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The Vision & Mission• To foster the global movement towards a
just society that embraces nonviolence, free media, multiculturalism, biodiversity, sustainable development, ecological restoration, appropriate technology, and human rights by providing an educational travel service dedicated to helping people find opportunities to undertake socially conscious travel.
Considerations• Language learning• Volunteer placement• Eco-impact reduction• Travel insurance• Transportation • Informative resources• Weather worldwide• Housing options• Travelers’ health• Fundraising• Documents• Community involvement
Development Then
Traditionally, development was equated
with economic production and the optimization of profits for the
corporate sector.
Development Now
Development has now cometo represent a process of
“world-building.”
World-Building
"the process of integrating and transforming the aspirations of
collectivities at all levels of social organization toward those that advance the development of people everywhere.“
(Estes: 1992: 33)
Key ConceptsConscientization• “Profound insight into the source(s) of their oppression
combined with a willingness to act collectively in bringing about solutions to those oppressions” (Estes: 1992: 28).
Institution-building• “The process of establishing new, or extending existing,
resources to larger numbers of persons in need of such services” (Estes: 1992: 33).
Globalization• “The intensification of a worldwide social relations which link
distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many mile away and vice versa” (Morrow & Carlos Torres: 2000: 27-28).
Counterglobalization• “The influence exerted by ‘the rise of some new social
movements and the role of local and international nongovernmental organizations’” (Burbules & Torres: 2000: 18).
Alan Fowler (2002)
– “Diaspora channels can be more reliable because responsibility and accountability ‘back home’ increase vulnerability to the consequences of globalization.” (18)
– “people’s individual and collective capacity to cope with exploit opportunities created by change becomes the core feature of anti-poverty interventions.” (6)
Service Learning
• Links to academic content and standards.• Involves people in helping to determine
& meet real, defined community needs.• Is reciprocal in nature, benefiting both
the community & the service providers.• Can relate to any subject area so long as
it is appropriate for assessed needs. -- National Commission on Service Learning
Service Learning• “Service-learning combines service objectives with learning
objectives with the intent that the activity change both the recipient and the provider of the service. This is accomplished by combining service tasks with structured opportunities that link the task to self-reflection, self-discovery, and the acquisition and comprehension of values, skills, and knowledge content.”
» --www.servicelearning.org
• “Service-learning is a form of experiential education where learning occurs through a cycle of action and reflection as students work with others through a process of applying what they are learning to community problems and, at the same time, reflecting upon their experience as they seek to achieve real objectives for the community and deeper understanding and skills for themselves.”
» --Eyler & Giles, 1999
• “A primary goal of service learning is to get students to place their volunteer work in a larger social context and to give them an opportunity to explore that connection through reflection activities.”
» --www.idealist.org
Transnational AdvocacyAs global civil society tries to compensate for the failures of the market and state under current forms of globalization, NGOs have been restructuring their own work in the context created by globalization by forming transnational networks.
(Thompson, 2001)
Examples of a well-known transnational advocacy campaign include: the campaign to stop the promotion of Nestle’s infant formula to women in the South, and the 1997 treaty to ban land mines, which 122 countries signed, largely due to the support of 300 NGOs worldwide.
(Keck & Sikkink, 1998)
Boomerang Pattern Strategy
• This strategy bypasses the weakened or corrupt state when civil society-to-state channels have been blocked in order to invoke change either in the same state or in a corporation that the state of origination could potentially regulate or pressure into reform.
• The boomerang is thrown to foreign states and international institutions through collaboration with global civil society.
• The state of origination, as a result, receives ever increasing external pressure from the global allies of civil society to implement the desired policy change, and, thus, the boomerang is returned.
Global Public Goods
"It is not beyond the powers of political volition to tip the scales towards more secure peace, greater economic well-being, social justice and environmental sustainability. But no country can achieve these global public goods on its own, and neither can the global marketplace. Thus our efforts must now focus on the missing term of the equation: global public goods".
