Abstract
dc:description.abstractOver the past several decades, the numbers of international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) that focus on tackling human rights issues have grown rapidly. These organizations operate internationally and work with governments, legislatures, social movement leaders, activists, donors, and individual citizens. As the number of operating INGOs has risen dramatically, researchers have simultaneously begun to investigate the possibility of creating a global civil society that would govern itself in order to maintain peace, create global solidarity and achieve human rights. This research investigates the role of nonprofit organizations in developing a global civil society by evaluating U.S.-based organizations that are tapping into an often-uninvolved subset of society—American donors.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Public and International Affairs
- Level thesis:degree_level
- masters
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Public and International Affairs
- Department dc:contributor.department
- Public and International Affairs
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Virginia Tech
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2010
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
-
- Graffeo, Elizabeth Marie
- Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
-
- Rothschild, Joyce
- Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
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- Hult, Karen M.
- Rich, Richard C.
Subjects
dc:subject × 5Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- In Copyright
- Licence dc:rights.uri
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Dc Identifier Other
- etd-01052011-134213
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/30821