ilość książek w kategorii: 1009
Traditionalist v.s Modernist Islam in Indonesian Politics
ISBN: 9783639229936 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whether or not Islamic organizations should be transformed into political parties has become an endless debate in Indonesia. There are times those who tend to bring Islam into politics gain strong supports as in the case otherwise. This book demonstrates that Muhammadiyah has participated in the Indonesian process of democratisation by means of exercising political ijtihad derived from its religious worldview. NU has been exercising ijma- based political participation. By creating religious justification to their political policies Muhammadiyah and NU have played significant role in...
Whether or not Islamic organizations should be transformed into political parties has become an endless debate in Indonesia. There are times those ...
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410,37 zł |
Curriculum Reform in Post-Soviet Armenia
ISBN: 9783639249699 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Curriculum Reform in Post-Soviet:
Balancing the Local and Global Contexts of Schooling, investigated the social and political influences global organization such as the World Bank and Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation-Armenia had over curriculum reform in Armenian secondary schools. The conceptual Framework for this study is a literature review of the theories globalization and nationalism, two theories that are relevant to the discussion of international influences on... Curriculum Reform in Post-Soviet:
Balancing the Local and Global Contexts of Schooling, investigated the social and po... |
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410,37 zł |
Voluntary Regulation of Ngos and Nonprofits: An Accountability Club Framework
ISBN: 9780521763141 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can nonprofit organizations and NGOs demonstrate accountability to stakeholders and show that they are using funds appropriately and delivering on their promises? Many nonprofit stakeholders, including funders and regulators, have few opportunities to observe nonprofit internal management and policies. Such information deficits make it difficult for principals to differentiate credible nonprofits from less credible ones. This volume examines a key instrument employed by nonprofits to respond to these challenges: voluntary accountability clubs. These clubs are voluntary, rule-based...
How can nonprofit organizations and NGOs demonstrate accountability to stakeholders and show that they are using funds appropriately and delivering on...
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539,25 zł |
The Emergence of the Legal Aid Institute in Authoritarian Indonesia
ISBN: 9783639086591 / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How could a human rights organization survive in a repressive regime? This book investigates the emergence and survival of a human rights organization in the repressive Suharto regime in Indonesia. Based on extensive fieldwork soon after the fall of Suharto, this book documents the rise of the Legal Aid Institute (LBH), and its subsequent internal disputes, and its role in the emerging civil society in Indonesia. This book also proposes a new approach to understanding civil society by examining the interaction between the state and society, and how social actors in their relationship to the...
How could a human rights organization survive in a repressive regime? This book investigates the emergence and survival of a human rights organization...
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306,48 zł |
Political Ethics and the United Nations: Dag Hammarskj�ld as Secretary-General
ISBN: 9780415588331 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on a wealth of sources, files and interviews, and including previously unpublished material, this book explores the foundations of the political ethics of Dag Hammarskjold, the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, examining how they influenced his actions in several key crisis situations. Hammarskjold's political innovations, such as the creation of peacekeeping forces, the use of private diplomacy and the concept of the international civil service, were bold attempts at translating the aims and principles of the UN charter into concrete thought and action. Kofi... Based on a wealth of sources, files and interviews, and including previously unpublished material, this book explores the foundations of the politi... |
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152,57 zł |
La Guerre Froide Des Syndicats
ISBN: 9786131513121 / Francuski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A peine la Seconde guerre mondiale terminA(c)e, un nouveau conflit larvA(c) se fait jour opposant l''Union soviA(c)tique aux Etats-Unis d''AmA(c)rique. Comme les partis politiques, les syndicats d''Europe s''adaptent A la nouvelle donne. En France, la CGT subit une scission qui donne naissance A Force ouvriA]re, laquelle rejoint la ConfA(c)dA(c)ration internationale des syndicats libres (CISL) crA(c)A(c)e par la puissante American Federation of Labor. La CGT reste dans une FA(c)dA(c)ration syndicale mondiale (FSM) dominA(c)e par l''Union soviA(c)tique et la CFTC participe A la reconstruction...
A peine la Seconde guerre mondiale terminA(c)e, un nouveau conflit larvA(c) se fait jour opposant l''Union soviA(c)tique aux Etats-Unis d''AmA(c)rique...
