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Promoting Democratic Governance in a Tribal System
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Domesticating Democracy: Culture, Civil Society, and Constitutionalism in Africa; Maxwell Owusu
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Socio-political transformation in Africa gained a new impetus after the end of the Cold War, which was connected with liberalization and further democratization in the continent. The essay views the nature of democratic consensus from an anthropo-historical prospective. This requires discussion of domestication of democracy and creation of sustainable constitutional cultures. Domestication of democracy, according to the author, means a perpetual process of interaction of new forms of political behavior, including tribal cultures, and their integration in the new realities of culture with increasing popular legitimacy. The question that the paper focuses its attention is how new democratic practices fit into indigenous social and political practices of communities.
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Civil Society, Tribal Process, and Change in Jordan: An Anthropological View; Richard T. Antoun
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The author discusses tribal institutions in Jordan and argues that they represent a form of civil society participation through the processes based on consensual conflict resolution. Civil society represents a “seamless web” that is made by interactions between the tribal groups and state institutions. Author presents a novel, anthropological approach to civil society and analyses tribalism as ideological interactions and conflict resolution as a tribal process in viewing the social context of Jordan
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Tribal participation, Arbind Kumar
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The paper discusses tribal participation and governance in the context of the Santal Pargana region of the state of Jharkhand in India. The author claims that people-based governance is a concept that needs to be viewed at different levels, including symbolic juncture of human beings, animals and forest. The central idea of the paper is that people-based governance is aimed at putting people at the centre of decisions in matters of governance and need to be understood within the framework of tribal culture and their indigenous system of governing their own community to unravel the linkage between effective participation and good governance as it has historically evolved.
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