Paper Local Government And Civil Society From Cooperation To Co-participation

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - Political Systems - General and Comparisons, grade: 10, Universitat Jaume (International Master in Peace, Conflict and Development Studies UNESCO Chair in Philosophy for Peace at UJI ), course: International Master in Peace Conflict and Development Studies, language: English, abstract: Peace Culture... where? who? what? and How? They are only some questions that it needs I handed for really beginning to walk in this path.Reading two resolutions of the General Assembly of United Nation ("53/243 A. Declaration culture of Peace" and ¿59/143. International Decade Cultures of Peace and Not-Violence for the Children of the world, 2001-2010) we notice that the centre of such articles and resolutions it is the human being. We understand therefore that the level from which to depart for transforming the diffused one and as many brutal Cultures of War in Cultures of Peace is that individual. To this point it must quickly be underlined as in the actual International law also proposed by the United Nation System, the principal guarantor of the human integrity it is the government institution, therefore for this we have to insert as second level whether to intervene that community, in this case government but also his Local government. Considered that the government level is not a lot receptive in this field, and that the claims of the individuals and the different forms of community are not often listened (in the reality) we meet therefore the necessity to put an inferior level to the institutions government able to influence the choices of States through numerous inputs and at the same time to develop the guardianship of the human integrity through also a constant interaction with the civil society. These institutions can be seen as the corporate body of local government, institutions that are not only reproductions to local level of the government system and that they are legitimated by this same, but these also have the important characteristic to be on direct contact with the civil society, building continuous points of dialogue with it, to have an action more effective on the territory of competence (and not only) in order to promote the Culture of Peace. There is besides to say that very often such local government, don't follow a political ideology dictated by parties, but contrarily they create coalitions with the purpose to directly satisfy the needs of the citizens and the communities and equally they are organized in international networks to follow these goals.