Is it possible to identify a specific role for CSOs in multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs)? Does the nature and structure of different CSOs imply different roles to be played in international settings? What are the strategies they follow? How can their objectives become consistent with the multi-stakeholder approach, and eventually contribute to shape it? How should issues of legitimization and representation be handled in this “new diplomacy” and in participatory governance in general? Finally, is this mainly a matter of procedures or does it have anything to do with democracy? In order to foster a better understanding of the potential of CSOs' participation in multi-stakeholder processes in the future, I believe it can be useful to read and assess the WSIS process through a special lens: that of placing the experience of CSOs in the broader context of global mobilization dynamics, their roles and their overall meaning for ongoing attempts to democratize the political space at all levels, including the global. After laying out some theoretical considerations to this effect, I will apply these to a few relevant examples of the WSIS experience.

Civil Society Beyond WSIS: roles and potential of a "young" stakeholder

PADOVANI, CLAUDIA
2005

Abstract

Is it possible to identify a specific role for CSOs in multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs)? Does the nature and structure of different CSOs imply different roles to be played in international settings? What are the strategies they follow? How can their objectives become consistent with the multi-stakeholder approach, and eventually contribute to shape it? How should issues of legitimization and representation be handled in this “new diplomacy” and in participatory governance in general? Finally, is this mainly a matter of procedures or does it have anything to do with democracy? In order to foster a better understanding of the potential of CSOs' participation in multi-stakeholder processes in the future, I believe it can be useful to read and assess the WSIS process through a special lens: that of placing the experience of CSOs in the broader context of global mobilization dynamics, their roles and their overall meaning for ongoing attempts to democratize the political space at all levels, including the global. After laying out some theoretical considerations to this effect, I will apply these to a few relevant examples of the WSIS experience.
2005
Visions in Progress
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