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AI can boost participation, but it can also facilitate manipulation and threaten democracies.

Artificial Intelligence

The future is still ours to shape

Humanity is entering a new reality. The question is no longer whether artificial intelligence will change our lives, but how – and who will be in charge.

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by Eva-Maria Verfürth

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More than 60 % voted "no".

Constitutional referendum

Why Chile needs another constitutional assembly

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by Eva-Maria Verfürth
People fleeing on submerged highway in Sindh Province.

Flooding

Pakistan is paying price for neglect of climate adaptation

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by Imran Mukhtar
President Biden inspecting flood damages in Kentucky in August.

Global affairs

How Biden’s promise of America being back might come true

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by Hans Dembowski
“We would have achieved more in shorter time if we had been allowed to manufacture a vaccine in Bangladesh”: Health worker preparing a shot.

Sustainable development

Bengali doctor says pandemic proved validity of SDG agenda

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by Manzur Kadir Ahmed
by Hans Dembowski
No interaction possible: third-grader taking notes while watching Tele-School TV at home in Islamabad in 2021.

Poverty

School closures in pandemic showed multidimensional poverty

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by Mahwish Gul
Mahwish Gul
Hindu supremacists like Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi do not simply appeal to Hindu solidarity, they have created an unprecedented sense of unity in spite of their faith’s deep caste divisions.

Blog

Having an alternative makes a political order more dynamic

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by Hans Dembowski
It is not only Trump supporters’ speech that is uncivilised, their behaviour often is so too.

Blog

There is no democratic equality online

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by Hans Dembowski
Unveiling a statue of Nelson Mandela at Cape Town’s city hall in 2018: Helen Zille (left), premier of Western Cape Province, and Patricia de Lille, mayor.

Diverse society

White South Africans generally accept majority rule today

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by Roger Southall
Anti-Bolsonaro, pro-environment protesters in Rio de Janeiro in 2019.

Rules of governance

Demise of Brazil’s democracy would speed up climate crisis

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by André de Mello e Souza
The OMCT report was published in February 2022.

Rule of law

Covid-19 and human rights

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by Jane Escher