Democracy it seems is on the decline and just last year sixty seven countries saw setbacks to their citizens Civil Liberties and political rights. The biggest threats to a democratic system are autocrats and populists. Populists insist they speak for the people. Only they say no what is truly right and wrong. They meet tricky questions with simple answers. When democracy is under threat citizens take to the streets Civil Society becomes active using preferably nonviolence as a form of resistance and that requires clear messages and strong symbols. In serbia we need professionals in the field who say their most important weapon is human. Money moon and the other through. I dont believe. Anybody. But. In protest in life its all the same the person you want to be around is a person can make a law and in our experience in serbia the government just didnt know what to do with we being mocked because these people in power they just think too highly and to seriously i was along themselves so if you log them they do something stupid. These two men or in a way professional revolutionaries they come from belgrade thats where their careers began. It was the mid nine hundred ninety s. Together with other students in the group or they had a goal to topple then president still but on milosevic and set the stage for free elections their tactic nonviolent resistance much of it based on humor in action. People need to have something to be need to belong to something so creating that impression using humor making you fix these kind of things. And then people know actually who you are as well when you are doing something on the streets so it is important to have symbol and to create the brand because then its real of life. Who are symbol was a fish today its been adopted as a logo by their new organization canvas canvas trains and advises activists all over the world and offer seminars on line. Probably worked with people from i dont know forty fifty Different Countries i lost count completely and this ranges from small student groups fighting for more justice or less rate in their campus to the Large Organizations that are shaking out across the governments across the world our idea is that the skills you bring in a conflict are more important than the. So you can have the worst conditions in the world but you have a Skilled Movement then you can get to success to increase the movements chance of success canvas provides protesters with books training materials and background videos human rights education general welfare corruption versus transparency rule of law would you think is very important but its not only that its also people think. Why because your vision should never be only ules it needs to be a shared vision dont forget that you need people to join you movement and change the society the more people share a vision the move full scale it becomes ok we had the Youth Movement graffiti were the great solution and rock concerts because obviously this is the this is that how you see protest when you are in your teens but then we get a lot of retired people so of course they couldnt march or not with us in the harsh winter we couldnt invite them to the places where there will be care gas used. But they have a lot of time on their hands so when some of our guys was arrested you get a list of the people who are available that day and then immediately fifty to seventy retired people are calling the Police Station and asking questions and putting pressure so you see you find a place for them in the movement and they are doing something and feel like they are really helping the movement in fact theyre helping the movement they are helping the arrest of person. Popovich is team is a small one and the canvas offices are hidden away in a residential area there are leaven trainers in all and theyre often on the move heading wherever their skills are needed because the job can be a dangerous one they dont want to be filmed so part of that provides the organizations public face. These. Days hes also taught nonviolent resistance at american universities for over a decade its just very very dangerous thing that i see with when you media is a phenomenon we call click so how many polar bears you have saved on facebook this morning by clicking like on a page. If you would be turning your computer off in fact you would be helping polar bears more the bells are won and lost in the real world. Interestingly Climate Change is a topic that doesnt mobilize the masses apparently the more global a problem the less likely people or to feel personally threatened. Its time for activists its time for helping activists across the world its time for international fully dodik of the people who define the mark well see but its also time for people in the west to wake up from their a comfortable dream that democracy is something that is for granted for them there is no way with them or proceed without society that is alive and kicking. Two museums proved themselves similarly defiant in late two thousand and ten when they ousted their dictator ben ali. The event sparked the socalled arab spring a series of protests and uprisings against rigid political systems which spread throughout the arab world most were brutally cost or ended in civil war. In tunisia it was mainly young people who demonstrated against the countrys social inequality and corruption the first free elections took place in october two thousand and eleven and the less the fledgling democracy is still finding its feet. Twenty eight year old see ads arrive from china is a child of the revolution. I was there for the protests in two thousand and nine when ben ali was still dictator. A lot of people students in particular were detained at the university and thrown in prison. Thats why i chose to campaign for my people. I decided to fight for a different tunisia with democratic values. In the wake of the arab spring zero zero and his fellow campaigners founded what they called the alternative Youth Network known by its french