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Perspectives on Volunteering pp 151–169Cite as

Global Solidarity: Learning from Volunteer Frameworks in Peru

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This chapter examines a relationship bridged by two frameworks of volunteering: from the South, that of grassroots women’s associations in Peru, and from the North, an international service-learning (ISL) program administered by a university in the United States. We expand on the research which applies Andean reciprocity to the volunteer model associated with international service learning. By analyzing the two volunteer frameworks and their relationship, we ask, how can different institutional forms of volunteering together promote global solidarity? Action research informs our findings and analysis of the frameworks and their contributions toward global solidarity. Our findings suggest that the strengths of each volunteer framework can be enhanced when paired with the other. By combining the best of Andean ayni and international service learning, there is the potential to form relationships of solidarity that can benefit the Southern and Northern volunteers and which may also extend to broader perceptions and relations.

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    The term wicked problems was coined by Rittel and Webber (1973) to reflect the challenge of many social policies in which the traditional scientific-rational decision-making process used for economic policies is not as effective because there is no agreement on how to frame the problem among the many competing stakeholders. The term is commonly used in the social sciences to refer to social issues or policy problems that are extremely difficult if not impossible to solve due to their inherent complexity, widespread interdependencies, conflicting pressures, incomplete information, and/or rapidly changing circumstances. Wicked problems are so persistent and pervasive in part because often addressing one aspect of a wicked problem will create or reveal other problems.

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    Susan Appe, Nadia Rubaii & Kerry Stamp

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Appe, S., Rubaii, N., Stamp, K. (2017). Global Solidarity: Learning from Volunteer Frameworks in Peru. In: Butcher, J., Einolf, C. (eds) Perspectives on Volunteering. Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39899-0_8

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