Media and Conflict
Media and Conflict

Author: Eytan Gilboa

Publisher: Brill Nijhoff

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13:

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This volume is aimed at students, researchers, and practitioners in communication, international relations, management, and political science, who are interested in conflict and conflict resolution.

Community Organizations in Latin America
Community Organizations in Latin America

Author: Juan Carlos Navarro

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13:

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By reaching out to isolated groups without access to social services, community organisations have been helping alleviate poverty throughout Latin America. Adapting to the needs of communities, these organisations' have succeeded in mobilising the poor to find solutions to their own problems. Despite being smaller than corresponding state agencies, community organisations are generally more cost effective and efficient.

Human Rights and Free Trade in Mexico
Human Rights and Free Trade in Mexico

Author: Ariadna Estévez

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2008-05-26

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 023061261X

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This book demonstrates how human rights instruments and values have brought different movements together in the struggle against free trade. Estévez employs a specifically Latin American definition of human rights, thus challenging Eurocentric and Western discourses.

The Politics of Civil Society Building
The Politics of Civil Society Building

Author: Kees Biekart

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13:

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Strengthening civil society may be all the rage in the international donor community, but what does it mean in practice? This seminal work critically examines the political aspects of civil society building and the role of non-governmental development aid agencies during recent democratic transitions in Central America.