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A Cairo Conversation on Conceptualising Global Democracy
Read BGD’s policy brief outlining the main propositions that came out of our international workshop on Conceptualising Global Democracy.
Conceptualising Global Democracy Workshop Summary
Year:
2009
Themes:
Global Democracy
Themes:
Conceptualising Global Democracy
This two-page document summarises the main observations and urgings that came out of the workshop on the subject of conceptualising global democracy.
Summary of Day 3 Cairo Workshop - 8th December 2009
Read a summary of the final day of the 'Concepualising Global Democracy' workshop in Cairo.
Summary of Day 2 Cairo Workshop - 7th December 2009
Read our update on Day 2 of the 'Conceptualising Global Democracy' Workshop in Cairo.
After the Workshop - The Next Steps
Public presentation on 9th December at Cairo University
On 9 December an initial public presentation of the Conceptualising Global Democracy project took place at Cairo University at 18.00-20.00. A panel of CGD authors addressed the question: "Can There Be Global Democracy?" Read more about the presentation
Publications
Several publications will follow the Conceptualising Global Democracy workshop in Cairo.
Video commentaries
Why is democracy an important principle for global politics?
Is global democracy feasible? What are the main obstacles that stands in its way?
Views from around the world
East Asia
Xu Jiajun from China (Video in Chinese)
Summary of Day 1 Cairo Workshop - 6th December 2009
Read our daily updated from the Conceptualising Global Democracy Workshop in Cairo.
Conceptualising Global Democracy Workshop old
The Conceptualising Global Democracy project starts from the observation that a principal difficulty in building democratic governance of global affairs is a general lack of clarity regarding what ‘rule by and for the people’ means in the context of global problems.
Countless commentators bemoan the failings of democracy in relation to contemporary globalisation; however, their ideas of what a global democracy would actually look like are usually vague, implicit and unconvincing.
