Discussions on a citizens’ assembly in Cluj, Romania in June 2018. Tudor Brabatan of Declic, Author provided There’s an urgent need to reduce the distance between citizens of EU member states and the ...

COP26 officially kicks off on October 31. The general tone leading up to this is one of hope, mixed with a large dose of understandable skepticism. In a few weeks, we’ll know the outcome in terms of ...

Two members of the Citizens Convention on the End of Life arrive for the group’s meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, April 3, 2023 (Sipa photo by Raphael ...

At first, Sylvain Burquier thought it was a joke. It was August 2019, and Burquier and his two children were at their home in Paris’s Ninth Arrondissement, off the right bank of the River Seine, when ...

Developments in gene editing are often met with moral panic. Every new announcement raises outrage over the audacity of scientists “playing God”. The existence of mutant mosquitoes and designer babies ...

In 2016 Ireland’s parliament launched an exercise in deliberative democracy called the Citizens’ Assembly. The assembly was composed of a chairperson and 99 citizens selected at random to be ...

If you like the idea of juries weighing evidence and delivering verdicts, you might also like the idea of global citizens’ assemblies deliberating over genome editing technology. Both juries and ...

Sir David Attenborough has insisted that politicians listen to the recommendations of the first citizens’ assembly on the climate crisis. According to The Guardian, the veteran naturalist and ...

As part of a wider investigation into how social and political systems can be reshaped, the LA-based Berggruen Institute is looking at how the political process in LA can be reformed in the wake of ...

SHIRLEY ISLAM has little faith in politics. Elected representatives “are either bickering on TV, or wasting taxpayer money, or trying to sell something,” says the 48-year-old care worker from West ...

You’ve all made real progress in addressing California’s long-running homelessness crisis —from instituting the use of hotels as temporary housing to securing billions in new funding. But the crisis ...

Never before have more people had more opportunities for political expression. 4.2 billion people worldwide will have a chance to hit the polls this year, making it the biggest election year in ...