In a contemporary variation on the 1970s slogan ‘the personal is political’, young people today employ social media to connect with others, build social lives and – at times – set out to partake in political action.

‘Digital (Alter)Natives with a cause?’ is a collection of four books with essays published by the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India, and the Dutch NGO Hivos. The books come in a beautifully designed cassette and are accompanied b…

Coming up next week in The Hague, The Netherlands: a conference on the changing face of citizen action.

How the legacy of an obscure Italian Marxist came to motivate a Norwegian terrorist – and a Dutch politician.

Neither within the EU nor within ACP countries, the ACP-EU partnership is something that lives in the hearts and minds of citizens.

Today is a milestone for The Broker. We have just launched a new website and published the 25th issue of our magazine.

On Monday 18 April, a crowd of 120 or so gathered in the hall of the Free University in Amsterdam for a lecture by Shi Yinhong, professor of international relations at Renmin University of China. In his lecture, the seventh in a series on ‘global…