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The global success of the Why Democracy? broadcasting event in October 2007 has spurred on the next exciting stage of the project. By utilising the films as an innovative learning tool in secondary and tertiary institutions, the Why Democracy? project is working on an outreach programme in which the films can be used to stimulate a discussion about democracy among critically-minded students. We are also reaching out to NGOs and trying to establish a network of organisations and a series of seminars in which the films can be shown and discussed.

Watch this space for further details.

Recent global events have demonstrated that the topics dealt with in the Why Democracy? Films have a tendency to occupy news headlines around the world.

A recent example is an audio message supposedly made by Osama Bin Laden threatening the EU over the re-printing of the Prophet Muhammad cartoons in all major Danish newspapers.

In another story, a rare letter from a Guantanamo Bay detainee has been published outlining the harsh conditions suffered by terrorist suspects. Alex Gibney's Taxi To The Dark Side may have shed some light on the treatment of detainees, but this treatment continues to dismantle any attempt at a global human rights framework.