Glossary

Successful collaboration begins with a shared language, hence the need for a glossary. This joint effort of contributors from several teams ensures, on the one hand, terminological and conceptual coherence across not only our theoretical approaches, but also the qualitative case studies and quantitative research conducted in OPPORTUNITIES. On the other hand, our glossary facilitates communication between the academic side of the project and the fieldwork conducted by NGOs, uniting our teams working from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ghana, Italy, Mauritania, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania and Senegal.

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Closing civic space

Closing civic space is a phenomenon described by Rosa Balfour, Nicolas Bouchet, and Joerg Forbrig (2019), who claim that opportunities to occupy public spaces and to express political opinions with the intention of changing politics are shrinking. While the authors put particular focus on Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans, they also acknowledge that the phenomenon reaches beyond these regions. The phenomenon of undermining civic actors appears increasingly sophisticated and widespread, e.g. in the US (Balfour et al. 2019, 4).

⇢ see also: Opportunity

References and further reading:

Balfour, Rosa; Bouchet, Nicolas; Forbrig, Joerg. 2019. Improving EU-U.S. Cooperation in Civil Society Support in Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans. Washington DC: The German Marshall Fund of the United State. URL: https://www.gmfus.org/news/improving-eu-us-cooperation-civil-society-support-eastern-europe-andwestern-balkans. 

Category: A

Work Package: 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8

[BBK / CS / FK]

 

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