Publications and Reports

Transnational Transformations: From Government-Centric Interstate Regimes to Multi-Stakeholder, Multi-Level Global Governance. In Ken Conca et al (eds.), Sustainable Global Governance, New York: Routledge Press, 2008.
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By Sanjeev Khagram and Saleen Ali.

This paper looks at the potential of GANs as future global governance vehicles.

The Generative Change Community: Cases About the Meaning of “Generative Dialogic Change Processes.”
Reflections. The SoL Journal on Knowledge, Learning, and Change 8(2). 2007
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By Bettye Pruitt

This article looks at the concept of “change” from the perspective of GAN-Net’s Generative Change Community of Practice.

Multi-stakeholder global networks: emerging systems for the global common good. Appearing in Partnerships, Governance And Sustainable Development: Reflections on Theory and Practice. Eds: P. Glasbergen, F. Biermann and A. P. J. Mol. Cheltenham Glos, UK, Edward Elgar Publishing: 261-287. 2007.
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By Steve Waddell and Sanjeev Khagram

This chapter is based upon an analysis of 19 GANs. It reviews the rise of GANs, their core characteristics and their potential roles in global governance.

Realising Global Change: Developing the Tools; Building the Infrastructure
The Journal of Corporate Citizenship Issue 26. June 2007: 69-84.
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By: Steve Waddell

GANs have unique potential as global change agent. This article proposes seven principles to guide successful global changestrategies: (1) make the approach multi-stakeholder; (2) aggregate stakeholders by organisational sectors; (3) address the individual to societal change challenges; (4) make ‘learning’ a core value; (5) understand the work as building complex systems; (6) organise for ‘third-order’ change; and (7) think in terms of development stages.

Possible Future Architectures of Global Governance: A Transnational Perspective/Prospective. In: Global Governance 12: 97-117. 2006
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By Sanjeev Khagram

Several future global governance architectures are identified. If realized, any of these would indeed be preferable to the current world (dis)order, as they all fulfill certain core progressive values. Hence, a synthetic transnational perspective on world dynamics over the twentieth century and its implications for understanding current and possible future global governance architectures are needed. The article concludes with some cautious prospective and prescriptive thoughts on future global governance architectures for a transnational world.

Global Action Networks: A Global Invention Helping Business Make Globalisation Work for All. Journal of Corporate Citizenship 12: 27-42
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By: Steve Waddell

This article describes the defining GAN characteristics, four types of GANs and why GANs are important for business.

Global Action Networks: Building global public policy systems of accountability. AccountAbility Quarterly May 2003.
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By Steve Waddell.

This article describes the challenge of making GANs effective in terms of the four gaps: participation, ethics/values, operations and communications.

Globalization, NGOs and Multi-Sectoral Relations
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By: L. David Brown, Sanjeev Khagram, Mark H. Moore & Peter Frumkin

This paper seeks to make sense of the impact of globalization on nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations. International NGOs and NGO alliances are emerging as increasingly influential players in international decision-making, and this paper discusses some of the roles they can be expected to play in the future. The authors consider whether the emergence of domestic and international NGOs as important policy makers strengthens or weakens the future of democratic accountability, and they suggest several patterns of interaction among civil society, government and business in future governance issues.

Lateral Stakeholder Alignment in the Global Water Partnership (GWP)
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By: Kate Parrot

This master's thesis adds to approaches to evaluation and assessment of GANs by applying the Lateral Alignment Framework to study three different levels of stakeholder alignment in the GWP: Behavioral, Functional/Structural, and Systems/Culture/Values, and the GWP's effectiveness in achieving its mission and goals. This is done by looking at the stakeholders' understanding of the core GWP concept of "integrated water resource management" and patterns of communications globally and in three regions of the GWP.

Weaving global networks. Handbook for policy influence
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By: Weyrauch, Vanesa and Ines Selvood

Two of the four cases behind this handbook are GANs. The goal of this Handbook is to: 1) contribute towards the systematisation of lessons learned by practitioners from networks of civil society organizations throughout their participation in regional and global fora; and 2) offer some practical tools and guidelines that might help these networks enhance their impact through the use of evidence and knowledge in regional and global public policies and policymaking processes.

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