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Piki Ish-Shalom er professor på Institutt for internasjonale relasjonar ved The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Han er interessert i spørsmål rundt etikk og internasjonale relasjonar, samanhengen mellom å teoretisere det politiske og politisere det teoretiske, den politiske oppbygginga av sosial kunnskap, og i å utforske og praktisere ansvarleg akademia.

Teoriseminaret tar utgangspunkt I følgjande tekst:

«Forecasting commences various processes that interact with social reality ‎and affect its ‎course of evolvement. Additionally, fôrecasting may be founded on ‎theoretical research ‎that is grounded on normative commitments and assumptions. ‎

Hence, fôrecasting may ‎inject the moral commitments embedded in the forecast into ‎the evolvement of social ‎reality. Hence, and judging from a democratic perspective, ‎fôrecasting may involve ‎prioritizing and empowerment of certain interests and values ‎over others, and may end ‎up distorting democratic processes.

This is especially ‎problematic and distorting if the ‎theoretician who forecasts does nót belong to the ‎democratic or democratizing ‎community being forecasted. This possibility requires us ‎to think if and how a ‎democratically proper fôrecasting is possible, especially on issues ‎involving democracy ‎and the spread of democracy and democratic norms.

My ‎proposal is to forecast as ‎theoretician-citizens in a participatory and deliberative way ‎in the public sphere and ‎through civil society”