Talk:Community of Democracies

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The fundamental idea of the Community of Democracies (CD) was to establish a mechanism by which the governments of democratic countries could meet together and, having agreed on their fundamental principles, develop methodologies to work together to promote the spread of democratic principles in other countries and in the United Nations. The idea of a UN Democracy Caucus arose from that concept. As the CD progressed from the initial Warsaw Ministerial (2000) through the ones in Seoul (2002) and Santiago (2005), it became clearly apparent that governments needed to work with their allies from civil society, so a parallel movement was born and nurtured among non-governmental organizations. Following the Santiago Ministerial, an International Steering Committee was established, with representation from NGOs in all regions of the world, to coordinate that relationship. At the Ministerial Meeting in Bamako, Mali (November, 2007) the ISC produced a set of some 80 recommendations from civil society, many of which were endorsed in the final Consensus Declaration by the Government representatives. (The Washington-based NGO "Council for a Community of Democracies" serves as the Secretariat for the ISC. Full disclosure:  I work there.)  The Bamako Ministerial also approved a proposal by the Government of Poland to host a Permanent Secretariat for the CD itself; that office is being established in the first semester of 2008. Stevenwag (talk) 19:57, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Strong objection to the accompanying map
The accompanying map uses blue/purple for members of the CoD and red for so-called "like-minded" group. the only problem is almost all the countries in the red group are anti-democratic with the the exception of Sri-Lanka and the semi-exception of Malaysia and Indonesia (both flawed democracies). This needs to be corrected to give this article a semblance of authority.

Best way to do this is to have only one colour - blue - for members.

a further comment: It should be noted which of the countries in the community though not democratic can be said to be democratizing. Morocco is certainly in that category —Preceding unsigned comment added by Emshalev (talk • contribs) 18:22, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Outdated content on this page
Writing as COI user to flag the following outdated information on the Community of Democracies page:

Norway was added to the Governing Council of the Community of Democracies in October 2015:

The United States assumed the presidency of the CoD in July 2015:

The Working Group on Women and Democracy is chaired by Lithuania not the United States:

The Permanent Secretariat has added a satellite office in Geneva as of October 2015 CommunityofDemocracies (talk) 11:02, 15 January 2016 (UTC):
 * The updates have been performed. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. --Hammersoft (talk) 14:44, 25 February 2016 (UTC)