“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Essay Series:
People and countries alike are impacted by what happens within and outside of their borders. As such, we need local, national, and transnational solutions for defending, strengthening, and reimagining democracy.
While foes of democracy have developed sophisticated and innovative strategies leveraging cross-contextual connections, pro-democracy actors and movements have remained largely siloed by national borders.
Keseb and Stanford Social Innovation Review present a 5-part essay series, authored by leading democracy champions from Brazil, South Africa, and the United States. The essays discuss effective nonpartisan pro-democracy strategies by:
1. Illustrating how democracy entrepreneurship is driving innovative local and national solutions using examples from the authors’ home countries; and
2. Providing transnational insights to facilitate cross-border learning, innovation sharing, and solidarity-building among democracy champions.
Our aspiration is that these five essays will inform, challenge, and expand our imaginative capacities to innovate for 21st-century democracy—within and across our borders.
Yordanos Eyoel (Keseb) and Andrew Clarke (Keseb)
Cross-contextual learning has long been a vital tool for innovation. The pro-democracy field is no different, and a specific group of innovators are especially primed for and in need of cross-border collaboration.
Farbod Faraji (Protect Democracy) and Flávia Pellegrino (Pacto pela Democracia)
What recent history in Brazil and the United States has taught us about containing, countering, and sustainably preventing the corruption of elections by authoritarian leaders.
Lindiwe Mazibuko (Futurelect), Tainah Pereira (Mulheras Negras Decidem), and Erin Vilardi (Vote Run Lead)
To build evolving, inclusive, effective democracies, we must focus not only on developing leaders who are reflective of the nation-state but who can also change the conditions in which they operate.
Áurea Carolina (NOSSAS), Tessa Dooms (Rivonia Circle), and Julian Walker (PushBlack)
True believers in democracy must take steps to unlock people’s civic agency, with a particular focus on strategies that make democracies more inclusive, more people-centered, and more responsive to the needs and aspirations of all.
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