Rosemary Bechler, completing a Cambridge doctorate on villain heroes from Milton to Byron, then worked as a university teacher, in political journalism and in the peace movement, becoming the chair of the National Peace Council in 1995-6. In 2000, she co-founded Peaceworkers UK, absorbed into International Alert as its training wing, and joined the team piloting openDemocracy.
She was European and international editor, editing the book of the 'Convention on Modern Liberty: The British Debate on Fundamental Rights and Freedoms' (Imprint Academic 2010) and openDemocracy editor until Magnus Nome was appointed editor-in-chief in 2012. She edits Can Europe Make It?, has recently published with David Adler 'DiEM25’s A Vision for Europe' (Eris, second edition, 2020), and is a qualified lead facilitator in Stafford Beer’s Team Syntegrity – a cybernetic protocol for non-hierarchical conferencing.
She died in 2021.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionWhen saying ‘No’ isn’t enough: a Splinter meditation
'What I want to examine is why... progressives can’t use the same tactic as their rightwing counterparts of trashing...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionWhen saying No isn’t enough: an aggrandizing identification
A monocultural National Us possesses superior power, force or force of number, and a sense of impunity. This is an...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionWhen saying ‘No’ isn’t enough
'What I want to examine is why... progressives can’t use the same tactic of trashing the opposition'
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: InterviewInformed opinion carves a new democratic path for Bristol
Councillor Paula O’Rourke explains how Bristol’s citizens’ assembly is helping them to build back better
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionMedia spectacle
Was 9/11 the first time you became aware of the impact of media spectacle on our lives?
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Published in: Home: OpinionScandal-mongering and the media
"Freedland in closing includes the British electorate in his roll-call of systemic failure. But I think these...