About the Book
How do NGOs create the spaces in which they act, despite all the odds that are stacked against them? How do NGOs meet the requirements of the moment, often being in the right place at the right time? Why is the sum of NGO activity frequently greater than the parts?
To answer these questions, this book analyzes the ways in which NGOs relate to each other as well as with states, intergovernmental organizations, businesses and other actors. It considers NGOs as living organization—flexible, adaptive, creative—to examine the various NGO relationships and how they are built to surmount challenges, manage complexity, and make progress. In doing so, it sheds light on their power over agency in global politics. The book is available as open access.
Meet the Editors
Maryam Zarnegar Deloffre is Associate Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Humanitarian Action Initiative in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University; a Mercator Fellow at the DFG Research Training Group “Standards of Global Governance”; and was previously an Associate Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Cooperation Research at the University Duisburg-Essen in Germany. Deloffre currently serves on the board of the International Humanitarian Studies Association and on the editorial board of Global Studies Quarterly.
Sigrid Quack is Senior Professor of Sociology at the Universität Duisburg-Essen and a PI at the DFG Research Training Group “Cross-border Labor Markets”. She co-edited Imagining Pathways for Global Cooperation, with K. Freistein, B. Mahlert, and C. Unrau (Edward Elgar 2022), is co-editor of the Routledge Global Cooperation Research Series, and is an Associate Editor of Organization Theory. She was previously the Managing Director of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Center for Global Cooperation Research at the University Duisburg-Essen in Germany.
Program
- 16:00 - 16:05: Welcome by Professor Nina Reiners, Co-leader of the Research Group on Global Challenges to Human Rights
- 16:05 - 16:25: Presentation of the book by the editors Maryam Zarnegar and Sigrid Quack
- 16:25 - 17:00: Reflections on the chapters by students from the Human Rights Master's programme
- 17:00 -17:25: Open discussion with authors, as well as a Q&A session from the audience
- 17:25 - 17:30: Closing by Professor Nina Reiners
Practical Information
This event will be held in English. Please contact dila.yesil@nchr.uio.no if you are unable to access the building.