Ramin Farhangi in conversation with Rosemary Bechler and Arleen Pimentel at the 2016 World Forum for Democracy in Strasbourg.
Antonia Wulff in conversation with Rosemary Bechler and Kelly McBride at the 2016 World Forum for Democracy in Strasbourg.
At the Council of Europe, the audience rose to their feet to applaud Brendan Schultz's statement that the election of Donald Trump was nothing to do with democracy and that the world must pull together in its defence.
27 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we face a US president-elect threatening a wall of his own making.
Democracy is not something you take from one country and put in another, was the message to a reporter from the openDemocracy youth newsroom.
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.
Our society and education moulds us: we must dare to be critical and reflect. A personal reaction to the WFD, from openDemocracy’s 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.
