by Melisa Ross, Kalypso Nicolaidis and Camille Dobler | Aug 12, 2025 | Dispatch
Read in German Read in Greek Read in Italian The Democratic Odyssey: Design Innovations in Transnational Deliberation As the first itinerant transnational citizens’ assembly, the Democratic Odyssey was conceived as an experiment and pilot of what Europe-wide...
by Penelope Nortey, Sharon Boateng and Robert C. Richards, Jr. | May 12, 2025 | Dispatch
Social capital and resilience: how women’s grassroots participation drives climate adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is widely known that women are disproportionately impacted by climate change. In this article, Penelope Nortey, Sharon Boateng and Robert C....
by Remco van der Stoep, Jaron Harambam and Willemine Willems | Mar 31, 2025 | Dispatch
Read in Dutch Democratising science? Citizen deliberation on climate research in the Netherlands Can citizen deliberation play a role in decision-making within the world of science? What could this look like? These were some of the questions a Netherlands-based team...
by Pieter Velghe, Jehan Bottin, Christoph Niessen, Rebecca Gebauer, Ann-Mireille Sautter and Min Reuchamps | Jan 31, 2025 | Dispatch
Read in Dutch Read in French Read in German The Ostbelgien Model: five years on In 2019, a corner of Belgium made history when it established a new form of institutionalised citizen deliberation. Five years after its inception, the team of researchers following it...
by Min Reuchamps, Bernard Reber, Marjan H. Ehsassi and Agnese Bertello | Jan 22, 2024 | Dispatch
Read in French Five lessons from the College of Guarantors of the French Citizens’ Convention on the End of Life The Guarantors of the French Citizens’ Convention on the End of Life had a unique level of access to the deliberation, its design and governance. In this...
by Adela Gąsiorowska | Oct 1, 2023 | Dispatch
Understanding the policy impact of Citizens’ Assemblies: a dispatch from Gdansk Adela Gąsiorowska unpacks the impacts of Poland’s first Citizens’ Assemblies, arguing that despite the declarations of the city’s authorities and high level of implementation of their...
