Rosemary Bechler was a member of the steering group of #RethinkingPopulism.
She completed a Cambridge doctorate on villain heroes from Milton to Byron, then worked as a university teacher, in political journalism and in the peace movement, becoming the chair of the National Peace Council in 1995-6.
In 2000, she co-founded Peaceworkers UK, later absorbed into International Alert as its training wing, and joined the team piloting openDemocracy. She was European and international editor, and openDemocracy editor until Magnus Nome was appointed editor-in-chief in 2012. She edited Can Europe Make It? and co-edited #RethinkingPopulism.
She edited The Convention on Modern Liberty: The British Debate on Fundamental Rights and Freedoms (Imprint Academic 2010) and published with David Adler DiEM25’s A Vision for Europe (Eris, second edition, 2020).
She died in 2021.
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