democracy

The European Commission has officially launched a major funding opportunity aimed at empowering civil society organisations (CSOs) in South Africa. This call for proposals focuses on strengthening human rights, promoting democratic governance, and advancing Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) accountability—particularly in the context of a just and inclusive transition. With a substantial…

Brazil’s democracy faced a major test, according to the police report on this coup attempt. Brazil's election coup plot was well planned by Jair Bolsonaro and his allies, a police report finds. The post How Jair Bolsonaro plotted to steal Brazil’s 2022 election appeared first on Good Authority .

As the “biggest election year in history” comes to an end, researchers Madeleine Daepp and Robert Osazuwa Ness and Democracy Forward GM Ginny Badanes discuss AI’s impact on democracy, including Daepp and Ness’s research into the tech’s use in Taiwan and India. The post Ideas: AI and democracy with Madeleine Daepp and Robert Osazuwa Ness appeared first on Microsoft Research .

Through the Democracy and Dialogues Initiative, UConn is working to increase democratic and civic capacity by supporting community dialogues on critical issues, providing moderator and facilitation training for dialogues and deliberations, and partnering with campus colleagues and local institutions to increase meaningful participation by all community members. The Encounters Series is dedicated …

Through the Democracy and Dialogues Initiative, UConn is working to increase democratic and civic capacity by supporting community dialogues on critical issues, providing moderator and facilitation training for dialogues and deliberations, and partnering with campus colleagues and local institutions to increase meaningful participation by all community members. The Encounters Series is dedicated …

The forthcoming article “Listening to Strangers, or: Three Arguments for Bounded Solidarity” by Nathan Pippenger is summarized by the author below.  Does democracy need solidarity? Increasingly, political theorists are skeptical. Encouraging citizens to think of themselves as a “We” may threaten both a polity’s internal diversity and its peaceful relations with outsiders—hardly an abs…

Last Monday, we started in Koblenz our Project “Deliberationsschulungen zur Stärkung der Demokratie“. The deliberations are organized by the Kreisverwaltung Mayen-Koblenz and are supported by the European Union. Some of the participants volunteered for a “Bewerbungsfoto”.  Together with the participants, mostly civil servants active in many different spheres (Youth Welfare Office, Job Centers, Ge…

In cooperation with local partners we organize deliberative workshops in schools. The themes are chosen together with teachers and students, depending on the needs and interests of the people involved. Popular are democracy, identity, radicalization, discrimination, racism, sex equality, and homosexuality. This year, we have a long term cooperation with the Grace Hopper Gesamtschule in […] The po…