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Book Synopsis After directing the organization NGOabroad: International Careers and Volunteering for 20 years, the author wrote this guidebook to help both prospective and active social and humanitarian workers pursue their careers in international development. She has witnessed many individuals miss international job opportunities because they lack knowledge of the realities on the ground or the requisite skills. This practical book fills in the gaps. Chapters detail the common problems of global poverty and injustice and instruct on community-building as a means of creating lasting change. The book is designed for those who wish to work or volunteer abroad in nursing, public health, engineering, education, entrepreneurship, environmental work, women''s empowerment and other fields.Table of Contents Foreword by Cathryne L. Schmitz Introduction I—Perspective 1. Why Social Work Is So Valued in International Development 2. Know Poverty? How Does Half the World Live? II—Skills 3. Needs and Strengths Assessment to Program Development 4. Capacity Building: Creating Collaborators, Not Passive Recipients 5. Capacity Building: Other Steps to Empowerment 6. Partner to the Poor and Participatory Development 7. Community Organizing: Having a Voice 8. Advocacy: Impacting Policies Which Create Poverty III—Attitude 9. Attitude Is Everything Conclusion Appendix: Discussion and Skills Development Guide for Classroom Use Acknowledgments Chapter Notes Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis Many volunteer workers have questioned their efforts and wondered if their actions truly made a difference. Questions about the state of the world, making a positive impact, health, safety, and creating authentic, lasting change are at the heart of international volunteering. This book is a comprehensive guide for those who are currently volunteering or seeking to volunteer internationally. It demonstrates that with the right tools and knowledge, it is possible to make authentic, lasting change. The book offers timely knowledge for volunteering in an era when the world has never been better off, but where current developments are not reaching everyone who still lives in poverty.Table of Contents Table of Contents Acknowledgments vi Preface 1 Part 1—What Drives the New International Volunteer I. The State of the World 6 II. Making an Impact 25 III. Success 34 IV. Motivations 56 Part 2—Best Practices for New International Volunteers V. Local Involvement 70 VI. Core Project Strategy 82 VII. Donations 100 Part 3—What Volunteers Need to Know About International Volunteering VIII. Health 116 IX. Safety 128 X. Choosing the Right Trip 135 Part 4—Looking Toward the Future with New International Volunteering XI. Making Systemic Change 152 XII. Navigating the Future of New International Volunteering 163 XIII. Where to Go from Here 173 Chapter Notes 193 Bibliography 213 Index 231

