ISTR HEADLINES
Spacer Image
Conferences

"Transforming Civil Society, Citizenship and Governance: The Third Sector in an Era of Global (Dis)Order"
Graduate School in Humanities, University of Cape Town,
Cape Town, South Africa
July 7-10, 2002

ISTR Fifth International Conference


Conference Program

Conference Details
Sunday  
Monday  
Tuesday  
Wednesday  


Conference Details

Welcome to the Fifth International Conference of the International Society for Third-Sector Research!

ISTR would like to thank our host, the University of Cape Town Graduate School in Humanities. The Graduate School in Humanities seeks to build intellectual and technical capacity for creative and critical engagement with the challenges of transformation at all levels of social and public life.

Important Information
Please wear your name badge!
This will help contribute to increased interaction and spirit, and will help you get acquainted with your fellow conference participants. ISTR members are identified by color-coded stars on their name badges.

Gold Stars - Individual Members
Silver Stars - Institutional Members
Blue Stars - Individual and Institutional Supporting Members
Red Stars - Student Members
Green Stars - Sponsor Members

Conference Venue
All sessions will be held at the University of Cape Town. Check-in and Information will be in the Graduate School in Humanities Building on Sunday, July 7, and will be in the Leslie Social Sciences Building on Monday, July 8 through Wednesday, July 10. Sessions held in Jameson Hall will be translated.

Registration: Check-in begins on Sunday, July 7 at 9:30 a.m. in the Graduate School in Humanities Building. Registration fee includes all sessions and materials as well as the Sunday and Monday evening receptions, lunches on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

Notices regarding Affinity Group Meetings will be posted on the Message Board. Please sign up for any of these meetings which interest you. Affinity Groups will meet during lunch.

Messages: Messages may be posted on the Message Board positioned near the registration desk.

Receptions
University of Cape Town Welcome Reception and 10th Anniversary Celebration
Sunday, July 7, 7:00 p.m., Leslie Social Sciences Building, University of Cape Town

Civic Reception
Monday, July 8, 7:00 - 9:30 p.m., Kelvin Grove, Camp Ground Road, Newlands, Cape Town. Hosted by the Mayor of Cape Town. Transportation to Kelvin Grove and return to hotels and UCT will be provided.

Evening at Leisure
Tuesday, July 9

ISTR will sponsor shuttle buses to the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront for those who wish to explore this exciting area of Cape Town. Transportation will be provided to the Waterfront and return to hotels and UCT. The transportation schedule will be available at your hotel and at the Information booth during the conference.

Exhibition Hall
The Exhibition Hall is located in the Graduate School in Humanities Building and will be open during the entire conference for publishers and institutions to display and sell their materials. Please note that all of the materials are for DISPLAY ONLY and MUST NOT be removed from the Exhibition Hall.

Poster Presentations
Posters offer an opportunity to display research about completed and/or ongoing projects. Posters will be displayed throughout the conference and a session is scheduled on Tuesday afternoon, July 9, at which participants will have the opportunity to meet the authors and talk to them about their work.

Copy Centers
The Online Business Centre, 10 Riverside Centre, Main Road, Rondebosch: Sunday 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

The Document Centre, UCT, Chancellor Oppenheimer Building (next to Jameson Hall)
Monday - Wednesday 8:00 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Internet Connect
An Internet Connect will be available to conference participants in the Southside Computer Lab, Level 3, Leslie Social Sciences Building.
Hours: Monday - Wednesday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Contributions
ISTR would like to thank the following organizations for their generous support of the Fifth International Conference in Cape Town, South Africa:

The Atlantic Philanthropies (SA) Ltd.
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Ford Foundation India
Ford Foundation, Southern Africa
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
The University of Cape Town Graduate School in Humanities
The Standard Bank of South Africa Ltd.
ABSA Bank Ltd.
Peninsula Beverage Company

Sunday, July 7
9:30 am Graduate School in Humanities Building
CONFERENCE CHECK-IN BEGINS
10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Leslie Social Sciences Building
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS

  1. The Third Sector in South Africa - Room 1A
  2. Universities as Strategic Agents to Advance Global Democracy - Room 1B
  3. Civil Society in States of Disorder and Conflict - Room 1C
  4. Civil Society and New Panafricanism - Room 1D
  5. Third Sector Statistics: Using the Handbook on Non-Profit Institutions in the System of National Accounts - Room 1E
  6. Methodologies for Practice-Research Engagement (PRE) - Room 2B
  7. International Issues in Community Development - Room 2C
1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Lunch Break
Lunch is on your own. There will be lunch items available for purchase at the University of Cape Town.
2:30 - 4:30 p.m.

Leslie Social Sciences Building
REGIONAL AND SUB-REGIONAL NETWORK MEETINGS

Africa Network - Room 1A
Asia Regional Network - Room 1B
European Network - Room 1C
Latin America and the Caribbean Network - Room 1D

5:30 - 7:00 p.m.

Jameson Hall
OPENING PLENARY
University of Cape Town

WELCOME
Virginia A. Hodgkinson, ISTR President
Adam Habib, Conference Co-chair
Masayuki Deguchi, Conference Co-chair
Professor Wieland Gevers, Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Cape Town
Rosa Maria Fischer, ISTR Board Secretary

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Ruth Corrêa Leite Cardoso
First Lady of Brazil and Chair, Comunidade Soldária

7:00 p.m. WELCOME NIGHT RECEPTION AND 10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
Leslie Social Sciences Building
Monday, July 8
9:00 - 10:45 a.m. PLENARY SESSION - OPEN FORUM: "CIVIL SOCIETIES AS AGENTS OF GLOBAL (DIS)ORDER"
Facilitator: Kumi Naidoo
Contributors: Masayuki Deguchi, Japan; Benjamin Gidron, Israel; Dorothy Gordon, Ghana; Lalit Kumar, India; Mark Lyons, Australia; Brian O'Connell, USA; Marilyn Taylor, United Kingdom; Soledad Teixidó, Chile
10:45 - 11:15 a.m. BREAK
11:15 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
PARALLEL SESSION A

