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ONTRAC 50. Civil society at a new frontier – new dynamics, challenges and opportunities

Authors:

John Hailey, Brian Pratt, Cristien Temmink, Kaustuv Kanti Bandyopadhyay, Michael Edwards, Francois Lenfant, Kirsten Auken and Martin Rosenkilde Pedersen, Rachel Hayman, and Wafa Al Amaireh

Building Trust and Reconciliation in Cyprus: a civil society toolkit

This toolkit provides practical ideas for planning and carrying out activities aimed at promoting trust and reconciliation between divided communities.

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INTRAC

Global changes and civil society. Background paper for ‘Civil society at a new frontier’ conference

This short paper explores the challenges confronting civil society at a time of unprecedented and widely underestimated global change.

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Briefing Paper 28. After the MDGs – what then?

Author:

Janice Giffen with Brian Pratt

Research Briefing Paper. Cyprus civil society: developing trust and cooperation

Authors:

Norman Gillespie, Vasiliki Georgiou, and Sevinc Insay

ONTRAC 49. NGO funding and private philanthropy

This issue of ONTRAC explores issues around private donors' work in development. Foundations and new private donors are now significant actors in development – in terms of both the funds they provide and also their influence on approaches to development and the way that official aid agencies operate and think.

Authors:

John Hailey, Connell Foley, Blain Teketel, Suman Sureshbabu, Susanne Kirk Christensen

ONTRAC 48. Conflict and post-conflict – what role for civil society?

Authors:

Rod Macleod, Charles Buxton, Norman Gillespie, Michael Walls, Steve Kibble, Thomas Donnelly