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Book SynopsisThere are only a few studies that analyze the complex relationship between Migration and development in Africa. The book presents the main trends in African migration since the last two decades. It analyzes the major migration trends, the various migration hubs across the continent and the underlying factors explaining the changing nature of migration across the continent. A few of the chapters in the book examine the phenomenon of migration from a national perspective by focusing on migration trends in countries such as Ghana, Cameroon, Kenya, and Nigeria. Two chapters examine the migration links between Africa and Europe with one of them focusing on the political links between Ghana and the Netherlands while the other focuses on economic exchanges between the Cameroonian diaspora in Germany and selected groups and organizations in Cameroon. The uniqueness of this book lies in the varied disciplinary viewpoints used by the authors in explaining the phenomenon of migration and developmTrade ReviewCombining sharp theoretical and empirical analyses with detailed contemporary and historical insights, this book examines the main features and implications of the migration-development nexus in the African context. The book is remarkably straightforward and lucidly written. Indeed, it is hard to know what to admire most about it— its multidisciplinary approach, its thorough analysis, or the sheer elegance with which all the chapters come together in a coherent whole. Every serious student of migration will need to read this book. -- Joseph Mensah, York UniversityA book on the subject of migration and development can only catch the attention of a variety of readers if it is innovative in a number of ways, and this is the strength of this volume. It has diverse topics that have been carefully selected to cover the subject comprehensively. The reader will find the variety of the disciplinary backgrounds of the authors and methodologies employed as the volume’s greatest strength and attractiveness. The issues examined include longstanding ones such as the brain drain and brain gain. The discussion on rural development resulting from diaspora associational activities is a specific area in the migration and development discourse that will be welcome by policy makers. Some concepts that have recently emerged or are receiving greater attention now in the field of study are not excluded in this volume, and they make it interesting: associational life of migrants, political participation of trans-migrants, repatriation, climate change and migration, among others. The volume is relevant to both the policy maker and academic researcher that need to know more about the migration-development nexus apart from the development effects of migration. -- Delali Badasu, Director, Centre for Migration Studies, University of GhanaTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction, by Steve Tonah and Mary Boatemaa Setrana Chapter 2: Political Participation Beyond National Borders: The Case of Ghanaian Political Party Branches in the Netherlands, by Richard Kwabena Owusu Kyei and Mary Boatemaa Setrana Chapter 3: Transnational Migration among Migrants from Cameroon, by Danielle Minteu Kadje Chapter 4: Partnering for Rural Development in Ghana: The Case of Ghanaian Hometown Associations in the United Kingdom, by Leander Kandilige Chapter 5: Comparative Analysis of Educational Performance of Children from Migrant and Non-Migrant Households in Ghana, by Theophilus Kwabena Abutima Chapter 6: Brain Drain or Brain Gain? The Contribution of Skilled Migrants to Development in Kenya, by Jane Mwanji Chapter 7: The Repatriation of Destitute Nigerians in Colonial Ghana, by Omon Merry Osiki Chapter 8: From Seasonal Migrants to Settlers: Climate Change and Permanent Migration to the Transitional Zone of Ghana, by Peter Bilson Obour, Kwadwo Owusu, and Joseph K. Teye Chapter 9: Hindered Pathways towards Development? West African Mobilities and European Borders in the Twenty-First Century, by Joris Schapendonk Chapter 10: Mapping Out the Role of Labor Migrants in Ghana’s Oil and Gas Economy, by Sylvia Esther Gyan and Rabiu K. B. Asante

