Welcome to the Building Global Democracy programme home page. The Building Global Democracy programme (BGD) explores how globalization can be governed in democratic ways. Today’s world faces many global challenges: in culture, economics, environment, politics and society. To handle global problems effectively and legitimately, they need to be handled democratically. The Building Global Democracy programme asks how this can be done.

The Building Global Democracy programme involves academics, civil society groups and officials from around the world. This website provides information about the programme, its activities and its outputs. We hope that you will be interested to follow – and contribute to – the BGD journey. To receive periodic updates please sign up for our Newsletter on the left, and/or join us by filling in our Registration form.

Each month the Building Global Democracy website features a contributor to our programme. This month you can read more about:

Xu Jiajun, co-author of one of the ten papers presented at our Conceptualising Global Democracy workshop in Cairo.

Sitiveni Halapua, the Building Global Democracy programme convenor for the Pacific region.