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685,40 zł |
An idle man is the devil's workshop
ISBN: 9783639270792 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When wars or armed conflicts end, or at least when violence on the ground decreases, hope for sustainable peace building grows. UN General Secretary Ban Ki Moon pointed out the importance of the immediate post war period in a report to the Security Council on June 11, 2009: "The immediate post war period offers a window of opportunity to provide basic security, deliver peace dividends, shore up and build confidence in the political process, and strengthen core national capacity to lead peace building efforts." Ban Ki Moon talks about opportunities, but in my findings I found that an...
When wars or armed conflicts end, or at least when violence on the ground decreases, hope for sustainable peace building grows. UN General Secretary B...
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306,48 zł |
Building Peace in the Horn of Africa
ISBN: 9783639281996 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The problem of conflicts in the world is a major concern to both state and nonstate actors in the international system. The First and Second World Wars revealed the ugly face of wars both socially and economically. Some of the consequences of wars worldwide are human displacements both internally and internationally. With displacement come also xenophobia and competition for resources and opportunities. In the modern days since the end of the Cold War, the nature of wars has shifted from being predominantly interstate to intrastate. Many governments of weaker states such as those...
The problem of conflicts in the world is a major concern to both state and nonstate actors in the international system. The First and Second World ...
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254,54 zł |
La Construction Du Concept Et de la Pratique Du Développément
ISBN: 9786131526404 / Francuski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dans les dernieres decennies, les ONG ont pris une place centrale dans la gouvernance mondiale, notamment dans les projets de developpement. Elles sont en effet liees aux principaux centres de decision mondiale, soit en tant que consultantes, soit en tant qu'institutions executrices des projets sur le terrain. Conjointement a ce foisonnement associatif, se developpent de nombreuses theories contemporaines mettant l'accent sur les liens de confiance et sur l'engagement civique en tant que declencheurs du developpement economique, et sur les bienfaits des associations en tant qu'espaces...
Dans les dernieres decennies, les ONG ont pris une place centrale dans la gouvernance mondiale, notamment dans les projets de developpement. Elles son...
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434,09 zł |
Les Ong, Experts Aupres Des Entreprises Dans Les Pays En Developpement
ISBN: 9786131528125 / Francuski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On attend aujourd'hui des societes transnationales qu'elles assument, au dela de leur role economique, une responsabilite sociale. Dans les pays en developpement ou elles sont implantees et ou les autorites locales ne remplissent pas correctement leurs fonctions, elles sont confrontees a des problemes sociaux et sanitaires touchant leurs salaries ou ceux de leurs fournisseurs. Pour les resoudre, elles peuvent faire appel a des structures competentes, les ONG. A travers trois experiences concretes de partenariat ONG-entreprise, ce travail presente les conditions d'entente de l'economie de...
On attend aujourd'hui des societes transnationales qu'elles assument, au dela de leur role economique, une responsabilite sociale. Dans les pays en de...
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211,33 zł |
Religions and Development
ISBN: 9780415613491 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past 5 or so years there has been a noticeable shift within development policy, practice and research to include religion as a relevant factor. While in practice religious traditions have contributed much to various sorts of 'development' work, until very recently this has tended to be ignored by major international development players. This book presents, explains and critically evaluates different sorts of literature from a range of disciplines that are relevant to thinking about the relationships between religions and development.
Over the past 5 or so years there has been a noticeable shift within development policy, practice and research to include religion as a relevant facto...
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763,09 zł |
Travesty in Haiti: A true account of Christian missions, orphanages, fraud, food aid and drug trafficking
ISBN: 9781419698033 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. TRAVESTY is an anthropologist's personal story of working with foreign aid agencies and discovering that fraud, greed, corruption, apathy, and political agendas permeate the industry. It is a story of failed agricultural, health and credit projects; violent struggles for control over foreign aid; corrupt orphanage owners, pastors, and missionaries; the nepotistic manipulation of research funds; economically counterproductive food aid distribution programs that undermine the Haitian agricultural economy; disastrous social engineering by foreign governments, international financial and...
TRAVESTY is an anthropologist's personal story of working with foreign aid agencies and discovering that fraud, greed, corruption, apathy, and politic...
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54,52 zł |
Financeurs, Etat Et Société Civile
ISBN: 9786131532962 / Francuski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cet ouvrage vise a reveler les difficultes des acteurs non etatiques a remplir les nouvelles exigences des financeurs, en envisageant les relations qui se nouent entre l'Etat, la societe civile et la communaute internationale. Il explore les effets du paradigme actuel des bailleurs de fonds, reposant sur la participation de la societe civile aux politiques publiques des etats recipiendaires de l'aide, sur le travail des organisations non gouvernementales au Honduras. Ce questionnement general est aborde sous l'angle specifique de la construction de la maternite precoce en probleme public au...
