Dealing with issues surrounding Conceptualising Global Democracy, the upcoming Cairo workshop will promote intercultural debate and discussion centring on how Global Democracy itself can be conceived. All of the remaining discussants have now confirmed their attendance.

These discussants, coming from both civil and official backgrounds, will question, debate, and discuss the concrete, global implications of each author's paper. These discussants include:

• Sylvia Borren, former General Director of Oxfam Novib, Netherlands
• Nahla Chahal, Forum for Arab Reform, Beirut                              
• Yasser Elwy, Arab Forum for Alternatives
• Christopher Hackett, Permanent Representative of Barbados to the United Nations 
• Laila Jane Harré, National Distribution Union, Auckland
• Gabrielle Hosein, Institute for Gender and Development, Trinidad
• Jan Kavan, former Foreign Minister, Czech Republic, Prague
• Ethel Long-Scott, Women’s Economic Agenda Project, Oakland
• Sergey Sergeevich Mitrokhin, Yabloko Party, Moscow
• Maguy Mukidi, Oxfam GB, Kinshasa
• Gladys Mutangadura, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa , Addis Ababa
• Mieko Okamuro, Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Tokyo
• Paul Oquist, Minister, Government of Nicaragua
• Bob Rae, Member of Parliament for Toronto Centre
• Rajindar Sachar, former Chief Justice, High Court of Delhi
• Shaista Shameem, Fiji Human Rights Commission, Fiji
• Vandana Shiva, Ecofeminist, South Asia 
• Anna Soboleva, Russian Humanitarian Seminar, Latvia
• Virginia Vargas, Center for Peruvian Women “Flora Tristán”, Lima

Discussants contribute in their personal capacity, and their comments should not be construed to represent the policy position of any institution to which they are affiliated.