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Book SynopsisTo understand safe water and sanitation in East Africa, it is important to consider the contributions of African feminist analysis. This perspective will unveil inequities in the distribution of resources, demonstrate how localized solutions which are driven by women's collaborative work have had an impact by temporarily easing the burden, and paint a multilayered picture of the lives of women and girls who are the predominant providers of water to households. This book explores the effects of water and sanitation quality and availability on early childhood morbidity in East Africa from an African feminist sociological perspective. It presents a framework that considers the ways that the development industry, neoliberalism, neocolonial relations, gender, class, ethnicity, globalization, and other dimensions of oppression intersect to impact upon the experiences and agency of women and children accessing clean water and safe sanitation and reducing early childhood morbidity in Kenya, TaTrade ReviewToo often, the debates on development and gender are either too abstract or too technical. This book strikes the right balance to deliver practical and transformational knowledge. Assata Zerai and Brenda Sanya, along with a diverse group of scholars, offer a rich analysis of everyday development challenges (safe water, sanitation, and health) through an African feminist lens. In this book, they simultaneously examine the common challenges in achieving core development goals and provide a powerful critique of the gendered development knowledge system. By simply asking 'Where are the women?', they provide a catalytic perspective for weaving Africanist, feminist, and social justice discourses into a compelling analysis of everyday development challenges and structural inequality in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda and a liberating critique of gendered knowledge in development studies. In the end, they not only expand our understanding of how the exclusion of women from policy design and implementation happens, but also elucidate the consequences of women’s exclusion on households and communities. More importantly, they remind us that a crucial source of social change is the efforts of mothers, health professionals, and activists to advocate for clean water, safe sanitation, and health resources. -- Abu Bakarr Bah, Northern Illinois UniversityFor African feminists on the African continent and in the diaspora, this book provides a theoretical and empirical vindication for the long-held view that without the voices of African and girls informing research and development efforts, the cycle of inequality and poverty will continue unabated. The co-editors, Assata Zerai and Brenda Sanya, have used their own ‘voices’, research interests, and activism to assemble a group of feminist scholars to dialogue on the ways in which the lives of women and children in the three east African countries are negatively impacted by poor access to water and sanitation. Together and individually, the chapters provide a rich theoretical and empirical analysis of how the continuing marginalization of women and girls’ voices from research and development efforts only exacerbates their suffering and leads to further gendered negative health and other development outcomes. The book promises to be a wonderful resource for feminist and development scholars, not only in East Africa, but throughout the continent and beyond. -- Relebohile Moletsane, University of KwaZulu-NatalTable of ContentsIntroduction: Assata Zerai and Brenda N. Sanya Chapter 1: The Lives of Women and Children in East Africa Assata Zerai Chapter 2: Structural and Economic Analysis of Declines in Water and Sanitation in East Africa Shorma Bianca Bailey and Assata Zerai Chapter 3. Public Goods, Citizenship Rights: How Lingering Structural Inequalities Define Social Services and Government Policies Brenda N. Sanya Chapter 4: Access to Safe Water, Women’s Empowerment, and Decentralization Systems in Tanzania Teresia R. Olemako Chapter 5: Gender as Social Structure and its Potential Impact on Safe Water and Sanitation Technologies in East Africa: An African Feminist Analysis Assata Zerai and Rebecca Morrow Chapter 6: Environmental Contamination and Early Childhood Morbidity in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda Assata Zerai, Rebecca Morrow, and Courtney Cuthbertson Conclusion: Paying Serious Attention to Women’s Scholarship to Influence Policy in East Africa Assata Zerai and Joanna Perez Appendix 1: River Basin Model and Decentralization System Appendix 2: Population in the Area under Study in Tanzania’s Pangani River Basin Appendix 3: Safe Global Water and Sanitation Institute Summit Program

