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Quite a lot of thinking, deliberating and visioning about the future of NGOs, INGOs and civil society is happening by different organizations and at different fora. Be inspired. And let us know if you know of any other work that should be listed h…

The Broker is hosting a new debate titled ‘Future Calling’ and we warmly invite you – also on behalf of Hivos – to contribute.Our world is changing quickly and profoundly. Rich and poor – regardless of where they live – are faced with increasingly…

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The Broker organiseert een online debat over de vraag: wat is de positie van Nederland in een snel veranderende wereld, en wat moet dat betekenen voor het brede Nederlandse buitenlandbeleid en de visie ten aanzien van globalisering en ontwikk…

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Five years after its acceptance by the 2005 World Summit, it is time to consider the contribution that the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has made and could make to the prevention of mass atrocities.

What role can civil society and (international) NGOs play in the rapidly changing global context? 

We face a number of highly challenging tendencies which require fundamental new approaches to get us on the track of a decent global society. First, the industrial transformation of societies has taken off globally. It is not a matter if but only…

We are all starters in the sector and fear that the development community has become an inward looking culture that has hardly any interaction with outsiders. How we think the sector is evolving?

Global Civil Society 2009: Poverty and Activism, edited by Ashwani Kumar, Jan Aart Scholte, Mary Kaldor, Marlies Glasius, Hakan Seckinelgin and Helmut Anheier, Sage, 376 pp.A review by Donatella della Porta.

On 23 June 2009, the Residence Palace in Brussels hosted the High Level Policy Forum ‘After 2015: promoting pro-poor growth after the MDGs’. The forum was a joint initiative of IDS, DSA, EADI, DFID and ActionAid.

Editor in Chief Frans Bieckmann will update an editor’s blog reflecting on the thought processes behind production of The Broker and highlighting interesting, useful and unusual information that he comes across day to day

Thea Hilhorst, professor of Humanitarian Aid and Reconstruction at Wageningen University, is one of our resident bloggers.