Rosemary Bechler, after completing her Cambridge doctorate on villain heroes from Milton to Byron, worked as a university teacher, in political journalism and in the peace movement, becoming the Chair of the National Peace Council in 1995-6. In 2000, she co-founded Peaceworkers UK, later absorbed into International Alert as its training wing, and joined the team piloting openDemocracy. She was an early European and international editor, edited the book of the Convention on Modern Liberty: The British Debate on Fundamental Rights and Freedoms (Imprint academic 2010) and was openDemocracy Editor until Magnus Nome was appointed Editor in Chief in 2012. She edits Can Europe Make It?, has recently co-edited with David Adler, DiEM25’s A Vision for Europe, (Eris, second edition, 2020), and is a qualified lead facilitator in Stafford Beer’s Team Syntegrity – a cybernetic protocol for non-hierarchical conferencing.
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Published in: HomeWhere Toby Young draws the line
Young draws the line all over the place, but not without a certain logic.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Whatever happened to Dunkirk spirit?
What is it? Can we learn from it, and could it "see us through coronavirus"?
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Published in: HomeEvelina isn’t herself?
Whenever a law court let alone a tabloid newspaper takes an undue interest in a rape victim’s mores, we hear an echo...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Taking deliberation seriously: ‘considered judgment’ from the Brexit referendum to the pandemic
On the 2019 UK elections, popular sovereignty, and citizens’ assemblies. A conversation with Stuart White.
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Published in: ourBeeb: OpinionThe unravelling of the Reithian BBC
How essential is the particular construction of Britishness which underpinned the Reithian BBC to the governing...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Citizens assembly: towards a politics of ‘considered judgement’. Part 2
In itself, having a new constitution doesn’t heal a country. But we have all sorts of different deliberative models...