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This is the particularly topical theme of the symposium which took place in Marrakech from May 4 to 6 at the invitation of Professor Ali SEDJARI, president of CERIPP and co-president of I-DIALOGOS. It was a question of questioning the future of a democracy in crisis, as a political regime, and governance, as a science of management, in relation to the eruption of the digital revolution and that of AI. Is this an opportunity to build a more participatory, more inclusive democracy?

Serge Mathias TOMONDJI is a journalist and columnist. Of Beninese nationality, he has been based in Burkina Faso since 1993. Today, March 8, is International Women's Day, institutionalized by the United Nations since 1975 to question the situation of women in the world. A celebration this year under the theme “Investing in women: accelerating the pace”. - Ouagadougou, March 8, 2024 / The entire I-Dialogos team joins in this magnificent message to all women in the world.

For Dominique EDDE, It is time to get away from "us against them", to put an end to this war to the death for the exclusive possession of "the Holy Land", "the Land of the Bible". And to replace it with "them and us", to make Palestine a shared land where everyone can live in peace and security where the Israeli and Palestinian flags will fly side by side. To follow in the footsteps of Mandela who, despite the horrors and monstrosities of apartheid and the suffering of black peoples, wanted and knew how to build the Rainbow Nation of South Africa. / Jean-Claude MAIRAL / 11/19/2023

Are we going to continue to see the place of French on the national and global level decline, or will we be able to take up the challenge, from the local to the global, of the Francophonie and the promotion of the French language, as a structuring axis of economic policy? , cultural and academic? Jean-Claude MAIRAL is co-president of I-Dialogos and president of "Planète Jeunes reporters-In the footsteps of Albert Londres",

Guy METTAN is former president of the Swiss Press Club, director of the Tribune de Genève and author notably of “Russia-Europe, a thousand-year war” and “the lost continent, Plea for a democratic and sovereign Europe” and the “new impertinent dictionary of Switzerland”. The last General Assembly of the United Nations took note of the clinical death of multilateralism. So what about the future of international Geneva? and not only.../ Article published in the Swiss daily Le Temps on October 30, 2023.

On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and following Russia's war against Ukraine, writers born "in the East" gathered around Albéna DIMITROVA, to write this book of testimonies: "Girls of the East, Women of the West". The book shows that reality is always more complex and diverse than what we are shown or have been shown, in the West as well as in the East. Translated from Polish. / interview by Jean-Claude Mairal

When we hear about the ICC, we often think of it as an essential part of international law. This is not the case. While it is true that 124 countries initially accepted it, 30 others have not ratified it, including the United States, China, Russia, India, Pakistan, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and Turkey. Finally, others have indicated their intention to withdraw. No major power is part of it, unless you consider France, the United Kingdom and Germany as such. President LULA, president of BRICS, asks the question of its relevance / in Pressenza NY 22.12.2023. PH

We must admit that the media are, for mankind, shaken by a real silent, irrevocable and irreversible revolution, with the development of the Internet and social networks. Our traditional communication channels are dying as new gurus, new prophets, influencers, youtubers, instagrammers and other ticktokers appear. Ewa MAZGAL, journalist in Olsztyn (Poland)

The methods of managing the COVID crisis have been, in France as everywhere else, a real test of democracy. Wouldn't this tend to be placed in parentheses? A question that goes beyond just social and health policies. A questioning which concerns the modes of operation of our democracies and their adaptation to the evolution of the world as well as to the impacts of the emergence of Artificial Intelligence. see publication by Jean-Paul Jourary. / By Annie LEVY-MOZZICONACCI, co-founder of I-Dialogos, in the French daily Libération.

In Burkina Faso, at the end of May 2023, 6,149 schools are now closed, or one school in four. AND according to UNICEF, more than a million children are out of school due to the intensification of violence, and more than 30,000 teachers find themselves unable to carry out their profession. These out-of-school children are thus exposed to forced labor, recruitment by armed groups, sexual abuse and exploitation, gender-based violence or early marriage. The Association for the Development of Education in Africa, a political dialogue forum created in 1988, aims to act. By Serge Mathias TOMONDJI / 10-22-2023

Manoubia Debbiche is a member of the Board of the France-Tunisia Association, an old association that she would like to help relaunch. As a Franco-Tunisian, she brings here a more refined view of the emigration of young Tunisians. According to the OECD, in 2015-2016, almost a third of Tunisian adults expressed the desire to emigrate and this proportion reached 50% among young people. the number of Tunisian students abroad in 2022 amounts to more than 25,000, including nearly 10,000 in France, making France the first destination ahead of Germany. Interview / August 15, 2023

The recent electoral sequence has revealed a France fractured into antagonistic blocks. How to develop a social project to reconcile these groups? In Revue Études, n° 4295, July-August 2022. Article published in agreement with the author who was appointed, by the President of the Republic, general rapporteur of the National Council for Refoundation. JC Mairal