Choosing Courage over Despair: Civil Society Is Notching Up Wins Despite Hostile Conditions

By Mandeep Tiwana, CIVICUS Secretary General

We live in a world where cruel and unaccountable power is on the ascendant. Powerful countries led by self-serving strongmen are wreaking havoc across borders in a neocolonial scramble for power and natural resources. Their disruption of the rules-based order through military action in breach of international law is leaving trails of death and destruction. Oligarchs powered by the entrenchment of market fundamentalism have come to monopolize large swaths of our economies. They are trying to influence how people think and act through their grip on the media, boosted by artificial intelligence (AI) and surveillance technology. These combined forces want civil society to believe nothing can stand in their way. But across the world, despite immensely challenging conditions, resistance is brewing and is notching up wins for peace, justice, equality, and environmental sustainability.

Read on Kettering Foundation's Blog Page

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