PROJECT COMPONENTS

 

The project will achieve these goals through a series of workshops [hyperlink] that bring together practitioners and scholars from throughout the country to identify problem areas and suggest ways of dealing with them. There will be three substantive workshops at Santa Barbara (one per year with approximately 30 participants at each, roughly half practitioners and half scholars), each focusing on different regions of the world.

One additional workshop will be devoted solely to networking [hyperlink] among representatives of other international affairs programs in the US that offer international NGO leadership training, to learn from one another and make certain that the project has a wide impact.

A team of graduate research assistants will help prepare curriculum materials [hyperlink] that will be posted on the website and distributed as printed publications. Reports and DVDs of the workshops will be widely distributed. A handbook of information on religion in global civil society will be the main printed product of the project.

A group of UCSB faculty in global studies and religious studies will be related to the project in helping to redesign courses and developing a new thematic emphasis on religion in global civil society for UCSB’s new MA in Global and International Studies—the first internal affairs graduate program to be designed primarily for training international NGO leaders. A new seminar course for the track will feature a speaker series [hyperlink] on secularism, religion, and global civil society, taught every winter or spring term.