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Book Launch Event- Horizontal Development: Shifting Power and Privilege in Aid
On 11 December 2025, The Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International Development (WICID), in collaboration with the Centre for Studies in Democratisation (CSD), hosted a book launch event for Horizontal Development: Shifting Power and Privilege in Aid. The event featured a panel discussion with the book’s authors—Dr Shonali Banerjee (Warwick), Professor Anne-Meike Fechter (Sussex), and Dr Thabani Mutambasere (Edinburgh)—who explored how power and privilege operate within international aid and development. The discussion highlighted alternative, grassroots-led approaches to development and reflected on contemporary debates around decolonising aid.
Democracy, System, Design: A Workshop
On 11-13 June 2025, a workshop titled "Democracy, System, Design" organised by Anke Gruendel (Humboldt University) and Michael Saward (Warwick) was held and the University of Warwick.This genuinely interdisciplinary workshop brought together leading democratic theorists, design scholars and practitioners from the UK, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and the Basque Country to explore these debates and the pressing issues they address.The event was a major success, establishing a new cross-national and cross-disciplinary dialogue
To read more about the event click here.
"Democracy and Climate Change - A roundtable discussion"
On 1 May 2025, the Centre for Democratisation and the PAIS Environmental Politics research cluster held a PAIS Departmental Seminar titled "Democracy and Climate Change - A roundtable discussion". This Discussion was chaired by Mitya Pearson and featured Simon Caney, Marit Hammond and Keith Hyams.
You can find the audio recording of this discussion here.
Three Years On: Global Ukrainians and Their Transnational Engagement with Ukraine.
On 25 February, 2025, The Centre for Studies in Democratisation held an online event lead by Maria Koinova (Professor at Warwick’s Politics and International Studies Department) and Taras Romashchenko (Visiting Professor at Bielefeld University and Associate Professor at Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy). This event titled, "Three Years On: Global Ukrainians and Their Transnational Engagement with Ukraine", examined political, economic, and social contributions to Ukraine’s recovery, democratic activism, reverse remittances, prospects for return, and emerging developments amid a shifting global landscape and the recent establishment of the Ukrainian Ministry of Unity.
"American democracy: saved or doomed?"
On 27 December 2024, the Centre for studies in Democratisation held a roundtable discussion titled "American Democracy: Saved or Doomed?"- A roundtable on the 2024 US elections outcome. This discussion was chaired by Michael Saward and featured Trevor McCrisken, Joe Haigh and Jessica Underwood from PAIS.
The audio recording and some responses to this event are available here.