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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451745503321

Titolo

NGO diplomacy [[electronic resource] ] : the influence of nongovernmental organizations in international environmental negotiations / / edited by Michele M. Betsill and Elisabeth Corell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : The MIT Press, c2008

ISBN

1-282-09914-0

9786612099144

0-262-26841-8

1-4356-0502-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BetsillMichele Merrill <1967->

CorellElisabeth

Disciplina

363.7/0526

Soggetti

Environmental policy - International cooperation

Environmental law, International

Negotiation

Non-governmental organizations

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Acronyms; 1 Introduction to NGO Diplomacy; 2 Analytical Framework: Assessing the Influence of NGO Diplomats; 3 Environmental NGOs and the Kyoto Protocol Negotiations: 1995 to 1997; 4 Non-state Actors and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety; 5 NGO Influence in the Negotiations of the Desertification Convention; 6 Non-state Influence in the International Whaling Commission, 1970 to 2006; 7 NGO Influence on International Policy on Forest Conservation and the Trade in Forest Products; 8 Reflections on the Analytical Framework and NGO Diplomacy

ReferencesIndex

Sommario/riassunto

Provides an analytical framework for assessing the impact of NGOs on intergovernmental negotiations on the environment and identifying the



factors that determine the degree of NGO influence, with case studies that apply the framework to negotiations on cl.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458891903321

Autore

Bukhari Safiya <1950-2003.>

Titolo

The war before [[electronic resource] ] : the true life story of becoming a Black Panther, keeping the faith in prison, and fighting for those left behind / / Safiya Bukhari; edited by Laura Whitehorn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2009

ISBN

1-282-74840-8

9786612748400

1-55861-654-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WhitehornLaura

Disciplina

973.04960730092

Soggetti

African American women political activists

African American women

Women prisoners - West Virginia

African Americans - Civil rights - History

Civil rights movements - United States - History

Social justice - United States - History

Electronic books.

United States Race relations History Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface / by Wonda White Jones -- Foreword by Angela Y. Davis -- Introduction / by Laura Whitehorn -- Coming of age : a Black revolutionary -- Testimony : experiences in the Black Panther Party -- Marriage contract : Safiya A. Bukhari and Michael M (Ashanti) Alston -- What is security? And the ballot or the bullet ... revisited -- Enemies and friends : resolving contradictions -- On the question of sexism within the Black Panther Party -- "Islam and revolution" is not a contradiction -- We too are also veterans : post-traumatic stress disorders and the Black Panter Party -- This is worth fighting for -- On



the question of political prisoners -- Building support for political prisoners of war incarcerated in North America -- Talks on the Black Panter Party and the Black liberation struggle -- Lest we forget -- CBS tries the New York three -- Talking about Assata Shakur -- Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! -- COINTELPRO and the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal -- Safiya interviews Albert Nuh Washington -- Letter for the parole of Jalil Muntaqim -- Q & A on Jericho 98 -- Debate: should we grant amnesty to America's political prisoners? -- Kamau Sadiki : injustice continues ... -- Afterword / by Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Sommario/riassunto

From the Black Panthers to political prisoners, one woman's politics paves the way for today's breakthroughs.