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It's the idea of an ever-ever-land, emerging from an ancient civilization, united by a shared history, but sustained, above all, by pluralist democracy.
And the consensus is of a very simple principle, that in a diverse plural democracy like India you don't really have to agree on everything all the time, so long as you agree on the ground rules of how you will disagree.
Because she believed that the only way to unblock what, at the time, was known as a blocked democracy, Italy, a country run by the same party for 35 years was the arms struggle.
We don't know yet how to build a society which is environmentally sustainable, which is shareable with everybody on the planet, which promotes stability and democracy and human rights, and which is achievable in the time-frame necessary to make it through the challenges we face.
These things are all contributing in a very dynamic way to a huge rise in, especially in the developing world, in people's interest in and passion for democracy.
And, because democracy still exists, there's a democratic way in which you say "Well, if you give us what [we want], we'll give you water."
Ultimately, what Ravi calls "fighting with paper" is about forging a deeper version of democracy in which we the people, we don't just cast ballots every few years, we take part daily in the rules and institutions that hold us together, in which everyone, even the least powerful, can know law, use law and shape law.
Because if we all start knowing law, using law and shaping law, then we will be building that deeper version of democracy that I believe our world desperately needs.
Bhutan, for those of you who don't know it, is the newest democracy in the world, just two years ago.
And I close with this image of democracy in action: This is a protest that's happening on a retrofit in Silver Spring, Maryland on an Astroturf town green.
In our classroom, there were children from all nationalities, yet this diversity did not necessarily lead to a cosmopolitan, egalitarian classroom democracy.
Because democracy depends on an informed citizenship.
Informed consent is the very bedrock of our understanding of democracy.
Democracy depends on informed consent.
Martin: So if it does happen that we get to a point where every home has their own independent supply of energy, that will give us the democracy of energy.
And that's the democracy of energy.
But before we reject democracy, let's imagine what it could be.
And I believe that African activists are redefining democracy by putting protest at its center, what I refer to as "protest democracy."
International organizations and academic experts define democracy as regular, multiparty electoral competition.
But democracy should not only be about elites competing at the ballot box.
When I say "protest democracy," I'm challenging how we think about democratic action.
Viewing democracy as only elections is no longer adequate and threatens democracy itself.
So we must protest democracy to give it a renewed meaning.
African social movements have often been at the forefront of conceptualizing democracy in this way.
In a way, Africans are protesting democracy itself, enriching its possibilities for us all.
If the first wave brought liberation but not democracy, and the second, elections but only for the elites, then it is the third wave that is most concerned with transforming democracy into the rule of the people.
What can we learn from African protest democracy?
First, democracy must begin with ordinary people.
Viewing democracy as only elections has led to widespread disillusionment.
Too often, governments do not view protests as elementary to democracy.
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