democracy Articles

November 28, 2011 was historic in the DRC; the first ever democratic national election organized by the Congolese themselves. This relatively undeveloped voting system left the electoral process vulnerable to systemic and local corruption that could erode its very...

The introduction of Individual Electoral Registration is the biggest change to the way we do elections since the universal franchise. Done right, it will get more of us engaged – a massive challenge in an era of deep disillusionment with politics and politicians. Done...

Just imagine the footage: Israeli soldiers faced with a peaceful protest pull a woman from the crowd, drag her painfully along the ground exposing her breasts, and a brutal soldier stamps his booted foot on her chest. The world would have exploded with anger and rage....

It is 30 years since the bitterly cold night in December when the communist secret police in Poland fanned out to arrest thousands of leaders of the Soviet bloc’s first democratic trade union. In Warsaw and Krakow and Gdansk there was the smash on the door between...