. In examining these patterns, the importance of networks and family becomes increasingly important—not just in the ways they are important to us as individuals, but as important determinants of post-war outcomes. Table of Contents1. Chapter 1 Introduction2. Chapter 2 Certainty Premiums and Cognitive Loads3. Chapter 3 Monrovia Burning4. Chapter 4 Shadows are Weaker5. Chapter 5 What’s War got to Do with this?6. Chapter 6 Is Microfinance by Itself Transformative in Post-Conflict Contexts?7. Chapter 7 Social behavioural Changes8. Chapter 8 Stress Limits and Sparse Networks9. Chapter 9 No Easy Answers

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Book SynopsisThis book analyzes Latin American regional integration with a novel conceptual approach grounded in extensive field research. Using the UNASUR (Unión de Naciones Suramericanas) as a case study, the author investigates the process of policy-making in regional public policy fields in South America. The project focuses on intergovernmental structures of regional organizations as an institutional framework for a variety of independent processes in regions. It also challenges the perspective of democratic states as unitary actors and seeks to analyze the factors which favor or obstruct regional processes in different policy-fields. This work will appeal to researchers, graduate students and anyone interested in Latin American politics and policy-making.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Regional Governance in South America2. Chapter 2: Public Policies in Regional Integration Theory3. Chapter 3: Policy Studies and Regional Public Policy-Making 4. Chapter 4: The Case of UNASUR 5. Chapter 5: Regional Organizations in South America6. Chapter 6: Regional Public Policy-Making in Sectoral Councils7. Chapter 7: Policy-Making in UNASUR Councils - Comparative Analysis8. Conclusion: Regional Governance in South America 

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Book SynopsisThe book examines the various ways that fragile states (or states with limited statehood) in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas have adopted, and adapted to, the processes of liberal political governance in their quests to address the problem of political fragility. It presents the stories of resilience in the political adaptation to Western liberal conceptions of governance. In addition to singular or comparative country case studies, this project also examines the interplay of culture, identities, and politics in the creation of people-centric governance reforms. Towards these ends, this volume sheds light on weak states’ often constructive engagement in the promotion of state governance with a variety of political conditions, adverse or otherwise; and their ability to remain resilient despite the complex political, sociocultural, and economic challenges affecting them. Through a multidisciplinary approach, the authors aim to counter the noticeable shortcomings in the discursive representations of fragility, and to contribute a more balanced examination of the narratives about and impact of political adaption and governance in people’s lives and experiences.Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. The History and Representations of The Challenges of Governance in the fragile States of Sub-Saharan Africa.- 3. Reifying Imagined Communities: The Triumph of the Fragile Nation-State and the Peril of Modernization.- 4. From Saving Failed States to Managing Risks: Reinterpreting Fragility through Resilience.- 5. Adapting to Survive: The Peculiar Fate of Liberal Governance Models in East Timor.- 6. Somalia: The Struggles in the Transient Phases in ‘Somali-Style’ (and Other Hybrid) Models of Governance.- 7. Whither Pakistan: The Ambivalence of Constitutional Road Mapping?.- 8. Managing Fragility? Chad’s (Il)liberal Interventions and the Making of a Regional Hegemon.- 9. More Legitimate, Less Fragile, Less–Liberal? The Adoption and Adaptation of Elections in Afghanistan.- 10. Does Electoral Authoritarianism Persist? A Comparison of Recent Elections in Fiji, Seychelles And Maldives.- 11. Governance and Political Adaptation: Constituency Development Funds in Solomon Islands and the Construction of a Melanesian State.

