Reducing armed violence with NGO governance /

For this volume, Hall (Univ. of Macau, China) assembled a panel of international academics and practitioners under the sponsorship of the One Earth Future Foundation to explore and to assess how NGOs contribute to reducing armed violence both within and among nations. Over the past several decades, NGOs have proliferated and become regular and increasingly influential players in global politics. The 12 contributions offer diverse perspectives on conflict governance, including an examination of global civil society and the legitimatization process, how NGOs may serve as norm entrepreneurs and provide norm diffusion in global governance, and how NGOs perform in action. While the study confirms the presence of manifold constraints that NGOs encounter in conflict situations, the volume concludes that NGOs do contribute to armed violence reduction via prevention, mediation, and/or litigation and thereby contribute positively in the ongoing evolution of global governance. A work of most interest to specialists in international relations, international organization, and security studies, it belongs in large academic libraries with significant holdings in these areas. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate and research collections. J. A. Rhodes emeritus, Luther College