Format:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 333 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781594032141
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1594032149
Content:
Global news is generally bad news. On the surface, the story is about war, poverty, ethnic and sectarian strife. Democracy movements advanced by the U.S. government seem to be stalled or even reversed. Yet just below the surface, more hopeful trends are brewing. A new global awareness of the people at "the bottom of the pyramid" is summoning forth an unprecedented response to human need and suffering. It involves a shift from vertical to horizontal power that official aid agencies are only beginning to comprehend. Whereas twenty-five years ago, government aid accounted for 70 percent of all Am
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-323) and index
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CONTENTS; FOREWORD; Compassion: America's Most Consequential Export; The Core Elements of Community and Nation Building: The American Debate; The Great Foreign Aid Debate: Stingy or Generous?; From Aid Bureaucracy to Civil Society: Participation and Partnership; Wealth, Poverty, and the Riseof Corporate Citizenship; Microenterprise: Tapping NativeCapability at the Bottom of the Pyramid; The Great Tsunami of 2004 and America's Generosity; Conflict or Collaboration? Religion and Democratic Civil Society; Understanding Anti-Americanism
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Civil Society and Nation Building: Prospects for DemocratizationConflict and Reconciliation in the Context of Nation Building; Habits of the Heart: The Case fora Global Civic Culture; A Roadmap for Bottom-Up Nation Building in the Twenty-first Century; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; INDEX
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781594032141
Additional Edition:
Print version The Rise of Global Civil Society : Building Communities and Nations from the Bottom Up
Language:
English
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