Funded and supported by the Toda Peace Institute, this lighthouse is an integral part of Toda’s Global Challenges to Democracy programme. The platform isn’t a political organisation or party-political grouping; it is an independent beacon and distributor of information on the global subversion and renewal of democracy. Democracy Lighthouse offers guidance to researchers, teachers, students, journalists, politicians, lawyers, public officials, NGO activists and citizens worried about the worldwide threats faced by democracy, many of them actively researching and inventing new ways of rejuvenating the spirit and substance of democracy. 
 
Democracy Lighthouse offers visitors open and easy access to materials which are otherwise invisible, or not easily found on social media, radio and television, or in newspapers, magazines and books. English is the platform’s primary working language, but it is our aim, wherever feasible, to provide links to resources in other languages. 
 
Democracy Lighthouse does not comment on the work of the organisations and networks displayed on these pages. Its aim is more modest and ecumenical: to make publicly available a wide range of different materials, voices, opinions and ways of thinking. It does so in support of our passionate belief that in these troubled times, democracy – popular self-government and a whole way of life committed to the non-violent refusal of arbitrary power – remains an indispensable planetary ideal.