This book evaluates the evolution of social innovation in post-Soviet Central Asia, Eastern Europe and Caucasus. Covering the period 2012-2020 and a broad range of countries, it provides an impressively broad-ranging critical analysis of post-Sovi...Daugiau...
This book demonstrates how participatory arts-based approaches can help children and youth contribute to peacebuilding within post-conflict contexts and to their communities. Cultural forms of storytelling through visual arts, drama, music, and danc...Daugiau...
This book evaluates the evolution of social innovation in post-Soviet Central Asia, Eastern Europe and Caucasus. Covering the period 2012-2020 and a broad range of countries, it provides an impressively broad-ranging critical analysis of post-Sovi...Daugiau...
Whilst many studies have explored how quality in higher education is conceptualised in the Global North, less attention has been paid to quality in higher education in Africa and the Global South. This book uses the human development and capabilit...Daugiau...
This book explores the ways in which minority groups across the world are reshaping the international minority rights protection system. It documents the actions of four major groups that are using transnational social mobilisation to achieve reco...Daugiau...
This book uses the Afro-Brazilian art of capoeira to examine how security has been pursued from below and what significance this has for security analysis and policy. Illegal at the beginning of the twentieth century, capoeira is now a cultural in...Daugiau...
This book delves into the reasons behind and the consequences of the implementation gap regarding the right to prior consultation and the Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America....Daugiau...
This book investigates the barriers to womens economic empowerment in the Global South. Drawing on evidence from a wide range of countries, the book outlines important lessons and practical solutions for promoting gender equality. Despite...Daugiau...
This book investigates the barriers to womens economic empowerment in the Global South. Drawing on evidence from a wide range of countries, the book outlines important lessons and practical solutions for promoting gender equality. Despite...Daugiau...
In recent years civil society has been seen as a key route for democracy promotion and solving development problems in low-income countries. However, the very concept of civil society is deeply rooted in European traditions and values. In pursui...Daugiau...
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has established itself as one of the most powerful private forces in global politics, shaping the trajectories of international policy-making. Driven by fierce confidence and immense expectations about its abi...Daugiau...
Innovation has the potential to address a number of development challenges such as combating poverty and delivering health services, but all too often technological progress has failed to consider the needs of the poor, and has actually served to...Daugiau...
Aid effectiveness has emerged as an intensely debated issue amongst policy makers, donors, development practitioners, civil society and academics during the past decade. This debate revolves around one important question: does official development...Daugiau...
This book explores the ways in which minority groups across the world are reshaping the international minority rights protection system. It documents the actions of four major groups that are using transnational social mobilisation to achieve reco...Daugiau...
The Role of Education in Enabling the Sustainable Development Agenda explores the relationship between education and other key sectors of development in the context of the new global Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda. While it is...Daugiau...
This book delves into the reasons behind and the consequences of the implementation gap regarding the right to prior consultation and the Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America.In recent years,...Daugiau...
This book uses the Afro-Brazilian art of capoeira to examine how security has been pursued from below and what significance this has for security analysis and policy. Illegal at the beginning of the 20th century, capoeira is now a cultural institu...Daugiau...
Whilst many studies have explored how quality in higher education is conceptualised in the Global North, less attention has been paid to quality in higher education in Africa and the Global South. This book uses the human development and capabilit...Daugiau...
In recent years civil society has been seen as a key route for democracy promotion and solving development problems in low income countries. However, the very concept of civil society is deeply rooted in European traditions and values. In pursui...Daugiau...
Around the world, discriminatory legislation prevents women from accessing their human rights. It can affect almost every aspect of a womans life, including the right to choose a partner, inherit property, hold a job, and obtain child custody. Of...Daugiau...