A1 - Jameson Hall

THIRD SECTOR ORGANIZING ISSUES IN SOUTH AMERICA
Moderator: Soledad Teixídó
Sandra B. Rapetti
Pasión por la Cultura. Una Investigación sobre la Gestión, el Financiamiento y la Problemática de las Organizaciones Culturales de Montevideo
Marcelo O. Camerlo
La Concepción de Tercer Sector en un País Latinoamericano: Condicionamientos Políticos/Limitaciones Analíticas. Reivindicación Crítica del Concepto
Vanessa Paternostro Melo, Renata Alvarez Rosse, Tânia Fischer, Paula Chies Schommer and Fernando José Diederichs Fischer
Interorganizaciones e Instituciones en Bahía Brasil: Un Análisis desde la Perspectiva del Tercer Sector


A2 - Room 1A

COMMERCIALIZING THE NOT-FOR-PROFIT SECTOR
Moderator: Hadara Bar-Mor
Bernard Enjolras
Commercialization of Voluntary Organizations and Members Participation: The Case of Norwegian Voluntary Sport Organizations
Theodore J. Hopkins, Jr.
Commercializing the Third Sector: Public Benefit and Private Competition
Constanza Ceda and Davide Maggi
An Evolution in No Profit Organizations: Developing New Strategic Areas of Activity (SAA). The "Amici della Cattedrale di Novara" Case


A3 - Room 1B

SOCIAL ENTERPRISE AND INTERSECTORIAL ALLIANCES
Moderator: Samiul Hasan
Giuliana Gemelli
Public Goals and Private Initiative: Social Entrepreneurship and the Shaping of Italian Society after World War II
Duncan W. Scott and Catherina Pharoah
Social Enterprise in the Voluntary and Community Sectors: Challenges for Policy and Practice
Sarah Edwards
Social Enterprise: Transforming the Landscape of Social Welfare Provision in the United Kingdom and Canada?


A4 - Room 3A

CIVIL SOCIETY: LESSONS LEARNED, RESEARCH CHALLENGES AHEAD IN FOUR REGIONS: BRAZIL, SLOVAKIA, SOUTH AFRICA AND THE ANDES AND SOUTHERN CONE REGION OF SOUTH AMERICA
Organizer: Virginia Hodgkinson
Panelists: Evelina Dagnino, Aldo Panfichi, Michal Vasecha, Phiroshaw Camay and Anne Gordon


A5 - Room 1C

DEPENDENCE OR INDEPENDENCE: RELATIONS WITH THE STATE
Moderator: Arthur Williamson
Richard G. Wamai
NGOs and Government: Collaboration and Conflict in Kenya
Uday Kumar
Advocacy and Social Change through Third Sector Intervention-Loosing Wood for a Tree? A Study of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Districts in Karnataka State
Nuno Themudo
Managing the Paradox: NGOs, Resource Dependence and Political Independence-Case Studies from Mexico and Portugal
Rodrigo Villar, Inés González Bombal and Leilah Landim
Civil Society Organizations and Public Policy Influence: Results of Studies of Cases in Argentina, Brazil and Colombia


A6 - Room 3B

PRACTICE RESEARCH ENGAGEMENT AND TRANSNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY
Organizer: L. David Brown
Panelists: Srilatha Batliwala, Ezra Mbogori, Manuel Chiriboga, Cynthia Sanborn, Jan Aart Scholte


A7 - Room 1D

VOLUNTEERING: MOTIVATION AND MEANING
Moderator: Leon Irish
Lesley Hustinx and Frans Lammertyn
Explaining Differences in Styles of Volunteering: The Case of the Flemish Red Cross Volunteers
Jenny M. Green and Denise Blacket
"It's a Personal Thing": Volunteer Motivation across Two Generations in a Sydney Area Health Service-Implications for Management Practice
Daniela Pais Costa
The Development of Volunteer Work and its Ethical Implications


A8 - Room 1E

UNIVERSITY INNOVATIONS IN KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION
Moderator: Karuti Kanyinga
Wendy Earles and Robyn Lynn
"There Will Never Be Another Tobacco!": A Community's Dialogue on Local (Re)Organising Amidst Global (Dis)Order
David Renz and Roseanne Mirabella
Legitimacy, Location, and Longevity: A Report on the Organization and Role of University-Based NGO Management Outreach Programs
Rosa Maria Fischer and Luciana Rocha de Mendonça
Setting of Brazilian Production of the Third Sector


A9 - Room 2B

BUILDING CIVIL SOCIETY
Moderator: Barry Knight
Verica Trstenjak
Civil Society in Countries in Transition
Judith L. Miller and Eric C. Martin
Building Civil Society in Post-Conflict Bosnia: A Stakeholder Analysis of Interorganizational Relationships


A10 - Room 2C

CIVIL SOCIETY IN AFRICA
Moderator: Bev Russell
Ebenezer Obadare
Nigeria: Civil Society Versus Livid Societies
Victor Adefemi Isumonah
From Pillar to Post: Conceptual Inconsistency of Civil Society in Africa and the West
Simon Bekker and Anne Leilde
The Fading of Civil Society in South Africa: Changing Civic Participation in Town and City

1:00 - 2:30 p.m.

LUNCH

2:30 - 4:15 p.m.
PARALLEL SESSION B

B1 - Jameson Hall

THE ROLE OF THE THIRD SECTOR IN DEMOCRATIZATION
Moderator: Salma Akhter
Kerry Joseph O'Halloran
Charities, From a Muting of Dissent to Advocates for Social Change: The Particular Experience in Northern Ireland and the General Lessons from the Common Law Charity Law Review
Sisay Gebre-Egziabher
The Role of Civil Society Organisations in Democratisation Process in Ethiopia
Rosinha Machado Carrion
Qu'est-ce qu'on pent Apprendre de L'Experience du Budget Participatif à Porto Alegre?


