Book releases by Member Organizations and/or Member Organization personnel. Includes the study “The Extent of Deliberation in the International Network” by Ileana Marin.
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Updates on Members in Argentina, Columbia, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, and South Africa.
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Updates on Members in Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Asia.
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“As we enter the new century, success for many civil society organizations and networks seems to depend on using web technology to provide information in order to increase their efficiency and the communication with their constituents. In close connection with this I am pleased to announce that the ICSC website is ready to go on the virtual global space, and right now we are in the process of clarifying the last administrative details involved.”
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“The times have been rather tense for many of us since the last issue of this newsletter: the world has been in turmoil particularly for those of us living in or having close links to the south-eastern part, also known as the Balkan region of Europe. Once again a war has started in this corner of the world, bringing with it confusion, contradiction, misunderstandings, repression, and manifestations of hatred. But our lives do go on in spite of anything, and maybe even more than before we ought to think that our common interests and our work in this field of civil society should keep us on the good track.”

“However, in terms of new decisions regarding our International Civil Society Consortium we’ve had a rather productive spring…” (Read the complete newsletter here.)

This issue of the newsletter evolves around the concept of civil society. Therefore, please find attached Ziad Majed’s paper on “Civil Society” in Lebanon, and J. Jude Pansini’s draft paper entitled Local Communities: The Keystone of a Civil Society. Other attachments: The Costa Rica Seminar on Deliberation, report written by Lelia Mooney. The South-Africa Organization IDASA is the subject of the Organization’s Profile.

This third issue represents the first attempt to communicate with and reach out as a larger group to the people who participated this year in the International Deliberative Democracy Workshop. I would like to welcome all of them into our international network, and I look forward to their involvement. Having this in mind, I added more detailed information and commentaries on the Internationl Civil Society Workshop, so that the newcomers can get a better sense of our overall work as a network.
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The second issue which, among other items, announces the availability of the KF Abstracts – “a reliable resource of abstracts and bibliographical resources on several topics related to our areas of interest.”