Reducing Armed Violence with NGO Governance
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have proliferated in number and become increasingly influential players in world politics in the past three decades. From the 1970s, with the access of social movements and private NGOs to local and international institutions, NGOs have enjoyed an opening to bring impact to global policy debates. Yet NGOs find themselves highly constrained in bringing their material and epistemic resources to bear in the security arena where their activities normally must be authorized by states, or international organizations acting with authority delegated from states. They also find that their activities, particularly in the security arena, frequently come under attack as lacking accountability or lacking legitimacy, as NGOs are self-appointed private actors, often representing only themselves, and are seen by many as self-appointed meddlers in transnational affairs.
This book provides a comprehensive and accessible analysis of whether, or the extent to which, NGOs can contribute as private actors to authoritative governance outcomes in the security realm, and thereby help mitigate armed violence by plugging governance gaps in this arena that state actors or intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) either neglect or could better address with NGO assistance. This book examines the current and future issues surrounding this objective in four sections: i) a practitioners perspective of the potentials of conflict governance NGOs; ii) global civil society and legitimation of conflict governance NGO activities; iii) conflict governance NGOs as norm entrepreneurs and norm diffusion in global governance; and iv) conflict governance NGOs in action.
Rodney Bruce Hall is Professor of International Relations at the University of Macau, Macau (S.A.R.), China.
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1. Non-governmental organizationsPolitical activity. 2. International agencies. 3. Civil society. 4. Peace. 5. Revolutions. 6. WarPrevention. 7. International relations. I. Hall, Rodney Bruce, 1960-
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For the victims of armed violence worldwideA voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be consoled, because they were no more.
(Matthew 2:18)
Contents
RODNEY BRUCE HALL
JEFFREY FRENCH AND ROBERT HAYWOOD
JENS BARTELSON
RONNIE D. LIPSCHUTZ
RODNEY BRUCE HALL AND CHRISTOPHER MARC LILYBLAD
AMITAV ACHARYA
EAMON ALOYO
CLIFFORD BOB
JULIA AMOS
BRENT J. STEELE
CHRISTOPHER MARC LILYBLAD
VANESSA ULLRICH
RODNEY BRUCE HALL AND CHRISTOPHER MARC LILYBLAD
Reducing Armed Violence with NGO Governance was a workshop held at the University of Oxford, 13 June 2012, sponsored by the One Earth Future Foundation.
Amitav Acharya is Professor of International Relations, and UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance, American University, Washington, DC, and the Nelson Mandela Visiting Professor of International Relations, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
Eamon Aloyo is a Research Associate, One Earth Future Foundation, United States.
Julia Amos is a Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford,
Jens Bartelson is Professor of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden.
Clifford Bob is Associate Professor of Political Science, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, United States.
Jeffrey French is Program Manager, One Earth Future Foundation, United States.
Rodney Bruce Hall is Professor of International Relations at the University of Macau, Macau (S.A.R.), China.
Robert Haywood is Vice-President and Chief Vision Officer of Community Matters, Inc. and a Senior Fellow of One Earth Future Foundation.