B2 - Room 1A

RELIGIONS ORGANIZATIONS IN CIVIL SOCIETY: CHANGING PEOPLE AND CHANGING SOCIETY
Moderator: Margaret Gibelman
Pushpa Sundar
Responses of Faith to the Challenges of Modernization: Religious Organizations and Social Development in India
Sulaiman Khalid
Islamic Civil Society Organizations and Social Provisioning in Northern Nigeria
Derek Bacon
Revitalising Civil Society through Social Capital Formation in Faith Based Organisations: Research Findings from Northern Ireland


B3 - Room 2B

MEANINGS AND EXPRESSIONS OF CITIZENSHIP: THE SEARCH FOR NEW FORMS
Organizer: John Gaventa
Panelists: Mandakini Pant, Ángela Alonso, and Steven Robins


B4 - Room 1B

CHALLENGES TO UNDERSTANDINGS OF THE THIRD SECTOR
Moderator: Devan Pillay
Chris Lange
Third Sector Organizations and Gender: The Role of Women in German Welfare Organizations
Timothy D. Ireland and Rachel Abath
The Women's Movement and its Submerged World: The Case of the Paraíba Women's Forum in Northeast Brazil
Gustavo Verduzco
Traditional and Modern Organizations in Contemporary Mexico: New Challenges for Interpretations
Michelle Ferreti
Paternalistic Practices of the Third Sector


B5 - Room 1C

VOLUNTARISM AND SOCIAL CAPITAL
Moderator: Freda Donoghue
Jenny Onyx and Rosemary Leonard
The Relationship between Formal and Informal Volunteering: A Social Capital Framework
Steven Howlett and Angela Ellis
Theory versus Practice: Exploring the Role of Volunteering in Engendering Citizenship
Anne Birgitta Yeung
Civil Society, Social Capital and Volunteering in Finland


B6 - Room 3A

LESSONS LEARNT THROUGH IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CIVICUS INDEX PROJECT: A CROSS COUNTRY COMPARISON
Organizer: Phiroshaw Camay
Panelists: Anne Gordon, David Robinson, Svitlana Kuts, Anabel Cruz, Yury Zagoumennov, Carmen Epure, and Rabia Baig


B7 - Room 1D

INTERNATIONAL THIRD SECTOR IN THE IT ERA
Moderator: Ferenc Farkas
Mausumi Garain
Information Communication Technologies Changing the Face of Third Sector: Experiments in Health
Masayuki Deguchi
"Lingua-Political" Situation Dividing Globalization into Continentalization and Oceanization in an Era of Internet Civil Society


B8 - Room 1E

NGOS AND PRACTICE-RESEARCH ENGAGEMENT: USERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Moderator: Ezra Mbogori
Manzurul Mannan
Cooperative Antagonism: A Southern Perspective on Problematic Dialogue between Programmers and Researchers in Development
Fletcher Tembo
Revealing the Impact of Interface Representations, Identities and Use-Values on the Poor: A Research Agenda for NGDOs
Helmut Hallemaa
Development of Non-Profit Sector and Civil Society and NGO Support Systems in Estonia


B9 - Room 2C

ADVOCACY AND SOCIAL CHANGE: THEORETICAL APPROACHES
Moderator: Femida Handy
Yeheskel Hasenfeld and Benjamin Gidron
Toward the Integration of Civil Society, Social Movements, and Third Sector Theories: Lessons from an International Study of Peace/Conflict Resolution Organizations
William W. Clohesy
Citizens in Civil Society: Organizing for Power
Matt Smith
Understanding Global Injustice: Constructing Discourses of 'Development' and the 'South' in UK Society
H.A. Shankaranarayana
Third Sector-A New Paradigm of Development


B10 - Room 3B

DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL CAPITAL
Moderator: Kathleen McCarthy
Marilyn E. Taylor and Diane Warburton
Legitimacy and the Role of Third Sector Organisations in the Democratic Process
David Hammack
Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Organization: What We Know about the Development and Growth of the Nonprofit Sector in the United States, What We Need to Know, and What We are Learning from International Comparisons
Omolara O. Fatiregun
Social Capital in a Multidimensional Perspective: United States, Japan, Mexico

4:15 - 4:45 p.m. BREAK
4:45 - 6:30 p.m.
PARALLEL SESSION C
C1 - Jameson Hall

REFRAMING GOVERNANCE: STUDIES FROM KENYA, SOUTH AFRICA, BRAZIL AND CHINA
Moderator: Adam Habib
Liping He
Transferring Space and Expanding Space: A Study of Quasi-Governmental Associations in Current China
Fredrick O. Wanyama
The Third Sector and the Transformation of Governance in Africa: The Case of Community-Based Organizations in Kenya
Elke Zuern
Challenges to Reframing Governance-Post-Apartheid South Africa
Hironobu Sano
Public Funding of the Third Sector: Reflections on the Projeto Qjixote Case Study


C2 - Room 1A

DYNAMICS AND IMPACT OF TRANSNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY
Moderator: Ledivina Cariño
Arthur P. Williamson, Rona Beattie and Stephen Osborne
Rural Citizenship: Community Involvement in Rural Regeneration Partnerships
Nuno Themudo and Helmut Anheier
On the Governance and Management of International Membership Organizations
Marwa A. El-Daly
Transnational Civil Society and its Effect on Advocating Change: An Arab Perspective


C3 - Room 1B

INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO DESCRIBING AND MEASURING THIRD SECTOR ORGANIZATION CONCEPTS
Moderator: Alan Fowler
David Robinson and Bill Robinson
The Question of Analogies-What Might Social Capital Look Like?
Susan Wainwright
Measuring the Impact of Voluntary Organisations
Robert D. Herman and David Renz
Nonprofit Organizational Effectiveness: Doing Things Right is Not Enough

