Resources

This video lecture historicizes why Philippine democracy is mostly presented through defiient-oriented narratives and offers other frameworks to celebrate already existing initiatives that further the democratic project.

This podcast episode highlights how Southeast Asian countries have institutionalized deliberative democratic approaches to address governance issues, given that the region has been typically associated with authoritarian resilience and democratic resilience.

This article presents the case of the Philippine political system to illustrate how deliberative capacity can contribute to analyzing democratic quality. It thus surfaces the limitations of electoral democracy-centric paradigms of investigation.

How do communities experiencing poverty demonstrate deliberative agency? This article presents two low income families directly affected by the bloody drug war who maximized digital tools to visibilize their stories in the face of an increasingly authoritarian regime.

This article presents lessons from the Philippines in designing and implementing DMPs and forums for citizen deliberation in fragile contexts.

This article recounts a deliberative forum on acceptance, understanding, and equality for LGBTQ+ in the Philippines. This is cognizant of the reality that, despite being tagged as the “most friendly country to LGBTQ+”, the country still has no national anti-discrimination law.

This guidebook offers insights as to how youth leaders can model deliberative behavior, serve as connectors, and become innovators of deliberative practice.

This policy briefer moves beyond tech-deterministic solutions and surfaces the diagnosis, characterization, and recommendations of ordinary Filipinos. It provides actionable input for consideration of the wider stakeholder community.

Can we count on the collective wisdom of ordinary people in discussing about the Philippines’ campaign against illegal drugs? This article presents the steps in designing, implementing, and subsequently developing concrete recommendations for deliberative forums on human rights.