This discussion series reflected, examined and investigated the lessons and prospects of the involvements of societal forces in the contestation of state power. The series attempted to identify the historical conjunctures wherein civil society had engaged in partisan politics, provide the general features of those conjunctures and explain why civil society groups had acted in such a way. The result of the discussion served as inputs for an appropriate framing of the engagement of civil society in partisan politics based on the given conjuncture, which is predominantly determined by the prevailing political order.