So there's an interesting conference that focuses on the "global-local nexus" in the civil society world (yeah, there's alot of jargon in the nonprofit/NGO sector, but isn't that the case in every field?).
"Civil societies are no longer confined to national boundaries, nor can they be understood without examining the local-global nexus"
There is a call for papers for a Conference organized by the Israeli Center for Third Sector Research entitled "The 12th ICTR Annual Spring Conference: Civic society and the global-local nexus: localization of international NGO's, internationalization of local CSO's" to be held at the Dead Sea, Israel.
Paper- due October 31 - should be about such concepts as:
--formation of international neworks and coalitions'
--international factors affecting local efforts
--"glocalization, social movements and social activism
-- effects of globalization on local civil societies.
We need to write an abstract of 500 words with the following elements:
1) Working title that clearly reflects the field to be addressed (how about "Engineering Change:Using global resources to address local environmental issues"?)
2) Abstract should summarise the argument of the paper, locate the issue within a wider literature (now they've done it - I'll need to get some research done), and establish its empirical and/or theoretical or practical base (Jono to do the practical and Deborah to do the empirical/theoretical).
More at the website.
What do you think Jono?
