Each BGD project comprises a workshop opening a possibility for intercultural, interdisciplinary and interregional debate. All 10 authors with their abstract titles for the Conceptualising Global Democracy project have now been confirmed. 

Confirmed authors with their respective titles for the Conceptualising Global Democracy project include:

• Eva Erman (Stockholm University, Political Science), Western Europe
  'Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance'
   
• Sitiveni Halapua & Peau Halapua (East-West Center, Honolulu, Economics), Pacific
  'Global Democracy as Talanoa: A Pacific Perspective'
   
• Boris Kagarlitsky (Institute for Globalization and Social Movements, Moscow, Sociology), East Europe
  'Global Democracy through National Democracy'
   
• Regina Karega (Kenyatta University, Sociology), Sub-Saharan Africa
  'Gender Empowerment and Global Democracy'
   
• Edgardo Lander (Central University of Venezuela, Caracas, Sociology), Latin America
  'The Decolonisation of Global Democracy'
   
• Ma Ben & Xu Jiajun (Tsinghua University, Beijing, Political Science), East Asia
  'A New Global Democracy from the Perspective of Chinese Culture'
   
• Patricia Mohammed (University of the West Indies, Cultural Studies), Caribbean
  'Gender Politics and Global Democracy: Insights from the Caribbean'
   
• Nadia Mostafa (Cairo University, the Programme for Civilisation Studies and Dialogue of Cultures), Middle East
  'Beyond Western Paradigms: An Islamic Perspective on Global Democracy'
   
• Ram Jee Singh (Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi, Sociology), South Asia
  'Global Democracy: Preconditions and Predicament'
   
• Melissa Williams (University of Toronto, Political Science & Centre for Ethics), North America
  'Linking Fates Together: Democratic Imaginaries and Global Public Space'

The event will also involve around 20 participants from official circles and the civil society who will act as discussants of the papers and thereby foster cross-sectoral debate. Confirmed discussants include a representative from the People’s Republic of China, a human rights activist from Latvia, a democracy advocate from Lebanon, a trade unionist from New Zealand and a youth mobiliser from Trinidad.