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WHAT IS
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Global Civil Society
Global Civil Society is
about understanding globalisation ‘from below,’ from the perspective of
ordinary people.
It is a highly contested concept, for which many meanings have
been proposed but no agreed definition reached. Far from an obstacle, this
ambiguity is an opportunity. Debate about its meaning is part of what global
civil society is all about.
We defined global civil
society, for operational descriptive purposes only, as a sphere of people, events, organisations,
networks - and the values and ideas they represent – that exist between the
family, the state and the market, and which operate beyond the confines of
national societies in a transnational arena. The concept describes an emerging
reality of global civic action and connectedness.
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