The field of nonprofit studies often assumes that efforts of actors in the nonprofit landscape
are beneficial, especially when considering nonprofit human service organizations …

Little academic research has examined the challenges humanitarian actors face or the
strategies they develop in the increasingly numerous authoritarian and low-intensity conflict …

This study examines what motivates an organization representing a religious-national
minority to provide social services. The case study for examining this issue is the Islamic …

Armed non-state actors, such as Hezbollah and Hamas, are visibly engaged in providing
social welfare in addition to participating in violence. A number of scholars have suggested …

This chapter offers a comparative perspective on the conceptual and practical linkages
between social policy as a field of public practice and the subject focus of this volume which …

Based on a total of one year of qualitative fieldwork conducted on drought and flood
responses in Ethiopia, Myanmar and Zimbabwe, engaging with state, civil society …

This article examines the state of comparative research of Non-Profit Organisations (NPOs).
Reviewing 110 articles published in philanthropic and third sector journals in the last 10 …

Ethiopia used to be a textbook case of the intermingling of politics and (international)
humanitarianism. Drought response examples from the 1970s and 1980s, involving forced …

Little academic research has examined the challenges humanitarian actors face or the
strategies they develop in the increasingly numerous authoritarian and low-intensity conflict …