CFGS Projects

Project Summary

Title: Enhancing the Voice of Global Civil Society

Date: Ongoing

Lead organization: Center for Global Studies (CFGS) and the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

Director: Barry Carin, CFGS, CIGI

Description: The Centre for Global Studies (CFGS), in collaboration with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), hosted a conference called "The Voice of Global Civil Society". It was held in Waterloo, Canada on October 17-19 2006. The Conference brought together expert "voices" to discuss various options and processes through which global civil society (GCS) might "aggregate" and more effectively give voice to their interests in global policy-making milieu.

Project materials

DOWNLOAD THE CONFERENCE BACKGROUND PAPERS 

DOWNLOAD THE MODELS OF AGGREGATION GRAPHS

DOWNLOAD SCENARIO PAPER 1: A GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY FORUM (Author: Jan Aart Scholte)

DOWNLOAD SCENARIO PAPER 2: CLAIMING GLOBAL SPACE AND SCALING UP INFLUENCE (Author: Ramesh Singh)

DOWNLOAD SCENARIO PAPER 3: TOWARDS A JUST AND PEACEFUL PLANET (Authors: David Brown, Budd Hall, and Rajesh Tandon)

DOWNLOAD: GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ARENA (Author: Lisa Jordan)

DOWNLOAD: "FIRST LIGHTS" - RECOLLECTIONS OF THE BEGINNINGS AND FIRST YEARS OF CIVICUS (Author: Brian O'Connell)

DOWNLOAD THE FINAL REPORT