The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies invites you to:

"Workshop on Civil Society and Socio-Economic Development"
(4th Meeting)

@

The Fares Center Conference Room (Mugar 129)

Led by Prof. Tosun Aricanli, Visiting Scholar at the Fares Center and Professor of Political Economy at Southern New Hampshire University, the workshop takes a critical approach analyzing the connections between development and civil society, and evaluates the promotion of civil society in the third world today.  Cultural context of the emergence of the concept of civil society will be examined, and the adequacy of the application of the civil society institutions to other cultural contexts will be questioned. One of the objectives of the workshop is to emphasize the role of the "community" in the definition of civil society. 

This meeting will continue with the discussion of the projects/ideas of those who were not able to present their material last time.  It is open to all those interested in the topic and who would like to explore it further, in conjunction with their academic work.  New participants are welcomed.

For information contact: Prof. Aricanli (aricanli@comcast.net )                                   

    Fares Center - Omar A. Dauhajre

                                                                617-627-6560

                                                                fares-center@tufts.edu