ABSTRACT
This essay applies the concept of global civil society to the Mediterranean and, more
specifically, to everything to do with pro-human rights activism. To this end, as a
first step, global civil society and other related concepts are analysed, while as a
second step the networks created in recent years in the field of human rights in the
Mediterranean are reviewed. What are these networks, and what are their main
features? To what extent are these networks exponents of the emergence of an
alleged global civil society? Alongside analysis of these aspects, the essay includes a
number of reflections on the capacity of groups and associations in civil society
which seek the democratization of political systems and respect for human rights to
produce substantive changes in their respective countries. It then goes on to assess
the contribution of networking on the promotion of a culture of dialogue and its
limitations in the Mediterranean region.
