Starting in 2011, the small Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea has been the host of what we call the "People's Meeting". This is a place for politicians and citizens to meet face to face....
I visited Nepal in May of 2018, having been invited by some of the political parties to speak on the occasion of the 200 year birthday of Karl Marx, and to visit old friends in the political parties on the multiparty platform JOMPOPS....
In May 2018 I drove 3.500 km through Zimbabwe with my wife, visiting friends and partners that I used to work with in the early 90s, when Zimbabwewas a very different country....
During our time at our house "Furukollen" in the valley of Gudbrandsdalen during the sumer of 2017, I wrote a series of stories about the place. These are the photos used....
The Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy [NIMD] has recently released the 2017 Annual Report, which offers the reader a good overview of the challenges facing democracy programmes....
For decades, the Danes have been asked about their support - or the opposite - for development cooperation. In general, a majority of the population has been supportive. In March, a selection of 1001 persons were asked their opinion about the impact of development cooperation, i.e. if people think that it works or helps? ...
The Druk Journal started in 2015, as a non-partisan publication, with the purpose of serving the national interest through the development of serious conversation on issues from every possible constructive point of view. In this issue, I write about the challenges presently facing political parties globally, and what needs to be done in Bhutan to avoid ending in the same situation. ...
During my recent visit to Nepal, I had the opportunity to meet with the Steering Committee of JOMPOPS, a platform of all the parties that today play a role in the country. In addition to their normal SC business, they had asked me to make a presentation on the way in which issues of democracy are covered by the UN Sustainable Development Goals....
A seminar organized by the Maoist Party on 6 May was more modest in numbers than the big meeting on 4 May, but actually very interesting from a substantive point of view. Local academics spoke about how to analyse class and caste developments in Nepal, and how to address the key challenges. I had been asked to contribute with a perspective on the Nordic [Danish] welfare state....
I was invited to speak at a conference organised by the Communist and Maoist parties in Kathmandu around the 5 May celebration of the 200 year anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx, to speak about the challenges of globalisation and global democracy....