C4 - Room 3A

THE VALUE OF COMPARATIVE RESEARCH IN TRANSFORMING LEGAL AND FISCAL FRAMEWORKS FOR CIVIL SOCIETY
Organizer: Karla Simon
Panelists: Eugene Saldanha, Emeka Iheme, Rupert Strachwitz, Sahar Maranlou, Emmanuel Akwety, Mary Honey, Myles McGregor Lowndes


C5 - Room 3B

DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT REQUIREMENTS AND THE NEEDS OF THE POOR-HOW WELL DO THEY MESH?
Organizer: Tina Wallace
Panelists: Jennifer Chapman, Juliet Kiguli, Patrick Mulindwa, Lisa Bornstein, Su Braden, and Kira Jensen


C6 - Room 1C

EMERGING IDEAS IN FAITH, CITIZENSHIP, AND THE NONPROFIT SECTOR
Moderator: Antonin Wagner
Gopa Kumar
Faith Based Giving in India: An Explorative Study
Govert J. Buijs
Sources of Inspiration. A Comparative Perspective on Why People Get Involved in the Third Sector
Wale Adebanwi
Sharia or 'Pariah' Citizens? Muslim Legal Code and the Negotiation of Citizenship in Nigeria


C7 - Room 1D

THE ROLE OF THIRD SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS: OBSERVATIONS FROM THREE COUNTRY CONTEXTS
Moderator: Rodrigo Villar
Pankaja Kulabkar
NGOs and Urban Plans in India: The Case of Pune Development Plan
Pankaja Kulabkar
Housing and Neighborhood Participation: A Comparison between the For-Profit and the Non-Profit Sector in Baltimore
Andréa Leite Rodrigues and Mário Aquino Alves
Fairy Tales Organizations: Myth and Reality of Brazilian Third Sector Organizations


C8 - Room 1E

TRUST AND CREDIBILITY IN A HARDLY MONITORED SECTOR
Moderator: Russy Sumariwalla
Stephen Lee and Adrian Sargeant
Trust in the Voluntary Sector: A Relationship to Giving?
Elisa Rodrigues Alves Larroudé and Ricardo Voltolini
Credibility and Accountability: Combining Capacities for Nonprofit Sustainability
Esther Iecovich and Hadara Bar-Mor
Duties of Directors and Officers in Israeli Non-Profit Organizations


C9 - Room 2B

NETWORKING FOR CHANGE
Moderator: Richard Wamai
Ishtiaq Jamil, Salahuddin Aminuzzaman and Harald Baldersheim
The Role of Cellular Phones in the Development Processes in Bangladesh: A Study of the Village Pay Phone in Grameen Bank
Helen Yanacopulos
Norms, Debt and the Net
Diane J. Johnson and Pamela Zappardino
Community Organizing: Innovation and Effectiveness in Building Community Capacities, Leveraging Community Resources and Facilitating Civil Engagement

7:00 - 9:30 p.m. CIVIC RECEPTION AT KELVIN GROVE
Tuesday, July 9
9:00 - 10:45 a.m.

Jameson Hall
PLENARY SESSION - ISTR GENERAL MEETING AND 10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

Virginia A. Hodgkinson, president
Benjamin Gidron, past president
Antonin Wagner, past president
Rupert Taylor, editor, Voluntas

10:45 - 11:15 a.m. BREAK
11:15 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
PARALLEL SESSION D

D1 - Jameson Hall

VOLUNTEERING AND CHARITABLE GIVING

Moderator: Eleanor Brown

Yashavantha Dongre
Motives of Individual Charitable Giving: Reflections on Giving Habits of High Salaried Class in India

James L. Loveday Laghi
Voluntariado y Donaciones: La Diversidad de las Prácticas Solidarias en el Perú

Ramon Fernan
The Characteristics of Giving and Volunteering in the Philippines


D2 - Room 1A

DETERMINANTS OF INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPATION AND ACTION IN NGOS

Moderator: Robert Herman

Alan F. Fowler
Determinants of NGO Leadership: An Exploratory Study of NGOs in Kenya

Kiyoko Kamimura, Akiko Ono and Naoto Yamauchi
Nonprofit Labor Markets in Japan: Findings from New Survey Data

Suellen Littleton
Understanding the Role of Psychological Contracts in Nonprofit Organizations


D3 - Room 1B

THIRD SECTOR AND DEVELOPMENT

Moderator: Rosa Maria Fischer

Geeta Bharadwaj
Quality Indices for a Community Capability Model: Role of the Third Sector

Samiul Hasan
Social Capital, Good Governance, and Sustainable Development

Ephrem Tadesse
Grassroots Civil Society: Rural Community Structures in Ethiopia


D4 - Room 3A

INDEXES OF CIVIL SOCIETY: THE STATE OF THE ART

Organizer: Russy Sumariwalla

Panelists: Volkhart Finn Heinrich, Lester Salamon, Maryann Riegelman, Srilatha Batliwala, and Mark Lyons


D5 - Room 1C

FINANCIAL RESOURCES OF THE NON-PROFIT SECTOR

Moderator: Brenda Gainer

Margaret C. Reid
Managing the Resources in the Third Sector: Dealing with the Impacts of Diverse Funding Streams

Richard Steinberg and Burton Weisbrod
Give it Away or Make Them Pay: Pricing and Rationing by Nonprofits with Distributional Objectives

Kathleen D. McCarthy
Philanthropy and the Market in the United States, 1790-1840

Bhekinkosi Moyo
Rethinking Civil Society Assistance: International Donor Funding Agenda Setting and NGOs in South Africa