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Book SynopsisExplaining the determinants of China and India’s development cooperation in Africa cannot be achieved in simple terms. After collecting over 1000 development cooperation projects by China and India in Africa using AidData, this book applies the method of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to understand the motives behind their development cooperation. Mthembu posits that neither China nor India were solely motivated by one causal factor, whether strategic, economic or humanitarian interests or the size of their diaspora in Africa. China and India are driven by multiple and conjunctural factors in providing more development cooperation to some countries than others on the African continent. Only when some of these respective causal factors are combined is it evident that both countries disbursed high levels of development cooperation to some African countries.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: The Changing Development Cooperation Landscape Chapter 2. Conceptual Framework and the Importance of Consistent Definitions Chapter 3. An Overview of China and India’s Development Cooperation in Africa Chapter 4. Theoretical Foundations of the Determinants of Development Cooperation Chapter 5. Methodology and the Operationalisation of VariablesCausal Variable 1: Strategic importance of recipientsCausal Variable 2: Economic importance of recipientsCausal Variable 3: Humanitarian needs of recipientsCausal Variable 4: The size of the Chinese and Indian diaspora in Africa Chapter 6. Explaining the Determinants of China and India’s Development Cooperation in Africa Chapter 7. Conclusion and Opportunities for Further Research Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a comprehensive view of the state of social progress worldwide over an entire 50-year period beginning 1970. It discusses original time-series research for the period 1970-2018 as well as contemporary trends in quality of life and well-being research for the period since 2018, and provides innovative research findings into the nature, history, and status of 160 of the world’s economically advanced and developing nations. Among the topics included are discussion of the worldwide development trends occurring with especially vulnerable population groups, such as children and youth, the elderly, women, persons with disabilities, sexual minorities, and economic migrants. Further, this book reports social indicator trends at four unit of analysis: individuals, nations, world regions, and for the world-as-a-whole. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Quality of Life and Well-Being in Historical Perspective.- Chapter 2. Quality of Life, Well-Being, and Social Development: Conceptual Continuities.- Chapter 3. Methodology.- Chapter 4. Well-Being from a Global Perspective.- Chapter 5. Well-Being from a Regional Perspective.- Chapter 6. Well-Being from a National Perspective.- Chapter 7. Population Groups and Well-Being.- Chapter 8. Towards a More Positive Future.

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Book SynopsisThere is a growing realization that religion plays a major role in development, particularly in the Global South. Whereas theories of secularization assumed that religion would disappear, the reality is that religion has demonstrated its tenacity. In the specific case of Zimbabwe, religion has remained a positive social force and has made a significant contribution to development, particularly through the Zimbabwe Council of Churches. This has been through political activism, contribution to health, education, women’s emancipation, and ethical reconstruction. This volume analyzes the contribution of the Zimbabwe Council of Churches to development in the country. Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Zimbabwe Council of Churches and Development in Zimbabwe - Ezra Chitando 2. Chapter 1 The Zimbabwe Council of Churches, Politics and Development from 1980 to 2015 - Munetsi Ruzivo 3. Chapter 2 Together for Development? The Zimbabwe Council of Churches, Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference and the Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe - Molly Manyonganise 4. Chapter 3 Quo vadis the Catholic Church and the Zimbabwe Council of Churches? Exploring the ‘mine is right’ dilemmas in the path to Christian unity in Zimbabwe - Canisius Mwandayi and Theresa Mugwidi 5. Chapter 4 The Zimbabwe Council of Churches and ‘Crisis’ Ecumenical Groups - Joram Tarusarira 6. Chapter 5 The Church, Praxis Theology and Development in Zimbabwe - Richard S. Maposa 7. Chapter 6 Church-Politics nexus: An analysis of the Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) and political engagement - Ashton Murwira and Charity Manyeruke 8. Chapter 7 The Zimbabwe Council of Churches and the Ethical Reconstruction of Zimbabwe - Tarisayi A. Chimuka 9. Chapter 8 Church-related Hospitals and Health-care provision in Zimbabwe - Sophia Chirongoma 10. Chapter 9 Church Women’s Organisations: Responding to HIV and AIDS in Contemporary Zimbabwe - Tabona Shoko and Tapiwa P. Mapuranga 11. Chapter 10 The Significance of Church Related Universities in the Reconstruction of Zimbabwe - Solmon Zwana 12. Chapter 11 The Zimbabwe Council of Churches and Women’s Empowerment - Tapiwa P. Mapuranga 13. Chapter 12 The Zimbabwe Council of Churches and the Prophetic Mission of the Church - Jimmy Dube 14. Chapter 13 The Theology of Enough: An Agenda for the 21st Century Church in Zimbabwe - Bednicho Nyoni

