International IDEA’s new report on ‘Deliberative Democracy and Climate Change: Exploring the Potential of Climate Assemblies in the Global South’ demonstrates how citizens assemblies and other deliberative practices have the potential to improve climate policies and climate action. On 29 October 2024, International IDEA and the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra organized a panel to discuss findings of the report, explore challenges and innovations of climate-related deliberative practices and the potential of climate assemblies in Asia and the Pacific.
Nicole Curato is a Professor of Political Sociology at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. Her research focuses on the transformative power of deliberative governance in fragile and conflict-affected settings. She has advocated for and contributed to building a 'global deliberative democracy' model inspired by decolonial theory and practice, critical historiography, and ambitious democratic experiments, such as the Global Assembly on the Climate and Ecological Crisis.Nicole is the founder of the Global Citizens' Assembly Network (GloCAN), former editor of the Journal of Deliberative Democracy, founding editor of the Deliberative Democracy Digest, and founder of the Deliberative Democracy Summer School. She has published three books on deliberative democracy, numerous journal articles, public reports, and op-eds for outlets like The New York Times, The Guardian, and Australian Foreign Affairs. Most recently, Nicole contributed two key chapters on climate assemblies and other deliberative practices to International IDEA’s newest publication Deliberative Democracy and Climate Change: Exploring the Potential of Climate Assemblies in the Global South (Stockholm, 2024).
