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.Videos featuring Cesar Montufar
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Global Democratic Values
Professor and political organizer Cesar Montufar believes that shared, global democratic values are emerging from globalization. Democratization is not an isolated, national process but rather a worldwide movement that depends on interconnections between societies.
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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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Repudiating Violence
Professor and political organizer Cesar Montufar describes Ecuador's history of non-violence, and asks if societal transformation is possible without an explicit commitment to repudiating violence.
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"I think that globalization and local richness are not contradictory. I think they can also be complimentary."
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