In the Central Europe and beyond

*Democracy and Civil Society

CivilSociety…

… and typical act of

democracy.

*What is today's civil society?

*Are we (really) the civil society ?*What is the key to this phenomenon ? Freedom, independence, religion, globalization ? *Is democracy necessary for its existence ?*How to explain the difference between us and for example the Islamic world ?

*Which roads to democracy are better

- civil society in the U.S. or in Egypt ?

*Civil society in U.S.

*Why the U.S. society has agreed to "Patriot Act", which restricts the individual liberty ??*What happened to American freedom ??*Does the war on terrorism in defense of democracy mean the end of the first question ??

*Civil society in Eygipt

This is the civil

society

And this is the civil society too…

*And this is the same

place … Tahrir

Square

*„Bad” Central Europe

*Can you imagine the Patriot Act in the Czech Republic, Poland or Lithuania ??*Can you imagine the protests against the

restriction of freedom ?? And the government that will survive these protests ??*The protests of civil society have forced the

EU to withdraw from the ACTA. Where were the U.S. citizens in this moment?? *Where is a better civil society … in the U.S.

or in Central Europe ?

*Civil society in Russia and

Belorus

VS

The biggest protest against V. Putin Feb 4,

2012

Moscow population > 11,6 mln Number of protesters > 36k.

The biggest protest against A. Lukashenko

Dec 19, 2010

Population of Belarus > 9,4 mlnNumber of protesters > 40k.

Where is a stronger civil society

*Civil society in Rwanda

*The Gacaca court was a part of a system of community justice inspired by tradition and established in 2001 in Rwanda * It was an answer

for activity of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).

*Summary of people prosecuted by ICTR – some 100 *Summary of people prosecuted for having

committed genocide by Gacaca Courts – some 820k.*Rwanda is not the heart of darkness, as it

was presented. It our community don't coped with the challenge.

*Civil society

in Africa

*Is this new model contemporary in

civil society ??