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Book SynopsisBroken Promises of Globalization: The Case of the Bangladesh Garment Industry analyzes the consequences of the latest wave of globalization within the context of the Bangladesh garment industry''s integration into world markets and production chains. Shahidur Rahman has found that although globalization has created opportunities, the process of globalization has also triggered a deformed development leaving Bangladesh increasingly vulnerable to shifts and tensions within the world trading regime. Bangladesh's vulnerability, experienced as a constraining framework by all the major actors in dependent industrialization, is of particular importance to the progress both of workers and of Bangladesh's industrializing modernizers in the garment industry. This book intends to respond to three questions. First, has the garment industry been able to counteract the vulnerability that women garment workers had experienced in their villages? Second, is the formation of a welfare committee a substiTrade ReviewThis book offers a timely corrective, yet far from eulogising the textile sector as the motor of radical social and economic transformation. * South Asia Research *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Bangladesh: A Long History of Vulnerability Chapter 2: Garments Industry: An Unchartered Territory in an Impoverished Country Chapter 3: Defining Vulnerability: A Case Study Chapter 4: Welfare Committee or Trade Union: Does it matter? Chapter 5: Challenges and Responses Chapter 6: The Dilemma of Government Chapter 7: Roadmap Ahead List of Acronyms Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAmidst the recent global financial crisis and housing busts in various countries, the Philippines' booming housing industry has been heralded as Southeast Asia's hottest real estate hub and the saving grace of a supposedly resilient Philippine economy. This growth has been fueled by demand from balikbayan (returnee) Overseas Filipinos and has facilitated the rise of gated suburban communities in Manila's sprawling peri-urban fringe. But as the Filipino dreams of successful balikbayans are built inside these new gated residential developments, the lives of marginalized populations living in these spaces have been upended and thrown into turmoil as they face threats of expulsion.Based on almost four years of research, this book examines the tumultuous geographies of neoliberalization that link suburbanization, transnational mobilities, and accumulation by dispossession. Through an accounting of real estate and new suburban landscapes, it tells of a Filipino transnationalism that engenderTrade ReviewBased on rich empirical material and detailed analysis [Ortega] exposes the logics of contemporary Philippine ‘development’ that is built on accumulation by dispossession. Hailing himself originally from a village that forms part of today’s sprawling suburbs of Metro Manila, Ortega is able to present a grounded, reflexive and compassionate account of those who bear the cost of neoliberal urbanization in the Philippines. The wide-ranging ethnographic overage of sites and angles, most significantly offering perspectives of life both inside and outside of the gated communities, sets this book apart from other treatments of the subject. The individual chapters together provide a multidimensional account of neoliberal (sub)urbanization, allowing Ortega to convincingly show the connections that span the local and the transnational, the inside and outside of gated communities, and the historic processes of dispossession with contemporary ones, that together sustain neoliberal accumulation.... This book is essential literature for readers who want to understand processes of globalisation, economic development and urbanization unfolding in the Philippines and beyond. It is an impressive work of thorough and engaged scholarship that exposes the complex, entangled and relational geographies of socio-spatial transformations in contemporary Southeast Asia, that take courage, patience and persistence to unravel. A truly compelling read and inspiring achievement! * Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography *This book is a multidimensional interpretation of the role of real estate development in the neoliberal restructuring of Philippine urban space, focusing of the growth of suburban development in the periphery of the Manila metropolitan region in the last few decades. Ortega has produced a major contribution to our understanding of urban development in the neoliberal era in the Philippines and Southeast Asia more generally. -- Terry McGee, University of British ColombiaThis engagingly-written book provides a critical geographic analysis of the “Filipino Dream.” Rather than focusing on the labor geographies of Filipinos seeking to make better lives for themselves overseas or the economic geographies of their remittances home, Arnisson Andre Ortega examines the (sub)urban spatial expression of migrant and diasporic aspirations—gated, “world class” real estate. Venturing beyond the gates of peri-urban Manila and scratching beneath the glossy veneer of prestige and “progress,” Ortega unearths powerful landscapes of dispossession that are matters of both contemporary neoliberal urbanization and inherited inequities. -- Tim Bunnell, National University of SingaporeThis innovative study provides important new insights on the political economy of urban development in the Philippines. With great ethnographic detail, Ortega shows how the actions and identities of overseas Filipinos, narratives of nation-building, and real estate come together to form a critical mode of neoliberalization in the twenty-first century. -- Katharyne Mitchell, University of WashingtonThe Philippines is on the leading edges of the world’s urban revolution. This book is required reading for anyone who wants to understand this revolution and the reconfigurations of capital, culture, and property on the frontier between gated-community and family-values-based suburban domesticity and the violent dispossessions of farmers, squatters, and indigenous peoples. -- Elvin Wyly, University of British ColumbiaTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Placing Dreams and Building Homes Chapter 2: The Business of Building a Nation Chapter 3: Return, Reside, Reinvest: Mapping the Real Estate Boom Chapter 4: Neoliberalizing Manila’s Peri-Urban Fringe Chapter 5: Gated Dreams and Communities Chapter 6: Everyday Life Inside the Gates: Resistance, Loss and Risk Chapter 7: Volatile Spaces in the Peri-Urban Fringe, From the Fields to the Mountains Chapter 8: Metropolitan Accumulation by Peri-urban Relocation Chapter 9: Conclusion: Building Dreams Over Dreams

