Pocantico Conference on Democracy Education

The report of the Pocantico Conference on Democracy Education in the Middle East and Muslim Africa, held on March 18-20 2005 (sponsored by the Council for a Community of Democracies, the Centre for the Study of Islam and Democracy and the American Forum for Global Education) is now available as a PDF file at Over thirty specialists from the region as well as from Senegal and Nigeria, Europe and the United States, met with NGO leaders from many countries, including Iraq, to produce the report. Four working groups reported on ‘Islam, Democracy and Citizenship’, ‘The Media and Education for Democracy’, ‘NGOs and Donors for Democracy Education’ and ‘Democracy Education in Informal and Formal Education’. (AJ)