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Reckoning with Racism: A Challenge for Deliberative Democracy
“This review aims to deepen understanding of both scholars and practitioners about how to reckon with racism in the midst of overlapping and intersecting crises. The works reviewed here extend calls made within deliberative democracy scholarship and activist practice to disrupt harmful patterns of dialogic engagement” (Brooks and Gutterman, 2021).
Not Monsters After All: How Political Deliberation Can Build Moral Communities Amidst Deep Difference
“This article proposes a different function for deliberation, which is both more modest but nevertheless critical in public life: the legitimation not of decisions, but of fellow citizens. This outcome is especially important in polarized societies” (Wahl 2021).
When Sanctions Violate Human Rights
This report examines how sanctions can violate human rights, particularly when states employ little transparency, and develops recommendations to prevent against human rights abuses committed through sanctions by nation-states.
Overcoming Youth Vulnerabilities to Far-Right Narratives
This brief “discusses the opportunities that strategic communication brings as a tool to counteracting violent narratives and achieving resilience among youth and puts forward a number of lessons learned through the implementation of the Find Another Way communications campaign” (Center for the Study of Democracy, 2021).
Securing Supplies: How to Prevent Another Covid-19 Breakdown
According to AEI,, “the Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated the vulnerability of global supply chains during crises”, and it is impossible for any contemporary liberal democracy to build “all its needs domestically.” The report highlights that “governments must work with the private sector to exercise crisis scenarios”. (AEI, June 2021).
Reconsidering Taiwan's Place in the International Order: Lessons from the WHO and ICAO
In this article, Michael Mazza explains that “Taiwan has been excluded from partaking in the conversation about ensuring global public health”, and claims that as a response to this exclusion and that of the ICAO, Taiwan should encourage overhauling the rules-based order from which it has been excluded. (Mazza 2021)
The Wisdom of Small Crowds: The Case for Using Citizens' Juries to Shape Policy
The article promotes the use of Citizens’ Juries to shape policy, arguing that these Juries serve as a small representation of the public and, along with cynical expertise, can shape better policy and bring together different viewpoints for deliberation.
The Long Shadow of the Future
“We’re living through a real-time natural experiment on a global scale. The differential performance of countries, cities and regions in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic is a live test of the effectiveness, capacity and legitimacy of governments, leaders and social contracts” (Steven Weber and Nils Gilman, 2020).
What Is the Point of the Olympics?
“Tokyo in 2021 surely doesn’t need the Olympic Games. And yet, even during a pandemic, the Olympic army marches on, upholding its only ideal: making enormous amounts of money for itself, for sponsors, for property developers, and sometimes for corrupt politicians” (Buruma 2021).
The Measure of Moral Progress
“Mahatma Gandhi’s criterion for judging the greatness of a nation and its moral progress was its treatment of animals. By that standard, we cannot claim to have made much moral progress over the past two millennia” (Peter Singer, 2021).
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