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the historical, current and future prospects of women’s entrepreneurial activities in the former Yugoslavia, a region that is currently in a process of transition from socialism to a free-market economy. Each chapter presents the past, present and future of female entrepreneurship for each individual country. Some of the questions that the book answers include: Have women been historically and culturally ignored, marginalized, or systematically forbidden to run their own businesses? What are the status quo and future prospects for this group? And, is the investment climate conducive to women-owned businesses? The book provides an extensive overview of female entrepreneurship, its promotion and development, the role of the state, and other key factors that shape the female entrepreneurship ecosystem. Readers will gain an overall perspective on the essential issues and challenges to women’s entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial initiatives and innovation, policy structures and institutional support to female entrepreneurship in the region.Table of ContentsContents Chapter 1 – Women’s Entrepreneurship in Former Yugoslavia: An Introduction Emil Knezović, RamoPalalić , Léo-Paul Dana Chapter 2 -Women’s Entrepreneurship in Bosnia and Herzegovina Ramo Palalić , Emil Knezović, AzraBranković, AzraBičo Chapter 3 - Women’s Entrepreneurship in Croatia MihaelaMikić , Maja Has CHAPTER 4 - Women’s Entrepreneurship in Kosovo Nora Sadiku-Dushi, VelandRamadani, Dianne H.B Welsh and Ramo Palalić Chapter 5 - Women’s Entrepreneurship in Montenegro BobanMelovic, Vladimir Djurisic Chapter 6 - Women’s Entrepreneurship in North Macedonia VelandRamadani, EsraMemili, Léo-Paul Dana and VisarRamadani Chapter 7 - Women’s Entrepreneurship in Serbia Maja IvanovićĐukić, SašaPetković Chapter8 - Women’s Entrepreneurship in Slovenia Jasna Auer Antoncic, BostjanAntoncic, Robert D. Hisrich CHAPTER 9 Women’s Entrepreneurship in Former Yugoslavia: Toward The FutureRamo Palalić, Léo-Paul Dana, Emil Knezović

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Book SynopsisThis open access book honors the work of Michael Cernea, who was the World Bank’s first professional sociologist, by taking on and extending his arguments for "putting people first.” Cernea led a community of social scientists in formulating and promoting a comprehensive set of innovative and original social policies on development issues, which the World Bank adopted and implemented. This book includes globally significant work on urban and rural development, the epistemology of using social science knowledge in national and international development, methodologies for using social organization for more effective poverty reduction, and the experience of crafting social policies to become normative frameworks for purposive collective social action. And by including contributions from senior policy makers in the World Bank who helped shepherd social science's entry into development policy and practice, it provides a unique look at how organizational change can happen. Table of ContentsPart I: Growing Social Science Demand at the World Bank. Chapter 1: The Important Contribution of Social Knowledge to International Development. Chapter 2: The Road to Achieving Critical Mass of Sociologists and Anthropologists in the World Bank. Chapter 3: Address to the World Bank Sociological Group. Chapter 4: Working Together: Broadening the World Bank’s Development Paradigm. Chapter 5: Social Analysis in the World Bank. Chapter 6: Resettlement, Impoverishment, and Development’s Pathologies. Chapter 7: The Direct and Major Operational Relevance of Social Assessments. Chapter 9: Writing New Rules and Changing Old Practices. Part II: Social Development Work – Live. Chapter 9: Malinowski Award Lecture 1996 Social Organization and Development Anthropology. Chapter 10: Anthropology at Work. Chapter 11: Social Development (excerpts from her 2004 Oral History). Chapter 12: Putting People First in Practice: Indonesia and the Kecamatan Development Program. Chapter 13: The World Bank and Indigenous Peoples. Chapter 14: The Need for Social Research and the Broadening of CGIAR’s Paradigm. Chapter 15: Fighting Poverty, Combatting Social Exclusion. Part III: Involuntary Resettlement. Chapter 16: The Risk and Reconstruction Model for Resettling Displaced Populations. Chapter 17: Muddy Waters: Inside The World Bank As It Struggled With The Narmada Irrigation And Resettlement Projects, Western India. Chapter 18: Performance in Resettlement. Chapter 19: From Onlookers to Participants: How the Role of Social Scientists has Changed in India's Development in the last Seventy Years. Chapter 20: Social Assessment and Resettlement Policies and Practice in China: Contributions by Michael Cernea to Development in China. Part IV: Retrospective & Outlook. Chapter 21: A Retrospective: MICHAEL M. CERNEA (1934).

