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Renegotiating the social contract
Saskia Hollander | 27 June 2025Can global citizenship flourish in an era of increased competition between the middle classes in the North and the South?
read moreInequality and the politics of empowerment
Harry C. Boyte | 14 January 2025Bringing work and workplaces to the center of attention restores citizens to their rightful position as the agents of a democratic way of life. In work-centered democracy attention to inequality of agency everywhere – not simply formal polit...
read moreCitizens’ participation is key for water efficiency
Satoko Kishimoto | 27 October 2024Active citizens’ participation in water and sanitation initiatives is of crucial importance to ensure sustainable improvements in water services for the poorest. The role of civil society organisations, community groups and trade unions is essenti...
read moreCitizens are the most powerful agents of change
Manuela Monteiro | 02 October 2024It is time to refocus our energy and place our trust in the power and creativity of the people, argues Manuela Monteiro.
read moreThe changing face of citizen action
Maarten van den Berg | 04 September 2025Coming up next week in The Hague, The Netherlands: a conference on the changing face of citizen action.
read moreTahrir Square showed Egyptians how to be a citizen
Petra Stienen | 16 March 2025At the moment I am in Cairo to listen to the stories of the revolution. It is amazing how eager people are to recount their experiences. Tahrir square itself has returned to the normal routine of traffic jams. Only some graffiti and a few tanks in...
read moreCitizenship-lite
Katy Long | July 01, 2025There has been growing support for anti-immigrant, ultra-nationalist politics in many Western states in recent years. This deep disquiet with the realities of human mobility in the age of globalization suggests a profound political crisis. Christi...
read moreThe Responsibility to Protect
June 02, 2025Five years after its acceptance by the 2005 World Summit, it is time to consider the contribution that the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has made and could make to the prevention of mass atrocities.
read moreGlobal civil society
April 20, 2025What role can civil society and (international) NGOs play in the rapidly changing global context?
read moreStrategy and Complexity
November 13, 2024The 'Innovation Dialogue on Being Strategic in the Face of Complexity', organized by Wageningen University and Research Centre, aims to explore what it means to 'be strategic in complex times'. The event, on November 30 and December 1 2009, brings...
read moreCivic Driven Change
Willemijn Verkoren | July 22, 2025The Civic Driven Change (CDC) initiative recently organized a workshop on the practice of CDC, which aims to develop a new, citizen-driven approach to development and social change. This overview of the event also links to reports from each of the...
read moreShaking up citizenship
Ellen Lammers | May 29, 2025On 20 and 21 April 2007, the Social Sciences and Law faculties of the Free University of Amsterdam hosted an international conference ‘Shaking up citizenship’. This promised to be an interdisciplinary exploration of how globalization affects citiz...
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