The V International Seminar on Democracy, Citizenship and Rule of Law turns its attention to the debate around the issues and challenges facing Human Sciences and Social Sciences, especially Law, in the search for democratic, fair and egalitarian perspectives for human relations in society. And this in a global scenario marked by constant instabilities arising from institutional crisis, which has the growth of totalitarian movements worldwide as a symptom of exclusion and threat to humanity, generating global impacts on the management of institutions (governments, companies, families, etc.) and the existence of people in their insertion in society.
The Covid-19 pandemic still leaves its consequences in different countries of the world and has provoked a worsening of inequality between people and between nations, whether in access to information, food, housing, health and the minimum conditions for life with dignity.
Allied to this, the new hegemonic projects of Russia, China and the United States seem to want to revive the Roman imperial spirit. The invasion of Ukraine by Russia raised fears of a new world war, this time with the use of advanced technology and nuclear weapons capable of annihilating the planet and the human species.
In this context, the participation of people in the instances of discussion, deliberation, implementation and supervision of institutions, at the planetary level, becomes decisive and fundamental. Citizenship in world terms, its exercise and its multiple possibilities of expression, is increasingly necessary to be understood and experienced. Therefore, the fifth edition of our event proposes as its theme “Ways and deviations of citizenship and cosmopolitanism”.