Kofi AnnanSecretary-General of the United NationsNew York1 March 1999
Global Public GoodsFramework
• Global public goods are "public goods with benefits that are strongly universal in terms of countries, peoples, and generations".
• The types of global public goods fall under the following categories: equity and justice, peace and security, environment and cultural heritage, knowledge and information, health, and market efficiency.
• By definition of a “pure public good,” they must be nondepletable, nonrivalrous, and nonexcludable, as well as intragenerational and intergenerational.
• They are either: overused, such as the ozone layer; underused, such as knowledge and information; or undersupplied, such as peace, health, market efficiency, and equity.
• Their overuse, underuse, and undersupply are a result of the free-rider problem running rampant under globalization, and the public ‘bads’ that globalization has left in its wake.
(Kaul, Grunberg & Stern, 1999)
Promotion ofGlobal Public Goods
• Global public goods are already being promoted by socially responsible businesses, NGOs, and intergovernmental organizations.
• The UNDP is the main advocate for this new framework, but it is a framework that has been readily adopted by NGOs and businesses alike that feel cross-sectoral collaborations and this adoption of a common framework, or language so to speak, are essential to sustainable development.
What the Framework Offers
1) Simple explanations of global social problems brought on by the imperfect market and globalization;
2) How individual states can work alone and together to expand their responsibility of providing public goods to the world;
3) Corporations and other sectors clear economic incentives to implement the solutions it suggests;
4) NGOs a uniform mission to successfully network and communicate with other sectors;
5) A clear presentation of the current weaknesses in their provision; and
6) An explanation and set of solutions that all sectors and cultures can agree on.
The Fourth Position“Aid Architecture: Reflections of NGDO Futures and the Emergence of
Counter-Terrorism” by Alan Fowler (2002)– “The issue is how to ensure fairness, justice, efficiency and
effectiveness in development relationships that are set to become even more complex as government, different businesses, various types of civil society organization and donors try to collaborate. Each actor has combinations of incentives, motivations, resources and forms of power that are often at odds with those of the others. It is therefore difficult to envisage how to bring them together to find common and equitable grounds for collaboration.” (18-19)
– “The essential idea is to draw on but move beyond a too-simple three-sector view of society, to a more complex understanding of an NGDO’s grounding, principles of operation, roles and embedding in society, a ‘fourth position’. In other words, while bonded to civil society, they use their value-base as a ‘springboard’ to interact with state, market and civil society itself—which is far from homogenous and is not inherently ‘civil’ or conflict free. They would have the competence to speak different ‘sector languages’ and to engage across diverse institutional boundaries and foster interorganizational linkages. In doing so, the challenge is to help others to see how NGDO values, expressed through human rights, are relevant to everyone in terms of responsible global change, long-term institutional viability and local to global stability and sustainability.” (20-21)
Tri-Sectoral Forums
The UNDP calls for the increase in tri-sectoral forums that include civil society, corporations, and states.
The UNDP encourages the continuous development of concepts and instruments necessary to bolster collective action, such as the internalization of externalities and to “deal with potentially contagious phenomena at the source, before they spill across borders.”(Kaul, Grunberg & Stern, 1999)
The Fourth Position at the UN
“From politics to security to public health, from crime to the environment, a growing agenda of development issues can no longer be managed within the boundaries of any single nation. Global, regional and national coalitions for action are emerging centred around the United Nations’ indispensable role. The UN can bring together governments, civil society, multinational corporations and multilateral organizations — coming together around particular issues of concern and looking for innovative ways to address them.”— Mark Malloch Brown, Administrator of UNDP
E.N.G.A.G.E.The Educational Network for Global and
Grassroots Exchange
www.Engage-Humanity.org • Uses the energy of former study abroad
students to link communities globally in grassroots action for social justice.
