S E C T I O N S

The Social and Political Role of Community-based Organizations

Section Chair/ Abstracts, suggestions to:

Alice Boateng (University of Nevada, Reno) [BIO]

Email: boateng@unr.edu

ReferentInnen / Speakers   >>

ABSTRACT:

Recently, the increasing emergence of community-based organizations has been acknowledged as a survival strategy developed by citizens in response to failures of corrupt and alienated governments and misguided economic policies, particularly in the global south. This section focuses on the role played by community-based organizations in today’s global societies, and presentations would be invited to focus on one or more of the following issues:

•   relationship between community-based organizations and other social groups
•   relationship between community-based organizations and the state
•   networking strategies of community-based organizations
•   relevance of information technology for community-based organizations
•   the role of local knowledge in community-based projects
•   community-based organizations as democratic institutions
•   the specific function/s of community-based organizations in specific contexts (Africa; Europe; United States; etc.)

 

ReferentInnen / Speakers / Orateurs

• A Mixed Methods Analysis of Social Capital of Liberian Refugee Women in Ghana
  Alice Boateng (University of Nevada, Reno)
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• Networking Community-Based Knowledge: The Kwale Health Forum in Kenya
  Nina Berman (Comparative Studies, Columbus, Ohio)
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• Self-help Initiatives in the Dangbe West District of Ghana
  Alice A. Ansah-Koi (The Ohio State University)
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• Community-Based Organizations: Super Highway For Popular Participation in Governance and Development – the Kenyan Experience
  Julius Nabende (Kenyatta University, Department of Political Studies and History, Nairobi) und Mercy Irungu (Young Women in Action, Kenya, Yowak, Nairobi)
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• Sport and socio-economic transformation in Kenya
  M. P. Wanderi (Kenyatta, University, Nairobi, Kenya)and A. L. Toriola (Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa)
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