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Seminars In Canberra
The Centre presents a series of weekly seminars at the ANU in Canberra. In 2010, seminars will usually be held on Wednesdays at 4:00pm, in the Seminar Room D, Coombs Building (Building 09), The Australian National University. Click here for future seminars.
Next Canberra seminar:
Wednesday 4th of August: John Dryzek (ANU Political Science Program)
Title:Toward a Deliberative Global Citizens' Assembly
Abstract
There is widespread acceptance that there is a global democratic deficit. However, while recognizing the deficit is easy, remedying it is going to be hard. Most existing proposals for global democratization are not very imaginative in that they begin from the assumption that the model for a global democracy already exists in something like the form already taken by developed liberal democracies. The most prominent such model is the ‘popularly elected global assembly’ or PEGA. We accept the basic justifications for global democracy advanced by PEGA campaigners, but believe there is a need to move beyond facile invocations of electoral democracy at the global level. We examine the contribution to the development of global deliberative democracy that could be made by assemblies of ordinary citizens drawn from all the countries of the world. We propose a Deliberative Global Citizens’ Assembly or DGCA. This assembly would be both deliberative and composed of ordinary citizens of the world – not elected politicians. We do not proclaim it as the solution to the problem of effective and democratic global governance, but rather call for its exploration as a democratically legitimate complement to existing international institutions and one component of emerging global deliberative systems.
Enquiries to Scott Wisor: scott.wisor@anu.edu.au
Previous Seminars in Canberra
Seminars In Melbourne
The Centre presents regular seminars at the University of Melbourne. Seminars will normally be held on Wednesdays at 2:15pm to 4pm in the Moot Court Room, Ground Floor, Old Quadrangle (not to be confused with the Mooting Court in the new Law Building). Click here for future seminars.
Next Melbourne seminar- TBA
Enquiries to Dr Steven Curry: sbcurry@unimelb.edu.au or (03) 8344 3852
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Seminars in Wagga Wagga
The Centre presents regular seminars on the Wagga Wagga campus of Charles Sturt University. These are held on Tuesdays at 5:00 pm in Room 181, Marchant Hall unless otherwise stated.
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Enquiries to Dr Daniel Cohen: Daniel.Cohen@anu.edu.au or +61 (02) 6125-1741
CONFERENCES
Violence, War & Terrorism: Ethical, Legal & Political Perspectives PROTECTING CIVILIANS DURING VIOLENT CONFLICT
25 – 26 August 2010
Finkel Theatre, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Garran Rd, The Australian National
University, Canberra
Speakers include (international & Australian) academics, serving military staff and representatives from NGOs. Click Here for more information
Or contact: coast@law.anu.edu.au
T: +61 (0)2 6125 1096 or 6125 3487
F: +61 (0)2 6125 0103
Conference presented by the: Australian Centre for Military Law, ANU; Humanities & Social Sciences, UNSW at ADFA; Centre for Applied Philosophy & Public Ethics, ANU