The specialist authors that took part in our CGD project heralded from ten world regions and brought highly diverse perspectives to the issue of conceptualising global democracy including Austronesian culture, Confucian philosophy, feminism, Gandhian views, Islam, postcolonialism, post-communist socialism, and western liberalism.

Summaries of the papers that the authors produced are available on our website now.

Click on the photographs below to read more about each author.

Eva Erman: Stockholm University Peau Halapua: East-West Center, HonoluluSitiveni Halapua: East-West Center, HonoluluBoris Kagarlitsky: Institute for Globalization and Social Movements, MoscowRegina Gathoni Mwatha: Kenyatta University, Nairobi

 Edgardo Lander: Central University of Venezuela, CaracasMa Ben: Tsinghua University, BeijingPatricia Mohammed: University of the West IndiesNadia Mostafa: Cairo University Peng Zongchao: Tsinghua University, Beijing

Ramjee Singh: Gandhi Peace Foundation, New DelhiMelissa Williams: University of TorontoXu Jiajun: Tsinghua University, Beijing

Our Conceptualising Global Democracy (CGD) project also involved around 20 participants from official circles and the civil society who acted as discussants of the draft papers. Discussants include a human rights activist from Latvia, a democracy advocate from Lebanon, a trade unionist from New Zealand and a youth mobiliser from Trinidad. Read more about the discussants