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About this Event
The future of Democracy ? what will post covid democracy look like?
What are the issues? Who are the guardians of democracy ?
This one day event explores the future of democracy in the post covid world
Reshaping, reclaiming rethinking democracy.
Exploring the threats to democracy
Understanding the long term temporal aspects of democracy as well as the spatial aspects to it.
Ensuring everyone is fairly represented- understanding new powers
The threat from corporatisation of democracy and privatisation and corruption
Economics and democracy -divergent aspirations -?
The threat from allowing platforms to become the arbiters, owners and curators and arguably non curators of truth, knowlege and power as well as the only space for human interaction.
Experts advise what it means and our own responsibllities in shaping an inclusive pluralist, fair and just world we trust and can be proud of after covid.
Economics and democracy -divergent aspirations -?
Exploring the role of Experts- gender- inclusion -what is an expert? Who funds and who decides who an expert is? What are so many expert panels still presented by four white men -and what we can do to change this -as it matters- as arbiters of truth, power and knowledge. How to inject more pluralism into democracy.
The role of leadership in the 21st century- for 10,000 years we have followed the patriarchy. Is this now changing. What do matrifocal societies look like and how have they constructed their nations response to the crises of biodiversity, climate and health?
Exploring the role of Think Tanks as arbiters of truth, democracy and knowledge
Exploring the role of Foundations as policy pointers and curators of future knoweldge, science and rights?
What are the role and concepts of regions and transboundary and transnational Institutions.
Nature and democracy- how are they related ?
Climate and democracy – ? what are their twin futures?
The role of the state in the health, safety and well being of its citizens directly contracts the privatised neo liberal model of economics and ‘no such thing as society’ and often the way the citizens choose to vote-How is this possible- ? what is the role of the media and presention in a democracy — what happens when they no longer serve the interests of the people -but small privatised vested interests ? when they represent fossil fuel companies and others- so the two diverge? which do citizens want now? and how do governments deliver this. What are the implications.
Exploring the role of the state- is the nation state back ? in a privatised form?
Exploring the role of precarious economy and unequal economies- neo feudalim?
Exploring the role of IT and its power -does it contradict democracy?
What do we want our democracies to do in the future
What is the role of the media- and how do we reconstruct democratic media that works for the people?
The balance between sanitary health safety and democracy freedom and transparency
Call for participants, papers, speakers, workshops, book chapters, books- a space to conceptualise new forms to reclaim our democracy.
Keynote speaker
Speakers May Include:
Professor Thomas Duncanson (USA )
Michelle Gale USA
Hans Kare Flo (Norway)
Ewa Sufin ( Poland )
Professor Maria Madi (Brazil)
Professor Simon Mouatt (UK)
Speakers from ENOP European Network of Political Foundations (Belgium)
Speakers from Think Tanks (USA)
Leena Ahmed ( UK)
