The Conceptualising Global Democracy workshop took place on 6-8 December 2009 at the Ramses Hilton Hotel in the heart of the Cairo city centre. The event involved around 40 core participants from 29 countries around the world, as well as a number of local contributors.
On 6 June 2009 a team of authors presented the Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance project at the annual conference of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS).
The BGD convening group held its second meeting in conjunction with the World Social Forum at Belém in Brazilian Amazonia on 27 January-1 February 2009.
Findings of our pilot project on Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance were presented at a specially convened event in November 2008 at the IMF and the World Bank.
In November 2008 findings of our pilot project on Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance were presented at the United Nations.
The Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance project presented findings and recommendations in a session at the fourth conference of the Globalization Studies Network (GSN).
The convening group of the Building Global Democracy programme held its first meeting at the University of Warwick on 23-26 April 2008. In attendance were Diana Brydon, Heba Ezzat, Alla Glinchikova, Sitiveni Halapua, Moema de Miranda, Alfred Nhema and Jan Aart Scholte.
The Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance project presented preliminary results in a session at the tenth anniversary conference of the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR), held at the University of Warwick on 17-19 September 2007. CSGR, one of the project funders, marked its first decade with an international conference on the theme (highly appropriate for the CS-AGG project) of ‘Pathways to Legitimacy? The Future of Global and Regional Governance’.
Each BGD project includes a workshop to encourage interregional, intercultural, interdisclipinary, ideologically plural, and action-oriented discussion on the topic at hand. The Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance project convened its workshop on 13-15 June 2007 at the School of Global Studies of Gothenburg University in Sweden.