| Belgium and International IDEA Belgium is one of the founding members of IDEA. Belgium, a List Proportional Representation democracy, collaborates closely with IDEA and provides funding to the overall work of the Institute. A large part of IDEA’s funding comes from its member states “core contributions”, which finance the entire work programme of the Institute: Programme of Operations 2007-09. Each of IDEA’s member states is therefore involved and instrumental in IDEA’s work to promote democracy worldwide. Highlights of International IDEA’s activities in relation to Belgium:  Reconciliation After Violent Conflict (2003), a handbook presenting a range of tools that can be, and have been, employed in the design and implementation of reconciliation processes.- UN & Democracy project, which developed tools and knowledge useful to international and regional organizations engaging in post-conflict state administration and democracy-promotion efforts, utilizing field studies in East Timor, Kosovo, and Sierra Leone.
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| Facts and figures about democracy in Belgium Using IDEA’s worldwide democracy and elections databases, learn more about: 
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