D6 - Room 1D

CONTEMPORARY TRENDS IN VOLUNTEERING

Moderator: Jenny Onyx

Yuan-Zhu Ding
Measuring Volunteering in China

Lina Anastassova
The Third Sector in the Transition Period in Bulgaria: Contemporary Trends in Volunteering, Problems and Challenges

Shailendra Kumar Dwivedi
Contemporary Trends in Volunteering: Emerging Scene from India

Anabel Cruz and Analía Bettoni
Volunteering in South America: Profiles, Impact and Challenges


D7 - Room 1E

SHIFTING RELATIONS: SECTORAL PARTNERSHIPS

Moderator: Lalit Kumar

Krishna Kothai
The Shifting Relationship Among the Three Sectors Under Indian Context

Monica Silvia Bifarello
From Delegation to Participation: The Third Sector and the State in Associative Networks

Peter Halfpenny
Constraining the Unruly Sector

Leslie Hems, John Twigg and Jo Winterburn
Developing Effective Government and Civil Society Sector Relationships: Process Not Paper


D8 - Room 2B

REFRAMING GOVERNANCE: DECENTRALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Moderator: Benjamin Gidron

Paul Chaney and Ralph Fevre
Social Capital and the Participation of Marginalised Groups in Government: A Study of the Statutory Partnership between the Third Sector and Devolved Government in Wales

Benjamas Siripatra
"Together We Save the Society"

Mary Galvin and Adam Habib
Donors, State-NGO Relations, and the Politics of "Community-Oriented" Decentralisation: South Africa's Rural Water Supply with an Eye to the Namibian Experience

Mausumi Garain and Dhrubodhi Mukherjee
Health Insurance for the Excluded: An Arena for Nonprofits or For-profits?


D9 - Room 2C

PRACTICE-RESEARCH ENGAGEMENT METHODS AND DILEMMAS

Moderator: L. David Brown

Sheldon Gelman and Margaret Gibelman
Preventive Medicine: Scientific Conduct in Third Sector Research

Freda Donoghue and Gemma Donnelly-Cox
Linking Theory and Practice in Nonprofit Management: Four Modes of Engagement


D10 - Room 3B

CIVIL SOCIETY AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION

Moderator: Rupert Taylor

Paul Guy Dixon
Beyond Consociational and Civil Society Approaches to Conflict Resolution

Kerry Joseph O'Halloran
Charity Law Review and Civil Society: Paving the Way from Alienation to Social Inclusion in Northern Ireland; The Resonance with Experience in Australia

Adrian Guelke
Civil Society and the Northern Irish Peace Process

Terry Robson
The Community Sector and the Resolution of Conflict in Northern Ireland

1:00 - 2:30 p.m.

LUNCH

2:30 - 4:15 p.m.
PARALLEL SESSION E

E1 - Jameson Hall

THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY

Moderator: Russell Ally

Paula Kabalo
Volunteering and Recruitment, Service and Pioneering: The Challenge of Youth Organizations in the 1950s in U.S.A. and Israel

Betsabé Policastro
Tercer Sector: Una Respuesta a la Anomia? Una Nueva Forma de Solidaridad Social? Una Mirada desde Emilio Durkheim y Anthony Giddens

Radka Langhammerova
The Role of Civil Society in Overcoming Cultural Differences and Promoting Intercultural Awareness and Tolerance in the Czech Republic


E2 - Room 3A

CIVIL SOCIETY, CITIZEN PARTICIPATION AND THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA: THE THIRD SECTOR IN MEXICO IN LIGHT OF A NEW POLITICAL REGIME

Chair: Nuno Themudo

Panelists: Jacqueline Butcher, Alejandro Natal, Gustavo Verduzco


E3 - Room 3B

A MODEL FOR DEVELOPING COURT AND COMMUNITY COLLABORATION IN THE UNITED STATES AND SOUTH AFRICA

Organizer: Thomas Lawson
Panelists: M.A. van Zyl, J.H. Brown, and M.C. O'Gorman


E4 - Room 1A

RECONTEXTUALIZED TIME AND SPACE AND THE THIRD SECTOR

Moderator: Crain Soudien

Krystyna Piotrowska-Marczak, Krystyna Kietlinska and Bozena Mikolajczyk
Changing Social Policy in the Circumstances of Public Finance Crisis

Kyle W. Farmbry
Border Regionalism and the Nonprofit Sector: The Case of the San Diego-Tijuana Twin Cities

Rajaram Tolpady
The Changing Context of Civil Society in India-Case of Udupi and Dakshina Kannada


E5 - Room 2B

NEW DIRECTIONS IN COMPARATIVE THIRD SECTOR THEORIZING: A PANEL

Organizer: Paul Opoku-Mensah

Panelists: Lester Salamon, Helmut Anheier, Wojciech Sokolowski, Antonin Wagner, and Terje Tvedt


E6 - Room 1B

DIVERSITY OF THE THIRD SECTOR AND INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS

Moderator: Irina Dezhina

Roseanne M. Mirabella
The International Census of Nongovernmental Studies Project

Hisayo Katsui
Disability NGOs and International Perspectives

Brenda Gainer and Chirawan Chaisuwan
A Comparative Study of Attitudes towards Philanthropy in Thailand and Canada


E7 - Room 1C
DIMENSIONS OF GOVERNANCE IN SERVICE DELIVERY AND EMPLOYMENT

Moderator: Wendy Earles

Nicholas V. Acheson
Area Based Partnerships, Civic Renewal and Social Exclusion: The Case of Disabled People

Wladyslaw Roczniak
Civic or Religious? Issues of Governance in Early Modern Hospitals: The Case of Poland

Birgit Trukeschitz, Eva Hollerweger and Hyun-Joo Monika Nam
Employment in the Third Sector in Austria: The Relative Role of Nonprofit Employment Within Child Care Facilities


