No amount of conceptual clarification, public education and institutional reform will generate sufficient global democracy if these advances are not accompanied by a more even distribution of world resources. Otherwise opportunities to participate in global politics will remain heavily skewed on lines of country, class, caste, culture, gender, race and other social hierarchies.

 

This project will assemble researchers, activists and officials who have pursued various schemes to effect global redistribution, with particular emphasis on the forces promoting and/or frustrating the implementation of these proposals. Illustrative examples include the global airline tax, the currency transaction tax, social banking and local currencies in global finance; creative commons licences and open source in global knowledge; fair trade schemes in global commerce; a World Mobility Organization in respect of global migration; and the principle of universal basic income.

 

It is intended that the workshop for this project be held in Addis Ababa in August 2010 and the book launch in London.