COORDINATION: Ana Oliveira, Cristiano Gianolla and Paula Casaleiro

Junior Researchers Representative: Tiago Ribeiro

Democracy, citizenship, law and justice are DECIDe’s main subject areas. Research, training and outreach activities focus on: innovative processes of democratic participation and deliberation; local politics and participatory budgeting; (post-)colonialism, knowledge production and social memory; the redefinition of human rights and grammars of human dignity; the fight against institutional racism; decolonial thinking; LGBT rights and sociopolitical transformation; religious diversity policies; access to law, operation and reform of the courts of justice  and justice theories and new constitutionalism.