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This article examines the development, activities and effectiveness of women's NGOs in 10 Central and Eastern European countries. It begins by examining the establishment of women's organizations post-1989, identifying their structure, funding difficulties and the issues on which they focus. It also addresses the tension between the work of NGOs and the wider development of civil society. The article goes on to explore how negative perceptions of feminism have hindered efforts to develop a unified and coherent agenda among women's NGOs. Finally, it analyses how public attitudes have affected relations between women's organizations and women politicians as well as how competition and fragmentation have complicated relationships between NGOs.

Explanations of successful democratic transitions and subsequent entrenchment of democratic institutions often emphasis the role played in these processes by extensive and densely woven civil society organisms. The associational life assembled in civil society as well as in well organised political parties are both viewed as very important in helping to establish and build democratic political systems. In this presentation we will consider African civil society's contribution to democratic development. We will do this by investigating the politically relevant activities of civil society in six of Africa's stronger democracies, in the six countries in which two alternations in office of parties and or presidents have occurred through elections. Double electoral turnovers are often cited as evidence of democratic accomplishment. We will survey each of the countries in turn. A preliminary consideration of the development of their party politics will provide useful background for an exploration of the extent to which civil society in each setting has enhanced democratic politics. ; N/A

The focus of the paper is on the reactions in civil society on the local level, related to poverty problems in Russia. Local initiatives has become a political aim in the local context, at the same time as political control of civic activities is restricting to implement and further develop such initiatives.

The now much debated role of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in the ongoing democratization of Mexico involves global issues such as trust, social capital, & volunteerism. How applicable the work of Robert Putnam on civil society is to Latin America, & how central associationalism will be to Mexico's future are a focus of this study of the policies that may promote democratic consolidation & ameliorate Mexico's "civic deficit" in a time when the place of the state in Mexican society is being reexamined. 29 References. Adapted from the source document.

Civil society and the power to build peaceful and inclusive societies / by Peter van Tuijl -- Civil society and the 2030 agenda : forging a path to universal sustainable peace through policy formulation / Erin McCandless -- The politics of inclusion : civil society engagement in the new deal / Kristen Wall and Rachel Fairhurst -- Integrating gender into the new deal process / Dewi Suralaga, Mahbouba Seraj and Karen Robinson -- From national security to human security : developing effective partnerships between the UN, regional organizations and civil society / Darynell Rodriguez -- The role of WANEP in crafting peace and security architecture in West Africa / Emmanuel Bombande -- The role of women in regional peace and security : experiences from the Pacific / Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls and Laurel Stone -- Civil society's peacebuilding approach to civil-military-police coordination in security sector reform / Lisa Schirch -- Unlikely partners for conflict transformation : engaging the military as stakeholders for peace in Mindanao / Myla Leguro and Hyunjin Deborah Kwak -- POLSEDE, civil society, and security sector reform in Guatemala / Bernardo Arévalo de Leon and Ana Glenda Táger -- Conclusion : civil society empowerment for human security / David Cortright, Melanie Greenberg, Laurel Stone and Anna Milovanovic.

Through compelling contributions from experts on democratization, this volume analyzes the impact and importance of civil society development and external civil society promotion on democracy promotion in post-socialist Eastern Europe. Looking specifically at countries with a failed or deficient process of democratic consolidation, where civil society is viewed as a substitute or complement to democracy promotion in government, the contributors explore the problems and unintended consequences of external democracy promotion on civil society development. The theoretical contributions analyze roles civil society play for democratization and how democracy promotion can support or undermine these roles. The empirical contributions cover a wide range of civil society actors and current developments in various Eastern European countries.