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"As civic space is closing, numerous governments are reversing commitments to transparency and accountability and many others are moving towards authoritarianism, a top-down approach to anticorruption work, democracy, development, and peacebuilding is not enough. Donors and other international actors are increasingly interested in engaging with grassroots groups and networks. Yet in this complex landscape, determining whether, when, and how to offer support can be daunting. This guide offers a framework for donors to support nonviolent movements and addresses the challenges external actors face in providing assistance, such as relatively rigid funding mechanisms, project design requirements, timeframes, and monitoring and evaluation protocols. Based on interviews with international practitioners and country research around the world, the book outlines strategic considerations and provides practical options that can be adapted to the context. Donors can use this guidance to move forward and boost the capacities, courage, and resilience or committed social movement actors, communities, and citizens taking collective action for the common good"--

"Most mainstream conflict resolution seems to look either at interpersonal conflict or international conflict without much focus on the widely differing individuals and social structures involved. This set of essays adds findings to those gaps in the literature. The authors and editors are mostly women and people of color, whose voices are often absent from such collections"--Provided by publisher