The Global Centre for Rehumanising Democracy is a think–act–teach tank.
We combine deep analysis, principled civic action, and leadership formation to restore moral clarity, trust, and human dignity to democratic life.
We use data-informed insight to understand how democracy is lived, spoken, and shaped in everyday life.
Our Mission is to restore the soul of democracy through reflection, action, and leadership grounded in moral responsibility.
GCRD Hosts First DDI Faculty Information Session
LONDON, UK – December 3, 2025 -GCRD hosted its first Democracy Discourse Index (DDI) Faculty Information Session on 3 December 2025, bringing together university faculty across countries and multiple disciplines to explore participation in the Spring 2026 pilot.
A central theme of the session was how students can meaningfully benefit from the DDI — both within formal coursework and through extracurricular engagement. Faculty raised thoughtful questions about integrating DDI data into assignments, research projects, civic learning activities, and student-led inquiry groups.
Why We Need New Tools to Measure Democracy
LONDON, UK – November 26, 2025 - Writing in GCRD Insights, Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob and Croshelle Harris argue that democracy faces a critical measurement gap: while existing global indices track institutions and laws, they fail to capture the deeper cultural shifts occurring in public discourse that often signal democratic stress long before institutions begin to falter.
Drawing on the European Democracy Hub’s recent analysis of democratic space assessment tools, the authors show that traditional monitoring systems—V-Dem, GSoD, CIVICUS, Freedom House, and others—remain essential but overlook the discursive dimensions of democratic life: how citizens argue, empathise, disagree, dehumanise, and reason together in public. They introduce the Democracy Discourse Index as GCRD’s human-centred contribution to ground democratic measurement in the dignity, agency, and digital experience of real people. Read here.
GCRD Welcomes Croshelle Harris as Director of Strategic Projects and Partnerships
LONDON, UK – November 3, 2025 - GCRD is delighted to announce the appointment of Ms. Croshelle Harris as Director of Strategic Projects and Partnerships.
A Retired U.S. Foreign Service Officer, Croshelle brings over 25 years of experience overseeing U.S. foreign assistance strategies and multi-million-dollar development programs across Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Eastern Europe. Her work has focused on expanding access to education and training, strengthening community capacity to mitigate conflict, and countering extremism and malign influence in some of the world's most complex regions. Continue reading.
GCRD and Sensika Present Democracy Discourse Index at Sofia Information Integrity Forum
SOFIA, BULGARIA – November 6, 2025 – GCRD and Sensika Technologies presented the Democracy Discourse Index at the Sofia Information Integrity Forum, unveiling the world's first real-time tool for measuring democratic health through public discourse quality.
Dr. Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob, Founding Executive Director of GCRD, alongside partners Georgi Angelov and Liliya Grigorova from Sensika Technologies, delivered the presentation "From Theory to Algorithm: How We're Building the Democracy Discourse Index" on a panel entitled "Human Rights, Information Integrity, and Measuring Democratic Discourse." Continue reading.
GCRD Partners with Sensika Technologies to Develop Democratic Discourse Index
Sofia, Bulgaria – October 6, 2025 – The Global Centre for Rehumanising Democracy (GCRD) has signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding with Sensika Technologies to advance democratic health through AI-powered trust intelligence and real-time discourse monitoring.
The five-year partnership combines GCRD's pioneering work on trust and democratic renewal with Sensika's advanced AI capabilities to create tools that measure what traditional democracy indices miss: how democratic trust is experienced, expressed, and contested by citizens in their daily digital lives. Continue reading.
Rebuilding the Moral Infrastructure of Democracy
Athens, Greece – October 2, 2025 – GCRD Founding Executive Director, Dr. Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob, delivered one of four Democracy Tutorial sessions at the 2025 Athens Democracy Forum, held under the theme “New Visions for Hard Realities.” In his address, “Rebuilding the Moral Infrastructure of Democracy,” Dr. Jacob called for a renewed moral awakening in public life. He argued that democracy’s greatest threat is not merely political or technological decay, but a spiritual and moral crisis eroding trust and empathy in civic life.
The Athens Democracy Forum brought together global leaders, scholars, journalists, and activists to explore how new ideas, moral courage, and collaboration can renew democracy for a more humane world. Continue reading.