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Book SynopsisAmidst the recent global financial crisis and housing busts in various countries, the Philippines' booming housing industry has been heralded as Southeast Asia's hottest real estate hub and the saving grace of a supposedly resilient Philippine economy. This growth has been fueled by demand from balikbayan (returnee) Overseas Filipinos and has facilitated the rise of gated suburban communities in Manila's sprawling peri-urban fringe. But as the Filipino dreams of successful balikbayans are built inside these new gated residential developments, the lives of marginalized populations living in these spaces have been upended and thrown into turmoil as they face threats of expulsion.Based on almost four years of research, this book examines the tumultuous geographies of neoliberalization that link suburbanization, transnational mobilities, and accumulation by dispossession. Through an accounting of real estate and new suburban landscapes, it tells of a Filipino transnationalism that engenderTrade ReviewBased on rich empirical material and detailed analysis [Ortega] exposes the logics of contemporary Philippine ‘development’ that is built on accumulation by dispossession. Hailing himself originally from a village that forms part of today’s sprawling suburbs of Metro Manila, Ortega is able to present a grounded, reflexive and compassionate account of those who bear the cost of neoliberal urbanization in the Philippines. The wide-ranging ethnographic overage of sites and angles, most significantly offering perspectives of life both inside and outside of the gated communities, sets this book apart from other treatments of the subject. The individual chapters together provide a multidimensional account of neoliberal (sub)urbanization, allowing Ortega to convincingly show the connections that span the local and the transnational, the inside and outside of gated communities, and the historic processes of dispossession with contemporary ones, that together sustain neoliberal accumulation.... This book is essential literature for readers who want to understand processes of globalisation, economic development and urbanization unfolding in the Philippines and beyond. It is an impressive work of thorough and engaged scholarship that exposes the complex, entangled and relational geographies of socio-spatial transformations in contemporary Southeast Asia, that take courage, patience and persistence to unravel. A truly compelling read and inspiring achievement! * Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography *This book is a multidimensional interpretation of the role of real estate development in the neoliberal restructuring of Philippine urban space, focusing of the growth of suburban development in the periphery of the Manila metropolitan region in the last few decades. Ortega has produced a major contribution to our understanding of urban development in the neoliberal era in the Philippines and Southeast Asia more generally. -- Terry McGee, University of British ColombiaThis engagingly-written book provides a critical geographic analysis of the “Filipino Dream.” Rather than focusing on the labor geographies of Filipinos seeking to make better lives for themselves overseas or the economic geographies of their remittances home, Arnisson Andre Ortega examines the (sub)urban spatial expression of migrant and diasporic aspirations—gated, “world class” real estate. Venturing beyond the gates of peri-urban Manila and scratching beneath the glossy veneer of prestige and “progress,” Ortega unearths powerful landscapes of dispossession that are matters of both contemporary neoliberal urbanization and inherited inequities. -- Tim Bunnell, National University of SingaporeThis innovative study provides important new insights on the political economy of urban development in the Philippines. With great ethnographic detail, Ortega shows how the actions and identities of overseas Filipinos, narratives of nation-building, and real estate come together to form a critical mode of neoliberalization in the twenty-first century. -- Katharyne Mitchell, University of WashingtonThe Philippines is on the leading edges of the world’s urban revolution. This book is required reading for anyone who wants to understand this revolution and the reconfigurations of capital, culture, and property on the frontier between gated-community and family-values-based suburban domesticity and the violent dispossessions of farmers, squatters, and indigenous peoples. -- Elvin Wyly, University of British ColumbiaTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Placing Dreams and Building Homes Chapter 2: The Business of Building a Nation Chapter 3: Return, Reside, Reinvest: Mapping the Real Estate Boom Chapter 4: Neoliberalizing Manila’s Peri-Urban Fringe Chapter 5: Gated Dreams and Communities Chapter 6: Everyday Life Inside the Gates: Resistance, Loss and Risk Chapter 7: Volatile Spaces in the Peri-Urban Fringe, From the Fields to the Mountains Chapter 8: Metropolitan Accumulation by Peri-urban Relocation Chapter 9: Conclusion: Building Dreams Over Dreams

