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Climate risk and response: Physical hazards and socioeconomic impacts
How could Earth’s changing climate impact socioeconomic systems across the world in the next three decades? A yearlong, cross-disciplinary research effort at McKinsey & Company provides some answers.
The Global Satisfaction with Democracy Report 2020
This report uses a combined, pooled dataset to determine that dissatisfaction with democracy has risen consistently and has reached its highest level yet since 1995, particularly in developed democracies. The authors find that the level of dissatisfaction can be widely characterized by events affecting the economic sector and policy crises.
Civil Society and Post-Independence Democracy Levels
"The role of civil society for the consolidation of democracy is contested… This paper argues that the existence of democratic CSOs prior to democratic transition strengthen post-independence democracy whereas non-democratic CSOs have a detrimental effect" (Lührmann and Grahn, 2019).
How can local authorities step into a Citizen future?
This piece examines how local authorities play a key role in maintaining and support community actions and civic will.
How can we work together to build community power?
This article supports “the NLGN’s call for a Community Power Act and argues “that it can only be as good as the process that creates it, the principles and culture that underpin it” and build “upon the excellent work already being done by existing change-makers” (New Citizenship Project, 2019).
Energy for development: ten years left to achieve SDG 7
The publication shows “it is possible to achieve SDG 7 well before 2030, and inform the next EU mandate on actions to take. The European Green Deal has a duty to go beyond Europe, and help nations around the world to transition towards sustainable economic and energy growth” (Islam 2020).
A Voice for Global Citizens: a UN World Citizens’ Initiative
This report recommends that the United Nations (UN) should develop its democratic legitimacy through the creation of the instrument of a World Citizens’ Initiative (WCI) by which global citizens can place proposals on the agenda of the UN General Assembly or the UN Security Council. (Organ and Murphy, 2019).
The Democracy Playbook: Preventing and Reversing Democratic Backsliding
“The Democracy Playbook sets forth strategies and actions that supporters of liberal democracy can implement to halt and reverse democratic backsliding and make democratic institutions work more effectively for citizens” (Eisen Et al., 2019).
Economic Crisis and Regime Transitions from Within
"Populism and its relationship with modern democracy has gained considerable attention in recent years. This paper aims at advancing our understanding of how populism affects different models of democracy and tests the proposed arguments empirically… We take stock of existing arguments and theorize which democratic models may be affected by populism" (Ruth-Lovell, Lührmann, and Grahn, 2018).
"They Burn Through Everything” The Human Cost of Incendiary Weapons and the Limits of International Law
"This report aims to refocus the debate on incendiary weapons by highlighting the horrific human cost of their use. A humanitarian approach more appropriately frames the issue in terms of human suffering and underscores the urgent need to revisit and strengthen the existing international law governing these weapons" (HRW 2020).
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