E8 - Room 1D

EMPOWERING USERS AND CITIZENS

Moderator: William Clohesy

Mary S. Hutchinson
Giving Children a Voice: Advocacy, Children's Rights and Voluntary Action in Northern Ireland

Usha Thakkar
Engendering Politics for Good Governance: Advocacy for Social and Political Change by Women in India

Salma Akhter
Poverty Alleviation, Community Development and Empowerment of Poor: A Study on NGOs' Approaches and Activities in Bangladesh

E9 - Room 1E


POLICY INITIATIVES AND THIRD SECTOR STUDIES

Moderator: Nitza Nachmias

Mário Aquino Alves
A Good Party But Nobody Has Showed Up: Resistance to a New Nonprofit Legal Qualification in Brazil

Agnes G. Meinhard and Mary Foster
The Impact of Federal and Provincial Policies on Third Sector Organizations: The Canadian Historical Context
Mark Swilling and Bev Russell
The South African Nonprofit Sector Study

4:15 - 5:15 p.m.

Graduate School in Humanities Building
BREAK

POSTER PRESENTATIONS / MEET THE AUTHOR

Nicholas V. Acheson
Walking the Tightrope: Voluntary Agencies, the Disability Business and Social Change. New Evidence from Northern Ireland on Discourse about Origins and Values among Specialist Voluntary Agencies in the Disability Field

Stella Akintola Olubukola
The Politics of Alliance Formation: Civil Society Organizations in Nigeria

Judith N. Bakirya
Corporate Behaviour in the Face of HIV/AIDS in the Workplace

D.M. Basavaraja
Credit Management in Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies: A Regional Perspective

Bernhard Chromy
Innovation Capability in Higher Education - Austria's Fachhochschulen Organizationally Reviewed

Eliana Del Bianco Aquino Alves
Brazilian Volunteering Law: Is it a Solution?

Mohamed Fara
The Contemporary Political Changes and Human Rights in Yemen

Maria Theresia Humphries and Nina Gregg
Challenging Globalisation Through University and Community Dialogues

Ashok V. Jain
From Hegemony to Partnership: The Shifting Paradigms in Inter-Sectoral Relationship in India

Sripathi Kalluraya
Third Sector Initiatives in the Grass-Root Level: Indian Case

Paulo Henrique Lima
RITS and the Citizenship Portal

Shridhara Maniyani
Leadership Development in Consumer Cooperatives

Judith L. Miller and David H. Mould
Building Civil Society at the Grassroots: Results from an Educational Partnership Between the United States and Kyrgyzstan

Gabriela Moreira Pereira
Supply and Demand of Time Donations in Portugal

Brian O'Connell and Robert Hollister
The Master Plan and Progress at Tufts University (U.S.A.) to Make Research and Teaching about Civic Engagement an Integral Part of All Schools and Departments throughout the University

Jeremaiah M. Opiniano
The Efforts of Civil Society Organizations to Protect the Welfare and Rights of Migrant Workers from the Adverse Effects of Globalization: The Case of the Philippines

Jeremaiah M. Opiniano
Development Communication Planning and Strategies for Participatory Development by a Civil Society Organization: The Case of the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction

Florian Pomper
Corporate Social Activities in Austria. Collaborations between NPOs and Forprofits

Chandrika Rao
Mental Health Services: Defining the Role of the Third Sector

Lidia Schapira de Chudak
Inmigrantes Ethiopes en Israel

Abu Bakar Siddique and Mohammad N. Sallam
A Flexible Research Methodology for Studying Development in Developing Countries with Reference to Bangladesh and Yemen

Jean-Bosco Zumatwo Some
Les Organisations Non Gouvernementales: Stratégies de Lutte contre la Pauvreté

Andrés A. Thompson and Juan I. Vallejos
Sports, Philanthropy and Nonprofit Action

Catherine M. Walker and Catherina Pharoah
Young People's Engagement with the Voluntary Sector

5:15 - 7:00 p.m. PARALLEL SESSION F

F1 - Jameson Hall

LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES ON SECTOR DEVELOPMENT

Moderator: Cynthia Sanborn

Mario M. Roitter
The Third Sector as an Urban Phenomenon: A Comparative View in the Latin American Context
Laís Vanessa Figueirêdo Lopes
Compendium of Third Sector Legislation-Analysis of the Existing Laws and Regulations in Brazil

Soledad Teixidó, Reinalina Chavarres and Andrea Castro
La Responsabilidad Social Empresarial en Chile: Innovación y Desafíos


F2 - Room 3A

WORK AND SOCIAL INTEGRATION

Chair: Chris Lange

Panelists: Ingo Bode, Adalbert Evers, Andreas Schulz, Eckhard Priller, Christina Stecker, Michael Vilain


F3 - Room 1A

CROSS-COUNTRY STUDIES OF VOLUNTEERING

Moderator: Karla Simon

Gesa Birnkraut
Volunteering in Cultural Institutions-A Comparison Between the US and Germany

Maria S. Tysiachniouk
Citizen Involvement in Watershed Protection Russia and the U.S.

Susanne Ziemek
Economic Theories on Motives for Volunteering-A Cross-Country Analysis


F4 - Room 3B

DIMENSIONS OF THE THIRD SECTOR IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD

Organizer: Wojciech Sokolowski

Panelists: Lester Salamon, Ledivina Cariño, Ramon Fernan, Salama Saidi, Karuti Kanyinga, Winnie Mitullah, Bev Russell, and Mark Swilling


F5 - Room 1B

VOLUNTEERS AND ORGANIZATIONS
Moderator: Richard Steinberg

Swapan Garain
Corporate Volunteering: An Extension of Corporate Citizenship or a Strategic Escape from Corporate Giving?

Rosemary Leonard, Ailsa Burns and Jenny Onyx
Agency and Public Recognition of Women's Volunteering: Does the Organisation make a Difference?

