Derry Hannam in conversation with Rosemary Bechler and Margarete Hentze at the 2016 World Forum for Democracy in Strasbourg.
27 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we face a US president-elect threatening a wall of his own making.
The WFD programme provided a safe space for Moses in 2014. An openDemocracy youth reporter catches up with him two years on.
Inclusive, democratic education means including refugee children too. openDemocracy’s youth newsroom reports from a lab looking at immigration and education.
“I am very scared of what is happening in Europe. We are always at the risk that our democracies will be lost”. Our openDemocracy youth reporters deliver their verdict on the second day of the World Forum for Democracy.
The Democratic Schools model has had a lot of impact at the WFD, but is it just a fad? Here’s a reaction from the openDemocracy youth newsroom.
Thinking about the future means accepting huge complexity. For democracy to survive, it’s a skill we must learn. A view from the openDemocracy youth newsroom.
The openDemocracy youth newsroom asked young participants at the World Forum for Democracy to share what inspired them, and what lessons they will be taking back home.
"The problem is not with democracy, but with how the elites are practicing it": our youth newsroom went behind the scenes at this year's World Forum for Democracy.
“Knowledge may not be enough. We may know a lot about democracy, but still be very bad at it.” Our openDemocracy youth reporters deliver their verdict on the first day of the World Forum for Democracy.
"There is a ghost that we live with, and it's the ghost of colonialism. The ghost of the conquerors."
Our students, learning about global values, become frustrated that they are unable to experience this world. Learning about diversity, they possess limited opportunities to interact with people from elsewhere.
