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From 9/11 to Tahrir Square and beyond…
openDemocracy was born ten years ago in answer to a question: How do you achieve real democracy at the end of the twentieth century, given the power of corporations, global media, the impact of inequality? In response, openDemocracy used the web to grow a world conversation - accessible to all - on the principles of deliberation, openness, communication and respect.
Today, people round the world face an even more unpredictable decade. Hope for open forms of democracy are greater but the dangers of autocratic power have increased.
openDemocracy is a free, open space for
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- exploring how we make rulers more accountable - challenging thinking on how we are governed, and crucially - how we might govern ourselves…
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- growing unique conversations in our specialist sections. We began searching for new approaches to conflict and to a more democratic and humane definition of security, with the inspiring analysis of our two columnists, Paul Rogers and Mary Kaldor.
A million readers this year
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Julian Stern