Bettina von Lieres

Description of Project

Working Between Citizens and the State Bettina has completed her project research which has included more interviews with local state officials, collection of relevant literature on state-formation and social movements and the write up of the final draft report. Bettina convened the Ford Foundation-funded Middle Spaces project as part of the New Forms of Citizenship Programme until the end of 2007 and now continues to work within the project as a researcher.

Conferences and Publications

Von Lieres, B. 2007. “Widening Spaces for Citizen Participation”, in Thompson, L. (ed). Participatory Governance? Citizens and the State in Southern Africa, African Centre for Citizenship and Democracy, UWC. 2007.