Democracy it seems is on the decline just last year sixty seven countries still 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 they say know what is truly right and wrong. They meet tricky questions with simple ounces. When democracy is on the 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. And the money with you. Other value. 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 the government just didnt know what to do with 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 are 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 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 fest 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 skills you bring in a conflict are more important than the conditions so you can have the worst conditions in the world where you have a Skilled Movement then you can get the success to increase a movement 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 about you 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 can march 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 Police Station and asking questions and putting pressure so you see you find the place for them in the movement and they are doing something and feel like theyre really helping the movement in fact theyre helping the movement theyre helping the arrest of a person. Popovich is team is a small one and they canvass offices are hidden away in a residential area there are eleven 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. Just very very dangerous thing that they see with the new 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 people advance 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 are to feel personally threatened. Its time for activists its time for helping activists across the world its time for international fully god give the people who define the mako 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 we do not proceed without society that is alive and kicking. To 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 china zia 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 this 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 young people students in particular were detained at the university and thrown in prison. Because thats why they chose to campaign for my people. I decided to fight for a different tunisia with democratic values. In the wake of the arab spring the riaa 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 is slow and terrorism is still attracting too many young people youth unemployment stands at more than thirty percent in tunisia and the political situation remains on stable. Were convinced that n. G. O. S can bring about as much change as a political party. Politics get tied up in the election process. Takes so much effort. To museums 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 preparations for the un Climate Change conference in november embalm germany. Ziyad says this never happened under the dictator politicians actually discussing things with young people. Is on what. They have only at home grown to play and galvanizing other people said they 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 fossils and. Ziad 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 that is definitely a start. City. Nonetheless theres a feeling of disillusion among these Young Democrats because power stays in the same hands. We still have to endure a class of our politicians who are clinging to power. Your you guys wont hand over to the younger generation. Never heard you believe politicians the young just want to leave the country or still it school or university and arent capable of governing or making decisions. Over my life the young who have brought about change here. Religion is going to feel less fortunate. The etc i ses in the future as well that he will change and change unless the young people remain engaged and committed. Womens involvement is key to change too 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 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 all can do when they got wanted to but when i was a child we grew our own rice here and joe for you 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. The Vegetable Growers also want to benefit from the father 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 guy is really angry. So its destructive it just rips the ecological balance its toxic. To. The truck doesnt have a number plate and the driver wants to hide his face 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. You know man not here but some of you. Do son youre also shows up. Then young 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 if. I have 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. So yeah monday i a 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 has 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. Then though really get to work. For. Women in senegal are at a great disadvantage because only men inherit land its an exceptional opportunity for this womens collective to 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 birds stop by again and shellfish of comeback. Is thinking about farming oysters among the mangroves. That would combine Environmental Protection with female empowerment and what could prove to be a profitable business. Plan 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 dallin 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 oscar mark is a member of the youth wing of the center right liberal party. We want to. Stir there are. More we are. Off. Center for the side of 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. We get this closeness between each other its very easy to reach me as a politician as mayor then its very easy to to reach every other just so its a very good way to actually get to politicians here with the people because i think that is what democracy and so weve done its the grows from. It all started in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight when future Prime Minister old off palma got up on the back of a jeep and spoke to a couple of hundred people in on the dollar and park what 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 diamond which started growing into the phenomenon it is today the men who were here at the coffee and i think its. 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 godman is to change our understanding of political debate going to do a metaphor on debating. Metaphor its more like your words are ammunition never when you have a looser and i think thats in something very uncomfortable during the political debate or any of this question because when you need anything not a person then having a discussion you have one of her two to walk away from that learned having learned something that you didnt know before this for the political scientist steep gun loon grin agrees that this is the on the dallin way this is a part of the swedish model we were something that hasnt had a proper rhythm and since seven think for yourself. You know if theres a conflict we are ought to discuss it over a cup of coffee or if they need it thats it thats the scots that later on that site a couple. Said so if its the swedish model its more of that directive you know try to find solutions pragmatic. But there are some who criticize on the dot and some complain 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 the public realizes. Its the end of a second on the dollar and experience. This is clones. So people could try and come 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 in film to smartphones were introduced just ten years ago 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 u. T. V. A 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 this all the data are just gathered and stored somewhere the information is integrated to create a profile of. Amount of profile is sold and traded on this powerful you can make money out of you one hundred mit you have a leave to go for it and jesus puffy the spirit name kind of profile doesnt capture your entire life that i was a person. So what does it do is the profile is rather like forensic filings 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 or facebook or twitter. Profiles in face of twitter. This with a. Last youre going to inferences are made about whether youre a good citizen or about one a 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 transistor golds noncooperative Data Collection but that means data