The Political Platform

It is the duty of all citizens, and not only that of “professional politicians”, to find solutions for our social and political problems. Higher echelons of professional politics are increasingly struggling to autonomously bring together diverging interests within our society and formulate strategically convincing policies. That is why, as Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance, we wish to contribute to furthering argument-based agreement and rising cooperation between different sectors of our society outside of the immediate realms of parliament. That is how we can initiate solutions for our most pressing problems and support democratically sustainable politics.

In looking at different social actors and at academia, we can find extensive, yet hitherto not systematically incorporated knowledge that is needed in processes of political or social change. Within the Political Platform of Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance we aim to merge the experience and specialist knowledge accumulated within the public and private sectors, civil society, academia and media, in order to work out strategies as well as communicate and implement them.

Three-Actor-Dialogues
Concerted and targeted collaboration of all social actors is needed in order to gain a common understanding of multi-facetted social challenges, to develop strategic solutions and mobilise political coalitions for their implementation beyond party-based reasoning. The same applies to retrospective monitoring. Representatives of academia and media equally need to involve themselves. Against this background, Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance invites and compels the actors “political establishment”, “private sector” and “organised civil society” as well as academia and the media to take part in “structured dialogues” on different topics, thereby allowing to prepare complex social change and/or policies beyond party-based policies.