Marlies Glasius - openDemocracy

Surreptitious symbiosis: the relationship between NGO’s and movement activists

For now, thanks to surreptitious symbiosis, it is possible to do sustained activism to bring about social change, without becoming part of a ‘civil society industry’. From the Squares and Beyond partnership.

By Marlies Glasius and Armine Ishkanian

/ 29 Jul 2015

Moving beyond the squares: anticipating the debate

On July 3-4, the LSE will jointly host a seminar with openDemocracy on the impact of the movements in the squares from 2011 onwards. Do they contribute to the democratic renewal of our democracies and if so how? A conversation.

By Marlies Glasius, Armine Ishkanian and Alex Sakalis

/ 29 Jun 2015

Dissecting global civil society: values, actors, organisational forms

What we see in global civil society depends on what value lens we use to define it. The trend towards networked organisation may have emancipatory effects, but may also obscure inequalities and clashing values

By Marlies Glasius

/ 2 Nov 2010

Criminalise WMD

In her recent column on dismantling the global nuclear infrastructure, Mary Kaldor proposes criminalising the threat or use of nuclear weapons. Just over a decade ago, global civil society actors

By Marlies Glasius

/ 3 Sep 2009

Poverty and activism: the heart of global civil society

The worldwide economic recession has focused attention on the problems of poverty and those who endure or are being pushed into it. The fact that - even before the onset

By Mary Kaldor, Marlies Glasius, Helmut Anheier, Ashwani Kumar, Jan Aart Scholte and Hakan Seckinelgin

/ 12 May 2009

The ICC and the Gaza war: legal limits, symbolic politics

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) appears to be taking a serious interest in allegations of war crimes committed in the Gaza war from 27 December 2008 to

By Marlies Glasius

/ 28 Mar 2009

What is global justice and who is it for? The ICC’s first five years

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno-Ocampo, has a good eye for publicity. On the eve of the ten-year anniversary of the Rome statute which established the

By Marlies Glasius

/ 22 Jul 2008

Global civil society: the politics of a new world?

The first few months of 2003 witnessed a global popular mobilisation on a scale unprecedented in history. On 15 February 2003, some 11 million people demonstrated in approximately 800 cities

By Mary Kaldor, Marlies Glasius and Helmut Anheier

/ 15 Jan 2004

Global civil society comes of age

Movements against dams in India, Brazil and Hungary, high-profile indigenous peoples campaigns by the Ogoni and the Zapatistas, humanitarian efforts in war zones like Sudan, Kosovo and Afghanistan, and street

By Marlies Glasius

/ 14 Nov 2001