Civil society organizations as confidence builders: conflict management perspective and what we can win for conflict management when we look at sociology of trust

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F49777513%3A23330%2F13%3A43919107" target="_blank" >RIV/49777513:23330/13:43919107 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

—

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

—

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Civil society organizations as confidence builders: conflict management perspective and what we can win for conflict management when we look at sociology of trust

Original language description

Conflict management scholars as well as practitioners are optimistic about the confidence building capacity of CSOs, especially in cases of divided conflict-prone societies. They believe that activities of CSOs in various issue areas across the society create bridges between former enemies, remove prejudices and can or merely help create trust between them. And trust is believed to be basic stepping stone to a peaceful, working and democratic society. This optimism dominates today?s conflict managementand creates a mainstream approach. What the article set out to show is the idea that our optimism about confidence building capacities of CSOs is not based on satisfactory evidence. Conflict management scholars have no clear indication and evidence aboutsuch capacities. We also have horribly little information about the circumstances in which CSOs can work as confidence builders. This article has tried to fill the gap and looking outside the conflict management field ? particularly into

Czech name

—

Czech description

—

Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AD - Political sciences

OECD FORD branch

—

Project

—

Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2013

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Politics in Central Europe

ISSN

1801-3422

e-ISSN

—

Volume of the periodical

9

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

93-115

UT code for WoS article

—

EID of the result in the Scopus database

—