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Cesar Montufar

Cesar Montufar is a professor at the Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar in Quito, Ecuador, where he teaches international relations and democratic theory. He also is one of the leaders of a new political organization called Clave Democratica, which travels around Ecuador asking people about what kind of country and democracy they would like to see emerge in the coming years. It is his hope that through the ideas, hopes, and work of the citizens of Ecuador that a new democratic model will be born.

Cesar Montufar videos

Repudiating Violence

Professor and political organizer Cesar Montufar describes Ecuador's successful history with non-violence, and asks whether transformation of society is possible without an explicit commitment to

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Globalization and Cultural Richness

Professor and political organizer Cesar Montufar asks, are globalization and local cultural richness completely contradictory?

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Global Democratic Values

Professor and political organizer Cesar Montufar believes that shared, global democratic values are emerging from globalization.

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I think that globalization and local richness are not contradictory. I think they can also be complimentary.