Understanding civil society / Christoph Spurk -- Civil society and the state / Kjell Erling Kjellman and Kristian Berg Harpviken -- Civil society and peacebuilding / Thania Paffenholz -- A comprehensive analytical framework / Thania Paffenholz and Christoph Spurk -- Guatemala: a dependent and fragmented civil society / Sabine Kurtenbach -- Northern Ireland: civil society and the slow building of peace / Roberto Belloni -- Bosnia-Herzegovina: civil society in a semiprotectorate / Roberto Belloni and Bruce Hemmer -- Turkey: the Kurdish question and the coercive state / Ayşe Betül Çelik -- Cyprus: a divided civil society in stalemate / Esra Çuhadar and Andreas Kotelis -- Israel and Palestine: civil societies in despair / Esra Çuhadar and Sari Hanafi -- Afghanistan: civil society between modernity and tradition / Kaja Borchgrevink and Kristian Berg Harpviken -- Nepal: from conflict to consolidating a fragile peace / Rhoderick Chalmers -- Sri Lanka: peace activists and nationalists / Camilla Orjuela -- Somalia: civil society in a collapsed state / Ken Menkhaus ... [et al.] -- Nigeria: dilemmas of co-optation in the Niger Delta / Darren Kew and Cyril Obi -- What civil society can contribute to peacebuilding / Thania Paffenholz -- Enabling and disenabling factors for civil society peacebuilding / Thania Paffenholz ... [et al.] -- Conclusion / Thania Paffenholz.