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Kees Biekart

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52° 4' 41.8404" N, 4° 18' 49.266" E
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Kees Biekart

Senior Lecturer, Institute of Social Studies (ISS)

Kees Biekart has co-ordinated TNI projects on and with the Central American peasant movement, and the politics of European NGO aid to civil society organisations in the South.

Biekart's latest works include The Politics of Civil Society Building: European Private Aid Agencies and Democratic Transitions in Central America (TNI/International Books 1999) and Compassion and Calculation: The Business of Private Foreign Aid, co-edited with David Sogge and John Saxby (TNI/Pluto 1996).

He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Amsterdam, and as a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS),  focuses on teaching and research related to civil society, NGOs and social movements.

Civil Society & NGOs; New Forms of Transnational Alliances; Latin American Politics; Northern NGO Aid to the South

English; Dutch; Spanish

Selected publications: 
Civic Driven Change - A concise guide to the basics
Civic Driven Change
Compassion and Calculation

Recent content by Kees Biekart

Civic Driven Change - A concise guide to the basics (26 Apr 2009)

This short booklet introduces new ideas about how civil society is taking charge in guiding development by taking key roles in society to respond to the most pressing issues the world faces such as poverty, injustice, conflict and environmental degradation.

Civic Driven Change (3 Oct 2008)

The Civic Driven change Initiative is a recent thinking and debating process to explore and communicate a perspective of change in societies that stems from citizens rather than states or markets. The initiative is meant to kick-start a public debate about and beyond aided-development.

Reflections on transnational activism (1 Oct 2007)
Seven theses on Latin American social movements and political change (1 Oct 2005)
In memoriam: Xabier Gorostiaga (1937-2003) (18 Jul 2005)
Ten Reflections on the Emerging 'Global Protest Movement' (1 Oct 2001)
"Een nieuwe agenda voor solidariteitshulp (1 Feb 1999)
"Nadruk op geld en korte termijn kenmerkt medefinanciering" (1 Feb 1999)
"Para qué sirve la cooperación al desarrollo" (12 Oct 1998)
"Hace falta una guía del consumidor sobre las ONG" (1 Oct 1998)
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