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Essay IX: Mapping the Healthy Democracy Ecosystem: Future of Citizenship

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A series of essays exploring how democracy and citizenship are both evolving and threatened, and how people are thinking about and engaging in politics and community.

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Unpacking Democracy: Artificial Intelligence and Democracy

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A video of an InternationIDEA webinar examining the impact of AI on democracy. worldwide. The panellists discussed the advantages and disadvantages of AI for democratic institutions, rights and values.

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What is Liberatory Learning

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This approach, based on Paulo Freire, argues that learning is a liberating practice that often thrives beyond the confines of educational systems.This approach benefits learners and teachers together.

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Building Resilience Against Violent Extremism in Schools (2022-2023) USA

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BRAVE Schools, a project of the Karuna Center, works in partnership with middle and high schools in Western Massachusetts to proactively engage students and staff in preventing violence and strengthening resilience.

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Two States, One Homeland – an Open Land for All

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A link to the website of an organization that is trying to move beyond the constraints of the Oslo "two state solution" and imagine a more attractive, alternative future for the region.

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Getting to 3rd Space - Seth Kaplan-Part 1

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Lamar Roth and Tom Klaus from Tenacious Change interview Seth Kaplan, about his book Fragile Neighborhoods, which explains how we can "repair American society, one zip code at a time."

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Imagination Activism | Phoebe Tickell

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An interview with the founder of Moral Imaginations on the role of imagination in activism, the universality of values in human culture, and the crisis of imagination within the current system.

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Difficult Conversations About Israel and Gaza

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Suggestions from the dialogue experts, Essential Partners, about how to have a constructive conversation about one of the most divisive issues many of us currently face.

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