What is civil society?

Civil society is a term that’s widely used, rarely agreed upon, and not always understood - and it often means different things to different people. The academics Jeremy Kendall and Martin Knapp have even called it a ‘loose and baggy monster’.
This video is a short explainer of what our Commission on Civil Society defines as 'civil society'. It summarises our research paper which goes into more depth about how we came to this definition. civilsocietyco...