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openDemocracy is a website for debate about international politics and culture, offering news and opinion articles from established academics, journalists and policymakers covering current issues in world affairs. openDemocracy was founded in 2000 by Anthony Barnett, David Hayes, Susan Richards and Paul Hilder. Publishing started in May 2001. Prominent contributors to the webzine have included Kofi Annan, George Soros, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Shirin Ebadi, Sidney Blumenthal, Peter Hain, Pierre Bourdieu, Manuel Castells, Fred Halliday, and David Blunkett. openDemocracy's mission statement asserts: "openDemocracy is committed to human rights and democracy. We aim to ensure that marginalised views and voices are heard. We believe facilitating argument and understanding across geographical boundaries is vital to preventing injustice".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About openDemocracy )〕 openDemocracy is owned and published through a non-profit foundation.〔openDemocracy Foundation for the Advancement of Global Education (listed at Companies House )〕 It has been funded by a number of philanthropic organisations, including the Ford Foundation, the Atlantic Philanthropies, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, as well as a base of individual donors.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Our supporters )〕 High profile individual supporters have included Heidi Bergemann, John Cleese, Carl Djerassi, and Pamela Raspe, and Reinhard Hesse.〔 Today the principal columnists are Paul Rogers (Global security), Li Datong (China from the inside), Taki ("High Life" since 1977), Mary Kaldor (Human security) and Daniele Archibugi (Cosmopolitan Democracy). Founder Anthony Barnett, Charter 88 organiser and political campaigner, was the first editor (2001-2005) and Isabel Hilton was editor from 2005-2007. She was succeeded by Rosemary Bechler who has been editor since 2010. Since 2012 editor-in-chief has been Magnus Nome, with former editor-in-chief Tony Curzon Price as contributing editor. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「OpenDemocracy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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