Non-Governmental Forum of the Community of Democracies
Seoul, Korea, 10–12 November 2002

	Participants gathered at the Closing Plenary of the Community of Democracies Non-Governmental Forum, November 2002.

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.

 

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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.

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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.”

 

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