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Автор: Hopgood, Stephen
Название: Keepers of the flame
ISBN: 9780801472510
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Права человека

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ISBN-10: 0801472512
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 272
Вес: 0.39 кг.
Дата издания: 16.03.2006
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 16 tables
Размер: 152 x 231 x 12
Читательская аудитория: Undergraduate
Подзаголовок: Understanding amnesty international
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Поставляется из: Англии
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If one organization is synonymous with keeping hope alive, even as a faint glimmer in the darkness of a prison, it is Amnesty International. Amnesty has been the light, and that light was truth—bearing witness to suffering hidden from the eyes of the world.—from Keepers of the FlameThe first in-depth look at working life inside a major human rights organization, Keepers of the Flame charts the history of Amnesty International and the development of its nerve center, the International Secretariat, over forty-five years. Through interviews with staff members, archival research, and unprecedented access to Amnesty Internationals internal meetings, Stephen Hopgood provides an engrossing and enlightening account of day-to-day operations within the organization, larger decisions about the nature of its mission, and struggles over the implementation of that mission.An enduring feature of Amnestys inner life, Hopgood finds, has been a recurrent struggle between the keepers of the flame who seek to preserve Amnestys accumulated store of moral authority and reformers who hope to change, modernize, and use that moral authority in ways that its protectors fear may erode the organizations uniqueness. He also explores how this concept of moral authority affects the working lives of the servants of such an ideal and the ways in which it can undermine an institutions political authority over time. Hopgood argues that human-rights activism is a social practice best understood as a secular religion where internal conflict between sacred and profane—the mission and the practicalities of everyday operations—are both unavoidable and necessary.Keepers of the Flame is vital reading for anyone interested in Amnesty International, its accomplishments, agonies, obligations, fears, opportunities, and challenges—or, more broadly, in how humanitarian organizations accommodate the moral passions that energize volunteers and professional staff alike.

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Preface and Acknowledgments1 Between Two Worlds
2 Shadows and Doors
3 Lighting the Candle
4 Telling the Truth about Suffering
5 Politics and Democratic Authority
6 Being and Doing
7 The Inheritors
8 Amnesty in PracticeAbb

Keepers of the flame, Hopgood, Stephen