Forum Talk 8 – Can We Transcend Divides Through Multi-Level Governance?

7 November 2024 - 17.15-19.00 / Palais de l'Europe / Room 8

Interpretation FR/EN

In co-operation with the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe

Democracy emerged at the level of small communities and later developed into the multilevel governance systems we know today ; how can this multi-level approach protect diversity and promote inclusive policies on different levels of government ?

Moderator:

Claudia LUCIANI, Director, Congress of the Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe

Panel:

Neven KLEPO, Dr., Head of Democratisation and Prevention and Municipal Integration Management Division, Department of Integration and Refugee Affairs, , Rhine-Erft District, author of “State-Building from Below”, Germany

Gaëtane RICARD-NIHOUL, European Commission Deputy Head of Unit for Citizens’ Dialogues, EU

Raffaella Y. NANETTI, Ph.D, Professor Emerita, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago

Dave SINARDET, Prof. Dr., Professor of Political Science, Free University of Brussels, Belgium

Dave Sinardet is a Professor of Political Science at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) and UCLouvain. He published in numerous social science journals and books on themes such as multi level governance, (sub state) nationalism, political communication and Belgian politics. Sinardet is one of Belgium’s most publicly visible political scientists. He has been a columnist for almost two decades, consecutively in all of Belgium’s quality newspapers. He is also a regular invited speaker at international conferences and events and frequently consulted by international media. Sinardet is an advocate of democratic innovation and has been involved in different projects on participative and deliberative democracy.