6. Suggestions for a Future International Conference on “Children’s Suffrage”
Facts and theoretical reflections presented in this brochure form the basis for a proposal to hold an international conference in 2005 or 2006. Possible topics for the conference include:
Place and role of children in society, and policy in the globalization age
Problems of childhood: political and legal decisions
History of suffrage: from exception before inclusion of children
Age qualification as a rudiment of industrial society, and as a kind of racism
Children’s suffrage: social, political and moral necessity, requirement of an information society and globalization
Children’s suffrage, Constitution and Electoral law in different countries
Legal mechanism of realization of children’s suffrage
Political meaning and social consequences of children’s suffrage
Children’s suffrage - new value, right, freedom and responsibility of globalization
Children’s suffrage as a top-priority for budgetary financing of the children's sphere
Children’s suffrage as a response to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
Child as a tool of the system decisions on problems of childhood
Children’s suffrage: new quality of the children’s sphere, education, public health services, and ways to improve situations of teachers and doctors
Children’s suffrage: new political culture of youth and women
Work on education of children in the family, as paid work: a consequence of children’s suffrage
Possible arguments against children’s suffrage
Theoretical origins of the idea of children’s suffrage
Democracy and children’s suffrage
Sociological, psychological and legal research on children’s suffrage, and attitudes to it of the population and of the centers of power
Children’s suffrage as a way to accelerate harmonious development of nations of the world, and their human capital, and as the foundation for a systemic political strategy in the 21st century.
