The University of Haifa's Jewish Arab Center: Civil Society ...
The University of Haifa's Jewish Arab Center: Civil Society Project
The goal of the civil society project is the establishment of an operative basis for managing a broad, multidisciplinary research effort for the civil society in Israel. The goal of the research framework is to present, define and discuss possible courses of action in a multi-annual format that advances the development and strengthening of the civil society in Israel.
According to our approach, this mechanism can reach harmony only via a research approach that gives extra weight to the mutual relations between the state (which influences the breadth of autonomy where the civil society develops), the organizations that work within the frame of the civil society (as a means of expression for the individuals who are members in these organizations) and to the research staff (whose goal is to assist in examining and developing the occurring processes in the civil society). Additionally, the starting point in this research proposal is that in order to achieve its goals, the civil society framework must be perceived as a totality where each aspect is inter-related, in which an "open" dialogue must occur among the three relevant players (academy, state, and individual).