DETAILS
QUICK FACTS
- Runner-up Democracy Innovation Award 2021 (Council of Europe)
- Hosting or facilitating Peoples Assemblies and Citizens Assemblies around the Globe
WHAT I CAN OFFER
- Working together with international institutions, cities, citizens and movements to host assemblies
- Training, knowledge transfer, process design and other help to those who would like to organise PAs/CAs themselves
WHAT I'M INTERESTED IN
- Citizens Assemblies
- Peoples Assemblies
- All forms of direct deliberative democracy
- Democracy innovation
- Democracy & environment
- Democracy & human rights
HISTORY
Participative Democracy creates an exchange platform of moral and practical support, multi-lingual interactive training, resources, research and collaborative, remote working amongst XR groups and non-XR groups (international instutions etc). PartDem acts as a catalyst for process design & implementation of Citizen Assemblies and Peoples Assemblies, as well as for receiving of advice, experiences and ideas on participative democracy of all hues.
LATEST PROJECTS
- The Global AssemblyThe Global Assembly is a global citizens' assembly consisting of one hundred persons from around the world chosen by sortition to discuss issues facing the world as a whole. PartDem was facilitating one of the 10 BO Rooms of the Core Assembly.
- UK Climate AssemblyThe UK Climate Assembly is a citizens' group formed in the United Kingdom in January 2020 whose goal was to issue recommendations for how the UK could satisfy its climate change law—the Climate Change Act amendment passed on 27 June 2019.
- Contributions to safeguarding democracy advocates during times of military coupsEvery year, more democracy advocates are murdered. PartDem has aided persecuted members of democratic society in several dictatorships through human rights protection work and democracy safeguarding activities.