Religious Ngos At The United Nations
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Religious Ngos At The United Nations
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Author : Claudia Baumgart-Ochse
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-06-27
Religious Ngos At The United Nations written by Claudia Baumgart-Ochse and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-27 with Political Science categories.
Examining the involvement of religious NGOs (RNGOs) at the UN, this book explores whether they polarize political debates at the UN or facilitate agreement on policy issues. The number of RNGOs engaging with the United Nations (UN) has grown considerably in recent years: RNGOs maintain relations with various UN agencies, member-state missions, and other NGOs, and participate in UN conferences and events. This volume includes both a quantitative overview of RNGOs at the UN and qualitative analyses of specific policy issues such as international development, climate change, business and human rights, sexual and reproductive health and rights, international criminal justice, defamation of religions, and intercultural dialogue and cooperation. The contributions explore the factors that explain the RNGOs’ normative positions and actions and scrutinise the assumption that religions introduce non-negotiable principles into political debate and decision-making that inevitably lead to conflict and division. Presenting original research on RNGOs and issues of global public policy, this volume will be relevant to both researchers and policy-makers in the fields of religion and international relations, the United Nations, and non-state actors and global governance.
Religion Ngos And The United Nations
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Author : Jeremy Carrette
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-03-23
Religion Ngos And The United Nations written by Jeremy Carrette and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-23 with Religion categories.
How do religious groups, operating as NGOs, engage in the most important global institution for world peace? What processes do they adopt? Is there a “spiritual” UN today? This book is the first interdisciplinary study to present extensive fieldwork results from an examination of the activity of religious groups at the United Nations in New York and Geneva. Based on a three and half-year study of activities in the United Nations system, it seeks to show how “religion” operates in both visible and invisible ways. Jeremy Carrette, Hugh Miall, Verena Beittinger-Lee, Evelyn Bush and Sophie-Hélène Trigeaud, explore the way “religion” becomes a “chameleon” idea, appearing and disappearing, according to the diplomatic aims and ambitions. Part 1 documents the challenges of examining religion inside the UN, Part 2 explores the processes and actions of religious NGOs - from diplomacy to prayer - and the specific platforms of intervention – from committees to networks – and Part 3 provides a series of case studies of religious NGOs, including discussion of Islam, Catholicism and Hindu and Buddhist NGOs. The study concludes by examining the place of diplomats and their views of religious NGOs and reflects on the place of “religion” in the UN today. The study shows the complexity of “religion” inside one of the most fascinating global institutions of the world today.
It Is Good For Us To Be Here
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Author : Emeka Obiezu
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2015-11-10
It Is Good For Us To Be Here written by Emeka Obiezu and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-10 with Political Science categories.
This book, It Is Good for Us to Be Here, epitomizes the unique advocacy work of organized transnational actors underscoring the nexus between faith life and working for social development. NGOs of institutes of religious life have been the most influential faith-based NGOs at the United Nations. They have not only played a range of positive roles but have also affected UN decision making and its approach to global issues by the moral and ethical consciousness they bring to the entire process of peace, security, and development. Perhaps it is through such a range of positive roles that we can truly beat our “swords into ploughshares.” (Prof Joy U. Ogwu, Nigeria Ambassador to the United Nations) The community of Catholic sisters, brothers, and priests mark the UN every day through its many uncertain seasons in New York and Geneva—as they do in remote places and major cities all around the world. It is easy to be grateful for such a blessing, for such abundance! The inspiration and tenacity of individual sisters, brothers, priests and others like them, caring volunteers, have made important, sometimes remarkable differences. Their wisdom, compassion, and sense of the human family have been a steady source of energizing inspiration and community . . . in addition to often exceptional knowledge and experiences of the truly human condition. This presence educates us, teaches us, nourishes us, celebrates with us, and consoles us day by day. (Joe Cornelius Donnelly, Caritas Internationalis’ Permanent Delegate to UN) Inspired by the Gospel and the charisms of their communities, institutes of Catholic religious sisters (nuns), brothers, priests, and lay associates are important voices for human rights, justice, and the integrity of creation within the halls of the United Nations. While other books focus on the role of nongovernmental organizations in general or detail the presence of the official Catholic Church, this inspiring collection of essays speaks to the influential role of Catholic organizations in the system of global governance. By bringing together the personal experiences of fourteen leading NGO activists, this book shows what faith-based advocacy and prophetic witness looks like in the twenty-first century. This volume is a valuable resource for scholars, activists, church leaders, and anyone interested in understanding how religion and religious groups shape global political discourse. It is an ideal book for college courses and Christian communities interested in exploring the relationship between religion and politics, Catholic social teaching, and the prophetic mission of religious life. (Kevin Ahern, Manhattan College Author of Structures of Grace: Catholic Organizations Serving the Global Common Good)
Lobbying For Faith And Family
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Author : Ingrid Vik
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Lobbying For Faith And Family written by Ingrid Vik and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Family policy categories.
Faith In Rights
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Author : Amélie Barras
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024
Faith In Rights written by Amélie Barras and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with Law categories.
"Faith in Rights explores why and how Christian non-governmental organizations conduct human rights work at the United Nations. The book interrogates the idea that the secular and the religious are distinct categories, and more specifically that human rights, understood as secular, can be neatly distinguished from religion. It argues that Christianity is deeply entangled in the texture of the United Nations, and shapes the methods and areas of work of Christian NGOs. To be able to capture these entanglements, Amâelie Barras analyzes, through interviews, ethnography, and document and archive analysis, the everyday human rights work of Christian NGOs at the United Nations Human Rights Council. She documents how these NGOs are involved in a constant work of double translation: they translate their human rights work into a religious language to make it relevant to their on-the-ground membership, but they also reframe the concerns of their membership in human rights terms in order to make them audible to UN actors. Faith in Rights is a crucial new evaluation of how religion informs Christian non-governmental organizations' understandings of human rights and their methods of work, as well as how being engaged in human rights work influences these organizations own religious identity and practice"--
Faith Based Organizations At The United Nations
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Author : Jeff Haynes
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-30
Faith Based Organizations At The United Nations written by Jeff Haynes and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-30 with Political Science categories.
