Posts by Emma DeSouza
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Emma DeSouza is an award-winning campaigner, journalist, and peace activist who changed UK law in a landmark human rights case relating to the Good Friday Agreement. She is the Founder and Co-facilitator of deliberative democracy platform Civic Initiative, Director of the Northern Ireland Emerging Leaders Program at the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, and a global adviser on peace processes and civic innovation.
Voices of Civic Engagement
Emma DeSouza 03/12/2025
Deliberative democracy has been on the rise globally as more governments embrace citizen participation as a tool in policymaking. Despite this progress, and commitments in the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement for a Civic Forum – envisaged to be an umbilical cord between political institutions and wider civic society - Northern Ireland lags on …
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