Exploring Subregional Conflict: Opportunities for Conflict Prevention
Exploring Subregional Conflict: Opportunities for Conflict Prevention
Opportunities for Conflict Prevention
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Bind: Hardbound
Year: 2006
Pages: 210
Size: 153 x 229 mm
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
Published in India by: Viva Books
Exclusive Distributors: Viva Books
Sales Territory: India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
Review:
An important contribution to the improving on the new public service.
—H. George Frederickson
Description:
Richard Ghere provides a comprehensive survey of NGO involvement in a human rights based approach to leadership, organization, management, and performance.
Ghere points to how any NGO, regardless of its specific mission, can provide outlets for human rights activism. He also discusses the ways that NGOs have become increasingly concerned with human rights. Calling for leaders of human rights and development NGOs to ?get on the same page? in terms of both theory and practice, he provides context, definition, and guidance for those working in development and advocacy organizations, as well as those considering a career in the NGO world.
Target Audience:
Valuable guidance for development and advocacy organizations as well those pursuing careers in NGOs.
Contents:
Foreword • Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction: NGOs, Human Rights, and Leadership • NGOs • Human Rights, Dignity, and NGOs • NGO Leadership: Making Hope ?Real? • Career Development Issues • Conclusion
Chapter 2: Slippery Terminology: Strategically Crafted Rhetoric in Development and Human Rights? Terminology and Political Opportunity • What Five Strategically Crafted Buzzwords Can Do • Slippery Humanitarianism: The Convergence Agenda and • ?Good Humanitarian Donorship? • NGO Roles in Analyzing and Affecting Rights-Related Discourse • Conclusion
Chapter 3: Rights-Based Leadership and Transformative Change • ?Change? for Advancing Human Rights • Promoting Rights-Based Change • Conclusion
Chapter 4: Organization and Management in Pursuit of Rights-Based Missions • Reconciling the Formal and Informal • Emphasizing Context and Culture • Participation and NGO Leadership • Timing, Prudence, and Sustainable Accomplishment • Management Control Functions in a Rights-Based Context • Conclusion
Chapter 5: Performance and Accountability in Rights-Focused NGOs? Performance and Accountability: Critical Challenges for Rights-Based Leadership • Impact Assessment and Rights-Based Leadership • Conclusion
Chapter 6: Organization Learning and Knowledge Management as Foundations of Rights-Based Accomplishment? The Information Environment • Knowledge(s), Knowledge Management, and Organization Learning • Knowledge, Learning, and Networks • Conclusion
Chapter 7: Gender and Rights Advancement • Gender Awareness as a Lens: Analyzing Interests and • Power Relationships • Gender Mainstreaming: Lens and Lever • Conclusion
Chapter 8: Human Resources Management in Humanitarian and Development NGOs • The Context of NGO Human Resources Management • Human Resources Functions in NGO Settings • Conclusion
Chapter 9: Conclusion: Rights-Based Leadership in NGOs? Management Environments and Rights-Leveraging Capabilities • Surmounting Obstacles to Making Hope ?Real? and Intentional • Critical Managerial Competencies in Rights-Focused NGOs • Realistic Career Planning
Bibliography • Index
About the Author:
Richard K. Ghere is associate professor of political science at the University of Dayton.