Cet ouvrage vise a reveler les difficultes des acteurs non etatiques a remplir les nouvelles exigences des financeurs, en envisageant les relations qu...
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354,12 zł |
Confronting Corruption, Building Accountability: Lessons from the World of International Development Advising
ISBN: 9780230100206 / Angielski / Twarda / 203 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The crisis that nearly brought the world's financial house down in 2008 demonstrated clearly that the global economy cannot work where there is widespread deception, corruption and lack of accountability. Corruption and lack of accountability are also key reasons why international development assistance so often fails to deliver on its promise.
The crisis that nearly brought the world's financial house down in 2008 demonstrated clearly that the global economy cannot work where there is widesp...
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194,97 zł |
FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association): The Men, the Myths and the Money
ISBN: 9780415498302 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Founded in 1904 by representatives of the sporting organisations of six European nations then expanding into the Americas, Asia and Africa FIFA has developed to become one of the most high profile and lucrative businesses in the global consumer and cultural industry. Recent years however have been characterised by a series of crises leaving the organisation open to critique and exposure, and creating a soap operatic narrative of increasing interest to the global media. In this critical new account of one of the world's most important sporting institutions, Professor Alan Tomlinson...
Founded in 1904 by representatives of the sporting organisations of six European nations then expanding into the Americas, Asia and Africa FIFA has de...
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686,78 zł |
The Competition of Ideas: The World of the Washington Think Tanks
ISBN: 9781412842235 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Murray Weidenbaum has been a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a speaker at meetings at the Brookings Institution, the Cato Institute, and the Heritage Foundation and has also written for their publications, and served as a reviewer of ongoing studies. In The Competition of Ideas, Weidenbaum examines the political economy of these vital institutions, drawing heavily on several decades of involvement in their activities. He is uniquely able to see their accomplishments as well as their shortcomings. This book presents...
Murray Weidenbaum has been a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a speaker a...
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228,88 zł |
Organisational Values Guide for Leaders and Managers
ISBN: 9783639329674 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A few books have been written on organisational and personal values, and this book is an attempt to contribute to bridging that gap. Clearly defined and lived values are at the core of transformational leadership and these distinguish one organisation from the next, one leader from the other and probably one country from the next. This book is meant to empower organizational leaders to critically reflect on how different their organisations are from the next and how to build strong organizational cultures.
A few books have been written on organisational and personal values, and this book is an attempt to contribute to bridging that gap. Clearly defined a...
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254,54 zł |
Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?
ISBN: 9780312610586 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In her controversial, no-holds-barred expose Linda Polman shows how a vast industry has grown up around humanitarian aid. The Crisis Caravan takes us to war zones around the globe, showing how aid operations and the humanitarian world have become a feature of military strategy. Impassioned, gripping, and even darkly absurd, journalist Linda Polman "gives some powerful examples of unconscionable assistance...a world where aid workers have become enablers of the atrocities they seek to relieve" (The Boston Globe). In her controversial, no-holds-barred expose Linda Polman shows how a vast industry has grown up around humanitarian aid. The Crisis Caravan... |
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81,60 zł |
Women's NGOs in Pakistan
ISBN: 9780230113206 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do NGOs overcome the suspicion of them as "Western" agents? How do they convince people that contrary to common perceptions, they do not "lead women astray from Islam"? And how, in the context of poverty, religious fundamentalism, and ethnic conflict, do NGOs convince people that women s issues merit any attention at all? This book uncovers the skillful maneuvering that women s NGOs have to perform in order to survive in a hostile environment. Drawing on interviews, participant observation, and published materials by and about NGOs, this book analyzes the strategies used by Pakistani...
How do NGOs overcome the suspicion of them as "Western" agents? How do they convince people that contrary to common perceptions, they do not "lead wom...
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194,97 zł |
Comparative Third Sector Governance in Asia: Structure, Process, and Political Economy
ISBN: 9781441925961 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Non-profit organizations, NGOs and other third sector organizations are increasingly playing a central role in achieving and sustaining a prosperous economy and a just civil society in countries around the world. While their importance is widely acknowledged, their sustainability is not guaranteed and depends to a large extent on effectiveness and accountability of their governance. In Europe and North America, the governance of these organizations (setting directions and strategies; identifying and ensuring type and quality of goods and services; defining and maintaining relations... Non-profit organizations, NGOs and other third sector organizations are increasingly playing a central role in achieving and sustaining a prosperou... |
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389,98 zł |