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Book SynopsisSocial Protests in Colombia: A History, 1958-1990 examines social mobilization in Colombia through a variety of lenses in an interdisciplinary approach. Mauricio Archila-Neira incorporates theories from diverse social sciences including subaltern studies and postcolonial approaches to open up an intergenerational dialogue about political transformation and social change. Archila-Neira approaches this history from an objective viewpoint, offering an analysis from a distance not altered by emotion or hyperbole as he examines the values, traditions, and social collective action of subaltern sectors without external influence or motive. The book argues that academia bears the responsibility to put into play its accumulated symbolic capital to critically understand society, without abandoning the utopic effort to imagine another world is possible. Social Protests in Colombia teaches readers how to inhabit differencesof historical experiences, knowledge, and understandingsand why it is cruciTable of ContentsForeword by A.Ricardo López-Pedreros Chapter 1- Protest Repertories Chapter 2- The Social Actors Chapter 3- The Demands: A Statistical Explanation Chapter 4- Collective Social Action as Class Struggle Chapter 5- The Strengthening of the State and the Civil Society Chapter 6- The Construction of Identities Chapter 7- Indignation Is Fair

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Book SynopsisThis book brings the quandaries that many minority groups confront in Latin America, Asia and Africa into the limelight. The chapters in this volumewritten by experts on this subject-matterexamine and provide invaluable solutions to the human rights infractions in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo Brazzaville, Angola, Cameroon, Gabon, Nigeria and South Africa.Trade ReviewUdogu and Ghatak’s edited volume presents a compelling and credible story for making the protection of human rights, including especially those of indigenous peoples and other minorities, the center of a country’s poverty alleviation and development policy. This is a refreshing, rigorous, informative and multidisciplinary analysis of human rights and political development in developing societies. Students of developing countries, policymakers, and anyone interested in human development in the developing world should find this study especially useful. -- John Mukum Mbaku, Weber State UniversityDrawing on authoritative studies from many Global South countries, Human Rights Dilemmas in the Developing World is a landmark volume on a subject of great importance—the human rights of vulnerable indigenous and minority populations in modern states. Informed by a distinctive cross-disciplinary perspective, the impressive chapters contained in this volume will have notable pedagogical and scholarly implications for years to come. -- Olufemi Vaughan, Amherst CollegeThe book makes a major contribution to the extant literature on human rights by focusing on marginalized groups that have not received much attention. This has implications for theory-building in human rights studies, and advocacy, as well as hopefully lead to the formulation of the requisite policies in the states concerned that would seek to correct the injustices that are being done against these marginalized groups. -- George Klay Kieh Jr., University of West GeorgiaTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Indigenous and Minority Groups in Latin America: History, Fragmentation and Struggle for Human Rights, by David R. Davila-Villers Chapter 2: Human Rights Issues of Minorities in Contemporary India: A Concise Analysis, by Sambuddha Ghatak and E. Ike Udogu Chapter 3: Theoretical and Analytical Discourses on Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples of Africa, by E. Ike Udogu Chapter 4: Human Rights Violations of Minorities in South-East Asia: Indonesia and Malaysia, by Sambuddha Ghatak Chapter 5: Minority Quandaries and Jihadist Terrorism in India, 1985–2013: An Overview, by Sambuddha Ghatak and E. Ike Udogu Chapter 6: Minority Rights and Environmental Justice in Developing Countries, by Onah P. Thompson Appendix A: United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Appendix B: UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic Religious and Linguistic Minorities—Annex About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisA Social History of Cuba's Protestants: God and the Nation presents a religious and social history of Cuba, focusing on the Presbyterian and other Protestant churches, to show the continuity of ties between US and Cuban churches before and after the revolution in 1959. By examining the history of Cuba's Protestants as agents of social change within Cuba and as partners with US denominations, James A. Baer offers a unique assessment of Cuba's development as a nation and its relationship with the United States. Scholars of Latin American studies, religion, history, and social movements will find this book particularly useful.Trade ReviewJames Baer offers readers a unique insight into the transnational dimensions of Presbyterianism in Cuba, tracing the 19th-century origins linked to U.S. missions, explaining the growing independence of Cuban Protestants that saw Cuban religious leaders gaining more powerful roles in Cuban organizations, and noting the roles of Protestant leaders working with the revolutionary government from the 1970s to the present. A Social History of Cuban Protestants joins a growing literature that looks at Cuban civil society over the past century, illustrating the role of religious organizations and practitioners in Cuba’s various political struggles. Baer’s history of Protestants generally—and the small but vital Presbyterian church specifically—is a welcome complement to the plethora of business, economic, and political studies of modern Cuban history. -- Kirwin Shaffer, Pennsylvania State University - Berks CollegeTable of ContentsChapter 1. Pastors and Patriots (1890-1906) Chapter 2. Growth and Consolidation (1907-1917) Chapter 3. Education and Reform (1918-1933) Chapter 4. National Stirrings (1934-1947) Chapter 5. Confronting Revolution (1948-1958) Chapter 6. Through the Valley of Bones (1959-1968) Chapter 7. Out of Darkness (1969-1991) Chapter 8. Renewal and Hope (1992-2008)

