Civil Society, Cooperation and Development (Introduction)

Network Dynamics of Interorganizational Cooperation: The Croatian Civil Society Movement

Throughout the world, social cause organizations and independent media organizations work together, despite their differences and competition with each other for resources, toward creating civil society. This paper assesses the network dynamics of a system of cooperative competitors in Croatia. The research is framed from the theoretical perspectives of resource dependency, cooperation competit...

Network Cooperation: Development Cooperation in the Network Society

Trends in international development cooperation point to the increasing networking of initiatives and programmes, facilitated by information and communications technology (ICT). This allows many more people and organizations from around the world to contribute to a given project, as with the case of online volunteers. There are various types of networks active in development cooperation, but ne...

democracy and civil society

since there are various views on the civil society, in this paper the writer first introduces two main views, a limited view and a broad view, explaining the concept based on these two views. the two views, formed by social and political theorists, are firmly grounded in political and social literature. to explain the concept, the writer introduces the indexes of the civil society, the most imp...

Capacity Development and Civil Society Organizations January 2011

Human Trafficking: The Kosovar Perspective of Fighting the Phenomena through Police and Civil Society Cooperation

The rationale behind this study is considering combating and preventing the phenomenon of trafficking in human beings from a multidisciplinary perspective that involves many layers of the society. Trafficking in human beings is an abhorrent phenomenon highly affecting negatively the victims and their families in both human and material aspect, sometimes causing irreversible damages. The longer ...