On 9 December an initial public presentation of the Conceptualising Global Democracy project took place at Cairo University at 18.00-20.00. A panel of CGD authors addressed the question: "Can There Be Global Democracy?" Read more about the presentation [1]
Several publications will follow the Conceptualising Global Democracy workshop in Cairo.
This two-page policy brief summarises the main observations and urgings that came out of the workshop on the subject of conceptualising global democracy.
Read the Action Statement online [2]
Download a PDF version of the Action Statement [3]
This document will be translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, Portugese, Russian and Spanish. The translated versions will be available on the BGD website in January 2010.
These summaries will cover the main ideas of each of the papers commissioned for the Cairo workshop, as well as their implications for action to promote global democracy. These statements will also be translated into 7 languages on the BGD website.
Authors will rewrite the papers presented in Cairo in the light of the workshop discussions, looking in particular to have the pieces speak across regions, cultures and disciplines. Heba Raouf Ezzat and Jan Aart Scholte will take the lead in editing the papers into book form, with the aim of publication in 2011.
In the meantime, if you would like to find out more about the authors and the papers they are producing, then please visit our authors’ page [4]or read our daily highlights from the Cairo workshop. [5]
Links:
[1] http://www.buildingglobaldemocracy.org/content/presentations-0
[2] http://www.buildingglobaldemocracy.org/content/cairo-conversation-conceptualsing-global-democracy
[3] http://www.buildingglobaldemocracy.org/content/conceptualising-global-democracy-policy-brief
[4] http://www.buildingglobaldemocracy.org/cgd-authors
[5] http://www.buildingglobaldemocracy.org/content/summary-day-1-cairo-workshop-6th-december-2009