"We believe it is right that people should shape their own lives... If we had global democracy we could better achieve poverty eradication, solidarity and peace"

BGD toolkits: A call to action

Your life is global!

Everyone who wants more democractic global politics needs an idea of global democracy. So what's yours? BGD's toolkit aims to help individuals develop their ideas and promote global democracy in society at large and within their own organisations

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Views from around the world:

Caribbean

East Asia

East Europe / Central Asia

Latin America

Middle East / North Africa

North America

Pacific

South Asia

Sub-Saharan Africa

West Europe

What’s your idea of Global Democracy?

Compare your ideas about global democracy with those of others from around the world.

How are your thoughs similar to and/or different from those of BGD contributors in China, Kenya, Sweden, Venezuela, etc?

All affected people in global politics must have socioeconomic rights as well as civil rights in order to satisfy the condition of political equality that is fundamental to democracy.

Eva Erman (Sweden)

No global democratic political process can develop unless it is based on serious democratic change at the national and local levels.

Boris Kagarlitsky (Russia)

The Islamic notion of al-‘Umma (the community of faith) offers a nonterritorial alternative to the nation-state as a basis for collective identity and solidarity in global politics.

Nadia Mostafa (Egypt)

 Question your own pratices and ideas!

• What are you currently doing and, if you want to be democratic what should you be considering?
• How can you go beyond formal notions of 'democracy' and become genuinely democractic in the fullest sense of the word?
• What does 'rule by and for the people' mean?

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