{"title":"Civil Societies v. Nation States in Problem Solving and Mediation","authors":"Kenneth Cloke","doi":"10.1002/alt.22004","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>Civil societies are simply informal, voluntary, self-organized communities of people. They consist of the spontaneous, unofficial, social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental <i>activities</i> and <i>relationships</i> of people who interact informally <i>alongside</i> the formal, involuntary, hierarchically organized state—yet remain private individuals and public citizens whose lives are largely independent of it.</p>","PeriodicalId":100074,"journal":{"name":"Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation","volume":"41 7","pages":"101-108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/alt.22004","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Civil societies are simply informal, voluntary, self-organized communities of people. They consist of the spontaneous, unofficial, social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental activities and relationships of people who interact informally alongside the formal, involuntary, hierarchically organized state—yet remain private individuals and public citizens whose lives are largely independent of it.