The College of Europe in Bruges organizes an international workshop on the next 20th of October.
This international workshop seeks to gather academics, practitioners, activists and students to discuss the situation of civil society in the ENP countries and it aims to reach a double goal.
First: analize critically assess the situation of civil society in the Southern and Eastern neighbourhood countries, evaluate the results of the ENP civil society promotion efforts and the effects of the ongoing political transformation in the region on civil society.
Second: build on the assessments of the weakness of civil society in the region and the difficulties of democratic consolidation. However, it also intends to go beyond these aspects by discussing institutional conditions of civil society consolidation and by trying to understand the socio-political conditions under which civil society can be successfully involved in democratic transitions, while also taking into account the risks — including the personal risks for civil society and activists — of anti-protest backlash and violence.
The roundtable “Institutional Safeguards for a Strong Civil Society” is scheduled in the afternoon from 14:30 pm to 17:00 pm.
More information available at the following link