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FIDE-NORTH AMERICA Citizens Assembly Inisghts from Yukon

The Importance of a Chair and an Insight Committee

Jamaima Afridi for Asia Democracy Chronicles, courtesy Asia Democracy Chronicles. (Jamaima is also that story's author)

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VLAHOS: Three Ways to Strengthen Neighborhood Governance

Bottoms-up engagement, community intermediaries, and defeating geography are crucial, writes Nick Vlahos

TRAINING EVENT Do It Yourself Democracy

Free webinars, in English, Spanish and German, Oct 8 and 22, in professional, organizational, and democratic...

DEM NEXT: A First-Ever Tech-Assisted Assembly

Citizens assembly members get to work on youth homelessness in Deschutes County, Oregon

For You and Europe, a New 'Idea Laboratory'

Half of the European Parliament's members are new. This is a moment for your ideas.

ADC: Firing the Messenger

The Wall Street Journal fires a Hong Kong journalist who headed an association of reporters, setting a...

COLUMN: No Camping

Divided localities agree on an enemy: those camping outside.

A Deliberate Provocation; An Experiment in India

Also: an amalgamation assembly and "anticipatory" democracy

ADC: War Reaches Myanmar's Urban Communities

Civil War, once confined to rural areas, forces city dwellers to seek refuge.

VLAHOS: Making Public Meetings More Deliberative

How to Bring Public Meetings Into the 21st Century

SPEECH 'Come With Us If You Want to Live'

Why the deliberative democracy movement needs to get more aggressive