World Forum for Democracy 2024 "Democracy and Diversity - Can we transcend the divides?": Call for initiatives

Deadline for submission: 17 May 2024 Strasbourg, France

The World Forum for Democracy calls for expressions of interest from innovative initiatives, from all over the world, aiming at enhancing democracy and contributing to sustainable peace. Any public or private organisation is eligible to apply. One presenter for the selected initiatives will be...

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World Forum for Democracy 2024: Democracy and Diversity - Can we transcend the divides?

12 March 2024 Strasbourg, France

The 12th World Forum for Democracy will take place in Strasbourg (France) from 6 to 8 November 2024. This year, the theme is "Democracy and Diversity - Can we transcend the divides?". The strength of democracy lies in its ability to embrace and balance differences to serve society as a whole. ...

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Training of trainers based on the joint Council of Europe and OSCE curriculum

World Forum for Democracy 2023: After Movie

4 December 2023 Strasbourg, France

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Deferred transmission of the World Forum for Democracy 2023

13 November 2023 Strasbourg, France

All video webcasts of the sessions of the World Forum for Democracy 2023 (including labs and Forum talks except Forum talks 10 and 11 which were not broadcast ) are now online. Deferred transmission >>  

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Democracy Innovation Award 2023: and the winner is...

8 November 2023 Strasbourg, France

Today, at the closing session of the World Forum for Democracy, the Council of Europe announced that the winner of its Democracy Innovation Award is the DDLD Living Archive - Defensores de la Democracia (DDLD), Mexico (Lab 8) Three initiatives out of the 39 at the Forum were shortlisted for the...

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World Forum for Democracy 2023 is closed

7 November 2023 Strasbourg, France

The 11th World Forum for Democracy is closed and took place in Strasbourg (France) from 6 to 8 November 2023. This year, the theme is Democracy= Peace? Thank you for your participation. Programme >>

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Labs and Forum talks 2023

7 November 2023 Strasbourg, France

Today, ten labs, designed to address the challenges in different forms and to present some of the measures already being taken, helped to provide a democratic response to the problems raised throughout the Forum. In parallel, twelve Forum Talks were organised including :The truth of war crimes –...

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