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    United Glasgow Football Club: a study in sport's facilitation of integration

    Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford, 2014
    Around the world, sport has increasingly been touted as a vehicle for social change by organisations, academics and athletes alike. Sport programmes are said to promote conflict resolution, physical and mental health, and acceptance of diversity. Sport has also been applied to facilitate the integration of migrant groups into host societies.
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    Organising women workers in the informal economy

    Gender and Development, 2013
    There are numerous challenges facing organisation amongst the hardest-to-reach women in the informal economy. This paper, published in Gender and Development, examines the various factors determining the success and failure of attempts to organise, and seek economic justice and recognition.
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    Community matters: fulfilling learning potentials for young men and women

    UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2013
    The scale of the youth illiteracy problem calls for critical and targeted responses. It is important to help young people in developing countries gain basic literacy skills so that they can contribute to the development of productive, peaceful and democratic societies.
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    Exploring alternative approaches for managing electoral injustice in Africa

    Institute for Security Studies, 2010
    African dictators have resisted the transition before succumbing to both internal and external pressures; however, the electoral process has often turned to warfare in many of the states, as it has sometimes been difficult to remove incumbents through the ballot box.
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    The role and place of the African Standby Force within the African Peace and Security Architecture

    Institute for Security Studies, 2010
    This paper highlights the importance of the African Standby Force (ASF) within the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) and examines the challenges facing it as one of the most important mechanisms for the African Union’s strategic response to conflicts.
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    Community in Cyberspace: Gender, Social Movement Learning, and the Internet

    Adult Education Quarterly, 2011
    How well are organisations able to make use of information and communication technology (ICT) to further their goals of promoting social movement learning and activism? Feminist non-profit organisations are sites of informal and non-formal learning where citizens learn advocacy, literacy, and the practices of social democracy.
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    Through the 'information society' prism: Scoping gender equality for the post-2015 agenda

    IT for Change, 2012
    What does the information society offer for women’s empowerment and gender equality? This paper argues that information and communication technologies (ICTs) offer the potential for marginalised women to access public spaces.
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    Labouring Women, Enterprising States – A Research Study on Women, Information Technology and Narratives of Entrepreneurship

    IT for Change, 2014
    This document explores the structural-institutional facets of the relationship between women entrepreneurs, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the mainstream discourse on entrepreneurship.
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    Malaysia: Violence against Women and ICT

    Association for Progressive Communications, 2009
    Can information and communication technologies (ICT) change the ways women experience and confront violence? This paper argues that ICT issues are still seen largely in terms of technology and access to technology, rather than as issues with cross-cutting effects on gender, socio-cultural relations or even the environment.
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    Towards Evidence-based ICT Policy and Regulation: Gender Assessment of ICT Access and Usage in Africa

    2010
    How can access to ICTs be improved for women in Africa?  This study explores the gender inequities of access and usage in 17 countries of East, Central, South and West Africa. It argues that the diffusion of ICTs is highly uneven, concentrating in urban areas and leaving some rural areas almost untouched.

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