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Community Mobilisation: Unlocking the Potential of Community Power
"This report offers a how-to guide for organisations interested in the process of building communities into cohesive wholes, with clear objectives and clear plans...illustrating a range of potential strategies...to build active, networked and powerful communities" (Tiratelli 2020).
Are You Willing to Give Up Your Privilege?
“No chief executive, investor or rich person wakes up in the morning, looks in the mirror, and says, “Today, I want to go out and create more inequality in America.” And yet, all too often, that is exactly what happens” (Darren Walker, 2020).
What the Courage to Change History Looks Like
“Yes, years of police killings of unarmed African-Americans had stacked up like dry tinder. True, George Floyd’s public murder furnished the spark. But freedom’s forge must finish its work while the coals are hot. This is the hour to reimagine what America could become if “We the People” meant all of us” (William Barber II et. al., 2020)
preventing covid from killing democracy in Africa
The authors discuss how democracy in Africa brings up “human rights, the integrity of democracy and the legitimacy of governments” and how “the people and leaders of Africa must...ensure that the pandemic does not become an excuse simply to avoid or postpone elections for political advantage, or to institute authoritarian and anti-democratic measures” (Doss and Ibrahim, 2020).
The Philippines Shows How Democracy Dies
“A court ruling against the Philippine journalist Maria Ressa illustrates the erosion of democratic norms, the corruption of institutions, and the compromises of decision makers” (Sheila Coronel, 2020).
To Overturn Trump, We Need to Overturn White Supremacy
“The George Floyd protests are not just about police violence. They’re about structural racism and the persistence of white supremacy; about the unresolved and unaddressed disadvantages of the past, as well as the bigotry that has come to dominate far too much of American politics in the age of Trump” (Jamelle Bouie, 2020).
Our Common Purpose: Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Century
This report “presents 31 recommendations - across political institutions, political culture, and civil society - which are the product of...nearly 50 listening sessions with Americans... which sought to understand how American citizens could obtain the values, knowledge, and skills to become better citizens” (American Academy of Art and Sciences, 2020).
Experts Predict More Digital Innovation by 2030 Aimed at Enhancing Democracy
“In this new report, technology experts who shared serious concerns for democracy in a recent Pew Research Center canvassing weigh in with their views about the likely changes and reforms that might occur in the coming years” (Vogels, Rainie and Anderson, 2021).
Innovative Citizen Participation and New Democratic Institutions: Catching the Deliberative Wave
This article explains how the "deliberative wave" has been gaining momentum and explores reasons “for embedding deliberative activities into public institutions to give citizens a more permanent and meaningful role in shaping the policies affecting their lives” (Innovative Citizen Participation and New Democratic Institutions: Catching the Deliberative Wave, OECD Publishing).
Deliberation, Citizen Science and Covid-19
This article details the need for deliberative democratic actions to be redesigned to involve both citizens and experts to deepen participation and foster both inclusion and expert guidance in decision-making. The advantages of deliberative democratic exercises in this format is contextualized by examining the United Kingdom government’s response to Covid-19.
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