Civil Society and Democratic Socialization in Burundi. Return to an Ambiguous Complicity

Abstract

Without questioning the binomial Civil Society-Democracy, this study shows that with regard to the disturbed past of Burundi, the Civil Society cannot be the place to learn about values of democracy. The reflection highlights an institution whose agents, under the socio-financial and politico-ideological pressure, are not beyond the realm in which political power and other socioeconomic bonuses are gained.

Keywords

• associations
• burundi
• democracy
• political education
• democratic socialization
• civil society