Voluntaris

This study examines the threat situations of civil society organizations in Germany that are active in the field of diversity and anti-discrimination. Based on mixed-method data from 78 “Demokratie leben!” projects and 50 other anonymous...

This article examines the relationship between civic engagement and the election of right-wing populist parties in Germany. Theoretically, the analysis is based on Putnam‘s social capital approach, which views a vibrant civil society as a resource...

The Church and Diakonie are strongly committed to voluntary services. They thus make an active contribution to a culture of the social. The commandment of charity presupposes responsibility for others and the world. Faith and action form a unity in...

The article is based on the experience of monitoring the Swiss project „engagement lokal“ and deals with the challenges of and strategies for supporting local volunteer work (LVW) in small and medium-sized cities and municipalities. The project...

„The request for the introduction of a compulsory service seems underdeveloped and primarily aimed at compensating a lack of resources in public services. Voluntariness, as an integral part of the basic and generally accepted definition of civic...

Volunteerism appears in very different forms in society and changes over time, which is also expressed in various terms for voluntarily engaged people. The proposed perspective on voluntary engagement, inspired by social theory, starts with a...

Biographical studies in the field of engagement research do not mainly focus on the specifics of the thematic area of engagement. The biographical-analytical study on queer engagement in young adulthood, of which the results are presented here,...