•Transportation Arrangements
•Learning the Language•Community Involvement•Cultural Understanding
Impact Management
Transportation Arrangements
Routes International - http://www.routesinternational.com/
Environmentally-Friendly Transportation - http://www.knowledgehound.com/topics/ecotrans.htm
The Trail Database - www.traildatabase.org
Global Gazetteer Version 2.1 - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/
Sunrise, sunset, dawn/dusk times - www.gaisma.com
Fox Car Rentals - www.foxrentacar.com
Carbon Emissions Offset Directory– www.ecobusinesslinks.com
/carbon_offset_wind_credit...
Crooked Trails– www.crookedtrails.com/ca
rbon.htmCarbon Neutral Travel
– www.carbonfund.org National Carbon Offset Coalition
– www.ncoc.us/MyClimate Carbon Offsets
– www.my-climate.comCarbon Offset Programs
– www.mongabay.com/10offset.htm
Action Without Borders - www.idealist.org
AFS - www.afs.org Border Links - www.borderlinks.org BRIDGES - www.grassrootsbridges.org Cosmic Volunteers -
www.cosmicvolunteers.org Domoz open directory project -
‘volunteering opportunities’ - http://dmoz.org/Society/Philanthropy/Volunteering/Opportunities/
Domoz open directory project - ‘specialty travel: volunteering’ - http://dmoz.org/Recreation/Travel/Specialty_Travel/Volunteering/
Institute for International Cooperation and Development (IICD) - www.iicd-volunteer.org
International Foundation for Education and Self-Help (IFESH) - www.ifesh.org
International Partnership for Service and Learning (IPS-L) - www.ipsl.org
International Volunteer Expeditions (IVEX) - www.espwa.org
Our Developing World - www.magiclink.net/~odw
SCI-IVS USA (Service Civil International-International Voluntary Service) - www.sci-ivs.org
Visions in Action - www.visionsinaction.org
Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) - www.vsocanada.org
World Capitals Program of American University - www.worldcapitals.american.edu
World Neighbors - www.wn.org World PULSE - www.worldpulse.org
Community Involvement & Volunteering
February 21 - International Mother Language Day (UNESCO)
April 7 - World Health Day (WHO)May 1 - International Workers DayMay 3 - World Press Freedom Day
(UNESCO)May 15 - International Day of
FamiliesJune 5 - World Environment Day
(UNEP)June 20 - World Refugee DayAugust 7 - Transgender
International Rights and Education Day
August 9 - International Day of Indigenous People
September 16 - International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
October 17 - International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
November 9 - Kristallnacht, International Day Against Fascism & Anti-Semitism
November 11 - International Day of Science and Peace
November 20 - Universal Children’s Day
December 1 - World AIDS Day (WHO)
December 2 - International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
December 3 - International Day of Disabled Persons
December 5 - International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development
December 10 - Human Rights Day
December 29 - International Day for Biological Diversity
Human Rights Calendar
United Nations Human Rights information: www.unhchr.ch
“Edward T. Hall--A Great-Grandfather of NLP” by Brian Van der Hor -www.cs.ucr.edu/~gnick/bvdh/edward_t_hall_great_.htm
Journal of Intercultural Communication - www.immi.se/intercultural/
Intermundo - http://intermundo.net/ CorpusEye - www.corp.hum.sdu.dk Corpus Linguistics - www.athel.com/corpus.htmlEndangered Language Fund - http://
sapir.ling.yale.edu/~elf/index.htmlEthnologue Database - www.sil.org/ethnologue Ethnologue Languages of the World Online -
www.ethnologue.com/web.asp Foreign Languages and Culture -
www.speakeasy.org/~dbrick/hot/foreign.htmlThe Human-Languages Page - http://
ilovelanguages.com
Linguistic Human Rights
Sustainable Travel
• Nature Conservancy’s Ecotourism Publications & Resources– http://
nature.org/aboutus/travel/ecotourism/resources/
• National Geographic– www.nationalgeographic.com/tra
