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About Paul Hilder

Paul Hilder is an independent adviser and writer working on democratic renewal, Europe, and the middle east. he is a co-founder of openDemocracy.net.

Articles by Paul Hilder

Thursday 12th May

Weaving networks: the growing conversation of the world

Paul Hilder, 12 May 2011
Paul Hilder was co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of openDemocracy.net. He is now Director of Campaigns for the UK arm of Oxfam, the global development movement.
Tuesday 8th March

The Madrid Call

Paul Hilder, 8 March 2005
In the week of the Madrid summit on democracy and terrorism, two global citizens say that talking is not enough.
Wednesday 19th January

Open parties? A map of 21st century democracy

Paul Hilder, 19 January 2005
The traditional political party is dying. Can it reinvent itself in a way that matches transformations of society, technology, and personal identity? Paul Hilder draws on global democratic experimentation to present a vision of the political party for an age of “open politics”.
Wednesday 2nd June

The Amman roundtable, or people matter

Paul Hilder, 2 June 2004
Jordan’s capital was the venue of an international civil society conference that sought guidelines for a path to Middle East security in the recent experience of Europe. Paul Hilder, awed and excited by the challenge, was there.
Thursday 10th April

Europe, Hungary is coming!

Paul Hilder, 10 April 2003
As Hungarians vote on whether to join the EU, we dive into their imaginations. What does enlargement mean at ground level? From a German factory in the north-east to the bustle of Budapest’s entrepreneurs, from hopes and fears to past terrors, Hungarian voices and stories jostle. In the corners of Europe, its futures can be glimpsed.
Friday 21st March

Caesar crosses the Rubicon

Paul Hilder, 21 March 2003
As the first war of the new era begins, the die is cast and War Fever peaks. Through the sandstorm and the summits, can we see our way toward responsibility and the Futures of Europe? From Cyprus to Malta and Belgrade to Finland, the wind is rising...
Wednesday 19th March

Which Europe do you want? A map of visions

Paul Hilder, 19 March 2003
If you don't know where to start in the European labyrinth, this might be a good place. What is Europe for? Which Europe do we want? As the European constitution is drafted, a bewildering variety of visions for the continent have been offered. Paul Hilder maps and clarifies the terrain.
Thursday 6th March

Liberate Iraq on the world's terms

Paul Hilder, 6 March 2003
The slogan ‘No to war: No to Saddam!’ leaves the world polarised and incapable of concerted action. What would it take to reconfigure this crippling divide so that a clear choice helps the world move forward? Could the European Union’s foreign policy coordinator, Javier Solana, lead the way?
Friday 21st February

UN-Nato-EU: Do we have a clue?

Paul Hilder, 21 February 2003
The imminence of war is forcing decision – and division – across the continent. Writing updates almost daily, our Europe editor, looking out from central Europe to its southern and eastern frontiers, finds a shared panorama of concern: Iraq, the US, the uncertain future. The ground beneath Paul Hilder’s feet seems everywhere to rumble: what is Europe for?
Thursday 30th January

Europe prophecies: slouching from Versailles?

Paul Hilder, 30 January 2003
What exotic beast is being cloned in the engine-rooms of Europe? Between the Convention's ambition and US disdain, Polish impatience and Franco-German amity, after the Copenhagen summit and before Iraq, the continent is again a field of passionate contest. openDemocracy's Europe editor says it is time for Europeans to unlock not just minds, but imaginations.
Thursday 7th November

Sharon: after the ice age?

Paul Hilder, 7 November 2002
Since February 2001, Israel has been under the glacial spell of Ariel Sharon’s national unity government. With the fall of the coalition and the calling of new elections, politics has returned. Who will be the next Israeli prime minister – and will the turbulence bring peace, new savagery, or another ice age?
Tuesday 16th July

Professionals in Israel

Paul Hilder, 16 July 2002
A major Berlin exhibition on the architectural politics of Israel’s West Bank settlements has just been abruptly cancelled by the Israeli Association of United Architects. Paul Hilder tells a story of political censorship, intellectual complicity with power – and the ethical responsibility of true professionals.
Wednesday 29th May

The People vs Copyright - a primer

Paul Hilder, James Crabtree, and Bill Thompson, 29 May 2002
A three-part introduction: why debate copyright, what are the possible futures, and what’s the problem?
Wednesday 22nd August

Making the space for creative dissent

Paul Hilder, 22 August 2001
The protest movements against global capitalism have mobilised the energies of a generation. But to change a system requires creative imagination as well as the power of numbers or ideas - and the sense of an alternative. The real debate is just beginning.
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