The third day of the Learning for Global Democracy project workshop in Delhi continued and then concluded discussions of initiatives to enhance public understanding of global affairs.

The day opened with reflections on emergent workshop themes. Then four further case studies of  learning for global democracy were debated.

One discussion concerned the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the Solomon Islands as an occasion for learning in a politically sensitive post-conflict situation.

A second examined performances of memorialisation (including murals and street theatre) as an exercise of transnational learning for democratic citizenship in Jamaica and its diaspora in Canada.

A third case related to learning for global democracy through the European Social Forum. A fourth case looked at the intercontinental Global Studies Programme as an experiment in new university curricula that could promote global democracy.

Respondents to the papers included government figures from China and Russia, a United Nations official from Nigeria, and civil society activists from Armenia, Bahrain, India, Mozambique and Uruguay.

A final session of the workshop discussed broadly emergent themes about citizen learning for global democracy. The main points included:

• unlearning damaging old practices as well as learning new ones
   
• the particular contributions of women to learning for global democracy
   
• the contributions of networks and alliances to learning for global democracy
   
• listening as a key skill to learn for global democracy promotion
   
• the often significant influence on learning for global democracy of powerful social structures such as the state, capitalism and modernity
   
• the distinctive perspectives, needs and strengths of youth
   
• the need for learning for global democracy itself to be a democratic process
   

The concluding day also included discussions of the workshop methodology, to see in particular what could be learned from the Delhi experience in order to improve the BGD programme itself.