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Book SynopsisThis book critically examines the history of humanitarianism and intervention on behalf of Armenia and Armenians from the late nineteenth century to the post-Soviet era. Examining a diverse set of case studies, the contributors show how the case of Armenia informs histories of humanitarianism. -- .

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Book SynopsisWe live in an age of digital ID. Through the digitisation of our biometric and demographic selves, digital ID converts human beings into digital data, which in turn mediates access to services and rights be they public or private, commercial or not-for-profit, essential or non-essential.Allegedly designed to improve services, and to aid humanitarianism and social inclusion, digital ID has multiple hidden complexities. From denying access to essential goods, to algorithmic bias, to the sharing of sensitive data about vulnerable groups digital ID is not necessarily just, or balanced, or helping. It is often severely unfair.This book offers a journey into stories of unfair ID. Exploring examples across sectors, countries and data-managed populations, it takes a data justice perspective on what this unfairness effectively means for the users of digital identity systems. Examples range from denial of food rations to eligible beneficiaries, to the searchability of asylum-s

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Book SynopsisHow does the climate crisis relate to global security issues? What impact do increasing temperatures, droughts, sea level rises and extreme weather have on borders, war, migration and unrest?This nuanced, urgent book cuts into the heart of this relationship, packed with global examples, from glacier movements destabilizing borders, to misinformation driving political apathy around the climate. You will encounter new, provocative ideas such as the carbon footprint of the military, the pressing need for the Global South to adapt, not blame,and the need for strong and visionary leadership in climate negotiations.Situated on the cutting edge of the climate debate, this book will revolutionize your perspective on global security, challenge deep-rooted assumptions and ignite you critical thinking.

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Book SynopsisEducation and International Development, 2000-2020: A Constructivist Critique of the One-size-fits-all Liberal Model advances the claim that there exists a liberal theory of international education. Ian Wash argues that the assumed harmony of this model is the main source of dispute in the field of education and international development. The liberal thinking behind the aspirations for education, the political levers necessary for its effective governance, and the ideas behind the policies all have contributed towards growing tensions that prevented international education from achieving optimal functionality. Through a qualitative discourse analysis of the key policy documents produced between 2000 and 2020, Wash reveals how the liberal model was discursively constructed as a grand narrative of three acts that chronicles the vision, process and outcomes of international education. Such a rendering brings an understanding of the hidden conflicts essential for finding a resolution to this policy puzzle, thereby improving the prosperity and wellbeing of those in poorer countries.

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Book SynopsisThis book uses Sustainable Development Goal 6 to consider the concept of sustainable water resources management and how to improve global water security. It provides a critical synthesis of water resources planning and management issues across all water-using sectors.

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Book SynopsisStephen Sterling is a pioneer in sustainability education. This collection of his essential writings is freshly curated by the author and offers a new overview and chapter by chapter introductions that link together his thinking to inform the growing and urgent debate on the role and nature of education.

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Book SynopsisThis book uses Sustainable Development Goal 6 to consider the concept of sustainable water resources management and how to improve global water security. It provides a critical synthesis of water resources planning and management issues across all water-using sectors.

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Book SynopsisLâÃdition 2019 des Standards Minimums pour la Protection de lâEnfance dans lâintervention humanitaire (SMPE) est un âguichet uniqueâ pour toutes les ressources les plus rÃcentes sur la protection de lâenfance.

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Book SynopsisLa ediciÃn de 2019 de las Normas mÃnimas para la protecciÃn de la niÃez y adolescencia en la acciÃn humanitaria (NMPNA) es una "ventanilla Ãnica" para todos los recursos mÃs recientes sobre protecciÃn de la infancia.

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