vel/sustainable/
• Tourism Concern– www.tourismconcern.org.uk
• Sustainable Travel International– www.sustainabletravel.com/
• International Society of Travel Medicine– www.istm.org/
• Educational Travel Community– www.travelearning.com/
rsp_tourism/responsible_tourism.php
• Manaca– www.Manaca.com
• Business Enterprises for Sustainable Travel (BEST)– www.sustainabletravel.org/
• Envirolink– www.envirolink.org/
index.html • The International Ecotourism
Society– http://ecotourism.org/
index2.php?home• Responsible Travel
– www.responsibletravel.com • Ecological Footprint Network
– www.footprintnetwork.org• International Centre for
Responsible Travel– www.icrt.org
Informative Resources•Independent Media Resources
•Media Resources by Country
•Monitoring Agencies
Independent Media Resources• Alternative Radio -
www.alternativeradio.org • Alternet - www.alternet.org• Centre for Research on
Globalization - www.globalresearch.ca
• Common Dreams - www.commondreams.org
• Consortium for Independent Journalism, The - www.consortiumnews.com
• Envirolink Network - http://envirolink.netforchange.com
• Environmental Media Services - www.ems.org
• Foreign Policy in Focus - Institute for Policy Studies - www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org
• Global Issues - www.globalissues.org
• Global Spin - www.globalspin.org Inequality.org - ww.inequality.org
• International Action Center - www.iacenter.org
• IPS (Inter Press Service) - www.ips.org
• New Internationalist - www.newint.org
• Progressive Response - www.foreginpolicy-infocus.org
• PR Watch - www.prwatch.org• Radio for Change -
www.workingforchange.com• TruthOut.com-
www.truthout.com• ZNET - www.zmag.weluser.htm
Media Resources by Country• NewsLink -
www.newslink.org• ABYZ News Links -
www.abyznewslinks.com • NewsMax.com -
www.newsmax.com • News and Newspapers
Online - http://library.uncg.edu/news/
• The Flying Inkpot presents Inkternational News Links - http://inkpot.com/news/
• Yahoo! News Directory by Countries - http://dir.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/Newspapers/By_Region/Countries/
• Nettizen.com: Newspaper Directory - www.nettizen.com/newspaper/
• Worldpress.org - www.worldpress.org/
• OnLineNewspapers.com - www.onlinenewspapers.com/
• Harvard College Library: Newspapers on Microfilm Collection - http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/widener/collections/newspapers/index.html
• Progressive Exchange - www.progressiveexchange.com/
• Tourism Offices Worldwide Directory - www.towd.com
• Worldwide Free Travel - http://desteo.dotlogix.com
• US State Department: Travel Info - www.state.gov/travel/ • United Nations Commission on Human Rights -
www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/2/chr.htm • United Nations Development Programme - www.undp.org/ • United Nations Millennium Project Development Goals -
www.unmillenniumproject.org/reports/index.htm • Human Rights Watch - www.hrw.org • Earth Rights International - www.earthrights.org • Amnesty International - www.amnesty.org • Footprint Network - www.footprintnetwork.org • World Wildlife Fund - www.wwf.org • KnowMore - www.knowmore.org • Earth Watch Institute - www.earthwatch.org • Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
(WILPF) - www.wilpf.org
Monitoring Agencies
Recommended Literature
Alternatives to the Peace Corps: A Directory of Third World and U.S. Volunteer Opportunities
– 9th Edition, edited by Joan Powell (Food First Books, 2000)Global Citizen: A Guide to Creating an International Life and Career for
Students, Professionals, Retirees, & Families– By Elizabeth Kruempelmann (Ten Speed Press, 2002)
How to Live You Dream of Volunteering Overseas– by Joseph Collins,Stefano Dezerega, Zahara Heckscher, &Anna Lappe
(2002)So, You Want to Join the Peace Corps…What to Know Before You Go
– Dillon Banerjee (Ten Speed Press, 2000)The Back Door Guide to Short-Term Job Adventures: Internships,
