Impacts of Art in Life

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|Civil society is one of the "hottest" concepts in all of the social sciences that touch on political life. Because so many       |
|countries have established more democratic regimes in recent years, there has been renewed interest in popular engagement in     |
|political life and everything else that relates to the way that political cultures or basic values and beliefs affect the way a |
|state is governed. More recently, there has also been growing interest in how strengthening civil society can contribute to     |
|conflict resolution.                                                                                                             |
|What is Civil Society?                                                                                                           |
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|Terrence Lyons talks about the tension between maintaining stability and addressing past injustice in post-conflict             |
|reconstruction. He also talks about ways to increase post-conflict stability through gradual democratization and the fostering   |
|of civil society.                                                                                                               |
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|As with most popular academic concepts, there is no universally accepted definition of either civil society or the related       |
|notions of a civic culture and social capital. In one of the best brief attempts to sort through all the definitions, the       |
|British Library[1] included the following characteristics:                                                                       |
|All...