Authoritarianism is a global project, coordinated, cross-border, and learning from itself in real time. The resistance has to be, too. In this episode, Scot talks with Pedro Telles, Director and founding board member of D-Hub, about what democratic defense looks like from a transnational vantage point. They cover how authoritarianism takes hold, what civil society can do to stop it, the role of narrative strategy in the fight, and what a new anti-authoritarian toolkit offers democracy defenders on the front lines.
D-Hub is a community of democracy defenders committed to working together to defeat authoritarians, wherever they are. Learn more about their work by visiting dhub.org. Access the Anti-Authoritarian Toolkit by visiting antiauthoritarian.com.
The Anti-Authoritarian Playbook is where we dig into comparative research on authoritarian consolidation and what movements around the world have done to reverse it. Read it at bit.ly/antiauthoritarianplaybook.
Episode Guests
Pedro Telles, from Brazil, is a Program Director at the Democracy Hub (D-Hub), an international organization dedicated to network-building, capacity-building, and strategic support for democracy defenders. He is also an adjunct professor of Advocacy and Social Change at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), and a fellow at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. He has extensive experience building and leading civil society organizations and movements, as well as working in government, philanthropy, and electoral campaigns.