Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/128117 
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Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Bath Papers in International Development and Wellbeing No. 22
Publisher: 
University of Bath, Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Bath
Abstract: 
This paper examines how national NGOs operating in conflict-affected or transitional regions generate and maintain legitimacy. It considers the experience of NGOs in three such contexts - Sri Lanka, Nepal and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). The paper argues that existing accounts of NGO legitimacy are unhelpful for understanding the dynamic and highly politicised processes of NGO legitimation that can be observed in these contexts and argues that greater attention should be paid to the contextual and political dimensions of NGO legitimation and de-legitimation.
Subjects: 
NGOs
Legitimacy
Conflict
Sri Lanka
Nepal
Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT)
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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