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A 5 page paper discussing NGO development and activity, particularly as it relates to development in China. The paper reviews Amartya Sen's theory of NGO development and uses the example of the Three Gorges project as a learning experience for environmentally-focused NGOs. Currently they are using those lessons to campaign against a dam on the Nujiang River. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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File: CC6_KSpolNGOdev.rtf
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Dam project was years in the making and progressed despite efforts of many to sway the Chinese governments resolve to construct what now is the worlds largest dam. Watching
from 10,000 miles away without any stake in the project provides a much different perspective than that of an unemployed or underemployed resident of the area. Unemployment has been
an issue in rural areas since before the beginning of Chinas capitalist experiment; currently it exceeds 15 percent in some areas even by government standards (Unemployment deters rural consumption push,
2009), indicating that it could be even higher. It is clear how Chinese officials could choose to pursue the benefits rather than give more credence to the detriments of
the project. Nongovernment organizations (NGOs) were ineffective in the case of Three Gorges. Currently environmental NGOs in China campaign against another dam
as NGOs with other points of focus address other facts of Chinese life. NGO Development Amartya Sen includes a variety of input sources
in a list of comparativists that collectively take an alternative view of social justice. Among these thinkers are "Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, Condorcet, Mary Wollstonecraft and Karl Marx" (Wahi,
2008). The philosophers that Sen refers to as being foundational to transcendental justice include individuals such as "Hobbes and Rousseau and developed by contemporary thinkers like Rawls, Nozick and
Dworkin" (Wahi, 2008). These individuals take various positions "on distinguishing between the just and the unjust and creating institutions that would ensure a just society" (Wahi, 2008), but offer
no practical means of attaining a just society. "For the comparativists, the idea of justice is not about achieving a perfectly just society, but to produce as just a
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