Extraordinary Experiences, Seasonal Jobs, Volunteering, Work Abroad– by Michael Landers (Ten Speed Press, 2000)The International Directory of Volunteer Work
– 7th Edition by Louise Whetter and Victoria Pybus (Vacation Work, 2000)Volunteer Vacations: Short-Term Adventures that Will Benefit You and
Others– 7th Edition, by Bill McMillon & Edward Asner (Chicago Review Press,
1999)
Program Choices• General Resources• IDEALIST (Action Without Borders)
– www.idealist.org• International Volunteer Programs Association
(IVPA)– www.volunteerinternational.org
• Volunteer Abroad– www.volunteerabroad.com
• Global Exchange– www.globalexchange.com
• Education Travel Seminar to Two-Thirds World Center for Global Education at Augsburg College– www.augsber.edu/global
Program Choices• Archeology Options• Council on International Educational Exchange
(CIEE)– www.ciee.org
• University Research Expeditions Program (UREP)– http://urep.ucdavis.edu
• Business and Economic Development• Citizens Democracy Corps (CDC)/MBA Enterprise
Corps– www.cdc.org
• The International Executive Service Corps (IESC)– www.iesc.org
• United Nations Volunteer Program (UNV)– www.unv.org
Program Choices• Community
Development• Council on International
Educational Exchange (CIEE)– www.ciee.org
• Cross Cultural Solutions– www.crossculturalsolut
ions.org• Global Routes
– www.globalroutes.org• Service Civil International
– International Voluntary Service (SCI-IVS USA)– www.sci-ivs.org
• Cultural Programs• Amizade
– www.amizade.org• Global Citizens
Network– www.globalcitizens.or
g• Kibbutz Program
Center– www.kibbutzprogramc
enter.org
Program Choices• Environmental
Protection & Research
• Coral Cay Conservation (CCC) Expedition– www.coralcay.org
• Earthwatch Institute– www.earhtwatch.org
• Global Service Corps/Earth Island Institute– www.globalserviceco
rps.org
• Health Programs• Doctors Without
Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)– www.doctorswithou
tborders.org• Health Volunteers
Overseas (HVO)– www.hvousa.org
• Peacework’s Medical Volunteer Program– www.peacework.or
g
Program ChoicesHumanitarian Relief & Service• Concern America
– www.concernamerica.org• Habitat for Humanity
International (HFHI)– www.habitat.org
• Heifer Project International (HPI)– www.heifer.org
• Interaction: American Council for Voluntary International Action– www.interaction.org
• United Nations Volunteers– www.unv.org/unvols
• Volunteers for Peace, Inc. (VFP) International Workcamps– www.vfp.org
Volunteering Online• Netaid.org Foundation
– www.netaid.org• Volunteers in Technical
Assistance (VITA)– www.vita.org
• Global Genie– www.greentravel.org– [email protected]
Fundraising Possibilitieswww.fundraising-ideas.org/listings/i
ndex.html• Cookie Dough• Candy, Chocolate, Etc.• Candles, Soaps, Scents &
Lotions• Catalogs & Brochures• Holiday Items &
Collectibles• Discount Cards & Books• First Aid & Safety
Products• Cookbooks• Sell Used Computers• Special Events• Spirit, Logo &
Personalized Items• Car Wash• Yard Work
• Painted Tiles• Sell Used CDs• Flowers, Bulbs, Trees &
Plants• Stationery & Calendars• Magazines & Books• Bake Sale• Garage Sale• Religious Group
Collaboration• Snacks, Gourmet Foods,
Etc. • T-Shirts & Other Apparel• Paint Houses• Give a Class or Seminar• Store Donations• Airlines Discounts
Raising Funds
Sources• Campus Groups• Civic Groups• Local Companies• Heritage Groups• Alumni Associations• Media Organizations• Sister Cities• Friends, Family,
Neighbors, and Colleagues
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and Courteous• Explain Clearly How
the Funds Will Be Used• Offer Something
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• Food & Drink• Wayside Shelter• Money to Go• Travel Papers• Telecommunications• Travel Gear• Traveler’s Health• Weather Worldwide• Fundraising for Travel• Discounts• Study Options• Work Options
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