The Social-Civil Dimension

Abstract

This chapter focuses on social welfare and civil society development in regeneration and peacebuilding. The concern is less with the activities themselves, than the contextual issues that influence processes of regeneration. International approaches to the processes of social-civil transition are neither coherent nor well integrated into the agendas and implementing mechanisms of interventionist policy-making institutions. Moreover, there is an imbalance between short-term, 'hard', visible reconstruction measures and 'soft', long-term social-civil programmes. The former are more easily audited. But the latter also tend to reflect hierarchical relationships that gear participation and accountability away from civil development based on host ownership of the peacebuilding process.KeywordsCivil SocietyExternal ActorPublic ParticipationDevelopment Assistance CommitteeRelative PeaceThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.