scholarly journals An Application of Category of Fraternity to the Grass-roots Ecumenism on the Basis of Pope Francis’ Encyclical Letter Fratelli tutti

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Przemysław Kantyka
Keyword(s):  
Church Leaders ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Ecumenical Movement ◽  
Grass Roots

Although the encyclical of Pope Francis Fratelli tutti does not speak directly about ecumenism, the category of fraternity developed in it can and should apply in the ecumenical movement, especially in the grassroots contacts of Christians from different Churches. Top-down ecumenism, i.e. doctrinal dialogues and meetings of Church leaders, by themselves – although necessary – are not able to bring about an effective reconciliation of Christians living in different Churches and Ecclesial Communities. The hermeneutical key proposed by Pope Francis in the form of the category of the fraternity has a wider application than ecumenical relations. The article examines the determinants of this category and its possible application to the ecumenical movement. An example of the successful application of the idea of ​​fraternity in the activities of the International Ecumenical Fellowship is also given.

scholarly journals Mind the gap: Grass roots ‘brokering’ to improve labour standards in global supply chains

2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 584-609 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah J Kaine ◽  
Emmanuel Josserand
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Global Supply Chains ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Whistle Blowing ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Labour Standards ◽  
Implementation Gaps

While governance and regulation are a first step in addressing worsening working conditions in global supply chains, improving implementation is also key to reversing this trend. In this article, after examining the nature of the existing governance and implementation gaps in labour standards in global supply chains, we explore how Viet Labor, an emerging grass-roots organization, has developed practices to help close them. This involves playing brokering roles between different workers and between workers and existing governance mechanisms. We identify an initial typology of six such roles: educating, organizing, supporting, collective action, whistle-blowing and documenting. This marks a significant shift in the way action to improve labour standards along the supply chain is analysed. Our case explores how predominantly top-down approaches can be supplemented by bottom-up ones centred on workers’ agency.

scholarly journals Development Policy in Thailand: From Top-down to Grass Roots

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Kelly ◽  
Phattaraphon Yutthaphonphinit ◽  
Sam-ang Seubsman ◽  
Adrian Sleigh
Keyword(s):  
Development Policy ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Grass Roots

scholarly journals The Views of Several Indonesian Reformed Theologians Regarding Ecumenicity

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Agustinus M.L. Batlajery
Keyword(s):  
Church Leaders ◽  
Ecumenical Movement ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Church Unity ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Valuable Role

ABSTRACT: Based on historical researches concerning ecumenical movement in Indonesia, it could be found that the formation of the Council of Churches in Indonesia (DGI) which later changed its name to the Communion of Churches in Indonesia (PGI) can not be separated from the role of Calvinist or Reformed church leaders and theologians at the time. In discussing about stimulus and urgency for unity among various churches in Indonesia, we can see that the views of several Reformed figures was very significant. Their opinions were effected by Calvinist thinking that chracterized their churches. This article is trying to describe the views of several Indonesian Reformed theologians before and after the formation of DGI/PGI regarding ecumenicity. Therefore we can say that Calvinist thinking has played very valuable role in the ecumenical movement in Indonesia. KEYWORDS: ecumenicity, ecumenical movement, church unity, Indonesian Reformed Theologians, Calvinist thinking.

The life and contribution of Professor David Sanders through his publications

2020 ◽  
Vol 105 (4) ◽  
pp. 406-407
Author(s):  
Tony Waterston
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Primary Healthcare ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
The Social

Professor David Sanders died in August 2019. He leaves a long legacy of analysis and teaching on global child health and public health particularly in relation to poverty and the roots of ill health, and how to tackle them. Sanders believed that the determinants of health lay in the social conditions of the population and that these had to be improved by social change and working at the grass roots rather than by top-down medical treatment with drugs; he was a strong proponent of primary healthcare as originally established by WHO and supported the appointment of community health workers who would be responsible to the local community. His work is covered in this article through a review of significant books of which the best known is The Struggle for Health and his research in the field.