Helen Cameron
The Community Involvement in Church Attenders: Findings from the English 2001 Church Life Profile


F6 - Room 1C

THE IMPACT OF CONTEXT ON PATTERNS OF ORGANIZING

Moderator: Mark Lyons

Shameena Mehtab
The Co-operative Movement in a Complex Social System

Angela L. Bies
Self-Regulation in Poland's Non-Governmental Sector: Internal and External Dynamics, Mandatory and Discretionary Approaches

Priscilla Wamucii Karuru and Judith Miller
Using a Country's Context to Analyze Organizational Development: The Case of Maendeleo ya Wanawake


F7 - Room 1D

EXPERIMENTS IN KNOWLEDGE BUILDING

Moderator: Jan Aart Scholte

Anahit R.P.M. Mkrtchyan
Practice-Researchers in Social Transformations in Post-Soviet Countries, Challenges. Practice of Armenia

Nihal Jain
Social Capital in Community-based Institutions: Trends and Emerging Lessons from Western India

Roch L. Mongbo
Documenter les Transformations des Relations Etat et Sociétés à Partir de l'Intérieur: Un Programme de Recherche-Action sur la Société Civile, les Modes Gouvernance et la Décentralisation au Bénin


F8 - Room 1E

MEASURING THE IMPACT OF ADVOCACY WORK

Moderator: Marilyn Taylor

Meenaz Kassam, Femida Handy and Shree Renade
More Bang for the Decreasing Buck

Joseph J. Capuno, Janette S. Sardalla, Maria Melody S. Garcia and Lorna G. Villamil
Local Governments, Business Groups and NGOs as Advocates of Good Governance: The GOFORDEV Index Experience

David J. Worth
The Construction of Political Effectiveness-Insights from Australian Advocacy Organisations

7:00 pm OPEN NIGHT / EVENING AT LEISURE
Wednesday, July 10
9:00 - 10:45 a.m.

PLENARY SESSION - CIVIL SOCIETY IN SOUTH AFRICA

Chair: Susan Nkomo

Discussants: Wilmot James, Mzwalake Mayekiso, Mark Swilling

10:45 - 11:15 a.m. BREAK
11:15 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
PARALLEL SESSION G

G1 - Jameson Hall

CIVIL SOCIETY AND DEMOCRACY

Moderator: Dorothy Gordon

Romina Miorelli
Sociedad Civil y Democracia: El Aporte Creativo de las Teorías de los Movimientos Sociales Latinoamericanos

Arsene Bwenge Mwaka
Les Milices Mayi Mayi dans la Guerre Actualle de la R.D. Congo ou la Societe Civile Armee?

Cristina Teresa Penso d'Albenzio
Coperatión entre Organizaciones Civiles y Gobiernos: Hacia un Desarrollo con Equidad

Abdoul-Kader Amadou Naino
Genre et Democratie au Niger: Le Mouvement Associatif Féminin dans la Construction d'une Nouvelle Gouvernance (1991-2001)


G2 - Room 1A

CIVIL SOCIETY, MEDIA AND POLITICS

Moderator: Timothy Ireland

Devan Pillay
Media, Civil Society and Democracy in South Africa

Deena White
Social Services or Social Politics? The Significance of State-Third Sector Agreements for Welfare State Development


G3 - Room 3A

NONPROFIT IMPACTS: EVIDENCE FROM AROUND THE GLOBE

Organizer: Kathryn Chinnock

Panelists: Freda Donoghue, Mark Swilling


G4 - Room 3B

PRACTICE RESEARCH ENGAGEMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION: SOUTH ASIA
Organizer: L. David Brown

Panelists: Ranjita Mohanty, Padma Ratnayake, Simeen Mahmud


G5 - Room 1B

REGULATION AND THIRD SECTOR EFFECTIVENESS

Moderator: Rosemary Leonard

Leon E. Irish and Karla Simon
The Legal Status of Volunteers

Indira Mahendravada
Are the NGO Interventions Demand Driven or Supply Forced? A Study of Grass Roots NGOs

Ricardo Cesar Martins
Approaching Civil Society in the Strategic Planning of Greenpeace


G6 - Room 1C

ASSISTANCE THROUGH THE BORDER LINES

Moderator: Ted Howard

Irina Dezhina
American Science Foundations in Russia as Driving Forces of International Transfer in Knowledge and Professional Skills

Mokbul Morshed Ahmad
Donors, the State, NGOs and Their Clients in Bangladesh

Alex Asiedu
Poverty Reduction Among the Urban Poor in Accra, Ghana-A Comparative Study of the Role of Two International Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO)


G7 - Room 1D

REFRAMING GOVERNANCE: STUDIES FROM ISRAEL, INDIA AND CHINA

Moderator: Mario Aquino Alves

Nitza Nachmias and Amiram Bogot
The Use of Inducement and Sanctions in Regulating the Third Sector: The Case of Israel

Swapan Garain and Raj Kumar Majhi
Application of ICT for Social Engineering: Experiments in Governance in India

Qiusha Ma
Governance of Chinese NGOs: Patterns and Practice


G8 - Room 1E

EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES

Moderator: Srilatha Batliwala

Joseph J. Capuno, Maria Melody S. Garcia, Janette S. Sardalla and Lorna G. Villamil
The Development Payoffs of Good Governance: The Results of a Social Experiment in Two Provinces in the Philippines

Michael S. Locke
Increasing the Involvement of Service-Users in Governance and Management: Some Lessons of Action Research

Maria Theresia Humphries, Betsan Martin, Bryan Bang and Gina Mohi
Working with Difference-Resisting Premature Conjugality


G9 - Room 2B

INTERCULTURAL KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER

Moderator: Lev Jakobson

Ferenc Farkas
Knowledge Transfer: The Role of Nonprofit Agencies. Hungarian-German Comparison

Raina Harper
Intercultural Transfer of Fundraising Practices Between Nonprofit and Nongovernmental Organizations: An Examination of the United States and South Africa

