1st Edition

Reducing Armed Violence with NGO Governance

By Rodney Bruce Hall Copyright 2014
240 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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 global policy debates. Yet NGOs find themselves highly constrained in bringing their material and epistemic resources to... Read more

1.NGO Governance and Armed Conflict Rodney Bruce Hall   Part I :Conflict Governance NGOs: A Practitioner’s Perspective  2. NGOs, Governance, and Peacebuilding Jeffrey French and Robert Haywood  Part II: Global Civil Society and Legitimation of Conflict Governance NGO Activities  3. The Legitimacy of Conflict Governance NGOs Jens Bartelson  4. Intrastate Violence and the Promise of Global Civil Society Ronnie D. Lipschutz  5. Conflict Governance NGOs as Sources of Authoritative Governance Rodney Bruce Hall  Part III. Conflict Governance NGOs as Norm Entrepreneurs and Norm Diffusion in Global Governance  6. Transnational Civil Society as Agents of Norm Diffusion Amitav Acharya  7. Conversion Power: From NGOs’ Ideas to Enforceable Public Power Eamon Aloyo  8. Rome Was Not Built in a Day: Understanding the Success and Failure of the NGO Aspirations - Independent Prosecutor and Universal Jurisdiction - at the Rome Conference  Vanessa Ullrich  Part IV. Conflict Governance NGOs in Action  9.Brazil’s Transnationalized Battle over Gun Control and Implications for Proposals about NGO Governance Clifford Bob  10.Non-Profits of Peace: Understanding Mediation by Conflict-Resolution NGOs Julia Amos  11.Micro-politics, NGOs, and Global Governance Brent J. Steele  12.Contesting ‘black spot’ governance: violence, authority and institutional constructs in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas Christopher Marc Lilyblad  Part V. Conclusion: Analysis of Findings, and Directions for Future Research

Biography

Rodney Bruce Hall is Professor of International Relations in the Department of Government and Public Administration, University of Macau, China.

"A work of most interest to specialists in international relations, international organization, and security studies, it belongs in large academic libraries with significant holdings in these areas. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate and research collections." - J. A. Rhodes, emeritus, Luther College, CHOICE 2014