CANVAS Summer Academy 2023: Challenging Autocrats

After almost two decades of democracy backslide, the Freedom House
“freedom in the world” index accounts for reverse the trend, as a number of autocrats and “illiberal” democrats are put on the defense by their own populations. After years of focusing their efforts across the globe on climate change and the “tyranny of oil”, generation Z seems to be fired up about making a historic connection between fossil fuels, their main exporters, and global democracy and peace. And while Western governments are pressed to divest from Putin’s oil and gas, autocrats and “illiberal democrats” from China to Iran and from Brazil to Georgia and Turkey are losing their positions of power or are being challenged with mass demonstrations. With developments around Georgia’s Foreign Agent Bill, being the latest example of successful actions and initiatives driven by the youth, are we finally witnessing the “beginning of the end of authoritarian tide”? Through social, and economic confrontation, activists around the world demonstrated a global coherence of people expressing similar grievances. This panel will dive in the effect of creative tactics that we witnessed in the last 12 months.

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