2025: Ressourcen von Demokratie

„Daring to be democratic!“ still applies today and even more so! But are we aware of the ‘resources of democracies’? Those human, social, economic, cultural, religious and spiritual resources that we need to call upon, strengthen and also develop anew in order to counter authoritarian challenges, promote social cohesion and preserve democracy and the rule of law?

The conflict in the Middle East, that is as historically linked to Europe and the West as many other global challenges and regional disasters, makes it easy to recognise that ‘fortress thinking’ is just short-sighted populism and not a solution. This way of thinking will not generate any solutions to climate change and labour migration, neither to human rights violations or the refugee crisis, nor to violence and fundamentalist-identitarian political utopias or terrorism.