Anabel Cruz
PROLIDES: An Experience of International Transfer of Knowledge. Its Impact in Uruguay and Other Countries

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm LUNCH
2:00 pm - 3:45 pm
PARALLEL SESSION H
H1 - Jameson Hall

PUBLIC POLICY, RELIGION AND THE CHANGING ECONOMICS OF THE WELFARE STATE

Moderator: Pushpa Sundar

Margaret Gibelman and Sheldon Gelman
Misguided Public Policy: Religion and the Provision of Human Services

Ingo Bode
A New Agenda for European Charity: Catholic Nonprofit Welfare in France and Germany at the Crossroads

Daniel Gropper
The Religious Sector in Argentina. Its Importance as Employer and Generator of Economic Activity / El Sector Religion en Argentina: Su Importancia como Empleador y como Generador de Actividad Económica

Gabriela Moreira Pereira and Carlos Barros
State, the Church, and the Financing of Non-profit


H2 - Room 1A

ASIAN PERSPECTIVES ON GIVING AND VOLUNTEERING

Moderator: Ramon Fernan

Vidya Rao
Individual Giving Behaviour in Health Sector in India

Tae-kyu Park
An Empirical Analysis of Charitable Giving Behavior: A Study of Korean Case

Mark Lyons and Susan Hocking
Asian Philanthropy-A Four Country Study


H3 - Room 3A

HOW TO ASSESS THE HEALTH OF CIVIL SOCIETY WORLDWIDE? A DEBATE ON THE EXPERIENCES MADE IN THE DESIGN AND PILOT IMPLEMENTATION PHASE OF THE CIVICUS INDEX ON CIVIL SOCIETY PROJECT

Organizer: Volkhart Finn Heinrich

Panelists: Kumi Naidoo, Helmut Anheier, Srilatha Batliwala, Alan Fowler


H4 - Room 3B

PRACTICE RESEARCH ENGAGEMENT FOR SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION - REFLECTIONS FROM THE EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA REGION

Organizer: Ezra Mbogori

Panelists: Karuti Kanyinga, Andrew Kiondo and Nyangabyaki Bazaara


H5 - Room 1B

GLOBALIZATION, TRANSNATIONALISM AND THE THIRD SECTOR

Moderator: Elke Zuern

Antonin Wagner
Redefining Citizenship for the 21st Century-From the National Welfare State to the UN Global Compact

Thorsten Hallmann and Annette Zimmer
Trapped in an Identity Gap? Self-Perception and Self-Esteem on Nonprofit Organisations in Changing Environments

Tracy McFarland
Political Participation: Understanding the Link Between Formal Political Participation and Gender, Civil Society Organizations and Transnational Advocacy Networks

Barry Knight
Citizens at the Centre of Governance


H6 - Room 1C

SHIFTING RELATIONS: CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Moderator: Leslie Hems
Shivarama M. Moodithaya
Corporate Philanthropy and Social Development: An Indian Perspective

Kathy L. Brock
State Promotion of the Third Sector through the Corporate Sector


H7 - Room 1D

MIGRANT TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVITY

Moderator: Paul Opoku-Mensah

Jeremaiah M. Opiniano
The Dynamics of Transnational Philanthropy by Migrant Workers for the Development of their Communities of Origin: The Case of Pozorrubio, Philippines

Julia Suryakusuma
Indonesian Women Migrant Workers, Human Rights Abuses and International Alliances

Marwa A. El-Daly
The Role of Islamic and Arab Civil Society Organizations in World Peace


H8 - Room 1E

ASSESSING SIZE AND IMPACT OF THIRD SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS

Moderator: Masayuki Deguchi

Yoshiho Matsunaga and Naoto Yamauchi
What Determines the Size of Nonprofits?-Cross-Country Analysis from the Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project

Fumiyo Higeta Layman
Evaluating the Impact of Emerging Corporate Philanthropy in China

Maria Saenz, Kemly Camacho, Millaray Villalobos and Evelyn Zamora
Internet: Una Ventana de Oportunidades de Cómo el Tercer Sector Puede Utilizar la Internet para Incidir en las Acciones Públicas y Prividas para la Construcción de una Sociedad Mejor


H9 - Room 2B

SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS A CHALLENGE

Moderator: Richard Couto

Paola Grenier
The Function of Social Entrepreneurship in the UK

Osama Aziz Isdudi
The Characteristics of the Social Entrepreneurs in Jordan (A Comparative Study with the For-Profit Sector)

Anne Floquet
Les Entreprises Sociales entre Repli et Rançonnement: Analyse Comparative Multisectorielle en Afrique Sub-Saharienne

Fifth International Conference

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

Adam Habib
University of Natal, Centre for Civil Society, South Africa
Academic Committee Co-Chair

Masayuki Deguchi
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan
Academic Committee Co-Chair

Hadara Bar-Mor
Netanya Academic College, Israel

L. David Brown
Harvard University, The Hauser Center on Nonprofit Organizations, USA

Gemma Donnelly-Cox
Trinity College, School of Business, Ireland

Freda Donoghue
Trinity College, School of Business, Ireland

Rosa Maria Fischer
Centro de Estudos em Administração do Terceiro Setor, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Lev Jakobson
Moscow State University, Higher School of Economics, Russia

Crain Soudien
University of Cape Town, Graduate School in Humanities, South Africa
Rupert Taylor
University of the Witwatersrand, Department of Political Studies, South Africa


CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

Gale Johnstone
Eagle Management Services

Karin Diedrichs
Global Conferences

Odette Arbuthnot
Global Conferences

Andrea Bennett
Global Conferences


ISTR SECRETARIAT STAFF

Margery B. Daniels
Executive Director

Donna L. Jakuta
Program Assistant

Anne Painter
Graduate Assistant

Home              Back to Top               Contact               Site Map