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Published in: Home"Any citizen should be able to open a school."
Ramin Farhangi in conversation with Rosemary Bechler and Arleen Pimentel at the 2016 World Forum for Democracy in Strasbourg.
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Published in: Home"What is a fair and good way of measuring human rights education?"
Antonia Wulff in conversation with Rosemary Bechler and Kelly McBride at the 2016 World Forum for Democracy in Strasbourg.
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Published in: HomeUS member of the youth contingent at the World Forum for Democracy 2016 receives a standing ovation at the Council of Europe
At the Council of Europe, the audience rose to their feet to applaud Brendan Schultz's statement that the election...
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Published in: HomeUS election special: an oD youth newsroom roundtable
27 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we face a US president-elect threatening a wall of his own making.
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Published in: Home'Democracy is a process' - an interview with Dr Sakena Yacoobi
Democracy is not something you take from one country and put in another, was the message to a reporter from the...
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Published in: Home'If you can read it, you can do it' - an interview with Moses Machipisa
The WFD programme provided a safe space for Moses in 2014. An openDemocracy youth reporter catches up with him two years on.
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Published in: HomeKnow your rights
Inclusive, democratic education means including refugee children too. openDemocracy’s youth newsroom reports from a...
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Published in: HomeRevolutionary acts: an oD youth newsroom roundtable
“I am very scared of what is happening in Europe. We are always at the risk that our democracies will be lost”. Our...
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Published in: HomeKnock, knock: is there room for Democratic Schools?
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...
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Published in: HomeHow do you think about the future, now?
Thinking about the future means accepting huge complexity. For democracy to survive, it’s a skill we must learn. A...
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Published in: HomeWhat did you learn today?
The openDemocracy youth newsroom asked young participants at the World Forum for Democracy to share what inspired...
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Published in: HomeHumans of the World Forum for Democracy
"The problem is not with democracy, but with how the elites are practicing it": our youth newsroom went behind the...
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Published in: HomeDemocratic schools and knowledge sharing: an oD youth newsroom roundtable
“Knowledge may not be enough. We may know a lot about democracy, but still be very bad at it.” Our openDemocracy...
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Published in: HomeIn the twenty-first century, do we need to rethink representation?
Despite the fact that our societies, laws and political climates have changed immensely over the last century, the...
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Published in: HomeThe colonisation of knowledge: an interview with Nora Bateson
"There is a ghost that we live with, and it's the ghost of colonialism. The ghost of the conquerors."
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Published in: HomeDemocracy and education in Malaysia
I believe that education can be improved through technology, because technology ensures that a student in the...
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Published in: HomeRevolutionise education
We let grades define our children's intelligence and the consequences of that are that many highly talented kids...
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Published in: HomePeace through education in a war-torn country
How can children become the bright future of their communities?
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Published in: HomeStudying in Serbia
“The educational system in my country is deficient on a tragically high level.”