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dc.contributor.authorPicken, Alexandreaen
dc.contributor.authorLewis, Simonen
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-11T13:43:14Z
dc.date.available2016-01-11T13:43:14Z
dc.date.issued01/09/2015en
dc.identifier.citationPicken, A. and Lewis, S. (2015) The Impacts of Politics and Ethnicity on Volunteering. IDS Bulletin 46(5): 54-68en
dc.identifier.issn1759-5436en
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/7748
dc.description.abstractThis article examines how national and local ethno?politics impact on volunteering by taking a cross?country comparative perspective: Kenya and Mozambique. In both countries societal fragmentation along ethno?political lines is mirrored within the volunteer landscape and reduces the positive impacts of volunteering. The role of international volunteers (IVs) from the global North and, in the case of Kenya, national volunteers (NVs), to address these divisions is discussed. The effects of the support of the volunteering for development sector in such ethnically and politically fragmented contexts is also explored. The findings from the current research show that the perceived neutrality of the IV and NV means they may face less risk in attempting to step outside of existing political and ethnic confines than local volunteers or citizens functioning within these environments. Through this neutrality, IVs and NVs may be provided with a unique opportunity to use this position to assuage some of these societal fractions.en
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dc.publisher© 2015 Institute of Development Studiesen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIDS Bulletin Vol. 46 Nos. 5en
dc.rights.urihttp://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/IDSOpenDocsStandardTermsOfUse.pdfen
dc.titleThe Impacts of Politics and Ethnicity on Volunteeringen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1759-5436.12175en


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