For Better or for Worse?
Civil Society and Transitions in the Western Balkans
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Date
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Friday, 7 May 2010
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Venue
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Lionel Robbins Building, LSE
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Organisers
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LSEE-Research on South Eastern Europe, LSE
Global Governance, LSE
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In recent years there has been a proliferation of research on the role of civil society in the processes of political transition and post-conflict transformation. As well as highlighting the positive aspects of grassroots activities, this research has also shone a light on the darker, more negative side of these groups. This is as much the case in the Western Balkans as elsewhere.
Co-organised by LSEE and LSE Global Governance, this conference provided an opportunity to explore the part played by civil society with a number of leading academics and policy experts. Divided into four parts, the first three sessions focused on the part played by civil society in democratisation, state building and post-conflict reconstruction and included presentations by Stephanie Schwandner Sievers (University of Roehampton); Nenad Markovic (Saints Cyril and Methodius University); Anita Brkanic (London School of Economics); Adam Fagan (Queen Mary, University of London); Francesco Strazzari, (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies); Jens Narten (University of Hamburg); Mladen Ostojic (Queen Mary, University of London); Jasna Dragovic-Soso (Goldsmiths, University of London); and, Gemma Collantes (City University).
The day concluded with a fourth, policy orientated roundtable discussion with speakers from the FCO, ‘The Economist’ and the Euclid Network for Third Sector Leaders.
Click here| for the Conference Programme.
Papers from the conference were published as an edited volume by Palgrave Macmillan as part of LSEE's New Perspectives on South Eastern Europe| book series.