This special issue of Environmental Hazards provides a critical look at the contested relationship between formalised disaster management organisations and emergent power unaffiliated informal volunteers. Using international case studies, five papers identify conceptual, contextual practical challenges opportunities. Much attention is given to definitions; these are important as through definit...

This paper analyses the theme of international service (or international volunteering as it is perhaps better known in the UK) in relation to ideas about globalization and development and presents a framework for future research. Agencies such as the United States Peace Corps, the United Nations Volunteers or a range of specialised non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have long promoted volunt...

The researchers found that for middleand upper-middle-class high school students “resumepadding” is one of the motivating factors driving the increase in volunteering. According to Dr. Friedland, “Much of the reported volunteerism was shaped by the perception that voluntary and civic activity is necessary to get into any college; and the better the college (or, more precisely, the higher the pe...

Voluntarily work is very significant. Due to the significance of such work, researchers explored attitudes outstanding students at Arab Academic College for Education in Israel and other colleges towards voluntarily during COVID-19 crisis. Students filled two scales. The first scale included 34 items. It collected data on motives volunteering. second involved 10 about benefits volunteering futu...

Volunteering is one of the oldest human social cooperation activities. Whether it called volunteering, whether charity, in form involvement and active participation public agenda, a small-scale or extremely large-scale activity, niche fields traditional fields, organized on basis state-sponsored programs non-governmental institutions, over time, volunteering has represented clear manifestation ...

This paper explores renewed possibilities for volunteering in develop ment cooperation, based on the possibilities for ubiquitous networking made possible by new digital technologies. Its preparation has been prompted by two separate yet related processes. First, the revisiting of the principles and practices of technical co operation and capacity building underway at UNDP, for which the recent...

This paper is concerned with how refugees who work as volunteers with a refugee organization talk about themselves and their work. A Foucauldian Discourse Analytic approach is employed in order to explore how participants construct themselves as both refugees and volunteers, the discourses they draw on, and how this impacts on the possible ways-of-being open to refugees. The findings indicate a...