Uneven implementation of human trafficking policies

2020 ◽  
pp. 121-148
Author(s):  
Laura A. Dean
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Country Size ◽  
Implementation Processes ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
The Government

This chapter discusses how anti-trafficking institutions and networks combine to diffuse policy implementation from the top-down and bottom-up. It shows that when no one in the government is held accountable for the implementation of the policies uneven policy implementation occurs as some countries (i.e. Latvia) are more effective at implementing policy than others (i.e. Ukraine and Russia). The results demonstrate that top-down implementation (from the national government) was apparent in all three countries as the government entities attempted to guide implementation. Only Latvia was able to balance this top-down approach with a grass roots bottom-up implementation processes facilitated by their working group and the strength of the interest groups in that country. This could also demonstrate that country size and/or decentralization reforms from the federal level help facilitate human trafficking policy implementation. The influence of internal factors including law enforcement measures to combat trafficking and interest group strength are the most significant facilitators of policy implementation. While state capacity and commitment, bureaucracy, and corruption were the biggest impediments to successful policy implementation. Interest groups also provide feedback loops, policy evaluations, and guide implementation when the government fell short.

The Rise of the Global South and the Protestant Peace with Socialism

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-219
Author(s):  
Udi Greenberg
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Global South ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
World War ◽  
Economic Management ◽  
Ecumenical Movement ◽  
Major Shift ◽  
Second World

AbstractThis article explores a major shift in European Protestant thought about socialism during the mid-twentieth century, from intense hostility to acceptance. During the twentieth century's early decades it was common for European Protestant theologians, church leaders and thinkers to condemn socialism as a threat to Christianity. Socialist ideology, many believed, was inherently secular, and its triumph would spell anarchy and violence. In the decades after the Second World War, however, this hostility began to wane, as European Protestant elites increasingly joined Christian-socialist associations and organisations. By focusing on the Protestant ecumenical movement, this article argues that one of the forces in this change was decolonisation, and in particular the rise of Christian and socialist thinkers in the Global South. It shows how concerns about Christianity's future in Asia and Africa helped some European Protestants to rethink their long-held suspicion towards state-led economic management and distribution.

Doing Mission: The Catholic Experience

1986 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 421-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. Casey
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
China And Japan

Concentrating on the “lived experience” of Maryknoll missioners, the author points to distinct changes in the perception of how mission is done. From 1911 until shortly after World War II, evangelization of non-Christians and developing an indigenous Catholic church were the traditional priorities. Mission was seen as a priestly function, and carried out from the top down, under the international oversight of the Propaganda Fide. Changes precipitating a dramatically new orientation, especially after the sixties, were: redeployment of missioners from China and Japan, the crucial experience of Latin America, mission decrees of Vatican II, and the new prominence given to local theology and ministry at the grass-roots. Today's missioners, Casey believes, are being profoundly transformed by the cultural, religious, and political contexts in which they work.

A top-down movement with grass-roots effects? Alexei Navalny’s electoral campaign

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 618-625 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Matti Dollbaum ◽  
Andrey Semenov ◽  
Elena Sirotkina
Keyword(s):  
Top Down ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Electoral Campaign

Toward an Environmental Law of Essential Goods

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-50
Author(s):  
John Martin Gillroy
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Law ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
The Core ◽  
Legal Standing ◽  
Legal Contract ◽  
The Status

Perhaps if the preservation of nature is to mean anything in the concrete legal and policy world in which we live, it is time to move away from our reliance on fundamentally changing grass-roots conventional moral values as a prerequisite to policy in a bottom-up approach to change. Instead, perhaps we should consider a revolution in the terms of the explicit legal contract between humanity and nature granting new essential status and fundamental legal standing to the natural world; redefining the core values and assumptions applied to policy from the top-down. The author will call this explicit ‘status' contract between humanity and nature the ‘Ecological Contract' and argue that it is only through legitimizing the status of nature in law that we can assure the long-term sustainability of the natural world.

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