Thanks to the support of the Vice Chancellor's Development Fund, and the work by Project Cataloguer Jane Kirby, we are pleased to announce that our collection of papers from the Catholic Institute for International Relations have now been fully catalogued and records for this collection are available on our archives catalogue.
The Sword of the Spirit organization was founded by lay Catholics in 1940 with the aims of combatting fascism and informing society and the church about international development. It changed its name to the Catholic Institute for International Relations (CIIR) in 1965. It now operates volunteer and educational programmes and seeks to eradicate poverty, injustice and exclusion, and encourage a more equitable distribution of resources. CIIR changed its name to Progressio in 2006.
The collection held by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Institute for the Study of the Americas Libraries, comprises mostly photocopied material generated by CIIR and other associated charities, government departments and non-governmental organisations (NGO'S) working in or having links to southern Africa, Latin America and to a lesser extent Asia. The material contains administrative and financial papers, many relating to CIIR's publishing activities; correspondence; conference and meeting papers; reports by religious and non-religious groups and individuals on issues such as human rights, election monitoring, land reform, apartheid, violence, prisoners and detainees and education; project papers including recruitment details, funding applications and progress reports; photographs; press cuttings; publications, both by CIIR and external organisations and some ephemera.
The collection dates from 1955 to 2004 and forms a rich resource for study of the regions covered, the role of development organisations and the relationships between faith and development politics.
A one-day workshop on NGOs, Human Rights and Development will be held early in 2010 to mark the opening of this collection.
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