Shawn Teresa Flanigan, Ph.D.

 "Faith and Fear in Development: The Role of Religion in Sri Lanka’s NGO Sector,” 49th Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, March 2008.

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"Religious NGOs and Distributive Justice in Contexts of Conflict: Inclusion and Exclusion from Service Provision in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lebanon, and Sri Lanka." 36th Annual Conference of the Association for Research on Non-Profit Organizations and Voluntary Action, Atlanta, GA., November 2007.

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“Co-opting Credibility: The Tamil Tigers’ Use of Humanitarian Aid in Gaining Community Support”, Annual Meeting for the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), College Park, MD, June 2007.

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“Immigrant Organizations and their Links into Policy Processes: US Experiences”, with Judith R. Saidel and Dina Refki. Birkbeck- Institute for Voluntary Action Research 2007 Seminar 'Community Organisations: Research, Policy and Practice', London, UK, June 2007

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“Hizballah and the Tamil Tigers – Comparing Service Provision by Insurgent Organizations”, 48th Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Chicago, IL, February/March 2007.

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“Seeking Expertise: The Potential for Partnership between Arab Legislators and Civil Society Organizations”, with Mounah Abdel-Samad. 48th Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Chicago, IL, February/March 2007.

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“Armed Altruists: Why Does Hizballah Provide Social Services?”, Annual Meeting for the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), College Park, MD, June 2006.

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“Building a Foundation: The Present and Proposed Future of Doctoral-level Foundations Courses in Nonprofit and Philanthropic Studies” with Lisa Allison, Xiolei Chen, Jun Seop Han, Joyce Keyes-Williams, Triparna Vasavada, and Judith Saidel. BENCHMARK 3 Conference on Nonprofit and Philanthropic Studies, Phoenix, AZ., March 2006. 

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"Does Identity Matter? Examining the Role of Faith and Ethnicity for Voluntary Agencies in International Development", 34th Annual Conference of the Association for Research on Non-Profit Organizations and Voluntary Action, Washington, D.C., November 2005.

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 “Faith and the International “Contracting Regime”: Contrasting Faith-Based and Secular Voluntary Agencies in International Development”, Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, D.C., November 2005.

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“The Benevolence of Terrorists: Ties between Charity, Contentious Politics, and Terror”, Presented at Scholarship on Homeland Security: Exploring the Intellectual Territory- A SUNY Conversation in the Disciplines, Rockefeller Institute, Albany NY, October 2005.

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 “Motivated by Faith: Faith-Based Organizations, Public Funding, and Accountability in International Development”, 33rd Annual Conference of the Association for Research on Non-Profit Organizations and Voluntary Action, Los Angeles, California, November 2004.

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 “Including Children’s Voices: Romanian NGOs as Advocates for Recognition of Children’s Issues”, International Society for Third-Sector Research Sixth International Conference, Toronto, Canada, July 2004.

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“Representing Romanian children as stakeholders in the democratic process: the perspectives of street children and NGOs”, with Brenita Nicholas. 13th International Symposium of the Inter-University Consortium for International Social Development, Mumbai, India, December 2003