| Non-Governmental
Forum of the Community of Democracies
Seoul, Korea, 10–12 November 2002
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Participants
gathered at the Closing Plenary of the Community of Democracies
Non-Governmental Forum, November 2002. |
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The Community of Democracies non-governmental
forum was held parallel to the Ministerial meeting in Seoul,
and brought together 250 democracy advocates and experts from
around the world.
Participants at the forum met in nine
topical panels on a wide range of democracy-related issues,
and presented a list of recommendations and perspectives regarding:
the strengthening of political party systems, local government,
gender and democracy, corruption, the market and democratic
governance, media, freedom of association, education for democracy,
protection of NGOs, and promotion of civil society in closed
societies.
For more information on the Community of Democracies
Non-Governmental Forum, see documents below or go to: http://www.cdngf2002.org
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Related documents
 Appeal
to Governments Gathered at the Community of Democracies Meeting
Final
Report of the Community of Democracies Non-Governmental Forum
Community
of Democracies Non-Governmental Forum Participant List
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"International Mechanisms
for Protecting Democracy"
by Theodore J. Piccone, Executive Director,
Democracy Coalition Project
DCP’s Executive Director, Theodore
J. Piccone, has written a paper that will be published as
a chapter in Protecting Democracy: International Responses
(eds. Morton H. Halperin and Mirna Galic, forthcoming,
Lexington Books). This paper compares the key elements of
“democracy clauses”—international agreements
to protect democracy—that currently exist and, based
on that analysis, presents a model democracy clause that tries
to reflect and integrate best practices in the field of international
relations.
To read the full text of this paper, click
here.
For a hard copy please contact DCP at info@demcoalition.org
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“Threats to Democracy: Prevention and
Response”
In Seoul, a Council on Foreign Relations
Independent Task Force led by two of the world's leading pro-democracy
voices, former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, and
former Foreign Minister of Poland, Bronislaw Geremek, issued
a report calling on democratic states to expand their efforts
to prevent and respond to threats to democracy.
For Full Text and the Executive
Summary:
http://www.cfr.org/publication.php?id=5180
To view a copy of the press release,
please go to:
http://www.cfr.org/publication.php?id=5185
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“Democracy Drowned
Out”
by Jackson Diehl, Washington Post, November 17, 2002
“Last week the Bush administration participated
in a major international conference on democracy, successfully
pushing for the adoption of an ‘action plan’ that
commits 110 governments to preserve political freedom in their
own countries and spread it to their neighbors. But you wouldn't
know it. Outside of Seoul, where it was held, the Community
of Democracies ministerial meeting received almost no attention.
No major U.S. newspaper published an article about it. Most
of the international press corps vanished with the last-minute
decision by Secretary of State Colin Powell not to attend.
The action plan couldn’t compete with the drama in the
U.N. Security Council about Iraq or the latest broadcast of
Osama bin Laden.”
To view the full article, go to:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3360-2002Nov17.html |
