The book assesses emerging patterns of citizen activism and civil society development across five continents in response to changing national and global political, economic and social pressures. It identifies emerging challenges, new forms of organization and activism, and implications of these patterns for practitioners and policy-makers concer
Rajesh Tandon is the founder President of the Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), an India-based NGO that provides civil society research and capacity building. He has been active in regional and international initiatives to strengthen civil society, democratic governance, and active citizenship.
L. David Brown is a retired Senior Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University. He was co-Founder and President of the Institute for Development Research, a civil society research and capacity-building center in Boston. He works on civil society development, cross-sector collaboration, and transnational civil society organizations.