The book examines selected faith-based organisations (FBOs) and their attempts to seek to influence debate and decision-making at the United Nations (UN). Increasing attention on FBOs in this context has followed what is widely understood as a widespread, post-Cold War "religious resurgence." The bibliography is available digitally at the end of sample chapter, which can be downloaded on this page.
Religion State And The United Nations
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Author : Anne Stensvold
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-07-22
Religion State And The United Nations written by Anne Stensvold and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-22 with Political Science categories.
This volume approaches the UN as a laboratory of religio-political value politics. Over the last two decades religion has acquired increasing influence in international politics, and religious violence and terrorism has attracted much scholarly attention. But there is another parallel development which has gone largely unnoticed, namely the increasing political impact of peaceful religious actors. With several religious actors in one place and interacting under the same conditions, the UN is as a multi-religious society writ small. The contributors to this book analyse the most influential religious actors at the UN (including The Roman Catholic Church; The Organisation of Islamic Countries; the Russian Orthodox Church). Mapping the peaceful political engagements of religious actors; who they are and how they collaborate with each other - whether on an ad hoc basis or by forming more permanent networks - throwing light at the modus operandi of religious actors at the UN; their strategies and motivations. The chapters are closely interrelated through the shared focus on the UN and common theoretical perspectives, and pursue two intertwined aspects of religious value politics, namely the whys and hows of cross-religious cooperation on the one hand, and the interaction between religious actors and states on the other. Drawing together a broad range of experts on religious actors, this work will be of great interest to students and scholars of Religion and Politics, International Relations and the UN.
Religious Ngos In International Relations
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Author : Karsten Lehmann
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-01-29
Religious Ngos In International Relations written by Karsten Lehmann and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-29 with Political Science categories.
Over the last 30 years, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become increasingly present in international discourses and active in international decision-making. Among the estimated several million NGOs in existence today, an increasingly visible number of organizations are defining themselves in religious terms – referring to themselves as "religious", "spiritual", or "faith-based" NGOs. This book documents the initial encounters between the particularly international segment of those organizations and the UN while at the same time covering the Protestant and Catholic spectrum that dominated the early years of their activities in the UN-context. This book focuses on the construction of the human rights discourse inside two religiously affiliated organizations: The Commissions of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA) and Pax Romana (IMCS / ICMICA). These organizations have been formally accredited as NGOs by the UN, label themselves as religious, and look back upon a long and intense cooperation with the UN. Lehmann presents material from the archives of those two organizations that has so far rarely been used for academic analysis. In doing so, as well as documenting the encounters between those organizations and the UN, and looking at the Protestant and Catholic spectrum, the book provides new insights into the very construction of the notions of ‘the religious’ and the ‘secular’ inside those organizations. This work will be of great interest to all students of religion and international relations, and will also be of interest to those studying related subjects such as global institutions, comparative politics and international politics.
Seeking Global Justice Peace
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Author : Emeka Xris Obiezu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-01-19
Seeking Global Justice Peace written by Emeka Xris Obiezu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-19 with categories.
IN THIS MAGISTERIAL BOOK, the author, Emeka Xris Obiezu, explains and analyzes the history and role of Catholic-inspired non-governmental organizations (NGOs) accredited to the United Nations (UN), as well as the origin and function of the United Nations itself. He also offers a Catholic theological interpretation and assessment of those Catholic-inspired NGOs, and he calls for a "new model" of relationship between Catholic-inspired NGO's and the UN. At present, there is no other book that offers such a vast and profound historical and theological analysis of this story. For that reason, this magisterial text now stands as the most important book in its field. As such, it constitutes and essential source and required reading for all Catholic-inspired NGO representatives at the UN, as well as for the leaders and members of the organizations that they represent. In addition, the book recommends itself to all Catholics and members of other religious traditions who are interested in the UN, as well as to UN and diplomatic personnel who realize the importance role of our human family's spiritual wisdom traditions as resources for ethical guidance in global governance. EMEKA XRIS OBIEZU is Roman Catholic priest of the Order of St. Augustine. He was the immediate past permanent representative of Augustinians International at the United Nations (UN), New York. In that post, he was a special consultant to the UN Economic and Social Council, he was a regular speaker at major UN events in New York, Geneva, and around the world, and he contributed to the various UN policies and decision-making processes. He is an expert in policy advocacy, international migration and development, and United Nations and global governance, as well as religions' interface with international organizations. In both academic and popular settings, he has lectured and published on the issues addressed in this book, and on the major global issues of development and migration.Fr. Obiezu earned a Ph.D. in Political Theology from the University of St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto, Canada. He also holds a certificate in International Migration Law; Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, and another certificate in Understanding Societal Change, from the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, Geneva, and from United Nations University of Peace, Costa Rica.
Religious Soft Diplomacy And The United Nations
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Author : Sherrie M. Steiner
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-04-21
Religious Soft Diplomacy And The United Nations written by Sherrie M. Steiner and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-21 with Law categories.
In our increasingly plural and interconnected world, employing the complex and nuanced vocation of religious diplomacy is increasingly critical to the resolution of global challenges and charting a future course for the human community. The editors and contributors in this volume make a compelling case for expanding the diversity of discourse.