openDemocracy.net
is an online global magazine of politics and culture.

We publish clarifying debates which help people make up their own minds.

We seek the finest writing, the strongest arguments, the most compelling views and truthful voices on key issues, great and small.

We use the web’s potential to build and map intelligent discussions which we accumulate and index in our back pages which now include over 1,500 articles.

Written by and for people across the world, from South and North, from the powerless to the influential, we seek to bring together those who are not well-known with writers and thinkers of international repute.

It’s in our name: openDemocracy.net is dedicated to opening up a democratic space - free thinking for the world.

Elsewhere on this site we hope you will find ideas and arguments that engage, annoy, stimulate and surprise you.

You will be invited to take part - in the forums or by submitting your own material to the editors. You will be asked to engage with other sides of the argument, not just the ones that are popular - or promoted by the large companies who dominate the media today. You will be encouraged to draw on your own experience.