Centroamérica

Centroamérica
Author: Hernando Monge Granados
Publisher:
Total Pages: 178
Release: 1999
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Media and Conflict

Media and Conflict
Author: Eytan Gilboa
Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2002
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

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:
Total Pages: 178
Release: 1994
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

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
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2008-05-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 023061261X

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:
Total Pages: 428
Release: 1999
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

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.