Assessment of Myanmar Civic Space
This updated monitoring assessment from a working group of local Myanmar civil society organizations (CSOs) and networks explores the challenges…
Theme: Democracy
2023 Final Report
In democracies around the world, we are witnessing an alarming surge in disengagement and discontent in democratic institutions – paving…
Democracy is under attack but a new approach to “political innovation” is helping to revitalize it
To counter increasing polarization, populism, inequality and authoritarianism, a new civil society approach to “political innovation” is supporting citizen-led innovations…
Deepening the response to authoritarian information operations in Latin America
Authoritarian governments are escalating their efforts to manipulate the information ecosystem globally in order to undermine democratic institutions, advance their…
Barometer in Context: Debt, Development, and Climate
It is estimated that the world needs a massive increase in investment in development and climate if we are to…
Annual young leaders survey 2022
Restless Development’s Annual Young Leaders Survey is conducted every year to gain feedback from our young leaders on their experience…
Minority Languages in Spain: Recognition, Promotion and Some Conflicts
Language is a highly significant marker of individual and collective identities. It often provides an impulse for national or community…
The state of democracy and how to defend it
From the insurrectionist movement that shook our nation on Jan. 6, 2021, to the ongoing war in Ukraine to political…
Extremism is our new normal
The research findings illuminate how authoritarianism and political extremism, laced with white supremacy, has infiltrated mainstream America. Extremism is the…
ROUNDTABLE | Kenya Post-Election 2022 Review
The Kofi Annan Foundation and the Centre for Multiparty Democracy (CMD-Kenya), with the support of the United Nations Democracy Fund…