acronym r. A j. They campaign for Environmental Protection jobs and political change there are big problems in the Country Economic growth has slowed and terrorism is still attracting too many young people youth unemployment stands at more than thirty percent in tunisia and the political situation remains unstable. Convinced that n. G. O. S can bring about as much change as a political party. With politics you get tied up in the election process. Takes so much effort. Into new zealands have just had enough of politicians. Especially after the revolution when we had more than one hundred and twenty parties. Today the activists and other n. G. O. S are meeting with the minister of the environment. That discussing perforations for the un Climate Change conference in november germany. Ziad says this never happened under the dictator politicians actually discussing things with young people. You. Want. The whole of home grown to play and galvanizing other people say ok finally take notice of Climate Change. It has to become part of Public Discourse and every single citizen needs to be aware of what. Do you do sequoia the vasaline on. The ad says peoples relationship with politics is still far from what he thinks it should be. The country is still in transition. Because. At least we can discuss things directly with ministers these days and thats definitely a start. City. Nonetheless theres a feeling of disillusion among nice Young Democrats because power stays in the same hands. We still have to endure a class of our politicians who are clinging to power. There you go turned over to the younger generation. Never heard you believe politicians the young just want to leave the country or still its school or university and arent capable of governing or making decisions. For my last the young who have brought about change here you see my leg collision is going up the left was more. The etc i ses in the future as well little will change and change unless the young people remain engaged and committed. Womens involvement is key to change to and that all starts with their representation in parliament Northern European countries have the greatest percentage of women in politics in the rest of the world the figures are increasing only slowly in Subsaharan Africa its around twenty three point six percent and thats partly down to quotas that figure is also roughly the global average. We head to senegal to meet women who have to fight hard for their right to make a change. In the young man g. I. Is the organizer of this project planting a special kind of grass and eucalyptus saplings which help desalinate the soil she also brought together the women who are implementing the project and got the local foresters involved its not been possible to grow crops here for two decades the soil is just too salty what they. Welcome to vanity got wanted to but when i was a child we grew our own rice here in joe friday and never had to buy any the same with peanuts and millet but. The problem is the rising sea level salt water is invading and destroying more and more fertile land this dike was built five years ago and provide some relief money works for an environmental n. G. O. S he advises the women and help them get funds from the un backed Green Climate fund he also helps farmers here. Love the Vegetable Growers also want to benefit from the father told me what can a do for them they need to acquire new skills youve helped us so far but you must leave us alone now there is more to do the money for this project did not come from senegal but from an international fund. You know you know. The soil the women a working on is still salty but they want to find out whether they can already resume farming here. Theyve planted a small patch of rice as an experiment. Or theyll know in about two months if the soil is recovering and will yield a crop. A tanker truck suddenly appears the driver has evidently just dumped a load of human waste yaman vi is really angry. Its a problem so its destructive it disrupts the ecological balance its toxic. To. The truck doesnt have a number plates and a driver wants to hide his face in the forest a moment to sign you know is also a lieutenant in the army he takes the drivers idea drivers license and escorts the truck to the Police Station. Ya mind ya it goes to see the mayor. Well not here but your. Mama do son youre also shows up. Then yemen d. I. I. Pitches her ideas is that. We were able to build the dike with money from the fund now we want local authorities to help us make use of the dike now its that. You get young people involved many youngsters have already helped women plant trees. I applied to have water pipes laid to the plots of the young vegetable farmers. And as far as the dice so that we could have enough water there. That would help the sale and use the soil even more but they rejected my application he was. So ya monday i i wont get any more help here in fact the mayor says he has no more money to spend and asks how he might get some from the Green Climate fund. Despite all the difficulties the women have already achieved a lot a year ago the local authority gave ya mind ya is womens cooperative the land theyve been working on it has been waste ground the forty women share the four hectare plot. Up an even match and wont get us off to the rainy season in the diners are going to drill a well and teach the women how to grow vegetables. The met then though really get to work. Women in senegal are at a great disadvantage because only men inherit land its an exceptional opportunity for this womens collective to earn their own money here. In the evening they ride to the coast where they planted mangroves two years ago this too is a project for which on monday i got support from the climate fund. The women cotton plant shoots from their burgeoning mangroves. Its hard work but this reforestation project is bearing fruit. Migratory bird stopped by again and shellfish have come back. Yaman d. I. s thinking about farming oysters among the