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Book SynopsisThis book introduces Ali Mazrui’s delightfully stimulating scholarship about intercultural relations, calling it Postcolonial Constructivism, and shares elements of his intellectual vitality in an original way. It begins with a chronicle of Mazrui’s eventful, sixty-year journey as a scholar of International Relations. It then proceeds to present some of the most remarkable yet least remarked up on features of his intellectualism, including his paradoxes, his perceptive typologies, his neologisms as well as his interactions with historical figures. The book draws on materials which were either unavailable until now or were found scattered in time and space. Designed as an invitation to a wider audience to the supermarket of Mazrui’s ideas, this book also seeks to underscore the timeliness and possible durability of many of his observations about intercultural relations.Thorough, comprehensive and up-to-date, this book is a concise account of the core of Mazrui’s vast body of work.Trade Review“Postcolonial Constructivism: Mazrui’s Theory of Intercultural Relations, is … very welcome news. … A major contribution of this book is that it uniquely enriches the taxonomies of constructivism in IR. … this book is a must-read for those concerned with the alternative and reflexive analysis in IR, beyond Eurocentric approaches. … Adem’s book on Ali Mazrui has great potential for enriching the ontological and epistemological territories of scholarship both by introducing Mazrui as a formidable public intellectual and IR scholar.” (Selman Emre Gürbüz, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, May 9, 2022)Table of Contents​​Part I General OverviewChapter 1 IntroductionPart II Ali Mazrui and the Study of International Relations (IR)\Chapter 2 The Birth of a ScholarChapter 3 Mazrui’s Rise and Decline in IRChapter 4 Mazrui’s Revival in IRPart III Ali Mazrui’s Postcolonial ConstructivismmChapter 5 PostcolonialismChapter 6 ConstructivismChapter 7 Postcolonial ConstructivismPart IV The Vocabulary of Ali Mazrui’s DiscourseChapter 8 Paradoxical PropositionsChapter 9 Analytical CategoriesPart V Semi-Autobiographical DataChapter 10 Mazrui’s Interactions with Others

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Book SynopsisThis edited book offers a collection of highly nuanced accounts of children and childhoods in peace and conflict across political time and space. Organized according to three broad themes (ontologies, pedagogies, and contingencies), each chapter explores the complexities of a particular case study, providing new insights into the ways children’s lives figure as terrains of engagement, contestation, ambivalence, resistance, and reproduction of militarisms. The first three chapters challenge dominant ontologies that prefigure childhood in particular ways. These include who counts as a child worthy of protection, questions of voice and participation, and the diminution of agency. The chapters in the second section bring to view everyday pedagogies whereby myriad knowledges, performances, practices, and competencies may function to militarize children’s lives, including in but not limited to advanced (post)industrial societies of the global North. The third and final section includes investigations that foreground questions of responsibility to children. Here, contributors assess, among other things, resilience-building, the exigencies of protection, and the ethics of military recruitment practices targeting children.Table of ContentsIntroduction: J. Marshall Beier and Jana TabakChapter 1: “Child Civilians: Rethinking the Concept of Child Protection in Armed Conflict,” VanessaBramwellChapter 2: “Voices of Ex-Child Soldiers from the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Between Public andPrivate Narratives,” Dalibor Savić, Nevenko Vranješ, and Aleksandar JankovićChapter 3: “‘I have the Right’: Examining the Role of Children in the #DimeLaVerdad Campaign,”Diana García GómezChapter 4: “Children, Internationalism, and Armistice Commemoration in Britain, 1919-1939,”Susannah WrightChapter 5: “Social Change, Political Education, and Children: The Practice of Everyday Militarism inChina (1949-1953),” Haolan ZhengChapter 6: “Primary Education and The French Army during the Algerian War,” Brooke DurhamChapter 7: “‘We Used to Kill all Greeks with Our Wooden Swords’,” Guldeniz KibrisChapter 8: “Militarizing Kinship in Ukraine: An Analysis of Ukraine’s ‘Strategy for the NationalPatriotic Education of Children and Youth’,” Vita YakovlyevaChapter 9: “More than a Victim: Childhood Resilience in Kashmir in Malik Sajad’s Munnu,” Cito Joyand Suniti MadaanChapter 10: “Children and Childhood on the Borderland of Desired Peace and Undesired War - A Case ofUkraine,” Urszula Markowska-Manista and Oksana KoshulkoChapter 11: “Raising the Empire’s Children? Everyday Insecurities and Parenting the Privileged inAmerica,” Jennifer RigganChapter 12: “The Military as a Vehicle for Self-Improvement and Fulfilment for Young People in theUK,” Emma Sangster and Rhianna LouiseChapter 13: “Production of ‘Safe’ Spaces for Tribal Children, and the Armed Conflict of Bastar, India,”Rashimi Kumari

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Book SynopsisThe Pace of India''s development depends to a large extent on its ability to implement the latest global manufacturing and the information and communication technologies and increase its competitiveness in the international market. In the developing countries world-wide, in recent times, the Pace of India''s development depends to a large extent on its ability to implement the latest global manufacturing and the information and communication technologies and increase its competitiveness in the international market. In the developing countries world-wide, in recent times, manufacturing is taking over agriculture which in turn has led to the explosive growth of the service sector, especially in the fields of financial services, information and communication technologies, insurance, education and health. India''s service sector has already become the dominant contributor to GDP, accounting for 46 per cent of the total. Based on the information gathered from case studies, fact sheets and a range of self-assessment tools, and the author''s interaction with academicians, bureaucrats, business executives and industrial experts, this book attempts to bring together the best management practices and provides the readers with a toolkit a practical advice. This book projects the hypothesis that no matter what the size or industry sector a company belongs to, there are a few tactics towards successful management which if adopted can phenomenally improve its global competitiveness.

