Everyday Democracy - Building Resilience Against Polarization and Radicalization

In an era marked by democratic backsliding, rising polarization, and radicalization, the concept of everyday democracy offers a timely and necessary reimagining of how democratic life is practised and sustained. Rather than confining democracy to electoral procedures or institutional frameworks, this perspective emphasises the lived, relational, and often informal dimensions of democratic engagement. It asks not only what democracy is, but where it happens, how it is experienced, and who participates in shaping it.