A Common Framework for Understanding Non-state Organizations
Written by Danielle Jung, Sarah Stroup, Wendy Wong, Lindsay Heger on May 1, 2014Understanding Governance, State of the World 2014 report
Written by Matthew Wilburn King on April 29, 2014"Understanding Governance" is Chapter 2 in the State of the World 2014: Governing for Sustainability by The Worldwatch Institute. This chapter provides an introduction to the existing research around the concept of governance.
Reducing Armed Violence with NGO Governance
Written by One Earth Future on April 3, 2014A series of workshops convened by the One Earth Future Foundation and Rodney Bruce Hall (Oxford University) on the topic of the roles NGOs can play in contributing to peace and good governance resulted in the book Reducing Armed Violence with NGO Governance. This volume discusses whether – or the extent to which – NGOs can, as private actors, contri
The New Power Politics: Networks and Transnational Security Governance
Written by Deborah Avant, Lindsay Heger on February 12, 2014The workshop series “The New Power Politics: Networks, Governance, and Global Security” examined how various networks of state and non-state actors work to address the governance of security. Participants included internationally recognized scholars who research a wide range of contemporary security issues.
Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration: How Government, Business, and Non-Governmental Leaders Transform Complex Challenges into New Possibilities
Written by Fred Krawchuk on November 26, 2013A hallmark of the contemporary international system is the complexity of problems facing actors today. Yet creative facilitators can build bridges between a wide array of actors to address these most difficult challenges.
How to distinguish altruism from spite (and why we should bother)
on October 8, 2013Social behavior is often described as altruistic, spiteful, selfish, or mutually beneficial. These terms are appealing, but it has not always been clear how they are defined and what purpose they serve.
Improving global accountability: The ICC and nonviolent crimes against humanity
Written by Eamon Aloyo on October 7, 2013Scholars have proposed a number of different ways to improve global accountability, but none has adequately addressed how individuals who commit widespread or systematic nonviolent wrongs can be held to account.
Democratising Transitional Justice: Transitional Trade-offs and Constituting the Demos
Written by Eamon Aloyo on October 2, 2013Aloyo argues that transitional justice should be democratized so that victims and potential victims constitute the transitional justice demos. To realize this goal he proposes a method by which people can be enfranchised to make such choices.