Monday, May 17, 2010

More Stakeholders

Kind of related to outreach

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/world/asia/18india.html?hp

"India’s Maoists have existed for decades and claim to represent the interests of the country’s rural dispossessed, including the tribal groups who rank among the poorest in the nation. But what was once a low-boil insurgency has steadily become more violent, with Maoists controlling several regions of rural India while maintaining a presence in rural areas of more than 20 states."

The Maoists are much stakeholders as other NGO's are, since both NGO's and political parties/revolutionary groups claim to represent the rural dispossessed. And in that way they are our competition. We have to compete for hearts and minds with them, getting those we are working with to believe that our way of peace is better than their way of war, maybe?

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