The 29th Assembly of Heads of States of African Union (AU) highlighted the need for the Continental organization to go beyond Vulnerability Assessment and to adopt a more Structural Preventive Diplomacy approach in order to contribute substantially to the achievement of the AU agenda 2020 on Silencing the Guns in Africa and to the First Ten Years Implementation Plan of the AU Agenda 2063.
As a result, the main objectives of the Inception and Coordination meeting are the following:
The Melbourne Forum on Constitution Building in Asia and the Pacific brings together practitioners and scholars from across Asia and the Pacific to share their experiences of constitution building. All speakers at the Forum have been directly involved in the processes of constitution building in their respective states and polities.
Every day around the world, people living in poverty work for peace in often unseen ways. The book Artisans of Peace Overcoming Poverty shows the violence of extreme poverty and demonstrates just how much people living in poverty do to search for peace, to go beyond violence and to build a sense of community.
The Experts Roundtable event on the New Concept of Governance in Africa due to be held in Accra, Ghana from 29 - 30 September 2017 will bring together leading policy-makers, academics and representatives from bilateral, multilateral, regional and sub-regional organizations and civil society organizations. Among many, it will seek to address the following overarching questions:
Join us in Falun, Sweden to discuss people, power and citizen involvement. Video live streaming of the events will be available at www.falun.se/democracyweek and www.falun.se/democracyday.
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Zimbabwe's recent history shows the critical role that compromise and dialogue play in power sharing or coalition agreements to find stability amidst political and social turmoil. At the end of the day, multiparty politics is about balancing competition and cooperation. Cooperation between political parties is unavoidable at all levels of government, not least at the local level to allow for non-partisan delivery of key services.
International IDEA’s Electoral Processes Programme launched the "Timing and Sequencing of Elections” project in 2016 to provide well-needed policy guidelines on the timing and sequencing of transitional elections.
"The Issue of Political and Socio-economic Integration of the African Continent: The Role of the Pan-African Parliament” is a continential conference that will contribute to a better understanding of the importance of functional approaches and the democratic dividends of integration processes.
The Election Commission of India, The Indian International Institute of Democracy and Election Management (IIIDEM), and International IDEA are organizing an international consultative workshop in New Delhi from 24 to 25 July 2017 on the theme "Leveraging Electoral Training Facilities in Democracies".
Women’s political participation and representation is central to equitable and sustainable development goals, and political parties are among the most important democratic institutions for promoting and nurturing such participation.
Over the past decade, semi-presidential models of governance have become a popular choice for countries in Eastern Europe. Many countries that are attempting to move away from strong presidential systems to more pluralist, aim to introduce balanced models where governments are accountable to parliaments rather than being subordinated exclusively to presidents.
As the second United Nations High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) is approaching, it is the pleasure of International IDEA and the Swedish Development Forum (FUF) to invite you to a seminar on the implementation, follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Do refugees have a place and a role in democracy? How inclusive is our democracy? How can we move from an emergency response to a long-term strategy? What is the role of refugees, governmental and non-governmental actors?
Money is one key factor in politics. Funding of election campaigns, political parties, lobbying groups or media on the one hand, the misuse of administrative resources on the other hand comes more and more under the focus of monitoring organizations and civil society, as in almost all countries politicians seem struggle to develop ways of financing political competition respecting democratic values.
On 13 -14 June 2017, International IDEA is hosting a round table discussion on Cybersecurity in Elections. The event, taking place in The Hague, will provide electoral management bodies (EMBs), cybersecurity agencies and experts from across Europe and the United States an opportunity to exchange experiences related to recent concerns about an increase in hacking attacks against elections.
The discussion will focus on, amongst other things:
Citizens create a democracy. Include the youth!
International IDEA will showcase its Youth Democracy Academy and Inter-generational Dialogue for Democracy initiatives at the European Development Days 2017 (EDD17), on 7 and 8 June 2017 in Tour & Taxis, Brussels.
The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) is planning to launch in Stockholm, Sweden on 30th May 2017, its flagship publication, the 2017 Africa Capacity Report (ACR2017) which is on the theme: Building Capacity in Science, Technology and Innovation for Africa’s Transformation.
International IDEA’s Global Programme (Political Participation and Representation Processes Team) will implement an internal training of trainers for its Interparty Dialogue Skills Module from 17-18 May 2017 in Kigali, Rwanda.
“No citizens, no true democracy” is a widely held view in academic research and in democracy building processes.
The Department of Political Science of UP Diliman, in partnership with the Political Science Program, College of Social Sciences, UP Cebu and the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA), will hold a forum on “PH Constitution@30: Institutional Choices in a Time of Change”.
