Hope in the civil society
IS IMPORTANT to note that “civil society” is actually a relative term, relative to the “political society”, that is. This clarification should give us a better understanding about the term “governance”, as distinguished from the term “government.”
I n theory, “governance” i s gain. Much as we would like to say supposed to be the joint action the same for those who belong to and responsibility of the people the political society, the political and those elected by the people system automatically enables them to “govern” them. That being the to have personal gain whether they case, we could say that the civil like it or not. society could represent the people in The 21st Century Lexicon defines governance, and the political society civil society as “the aggregate of could represent those elected by the non-government organizations and people to govern them, i.e. the public institutions that manifest the will officials. of its citizens”, defining it as well as
In theory, anyone from the civil “the individuals and organizations society who runs for public office in a society which are independent becomes a politician in effect, of the government.” whether or not he or she wins. It In both definitions the emphasis is would be fair to say however that not on not being a part of the government unless he or she wins, he or she could and on being independent from the not be perceived to be a member of government. It also appears that the political society. both definitions could be interpreted
I am saying this because we to mean that corporations ( a. k. a. need to draw the line between corporate organizations) could also who belongs to where, because the be considered as part of the civil motivations of the perceived leaders society, acting as their business could vary depending on where entities, or acting under their they belong to, between these two corporate foundations. societies. It is behind us now, but regardless
Under normal conditions, we of whether you will agree with me could say that those be belong to the or not, the term “civil society” took civil society would have the noble on a negative meaning in recent purpose of doing so without personal years, so much so that we could even say that it has become a damaged institution. That is exactly my point, that regardless of how we view the present state of the civil society, regardless of whether we like it or not, we should rebuild it, because it is an institution that we need to sustain. In much the same way that we should rebuild our damaged environment, we should also rebuild our damaged institutions.
The combined power and influence of the non- government organizations (NGOs) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs is already a potent force that could do much f or nation building,