Democracy at risk: how can we revive it?
According to global survey data citizens are increasingly dissatisfied with democracy for reasons which include, inter alia, the growing economic inequality, the seismic shifts in technology, and the feeling that citizens’ voices are ignored.
The goals of the Council of Europe’s 2025 World Forum for Democracy are the following:
- identifying social, economic, cultural and other reasons driving people away from democracy and exploring ways to address them;
- discussing approaches to building a solid democratic culture which enables citizens to detect disinformation and resist populist “solutions” and autocratic shifts, to mobilise when their democratic rights and freedoms are under threat, and be willing to actively and competently engage in both representative and participatory democracy processes;
- exploring methods of reinforcing the will and capacity of public authorities to protect the integrity of public debate and democratic principles in the context of online platforms;
- finding ways to protect media freedom, independence and pluralism, and increase the capacity and freedom of artists to contribute meaningfully to public debate.
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