The first in-depth look at working life inside a major human rights organization, Keepers of the Flame charts the history of Amnesty International and the development of its nerve center, the International Secretariat, over forty-five years. Through interviews with staff members, archival research, and unprecedented access to Amnesty International's internal meetings, Stephen Hopgood provides an engrossing and enlightening account of day-to-day operations...

How does a citizen express his political opinions? Join a campaign to support a politician? Run for office? Create a blog? Demonstrate at city hall for media attention? I chose to write on paper for decades for my private record of my ideas. I never planned to share these philosophical and policy ideas, but I'm getting old, I need to be bold, and plans change.

Jose Maria Sison's writings on the youth movement are a must for a comprehensive understanding and acting on the issue in the context of the Filipino people's struggle for national freedom and democracy. Sison started the resurgence of, and led the development the youth movement in the national democratic revolution to provide the cadres for the people's war.

Michael McCray has both his CPA and his law degree, and yet, in the mid 1990's, those became obsolete when he was met with a decision that changed his life forever. That's when he became a whistle blower. At the time, he was working at the United States Department of Agriculture, overseeing a Federal Empowerment Zone in Mississippi for the Clinton White House. There, McCray says he discovered mismanagement and corruption involving the main bureaucrats...

Peacebuilding is an interactive process that involves collaboration between peacebuilders and the victorious elites of a postwar society. While one of the most prominent assumptions of the peacebuilding literature asserts that the interests of domestic elites and peacebuilders coincide, Costly Democracy contends that they rarely align. It reveals that, while domestic elites in postwar societies may desire the resources that peacebuilders can bring,...

This scholarly book presents a case study of some of the London-based work of a social movement known as Hizmet, or the Gulen Movement. This transnational faith-inspired movement represents a rising trend of philanthropic social activism around the world and increasingly now in the Muslim world. This book grew out of the author's deep interest in Muslims' interaction with modern society, their social activism, and their response and contributions...

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"Jones provides a nuanced perspective on both the promise and limits of this unheralded form of unofficial diplomacy." -Stephen J. Del Rosso, Director, International Peace and Security, Carnegie Corporation of New York   Track Two diplomacy consists of informal dialogues among actors such as academics, religious leaders, retired senior officials, and NGO officials that can bring new ideas and new relationships to the official process of diplomacy....

Examines the politics of civil society in modern Lebanon. The Arab Spring in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and elsewhere has highlighted the growing importance of the politics of civil society in the contemporary Middle East. In Reproducing Sectarianism, Paul W. T. Kingston examines rights-oriented advocacy networks within Lebanon's postwar civil society, focusing on movements and political campaigns based on gender relations, the environment, and disability....

The Occupy movement has emerged in a historical crisis of global capitalism. It struggles for the reappropriation of the commodified commons. Communications are part of the commons of society. Yet contemporary social media are, ridden by an antagonism between private corporate control (YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) and self-managed, commons-based activist media. In this work, Christian Fuchs analyses the contradictory dialectic of social media...