Stopping climate change demands a bundled voice of global civil society - and that means it needs Civil democracy. Read here the five steps why this is necessary - and if you want to support to stop climate change, continue with links below. Stopping climate change demands a change in life styles around the world. It is not something that can be done by isolated elite action, it...
1. Civil democracy works like a very special bank account Civil democracy is like a bank account on which you and everyone else receive the same “income” of one vote for every decision to be made in your name. Any upcoming decision is always a decision between several options, and you can “sponsor” several options in order to increase their winning probability. Better do not only support your...
Implementing Civil democracy begins with local sub-groups of civil society organisations (CSOs) and their supporters helping in the search for candidates for a Global Sustainabilty Council (GSC). (See here why.) These local CSO sub-groups will start to convince their organisations to serve as open actors.They will start doing the work of preparing a position of their organisation as a whole in the Civil democratic process. Ranking options for...
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In the 2020s and the 1940s, two global crises see their climax and solution. This conclusion results from analysing a current dejàvu: Terror started a war in 2001 as it did in 1914. Likewise are economic crises, globalizations and democratizations, increasing inequalities and shifts in the global resource distribution recent phenomena with parallels a century ago. This book shows: this is no coincidence. It is a key for...
In recent debate, some discussants have turned to the idea of lot-based representation drawn from the whole population, described with the term "sortition". Sortition has been used to determine public officials in the antique Athenian democracy and is used for citizen-based juridical juries in many democracies, and since the pioneering works of Peter Dienel in the 1970s and 1980s[1], it has been discussed as a solution to the...
https://youtu.be/1-oyhn6BP5E With the upcoming book "It is our world", we start the Youth Global Sustainability Council.
Civil democracy is a very powerful concept. It will change every individual, many organisations, and the culture of every society in the world. Of course, not Civil democracy alone – it has to go along with a cultural change that is already on its way and will need to proceed. But it is a necessary means to bring the powerful dynamics of our human mastering of our own...
In discussing the concept of Civil democracywith civil society organisations, number of frequently asked questions have come up. 1. Question: Isn’t the dissatisfaction with politics an argument against Civil democracy? Answer: The widespread dissatisfaction comes from the feeling of powerlessness, and this feeling not being able to change anything will change with Civil democracy. 2. Question: Democracy even in it current form is much more than elections. Answer:...
Civil democracy is powerful, it is a solution which brings problems into a solution-oriented setting involving as many individuals as possible, and its complexities can be handled. Civil democracy is however a systemic solution that demands a large number of different actors to align to a new concept of interaction. No actor alone can start it. With this feature, Civil democracy shares the challenge of every social change,...
Civil democracy is an improved type of democracy that uses the technology of the 21st century to tackle the challenges of democracy in the 21st century. Its core is the flexible storage of trust that allows every political actor to take responsibility and every voter to decide for every decision whether to express their democratic responsibility in the choice of their representing political actors or in an own...
The book starts with an understanding of the way in which we got into the current problems. Having a problem is having something to do: so it is about the possibilities to shape the world and the decisions that are necessary for doing so. And it is about the „we“, hence the structure of human societies in relation to such decisions. Such decisions are never simply private, but...
Just shortly need to save the world / before I take the flight to you / have to check 148 mails / who knows what happens next / because it happens so much / Just shortly have to save the world / right afterwards I’m back with you... These song lines by Tim Bendzko (2011, originally in German) ironically take up the idea of “saving the world” at...
The one-pager Besides the posts here on the blog, see the one-page description of Civil democracy and the Global Sustainability Council. The brochure The next level of entry is the 20-page brochure that is available here on the website. The book A more complete introduction is given in the Civil democracy book (paperback, 136 pages). It is available as paperback, 6x9" hardcover, and ebook. The reader A edited...
Civil democracy brochure How climate change, migration and populism relate to Christianity — and what we can do. It seems that we are currently in a vicious circle: migration is driven by climate change, among other things, but it also feeds populism. This in turn makes it even more difficult to take action against climate change. Climate change, migration, and populism as linked problems How do we get...
Can the internet improve politics? As the question scarcely been discussed by the “classic” texts on internet and politics of the 1990s, it is asked now in light of the experiences since. Question and answer are structured in five steps: (1) Politics is about counting, ever more, and the web is good in counting. (2) Politics counts evaluations, and the web is good in evaluations. (3) Political evaluations...
Making collective decisions is not easy, and the larger the collective the more difficult. But efficient collective decision-making processes are a huge public good. In the long run, everyone benefits. They are, however, not a matter of course. They do not emerge automatically. Although some rather efficient procedures have such a long history that they are sometimes seen as being "naturally" given, all collective decision-making processes have to...
Can the Internet contribute to improving political processes? This question initially sounds "so 1990s" - perhaps one would have liked to ask it in the 1990s, when the Internet was still new. But that was the time when people tinkered in garages to become billionaires, and we didn't have a lot of the experience we have now - including the experience that in real politics, quite independently...
