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Abstract of "Civil Society and Social Movements Programme Paper 18" by Mario Pianta

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Mario Pianta. "Civil Society and Social Movements Programme Paper 18": UN World Summits and Civil Society: The State of the Art (posted on 10 Nov 2005). http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BF3C2/setLanguageCookie?OpenAgent&langcode=en&url=/80256B3C005BE6B5/search/D11B2EB57C38DF7CC12570B40057B37F?OpenDocument

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In this state-of-the-art paper, the author investigates the link between UN world summits and civil society and contends that the summits have provided challenges and opportunities for the emergence of global identities and initiatives within civil society, and have stimulated a wide range of developments within national civil societies.

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