Praxis Paper 9. Civil Society Capacity Building in Post-Conflict Societies: The Experience of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo

This paper investigates the approaches and methods applied to NGO capacity building in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo during parallel and ongoing experiences of internationally determined post-conflict social, political and economic rehabilitation and transition. Capacity building in both settings is a new term, having arrived with equally novel concepts such as the ‘NGO’, ‘civil society’, ‘democracy’; and ‘good governance’ as part of a broader development discourse driving efforts to re-establish social cohesion and fashion new states according to Western-style liberal democracy.