Part 1: BUILDING INSTITUTIONS OF HOPE

Trading in Public Hope
Peter Drahos
Addressing the impact of intellectual property agreements on the less developing world and hopes for free trade, this article focuses on the struggle to provide antiretroviral medicines to people suffering from AIDS in developing countries.

Harnessing Hope through NGO Activism
Sasha Courville and Nicola Piper
This paper examines the role that hope plays in NGO activism, centering on the fair trade movement and foreign migrant worker rights.

A Museum of Hope: The Story of Robben Island
Clifford Shearing and Michael Kempa
This case study confronts the issue of whether the Robben Island Museum in South Africa demonstrates the power of hope or the hopes of those who now hold power.

Emancipation and Hope
John Braithwaite
Looking at the cycle of hope fueling emancipation and emancipation fueling hope, this paper asserts that hope solves problems at the individual and collective levels. It answers the question, "What happens when you have hope without emancipation?"

Part 2: WHY INSTITUTIONALIZE HOPE

The Art of Good Hope
Victoria McGeer
Why and how do we learn to hope? This paper explains how we get to know our capacities, both current and potential, through the concept of scaffolding.

The Hope Process and Social Inclusion
Valerie Braithwaite
This paper examines the way that individuals engage with a tax authority as a key institution for delivering desired outcomes for the democracy. This model looks at the way individuals interact in collection action and how the behavior can serve the public good.

Hope and Its Place in Mind
Philip Pettit
From the perspective of analytical philosophy, this paper argues that hope should be understood as cognitive resolve and argues that hope assumes a parallel form to precaution: the outcome of something we desire versus the outcome of something we fear.

From Aquinas to Zwelethemba: A Brief History of Hope
John Cartwright
Summarizing the way in which we have come to conceptualize the hope of individuals and collectivities, this paper covers the role hope has played from the Middle Ages to modern South Africa.

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