Course card Course title Non-governmental organizations and

Course card Course title Non-governmental organizations and

Kurs FAKULTATYWNY dla studiów stacjonarnych
Course card
Course title
Non-governmental organizations and social movements in post-soviet
countries.
Course code
ECTS*
Lecturer(s)
Mateusz Kamionka, MSc
Department
Institute of Political Science
2
Course objectives (learning outcomes)
Students should know how look like world of NGOs sector in eastern countries. Which problem
they have and what opportunity they use. There is as well lot of students that want to work in NGO
sector it is for them the basic of know-how to get job after studying. In lessons we will have online streaming with some eastern NGOs workers, then student will have opportunity to ask not only
about problems and how look like work in their job but as well, about practice for themselves in
some eastern NGOs.
Prerequisites
Knowledge
Student has a background knowledge about the polish NGO sector and basic
knowledge of political situation in post- soviet bloc.
Skills
Student is able to analyze basic issues connected with international relations in
eastern countries. Should also know basic “normal life” problems in postsoviet countries. As well in all topics we will talk about opportunity to write
(group task) or participant in some project for volunteers that will be in group.
Courses
completed
Course organization
Group type
Form of classes
W
(Lecture) A (large
group)
K (small
group)
L (Lab)
S
(Seminar
)
P
(Project)
E
(Exam)
Kurs FAKULTATYWNY dla studiów stacjonarnych
Contact hours
X 30h
X 20h
Teaching methods:
Collaborative discussion, Online streaming live chat with heads and workers from NGO sector
from all countries that will be talking about.
Assessment methods:
X
X
X
X
Participation + presentation + essay
Comments
Course content (topic list)
1. About what we will talk about?
Basic terms from NGO world and general political situation in all post-soviet countries.
2. Ukraine after revolution, know is better?
3. Georgia a piece of U.S. in Caucasus region
4. Russia, country where you can be a spy when working in NGO sector.
5. Estonia, from Soviet Union to European Union.
6. Azerbaijan- the land of fire and democracy?
7. Balkans on the way to EU.
Other
Written exam
Oral exam
Written
assignment
(essay)
Student’s
presentation
Discussion
participation
Group project
Individual
project
Laboratory
tasks
Field classes
Classes in
schools
Didactic
games
E – learning
Assessment criteria
Kurs FAKULTATYWNY dla studiów stacjonarnych
8. Belarus- where nothing is changing at all.
9. Central Asia- new countries, new problems.
10. “Donkey’s of war” volunteers in military and post-military conflicts.
11. International Organizations in post-soviet bloc.
Compulsory reading
-Lester M. Salamon, “The Rise of the Nonprofit Sector,” Foreign Affairs 73, No. 4 (1994): 109.
-Strobe Talbott, “Democracy and the National Interest,” Foreign Affairs 75, No. 6 (1996): 49.
- Susan Cotts Watkins, Ann Swidler, and Thomas Hannan. 2012. "Outsourcing Social
Transformation: Development NGOs as Organizations." Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 38, pp.
285–315 http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-soc-071811-145516
-Aneta Pavlenko “Multilingualism in Post-Soviet Countries”
-Linda Racioppi, Katherine O'Sullivan See “Gender Politics in Post-communist Eurasia”
- Steve W. Witt, ed. Changing Roles of NGOs in the Creation, Storage, and Dissemination of
Information in Developing Countries (Saur, 2006)
- Lyal S. Sunga, "NGO Involvement in International Human Rights Monitoring, International
Human Rights Law and Non-Governmental Organizations" (2005) 41-6
- NGOs in the Caucasus and Central Asia: Development and Co-operation with the OSCE
http://www.osce.org/odihr/16686?download=true
- Laëtitia Atlani-Duault “Humanitarian Aid in Post-Soviet Countries: An Anthropological
Perspective”
https://books.google.pl/books?id=v0t9AgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=pl&source=gbs_ge_
summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
- Roger A. Ritvoa & Nazibrola Janezashvilib “Transforming NGOs in Post-Soviet Georgia”
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19488289.2012.721863?journalCode=ujet20
- Arianna Nowakowski “Human Rights in Russia and the Former Soviet Republics”
http://www.du.edu/korbel/hrhw/researchdigest/russia/russia.pdf
- Roger A. Ritvo “NGOs in Ukraine: Growing amid growing concern”
http://www.academicjournals.org/journal/INGOJ/article-full-text-pdf/C536AE842743
Kurs FAKULTATYWNY dla studiów stacjonarnych
- Khrystyna Pavlyk “Nonprofits in Post-Soviet and Developed Economies: Comparative Study of
Marketing-driven Efficiency” http://extranet.sioe.org/uploads/isnie2012/pavlyk.pdf
- http://www.ngo.pl/
-www.osce.org
- www.un.org
Recommended reading
-Sada Aksartova “Why NGOs? How American Donors Embraced Civil Society After the Cold War”
http://www.icnl.org/research/journal/vol8iss3/special_4.htm
- Deniz Kandiyoti “Post-Soviet Institutional Design, NGOs and Rural Livelihoods in Uzbekistan”
http://kms2.isn.ethz.ch/serviceengine/Files/RESSpecNet/91577/ipublicationdocument_singledocum
ent/2A02C45F-B54D-4FFB-B23A-AE2E2FE888E2/en/11.pdf.
- Orysia Lutsevych “Civil society in post-Soviet Europe: seven rules for donors”
https://www.opendemocracy.net/orysia-lutsevych/civil-society-in-post-soviet-europe-seven-rulesfor-donors
- Gulyaikhin V.N., Galkin A.P., Vasilyeva E.N. “Youth and children's associations as subjects of
secondary socialization: experience of regional research” Sotsis. - 2012. - № 6. - S. 127-132.
- Ulyanov Y.M., "On the order of taxation of grants received from foreign charities" (06/11/93 # of
USP-4-06 / 88N); It published a procedure for taxation of grants ,magazine "Kommersant Vlast”, №
25 (25)
- Promoting Human Rights in Russia by Supporting NGO's: How to Improve EU Strategies
- Joel C. Moses “Dilemmas of Transition in Post-Soviet Countries”
Kurs FAKULTATYWNY dla studiów stacjonarnych
Bilans godzinowy zgodny z CNPS (Całkowity Nakład Pracy Studenta)
Wykład
Ilość godzin w kontakcie z
prowadzącymi
Ilość godzin pracy studenta
bez kontaktu z
prowadzącymi
15
Konwersatorium (ćwiczenia, laboratorium itd.)
Pozostałe godziny kontaktu studenta z prowadzącym
15
Lektura w ramach przygotowania do zajęć
10
Przygotowanie krótkiej pracy pisemnej lub referatu po
zapoznaniu się z niezbędną literaturą przedmiotu
5
Przygotowanie projektu lub prezentacji na podany temat
(praca w grupie)
5
Przygotowanie do egzaminu
Ogółem bilans czasu pracy
50
Ilość punktów ECTS w zależności od przyjętego przelicznika
2