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CIVIL SOCIETY SCENARIO IN MALDIVES: A SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS

    1 Author(s):  DR. MD. TARIQUE ANWER

Vol -  10, Issue- 9 ,         Page(s) : 195 - 206  (2019 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH

Abstract

A civil society consists of a number of groups and organizations that intend to work towards the betterment of the citizens of any particular geographical denomination but without the usual governmental sphere of influence and the for-profit sectors. Civil society refers to those networks, associations, conglomerations, connections and groups that are not managed, administered or run by the state rather they are spontaneous or conscious outgrowths that emanate in order to strive for restoring the supposedly wayward imbalances that have germinated in the society to serve vested interests of vested groups of people. Civil society covers a wide range of formal and informal networks and organizations including Non Government Organizations (NGO), community based organizations and networks of neighbours and kin. Societies vary in their stock of civil society institutions, which constitute a part of their social capital. Social capital is a useful concept to understand the role that civil society institutions play in the lives of poor people. Social capital broadly defined refers to the norms and networks that enable people to coordinate collective action.16 Social capital resides in any group, network or organization including the state. Civil society however clearly lies outside the state, although it is affected by state laws such as freedom of assembly and financial laws.

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