POTENTIALS AND CHALLENGES OF CIVIL SOCIETY ACTIVISM IN AN INCREASINGLY GLOBALIZED WORLD

Maina Mackson Abga

Faulty of General Studies,

Federal University Dutse

Email: abgamainamackson@gmail.com 

Abstract: Civil society has come to be an essential element of contemporary global politics, taken either as a normative concept linked to the idea of democracy or as a descriptive concept that refers to the activism of global activities of NGOs, Social movements, and global advocacy networks. It is therefore very imperative to engage ourselves with the critically complex global civil society, especially in relation to the third world countries and specifically Nigeria as a major player in world politics and member of committee of nations, hence we should be able to analyze and asses the potentials and challenges of civil society activism in the context of our increasingly globalized world. We are tend to believe that global society holds the key to the future of progressive politics, thus, civil society is the way forward for solidarity, citizenship and democracy; however, the most important question we should acquaint ourselves with as per this discourse is, what substance does it portends for the notion of global civil society and what implications does it have with regard to the positives and negatives its emergence and growth hold, especially in contemporary world politics? Certainly, it is interesting to note that we have witnessed an upsurge of global civil society in the late twentieth century and that it has no doubt, played a significant role in recasting world politics; this is to say, global civil society certainly offers much potential for enhancing security, peace, solidarity, equality social, economic, democratic paradigm shift in our contemporary global relations.