Welcome! The Building Global Democracy programme (BGD) is a major international action-oriented research initiative. It 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.

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"My aspiration is that the BGD program will become a space of dialogue, combining conceptualization and activism in the service of humanity at large. This might sound romantic, but what is wrong with romanticism?!!” 

 Heba Roauf Ezzat, the Building Global Democracy programme convener for the Midle East region, shares why she joined the Building Global Democracy Programme.