Cooperation Space in non-Governmental Organizations (Case Study: Harandi Neighborhood NGOs in Iran)

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs), are manifestation of trust and moderators of macroeconomic and political activities, but if they enter without a plan or their activities interfere with each other or with the government, they may become a threat to society. In Harandi neighborhood (former Darvazeh Ghaar) in Tehran, due to the presence of numerous social issues, several NGOs have entered to reduce the problems. Despite their achievements of these teams, the interferences and parallel work with governmental plans have resulted in new problems. This research through theoretical studies, observations, in-depth and semi-structured interviews, as well as the formation of focus groups with neighborhood residents and NGOs introduce new theoretical approaches in the field of cooperation space of civil institutions. These are implemented based on three levels of consensus (values), conflict (contradictory regime of truth) and interpretive (symbols). It seeks to provide the requirements for creating a cooperation space among residents of Harandi neighborhood. According to the model, the most important features include the existence of areas of convergence in spite of the increasing competition between them, the dominance of commonsense views over scientific attitudes, the dispersion of normative sources about human rights,  psychological principles, dominance of material and external values such as attention to salary and income, less attention to emotional values such as interaction with other NGOs, less attention to cognitive values such as creativity and learning new knowledge.