Recognising the crucial role that civil society plays in contexts of conflict and peace-building, this book looks at how governmental actors across different regions - Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe - can partner with civil society to bring about conflict resolution.

Raffaele Marchetti, Faculty of Political Science, Luiss University, Rome.

Nathalie Tocci, Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome.

List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Civil Society in Confl ict and Peace: An Introduction/Raffaele Marchetti and Nathalie Tocci -- PART I: THEORETICAL -- 1. Confl ict Society: Understanding the Role of Civil Society in Confl ict/Raffaele Marchetti and Nathalie Tocci -- 2. Engaging Civil Society in Peacebuilding/Kateryna Pishchikova and Valeria Izzi -- 3. What Are the Preconditions for Civil Society?/Neera Chandhoke -- PART II: AN ANALYSIS OF INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY IN -- 4. Protecting Humans, Governing International Disorder: Integrated UN Peacekeeping and NGOs/Laura Zanotti -- 5. The Roles of NGOs in Humanitarian Interventions and the Peace Support Operation in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia/Daniela Irrera -- PART III: AN ANALYSIS OF LOCAL CIVIL SOCIETY IN -- 6. 'Peacebuilding from Below' in Colombia: The Case-study of the Peace Laboratories/Miguel Barreto Henriques -- 7. The Politics and Identity of Kashmiri Women's Organizations/Ayesha Ray -- 8. Civil Society and Human Rights Protection in Iraq since 2003/Melek Saral -- 9. The AKP, Civil Society and Turkey's Kurdish Question/Ekrem Eddy Güzeldere -- 10. Civil Society in Bosnia after Dayton: The role of the Associations of Victims and Relatives of Missing Persons/Valentina Gentile -- 11. Surviving the Peace? The Impact of War-to-Democracy Transitions on Human Rights Organizations in South Africa/Véronique Dudouet -- About the Editors -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.