The specialist authors that took part in our Conceptualising Global Democracy project heralded from ten world regions and brought highly diverse perspectives to the issue of conceptualising global democracy including Austronesian culture, Confucian philosophy, feminism, Gandhian views, Islam, postcolonialism, post-communist socialism, and western liberalism.

Summaries of the papers that the authors produced are available on our website now.

Click on the photographs below to read more about each author.

Eva Erman: Stockholm University Peau Halapua: East-West Center, HonoluluSitiveni Halapua: East-West Center, HonoluluBoris Kagarlitsky: Institute for Globalization and Social Movements, MoscowRegina Gathoni Mwatha: Kenyatta University, Nairobi

 Edgardo Lander: Central University of Venezuela, CaracasMa Ben: Tsinghua University, BeijingPatricia Mohammed: University of the West IndiesNadia Mostafa: Cairo University Peng Zongchao: Tsinghua University, Beijing

Ramjee Singh: Gandhi Peace Foundation, New DelhiMelissa Williams: University of TorontoXu Jiajun: Tsinghua University, Beijing

The project also involved 20 leading figures from official and community sectors who acted as discussants at our Conceptualising Global Democracy workshop in Cairo. The discussants included a human rights activist from Latvia, a democracy advocate from Lebanon, a trade unionist from New Zealand and a youth mobiliser from Trinidad. Read more about the discussants

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