As shown by both the geographic reach of the contributions (authors from 16 countries) and the infographics to this edition, the issue is clearly of global concern...The edition then focuses on the strategies that activists are implementing to combat the crackdown...Conectas and The Fund aimed to address the imbalance in material currently available, the majority of which focuses on the diagnostics, rather than the responses to the crackdowns that we are witnessing...Despite the difficult scenarios in which many of the authors featured in this edition operate, the overwhelming message is not of a hopeless battle against ever powerful forces. Instead, the activists in this edition describe a vibrant civil society that is adapting to the current challenges with creativity, resilience and hope...[C]utting across traditional lines, we begin to see a force that can resist the crackdown and reclaim civic space...The contributions...provide a wealth of strategies that the activist authors are implementing in their local contexts, which might be adapted and replicated in other countries or regions....1. Root Causes of the Crackdown on Civil Society...2.Strategies the Activist Authors Use to Respond to the Crackdown... [and] 3.Sustaining the Movement and its Activists in this Context.