Democratic Engagement from the Multisystemic Resilience Perspective Meeting Agenda

Organized by the Systemic Risk Institute, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences

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Democratic Engagement from the Multisystemic Resilience Perspective
Meeting Agenda

Meeting Chair: Alice Koubová and Michael Ungar

Sunday October 6

19:00 Informal gathering: we will book a place where you can join us if you’d like to connect with other attendees and have a meal or drink together

Monday October 7

9:00am: Welcome, Warm-up

9:15am: Alice Koubová and Michael Ungar will present a summary of the research area, highlighting different dimensions of the problem and the multisystemic approach methodology

9:45am (with nutrition break at 10:30am): Panel on theoretical conceptualization of democracy and resilience. Brief series of 3 -10 minute presentations on important findings from their work, and reflections on the findings from the scoping review, helping us to identify the important aspects of how to theoretically grasp the relationship between democracy and resilience. Questions we ask:

How to conceptualize the problem of (current) democracy/democracies? What democracy “is” and what are its biggest threats?
What factors should be taken into account in case we wish that people trust they have agency within democratic systems and participate in democratic institutions?
What are already existing sources of resilience in democratic societies?

Presenters include (alphabetic order): Jan Bierhanzl, Janine Clark, Petra Guasti, Pavol Kosnac, Ondřej Lánský, Josef Pallas, Monika Waldis Weber, Kateřina Zábrodská.

Discussion/Questions

12:00: Lunch

12:45pm: Panel on methodologies of measurements of democratic engagement, resilience and related areas. Brief series of 2-10 minute presentations of methodological approaches to democratic engagement, prevention of learned helplessness, erosion of democratic institutions, optimism etc.

Presenters include (alphabetic order): Bruria Adini and Shaul Kimhi, Francezska Giordano, Zuzana Harmáčková, Daniela Munteanu, Klára Šeďová, Josef Šlerka, Petr Špecián, Paulina Tabery.

Discussion/Questions

2:45pm: Break

3:00pm: Small group discussions start developing the design of a pilot study. Each group will report back with summarizing discussion.

4:30pm: Day one close/reflection

6pm: Informal gathering in a restaurant and an opportunity to network.

Tuesday October 8

9:00am: Synthesize the discussion through a reflection on themes raised during Day 1.

10am (with break at 10:30am): Small working groups with assigned work packages to propose potential questionnaire on democratic engagement based on what we have learned.

11:30am: Report back to larger group possible solutions

12:00: Lunch

12:45pm: Next steps--We will gather fundamental claims for the shared academic paper and decide about its development. We will decide about the pilot study based on the questionnaire financed by the Czech Academy of sciences. We can discuss grant development strategy to seek funding future studies.

We will work in small groups, then present ideas back to larger group.

3:00pm: Review progress/Open discussion/Problem solving

3:30pm: Wrap-up

4:00pm: End of the meeting