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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aHopgood, Stephen
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245 1 0 _aKeepers of the Flame :
_bUnderstanding Amnesty International /
_cStephen Hopgood.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2013]
264 4 _c©2013
300 _a1 online resource (272 p.) :
_b16 tables
336 _atext
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface and Acknowledgments --
_t1. Between Two World --
_t2. Shadows and Doors --
_t3. Lighting the Candle --
_t4. Telling the Truth About Suffering --
_t5. Politics and Democratic Authority --
_t6. Being and Doing --
_t7. The Inheritors --
_t8. Amnesty in Practice --
_tAbbreviations --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _a"If one organization is synonymous with keeping hope alive, even as a faint glimmer in the darkness of a prison, it is Amnesty International. Amnesty has been the light, and that light was truth—bearing witness to suffering hidden from the eyes of the world."—from the PrefaceThe first in-depth look at working life inside a major human rights organization, Keepers of the Flame charts the history of Amnesty International and the development of its nerve center, the International Secretariat, over forty-five years. Through interviews with staff members, archival research, and unprecedented access to Amnesty International's internal meetings, Stephen Hopgood provides an engrossing and enlightening account of day-to-day operations within the organization, larger decisions about the nature of its mission, and struggles over the implementation of that mission.An enduring feature of Amnesty's inner life, Hopgood finds, has been a recurrent struggle between the "keepers of the flame" who seek to preserve Amnesty's accumulated store of moral authority and reformers who hope to change, modernize, and use that moral authority in ways that its protectors fear may erode the organization's uniqueness. He also explores how this concept of moral authority affects the working lives of the servants of such an ideal and the ways in which it can undermine an institution's political authority over time. Hopgood argues that human-rights activism is a social practice best understood as a secular religion where internal conflict between sacred and profane—the mission and the practicalities of everyday operations—are both unavoidable and necessary. Keepers of the Flame is vital reading for anyone interested in Amnesty International, its accomplishments, agonies, obligations, fears, opportunities, and challenges—or, more broadly, in how humanitarian organizations accommodate the moral passions that energize volunteers and professional staff alike.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aHuman rights workers.
650 4 _aInternational Studies.
650 4 _aPolitical Science & Political History.
650 4 _aSociology & Social Science.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations).
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856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9780801469848
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801469848
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