Among the objectives of the BGD programme is to raise awareness of efforts throughout the world to bring greater democracy to the governance of global concerns. To this end we feature links to the websites of academic and/or practitioner initiatives in this area on our links page as well as list details of relevant publications in our library.
The Links section provides links to the Convenor institutions and connections to websites of other institutions and programmes working on issues of global democracy.
The Library section provides a collection of online publications on questions of global democracy.
In addition we also feature some of the initiatives and publications included on our links and library pages below.
In June 2003, in the midst of intense global changes, the Programme for Democracy and Global Transformation was created at the San Marcos University (Lima, Peru). Since then the programme has offered a transdisciplinary space for the analysis of power, democratization and social movements in the contemporary globalizing world.
During its six year existence, the PDTG has developed into an autonomous centre for research, capacity-building and alternative communication, combining academic reflection and direct work with social organisations. We aim to contribute to the struggles for autonomy, diversity, democracy, ecological and social justice within Perú, the Americas and the world. As such we are collaborating with the women’s and feminist movement, the movement of indigenous and farmer communities, alternative cultural spaces, alternative media and the LGTB movement in Peru.The programme is part of various transnational networks of critical reflection and the promotion of a radicalization of democracy, such as the Network Institute for Global Democratization, Enlazando Alternativas, and the Interuniversitarian Research Consortium on the Americas: Social Movements and Politico-Cultural Transformation in the 21st Century.
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