Articles covering the concept and practice of Global Citizens’ Assemblies
A main report focuses on multilateral support for democracy at the national level. Three background papers explore the roles of the UN, regional organizations and coalitions of like-minded states.
As the UN highlights deliberative democracy, civil society groups call for a permanent framework giving randomly selected people a voice on global issues, from climate change to artificial intelligence.
Randomly chosen global citizens from 60 countries met online in a civic assembly and agreed on policy recommendations in the field of food systems and climate change.
A diverse global panel of 105 citizens will meet online in 2026 to develop recommendations on sustainable food systems and climate action, aiming to influence global governance and policy debates.
Democracy International and Democracy Without Borders at a webinar presented their joint report Global Citizens’ Assemblies: Pathways for the UN – Principles, Design, and Implementation.
This policy brief examines principles, design and implementation of Global Citizens' Assemblies.
During the AI Action Summit, held in Paris on February 10-11, 2025, a Global Coalition for Inclusive AI was officially launched. Co-initiated by Missions Publiques and the Stanford Deliberative Democracy...
We are now experiencing peak demand for climate COP reform. Midway through the 2024 conference (COP29), former and current UN chiefs urged “fundamental overhaul” of both the COP framework and the entire global governance system....
A comprehensive effort to engage citizens worldwide on the occasion of the 30th UN Climate Change Conference in November 2025 in Brazil, also referred to as COP30, was announced last...
Ahead of the UN’s Summit of the Future next week in New York, a diverse group of 160 civil society organizations from across the world calls on UN member states...
In recent years, democracies around the world have experimented with citizens’ assemblies. The main idea behind such assemblies is that randomly selected citizens, who form a statistically representative sample of...