What is 'development'? Development narratives by International Civil Society Organisations: the case of CONCORD - 2010-2017
(2021) GLOBE International Relations Winter School — Location: online (10.February.2021)
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- Many European Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) active in the field of development cooperation have in the last decades confederated with the aim of having their interests represented at EU level. From this perceived need, coinciding with the EU intention of speaking to one (or few) representative actor(s) rather than a multitude of different ones, the European NGO Confederation for Relief and Development (CONCORD) was born in 2003, following the dissolution of the previous “NGO Liaison Committee” (CLONG, which dated back to 1976). In this paper, I give an overview of the theoretical background underpinning CONCORD narrative in the period 2010 – 2017 , with the overall objective of understanding its narrative on development, or what consensus on development exists in the confederation. I analyse selected official documents through qualitative textual analysis in NVivo.
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Brogna, V. (2021). What is ‘development’? Development narratives by International Civil Society Organisations: the case of CONCORD - 2010-2017. GLOBE International Relations Winter School, online.