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Welcome Dear Red Democratica, Welcome to the second newsletter of the Building Global Democracy programme. You are receiving this mailing as someone who is known by one or more of the BGD programme conveners to have interests in this area. Please read on below for our latest developments. | | |
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| The Building Global Democracy programme brings together academics, activists and officials from around the world to advance knowledge and practice for greater public participation and control in global affairs. BGD explores how expanded 'rule by and for the people' can be achieved in respect of global issues such as climate change, financial crises, health concerns, internet links, migration flows, security problems, and trade. The premise is that more democratic governance can encourage more effective and more legitimate governance of vital global challenges. The thematic projects that make up the BGD programme cover issues such as: rethinking democracy for a global age; citizen learning for global democracy; including the excluded in global policymaking; resource redistribution for global democracy; and intercultural constructions of global democracy. The BGD programme is facilitated and coordinated through a convening group of ten persons based in ten world regions, with diverse academic backgrounds and political outlooks. Our administrative office is located in the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University of Warwick in Britain. Core funding is provided through a generous grant from the Ford Foundation. More details about BGD can be obtained on our website, www.buildingglobaldemocracy.org or from info@buildingglobaldemocracy.org. |
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BGD at ACUNS Results of the BGD pilot project on Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance were recently presented at the annual conference of the Academic Council on the United Nations System in Trinidad. Read more BGD Secures Further Core Funding The Building Global Democracy programme has secured additional core funding through the end of 2011, thanks to an additional grant of US$500,000 from the Ford Foundation awarded in March 2009. Read more |
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Workshop on 'Conceptualising Global Democracy' 6-8 December 09 Each BGD project comprises a major workshop to promote intercultural, interdisciplinary and interregional debate on an aspect of Building Global Democracy. The Conceptualising Global Democracy workshop will take place at the Ramses Hilton Hotel in the heart of the Cairo city centre. The event will involve around 50 participants, including 10 from the local area. All workshop authors and their titles of their papers have been confirmed. Read more |
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Among the objectives of the BGD programme is to raise awareness of efforts throughout the world to bring greater democracy to the governance of global concerns. To this end each BGD newsletter highlights academic and/or practitioner initiatives in this area. This time we look at the Institute for Critical Action and the Malawi Economic Justice Network. Please send suggestions of other features for future newsletters. | CACIM - Institute for Critical Action CACIM (Critical Action: Centre in Movement) is an initiative promoting criticality in socio-political action and movement. It sees critical engagement and action as contributing to a broader and more effective transformational social power.
Established formally in India in July 2005, CACIM grew out of an experimental informal association named Critical Action that existed during 2001-5 between scholar-activists in different parts of the world. At present it is working within India and at the transnational level to strengthen the capacities and effectiveness of critical movements and the activists working within these initiatives. The affiliates concentrate on developing a fundamental analysis of the broader political, social and economic structures and dynamics that shape the society.
CACIM works through direct participation as well as by organising workshops, seminars, and other meetings. It also offers various publications on relevant socio-political movements and utilises new media for networking. CACIM engages with educational initiatives, and seeks to learn from others. Its current focus of work is on the World Social Forum and social movement dynamics in India. For more information please see CACIM homepage and OpenSpaceForum.
|  | Malawi Economic Justice Network The Malawi Economic Justice Network (MEJN) is an inspirational example of connecting local people in a low-income country with global issues. MEJN was formed in 2000 as a successor to the Jubilee debt cancellation campaign in Malawi. Since then the network has grown to over 100 civil society organisations across 27 of the 29 districts in the country.
MEJN places major emphasis on building economic and budget literacy in civil society so that citizens can make informed contributions to policy in this area. MEJN also translates and makes accessible to laypersons important policy documents such as trade agreements and the Malawi Poverty Reduction Strategy Programme. In addition, the association has helped build capacity of Malawian parliamentarians to monitor the government's relations with multilateral financial institutions, and it has promoted citizen understanding of economic policies with radio and television programmes. In March 2008 MEJN served as a link between the global and the local by arranging for staff of the International Monetary Fund to visit community service centres in an outlying rural district of Malawi. For more information please see MEJN Homepage |  | |
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| The results of the BGD pilot project will be published in book form as Global Citizenship in Action? Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance by Cambridge University Press in early 2010. Several chapters have been published in draft form as working papers of the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at Warwick University, the Global Policy Forum Europe, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. |
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| The BGD website includes a Links area with connections to other projects concerned with building global democracy and a Library area with access to online publications on subjects related to building global democracy. A number of new items have been added since the previous newsletter. Please send your suggested further additions for these catalogues to info@buildingglobaldemocracy.org. |
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Website: www.buildingglobaldemocracy.org | Email: info@buildingglobaldemocracy.org | Tel: +44 (0)24 7657 2532
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