The Role of Civil Society in The Promotion of Peace in West Africa
Through its involvement across sectors, civil society plays a critical role in peacebuilding processes. It does so by involving in wide-ranging peacebuilding processes in several capacities, including facets of justice and the rule of law, economic and psycho-social recovery and security and public order. Hence, CSOs serve as pillars of democratic systems, playing important roles in democracy and good governance for pre-and post-conflict societies. The role of civil society has increasingly been recognised in both the domestic and international arenas. Peacebuilding programmes continue to give support to CSOs, echoing the growing importance of these groups in development cooperation (Belloni, 2006). In societies transitioning from war to peace and democracy, this interest corresponds to even more specific motivations.
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About the author
Metolo Foyet is a post-graduate from the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC). She was an intern for the second batch of 2019 where she served as a Programme Assistant in the Knowledge Management Unit of the West African Civil Society Institute (WACSI).