Global Terrorism and its types and prevention ppt.
Jan Schoolte: Building Global Democracy
1. BUILDING GLOBAL DEMOCRACY
• Global democracy?
• What is the problem?
• The BGD Programme
• What is the answer?
2. Global Democracy?
• democracy > national self-determination
• democracy = affected people participating in
and controlling the decisions that affect them
• many of today’s policy challenges are global
• many of today’s publics are globally spread
3. What Is the Problem?
• conceptual confusion
• lack of awareness
• anti-democratic institutional arrangements
• hugely uneven resource distributions
• weak ethics of interculturality
4. BGD Programme: Aims
• to put global democracy on the agenda
• to increase conceptual clarity about global democracy
• to highlight innovative efforts to further global
democracy
• to develop viable proposals to advance global
democracy
• to enhance capacity for global democracy promotion
• to promote practitioner-researcher collaboration on
global democracy
• to build networks for the advance of global democracy
5. BGD Programme: Activities (1)
• workshops with plans of action and case studies
• publications (policy briefs, toolkits, pamphlets,
articles, books)
• a website in 8 languages (45,000 visitors from
120 countries)
• Facebook page with 850 Friends
• an online catalogue of 300 institutions and
programmes working on global democracy
6. BGD Activities (2)
• an online library with 600 publications
concerning global democracy
• a database of 6,400 persons in 162 countries
interested in global democracy
• a quarterly electronic newsletter
• public presentations of BGD work
• media coverage of BGD work
8. What Answer: Statism?
• universalise the democratic nation-state
• multilateral cooperation of democratic states
• is this good enough?
9. What Answer: Cosmopolitanism?
• ‘scale up’ principles of western modern liberal
democracy
• global human rights
• global citizenship
• global civil society
• global representative government
• Is this good enough?
10. What Answer: New Directions?
• transscalarity: linking household-local-national-
regional-global
• plural solidarities: beyond nation and humanity
• transculturality
• major progressive redistribution
• from citizenship to eco-ship