mangroves. That would combine Environmental Protection with female empowerment and what could prove to be a profitable business. To see patients and voting are key characteristics of a modern democracy democracy gives people a voice including minorities it involves political opposition freedom of opinion and the press all citizens of bound by a constitution which protects basic rights as a division of powers and everyone is equal before the law in sweden its precisely this democracy which is celebrated for a week every year. It isnt easy to find somewhere to stay during on the dollar and week the lucky ones find a spot in a classroom its a bit like a Music Festival but this is a political event this classroom is being shared by the green party and the liberals. Twenty three year old law student to mark is a member of the youth wing of the center right liberal party. Sleazy. Stirrer there are no more we are. The center for the science the event takes place about one hundred kilometers off the east coast of sweden on the island of gotland in the medieval harbor city of his b. Its like a Company Team Building exercise where you go on a retreat to bond with your colleagues. The change of pace and scenery fosters a feeling of common purpose. Seminars and discussions start early in the morning and continue all day. Yes and as we get this closeness between each other its very easy to reach me as a point. Then its very easy to to really see every bit of this footage so its a very good way to get the politician near the people because i think that is what democracy and study done it. Grows from. It all started in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight when future Prime Minister old off tomah got up on the back of a jeep and spoke to a couple of hundred people in on the dollar and park. Where his social democrats started organizing political seminars here in the one nine hundred eighty s. Other parties followed organizing events here as well on the dial and which started growing into the phenomenon it is today who would be at the front if you think. About forty thousand people are here to talk about political issues socialize and share ideas even the rain hasnt dampened the mood. Today the social democrats are presenting their Draft Program in the park all eight of the parties represented in parliament to get their turn. Before the next round of discussion about the Global Climate catastrophe osca takes a quick break he says one goal of on the gallon is to change our understanding of political debate going to do a metaphor on debating. Metaphors more like your words are ammunition never when you have a looser and i think thats in something we uncomfy for political hate or any discussion because when you meet and youre not a person then having a discussion you have one of her two need to walk away from that learned to having learned something that you didnt know before the speaker political scientist steep gun loon friend agrees that this is the im a doll in way this is a part of the swedish model we were something that hasnt had a proper rhythm and since seven things out for yourself. You know if theres a conflict we are ought to discuss it over a cup of coffee or if they need that thats this discuss that later on that site the couple met said so if its the swedish model its more that theyre right you know trying to find solutions pragmatic. But there are some who criticize on the dot and some complained that its become a leader in much too commercial they say its now the Media Outlets that dictate the agenda not the politicians. But International Interest in this swedish invention is on the rise. And democracy is the big. Everyone says this will be easy but it is more like this is more a way youll flipping and we dont need to talk much we need to practice democracy in i will realize. Its the end of second on the dollar and experience. This is. People confront coming together from different parts or Government Society and business and thats something that is worth spreading across the globe. Festivals modeled on the dollar never already started in norway a stone and denmark. This is they dont just museum in munich germanys museum devoted to masterpieces of science and technology we are here to meet somebody ms written about the dangers posed by ai and big data yvonne host data is a lawyer and c. E. O. Of an i. T. Company she says new technologies and social media are a threat to democracy. And the i field a small smartphones were introduced just ten years ago five steve jobs presented apples first i phone in two thousand and seven i since then society has changed radically and its not just changed in a way that we decided on in a democratic fashion visor or t. V. Or democrat to show up just in tech. Frenzy emails first sentence when youre sending emails on your smartphone data are being counted on who you talk to who your contacts are the state of your finances us alice all the data are just gathered and stored somewhere the information is integrated to create a profile of. Im not a profile is sold and traded on this is proof you can make money out of your one hundred minute you have a leave to go for it and jesus puffy the spirit name must kind of profile doesnt capture your entire life that i was a person. So what does it do is the profile of this rather like forensic profiling in the search for a perpetrator list expenses and im going to profile is generated by ted up. In all the things you click on your life even if you dont actually post or write anything yourself on the internet youll still be profiled on for example a facebook or twitter. Profile in facebook of twitter. Youre going to inferences are made about whether youre a good citizen or about one good tax credit worthy or not and so on and so forth. And if the information ends up in the hands of your employer or Health Insurer or the state it could mean massive problems for you down the road until massive knock to ten dense gates on the trend is towards noncooperative Data Collect