"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.

Together Tomorrow is an intergenerational project unique in Europe. It was selected as nationally innovative by the Ministry of Education in France.

"This report, authored by two of our country’s leading experts on social integration, uncovers a picture that is more segregated by ethnicity than many of us have cared to admit."

Can mixed communities and a shared society in the UK become recognised as a desirable objective, supported by a strategy and policy framework?

The Ukrainian Schools for Democracy Programme will be at the World Forum for Democracy 2016, demonstrating how it supports democratic reforms in secondary education.

An interview with Catherine West, MP, secretary and co-founder of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on UK-EU Relations, scrutinising Brexit negotiations and pushing for a progressive relationship with our European neighbours.

Any engagement approach not focused on getting the widest possible range of voices, and creating multiple environments in which they feel comfortable will be no improvement on the current system.

“These platforms utilise the skill sets of young participants, enabling them to take initiatives that will contribute to the community and promote democratic values and participation.”

Vagalume means firefly in Portuguese and, like the fireflies, the organization went on an expedition all over the Amazon rainforest, implementing community libraries in remote areas and establishing intercultural dialogue.

"In education our duty is to... help people cultivate a desire to seek out truth and separate it from lies. This needs open debate, not closure." Interview for the World Forum for Democracy 2016.

Education should be an engine for democracy and not just for business, argues Democracy Matters participant in the World Forum for Democracy 2016 in Strasbourg this November.

The global trend against humanities is hitting Chile, a country where thousands of students regularly take to the streets demanding not only free but better education. Español

The Think Project in Wales, born from a project to combat home-grown Islamic extremism, demonstrates that open discussion can effectively draw at-risk youth away from far-right ideologies as well.

The case of Academics for Peace in Turkey shows us academics trapped between authoritarianism and precarity, and why international solidarity has become crucial.

Depression and anxiety are rising rapidly among young people: what’s going on?

A conversation about university education today that rearranges some of the deckchairs on the Titanic.

Free university education was a central demand of the Chilean student protests in 2011. Why was the student movement so successful and where does it go from here? Español