Welcome to Democracy Resource Hub
The Democracy Resource Hub offers curated tools and connections for democracy practitioners worldwide. Access resources on civic engagement, nonviolent action, peacebuilding, and strategic planning. Join a global community fostering democratic innovation and resilience through interdisciplinary collaboration and knowledge sharing.
Supporting change makers who are building, strengthening and protecting democracy worldwide.
Introduction
The Democracy Resource Hub offers a careful curation of resources for organizers, activists, peacebuilders, democracy practitioners, and trainers working to strengthen democracy. We foster interdisciplinary exchanges and innovation across diverse identities and skill sets.
The Democracy Resource Hub includes two sets of information:
1) a collection of curated tools and information and
2) a directory of organizations and networks that offer ways to get involved in and/or trained on the various skills needed to support the renewal of democracy.
This page is the hub that will help you get to the information you need. The collection is organized into 5 approaches. Below you will find guides to help you find the information you need.
Democracy Resource Hub Collection
A curated set of tools and information organized into five approaches and skill sets needed in the movement to renew democracy:
⚡ Power-Building & Nonviolent Action
Democracy Resource Hub Directory
An interactive list of organizations focused on social change, democracy, organizing, and peacebuilding around the world. The directory is organized into three groups:
- Directory of Global Networks (List | Gallery)
- Directory of Training Organizations (List | Gallery)
- Directory of Resource Libraries and Information Hubs (List | Gallery)
How can we help you participate in the effort for democratic renewal today?
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The Movement for Democratic Renewal
To build a thriving democracy, we need a diverse movement using a strategic blend of interconnected approaches:
Democracy Strengthening
Creates more inclusive, responsive, and just democratic systems and institutions. This involves defending against backsliding, reforming existing structures, and building new ones that truly serve all citizens.
Power-Building & Nonviolent Action
Raises awareness, builds solidarity, and generates pressure for change. It shifts power dynamics, creating openings for ordinary people to push for truly inclusive and just reforms and policies, while guarding against extremism and authoritarianism.
Peacebuilding
Fosters understanding and builds trust across divides using approaches like dialogue, mediation, and negotiation. It enables collaborative problem-solving, fosters strong coalitions, and facilitates opportunities to find common ground, even with opponents.
Strategic Planning
Provides the roadmap for our efforts. It aligns our work, maximizes resources and opportunities, and ensures we’re using the right tools at the right time for optimal impact.
Narrative & Storytelling
Creates the connective tissue that unites the entire process. It shapes hearts and minds, inspires action, and weaves a shared vision of our democratic future.
These elements are deeply interdependent:
- Nonviolent action can surface hidden tensions to raise the urgency and build power by mobilizing people to address long-standing injustices that weaken democracy.
- Peacebuilding can foster the creation of broad-based coalitions within movements and consolidate gains into lasting improvements.
- Strategic planning can support the effective sequencing of these approaches.
- Narratives maintain public support and momentum throughout the process.
By embracing this ecosystem as an integrated whole, we can address complex challenges, build broad support, and create lasting democratic renewal.
Together, we can build a democracy that’s more vibrant, just, and responsive to all.
Intermestic Learning Series
The Intermestic Learning Series aims to:
- Strengthen relationships among activists, organizers, peacebuilders, and democracy practitioners across the globe;
- Facilitate opportunities for cross-border learning around strategies and tactics for pushing back against authoritarianism and advancing diverse, just, and inclusive democracy; and
- Build solidarity and explore opportunities for connection within a broader global movement to counter authoritarianism and reimagine democracy.
The series is hosted on the Democracy Resource Hub. You can find post-event resource pages here:
- Mediation for Movements: Managing Intra-Movement Conflict – April 16, 2024
- Organizing in Increasingly Repressive Environments: Pushing Against Criminalization – June 20, 2024
- Defending Democracy with Humor and Dilemma Actions Tactics – October 28, 2024
- Resilience and Post-election Management: Sustaining Democracy Movements – December 3, 2024
About the Democracy Resource Hub
The Democracy Resource Hub is supported by the 22nd Century Initiative, United Vision for Idaho, the SHIFT Action Lab, and the Horizons Project. The hub sits within the Commons Social Change Library which has over 1000+ resources.
Recommendations for new resources are welcome. Please use this submission form for organizations and resource libraries and this form to recommend resources and media.
If you would like to contact the team at the Democracy Resource Hub send an email to [email protected]
Credit: The Artwork on the Democracy Resource Hub logo is by Veronika Belcheva (CC-BY-NC-SA).