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The United Nations’ Innovation Learning Journey

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The types of individuals joining the UN are usually trained in negotiation, political science, and international relations, where technical know-how and managerial skills are not pronounced. This not only manifests itself in the organizations’ cultures but is also reflected in their allocation of financial and human resources.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

This was seen as a politically smart means to avert White backlash. A 1996 political science journal article, for example, argued that policies were most likely to be effective in addressing race and economic inequality if they were targeted to benefit Black Americans but “advanced and defended on universalistic grounds.”