In their new pieces, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Digital Democracy Network experts consider the growing role of technology in politics and society with insight and analysis aimed at bridging the gap between local perspectives and global conversations.
In The Everyday Feminist, Latanya Mapp Frett draws on interviews with prominent feminist activists and grassroots organizers and her own decades-long experience to show how everyday feminists are making a difference—and how we can better support their critical work.
With anti-gender and anti-LGBTQI+ movements surging within broader anti-democratic currents around the world, how can the United States and other concerned actors push back against such movements and advance the goal of inclusive democracy globally?
Civil society groups are simultaneously responding to the pandemic’s direct impacts and looking to a post-pandemic future. Many economic, political, and geostrategic challenges are shaping their thinking and their strategies.
The pandemic is spurring elite and grassroots civic actors to cooperate more, but the gulf between them remains wide. Civic actors must seize the opportunity for reform on open government issues.
Many protest movements have adapted to coronavirus-related restrictions as they fold new public health and economic concerns into their lists of governance grievances.
The coronavirus is catalyzing new forms of civic activism. International supporters of civil society should step up their efforts to bolster these local responses.
Carnegie’s new Global Protest Tracker reveals the nuances overlooked by many common theories about the recent wave of demonstrations around the world.
Civic space—the fundamental freedoms that allow people to gather, communicate, and take part in groups to influence society and politics—is the bedrock of any democracy. But it is increasingly vulnerable.
Mass protests garner significant attention, but what happens next is just as vital for achieving real and lasting change.