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Book SynopsisThis book sets out to address some of the issues that a smart city needs to overcome to make use of both the data currently available to them and how this can be enhanced by using emerging technology enabling a citizen to share their personal data, adding value.It provides answers for those within a smart city, advising their mayors or leaders on introducing new technology. We will cover the topic so as to enable many different public officials to be able to understand the situation from their own perspective, be they lawyers, financial people, service providers, those looking at governance structures, policy makers, etc.We are contributing to the new model for the European Data Economy. Case studies of existing best practice in the use of data are augmented with examples of embracing a citizen’s personal data in the mix, to enable better services to develop and potential new revenue streams to occur. This will enable new business models and investment opportunities to emerge.We will address the topic of how to put a value on data and will conclude by looking at what new technologies will be emerging in the coming years, to help cities with carbon-neutral targets to have more chance of succeeding.Table of Contents1. Peril on the Road to Utopia – Opportunities and Risks of Infusing Personal Data into the Smart City Ecosystem 2. The Principal Projects Underpinning this Work 3. Best Practice in the General Use of Data in a City 4. Case Studies Involving the Use of Personal Data in a Smart City 5. The Local Data Economy 6. Technical Components 7. Interoperability and the Minimal Interoperability Mechanisms 8. Health Data in a Smart City 9. Personal Data Management and MIM4 10. Standards for Citizens 11. Business Models 12. (Digital) City Financing Platforms 13. The Governance of Personal Data for the Public Interest: Research Insights and Recommendations 14. Data Valuation and its Applications for Smart Cities 15. Does Everything Conform to Legal, Ethical and Data Protection Principles? 16. Data-driven and Citizens’ Inclusive Smart Cities: Top Down and Bottom Up Approaches to Tackle Societal and Climate Challenges 17. What Next?

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Book SynopsisIn a rapidly urbanizing and globalized world, cities have been the epicentres of COVID-19 (coronavirus). The virus has spread to virtually all parts of the world; first, among globally connected cities, then through community transmission and from the city to the countryside. This report shows that the intrinsic value of sustainable urbanization can and should be harnessed for the wellbeing of all. It provides evidence and policy analysis of the value of urbanization from an economic, social and environmental perspective. It also explores the role of innovation and technology, local governments, targeted investments and the effective implementation of the New Urban Agenda in fostering the value of sustainable urbanization.

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Book SynopsisNational security is paramount for an all inclusive development. Along with a holistic approach in place, there is an urgent need to first recognise the challenges to national security of the country. National Security Challenges: Young Scholars’ Perspective – a tribute to Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw from the youth of the country – primarily deals with India`s national security challenges from a hardcore, predominantly traditional security point of view.The main aim of the book is to develop strategic thinking amongst the youth of this country. To provide a suitable platform to the university students, CLAWS has initiated an unprecedented pan-India essay competition – Field Marshal Manekshaw Essay Competition (FMMEC). The book is the outcome of an overwhelming response to the competition over past two years, and 12 select essays have been compiled, edited, and published.Dealing with wide range of subjects from conceptual understandings, threats and challenges emanating from technological advancements, to learning from national, regional and global experiences; the book provides a fresh approach to the subject. It also gives a sneak peek into what the youth of India feels about national security in the form of policy recommendations.To boost the morale of the young authors and university students, the book carries messages from Hon’ble Raksha Mantri, Hon’ble National Security Advisor and Chief of the Army Staff.

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the essential topic of child survival in Tanzania, especially focusing on the role of mutual assistance, which has received little attention to date. Further, it identifies a range of key factors for child survival by combining a literature review, regional data analysis, and case studies. These studies center on rural villages in high Under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) regions and assess their strengths and weaknesses regarding child survival. By focusing on deprived rural areas as of 2002 and evaluating the improvements in the 2012 census data, the book also highlights the potential held by rural semi -subsistence economies. An analysis of the focus villages indicates that children in food-sharing circles had better chances of survival. However, food sharing is not necessarily inclusive; a significant number of children have fallen out of such circles, especially in mainland villages. Furthermore, monetary support for children’s medicine has often failed to arrive in time. Lastly, the book argues that, in addition to direct factors such as access to health services, water and sanitation, food intake, and education, it is essential that children receive inclusive support at various levels: family, community, village, national, and international.Table of Contents

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