Global governance institutions require trust and popular engagement for their legitimacy; this workshop will examine different ways that actors over the past century have sought to reflect, articulate, build, or undermine trust in the principle and practices of global governance. Reform movements have emerged within international institutions themselves, while others were led by outside actors with their own interests in being represented within, or challenging the power of, those institutions. Some reform movements were directed by privileged international actors; others reflected the efforts of marginalized groups within national or colonial realms who sought empowerment by shifting their attentions towards international bodies and by forming transnational alliances. In covering a range of such efforts and debates, our workshop explores the multiple interactions between global governance, democracy and trust.
The workshop is an in-person event and will be held on 10–11 April 2025 in Waterloo, Ontario. We intend to publish a selection of papers as part of a special issue. To submit a proposal for the event, please complete the following online form by 4 December 2024:
https://forms.office.com/e/DgY7PPzg66
If you would like to discuss your potential involvement in this event, or have any questions, please write to the lead organizer, Daniel Gorman (dpgorman@uwaterloo.ca).
This is the first in a series of events that are held as part of a wider project, ‘Global Governance, Trust and Democratic Engagement in Past and Present’ (GLO), which is funded via the Trans-Atlantic Platform for the Social Sciences and Humanities (T-AP). For questions on this project, feel free to contact the principal investigator, Daniel Laqua (daniel.laqua@northumbria.ac.uk).