CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Dramac, Tanja |
|---|---|
| Title | The Role of Civil Society in the Peace-building Process. A case study of two NGOs in Srebrenica |
| Summary | This paper represents research that studies two NGO’s in Srebrenica founded by women who have a peace-building agenda on a local level. Fundamentally, this is the analysis of how women’s NGOs contributes to the peace-building and answers a question about grassroots initiatives contribute to stabilization and repair of the social infrastructure in post conflict societies. The chosen town is Srebrenica which had been under United Nations protection as a “safe haven”, during the Bosnia and Herzegovina war in the mid nineties and the chosen NGOs are the oldest NGOs founded and ran by women. The method of answering the research question was a case study based on document analysis and interview. Theoretical framework is Civil Society and Peacebuilding, Civil Society And Peacebuilding: A Critical Assessment, edited by Thania Paffenholz, more specifically A Coprehensive Analytical Framework for assessing civil society’s role in the peace-building. The findings reveal that in the emergence of these organizations, a gendered view on politics and society is cultivated and that the social position of women made them exposed more to non-governmental work. It is also clear that the organizational priorities and dynamics of the NGO changes once they receive international financing. The changes are revealed in how they adjust their agenda adopting the financier’s agenda to obtain funds. Finally, the groups contribute to the peace-building process by providing safe space and opportunities for youth who were born after the war to work in multiethnic environment without war burden towards a common vision. The author argues for an increase in a study of women NGOs and their peacemaking efforts in a postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
| Supervisor | Sgier, Lea |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/dramac_tanja.pdf |
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