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Analysis and advocacy on a European policy on conflict prevention: a viewpoint

01/05/1998

4 pages long

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The author identifies three key weaknesses in the debate leading up to establishing the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) for the European Union (EU). The process started in 1996 and a generally useful and relevant discussion has taken place between various governmental and non-governmental actors concerning conflict-prevention and structural stability. The author believes there […]

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Editorial

01/05/1998

2 pages long

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This article does not have a description. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

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Technological change among peasants in Central Argentina

01/02/1998

9 pages long

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Drawing on a case-study from Central Argentina, this article suggests that researchers can be too cautious about introducing technologies of which farmers have no previous experience. In particular, it challenges the notion that the only technology appropriate to peasant conditions is that which is rooted in traditional ideas and culture. Under certain circumstances, externally supplied […]

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Development theatre and the process of re-empowerment: the Gibeon story

01/02/1998

13 pages long

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The author recounts his experience in developing Community Listening Theatre with RISE, a Namibian non-governmental organization that works in shanty-town districts and with dispossessed farming communities. In depicting their concerns through dramatic expression, previously diffident people began to address pressing political issues, and to challenge their own ‘self-oppression’, before proceeding to organize around specific issues, […]

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Ambivalent messages: organizational purposes of NGOs and images of the South

01/02/1998

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The author considers how Northern NGOs present the South, in order to recruit volunteers and fundraise. Negative and positive images have been used to illicit feelings of pity and self-satisfaction respectively. Here, the author describes the effects of using different images, and argues that NGOs should be educating and building long-term supporters by substantiating the […]

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Video for recording and training in participatory development

01/02/1998

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The authors offer some initial thoughts on the potential of using video to record Participatory Rural Research (PRR) sessions, highlighting the medium’s apparent strengths and weaknesses compared to taking written notes and/or still photographs. They conclude that the use of video should be considered afresh in different contexts so as to determine whether its use […]

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Information for action: the Clearinghouse Project

01/02/1998

7 pages long

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The author, formerly Director of the Clearinghouse Project, describes the aims, achievements and underlying philosophy of the Project, which was set up in 1979 by the American Public Health Association (funded by USAID) to improve access to information for health-practitioners in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The Clearinghouse is a capacity-building resource, providing information on […]

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SatelLife – linking information and people: the last ten centimetres

01/02/1998

6 pages long

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SatelLife was set up by the organisation International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) in 1985, with the aim of providing a forum for the involvement of medical colleagues in the South in discussion of health and peace issues. SatelLife set up and run a satellite linking service (HealthNet) providing email and a […]

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Paulo Freire 1921-1997 – a philosophy of hope, a life of practice

01/02/1998

4 pages long

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The author gives a personal account of the importance of the late Paolo Freire’s work and thinking. Freire’s influence can be seen in many of the ideals and practices of educationalists, community workers, and specifically adult-literacy workers across the globe. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

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A new age of social movements: a fifth generation of non-governmental development organizations in the making?

01/02/1998

14 pages long

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This paper addresses two themes. Firstly, it presents the historical evolution of Northern Non-governmental Development Organizations, proposing an enlarged and transformed definition based on Korten’s Generations. Secondly, it makes several recommendations for how to develop a hypothetical Fifth Generation of NGO-Northern and Southern alike whose activities might contribute to a very broad, diverse, and unpredictable […]

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