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Mar 16, 2012

NED Welcomes Spring 2012 Fellows

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is pleased to announce its Spring 2012 cohort of Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows. In residence are leading practitioners, journalists, and scholars from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Burma, Cuba, Morocco, Nicaragua, Pakistan, South Africa, Tibet/India, and the United States. :: MORE

Jan 6, 2012

VoA Highlights NED's Tribute to Vaclav Havel

Voice of America Burmese News covered the National Endowment for Democracy's Memorial Tribute to Vaclav Havel on Friday Jan. 6, 2012. :: MORE

Jan 4, 2012

Washington Event will Honor Vaclav Havel on Friday, Jan. 6

On Friday, January 6 at 11:00 am, NED, in cooperation with the Embassy of the Czech Republic and the Havel Library in Prague, will host a memorial event honoring the life and work of former Czech President Vaclav Havel. :: MORE

Dec 20, 2011

The Journal of Democracy's "In Praise of Václav Havel" Available for Limited Time

The Journal of Democracy mourns the passing of Václav Havel, perhaps the leading democratic figure of the past quarter-century.  In his honor, we are pleased to post “In Praise of Václav Havel,” an article by Jacques Rupnik published in the July 2010 issue of the Journal. :: MORE

Dec 19, 2011

NED President remembers Havel in Washington Post

NED President Carl Gershman discussed in The Washington Post the life and legacy of Vaclav Havel, the dissident and Czechoslovakian president who received the Endowment's Democracy Service Medal in 2007. :: MORE

Dec 1, 2011

NED Grantee Jeta Xharra profiled in New York Times

The New York Times profiles NED grantee Jeta Xharra of the Balkan Investigative Reporters Network. :: MORE

Sep 29, 2011

Honoring Vitali Silitski, Belarusian Democrat

On September 8, 2011, NED joined with the Center for Strategic and International Studies and PONARS Eurasia to host a panel on “Belarus’ Political Prospects” in honor of Belarusian scholar and democracy activist Vitali Silitski. :: MORE

Sep 8, 2011

NED Panel Commemorates Moldovan Independence

To commemorate Moldova’s twenty years of independence, NED hosted a panel discussion, co-organized with Freedom House and the Moldova Foundation (a NED grantee), on “Moldova’s Transition: 20 Years of Challenges and Successes. :: MORE

May 31, 2011

Moldovan Ambassador, Grantees Speak at NED

NED Assistant Program Officer for Central & Eastern Europe, Bobbie Traut, writes on a recent event held at the NED on the current situation in the Republic of Moldova. :: MORE

Nov 30, 2010

NED's Ivana Howard on Fifteen Years of Uneasy Peace in Bosnia

Ivana Howard, NED Program Officer for Europe, was the featured guest on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum monthly podcast, Voices on Genocide Prevention, when she shared her insights on how the 15 year-old Dayton agreement has structured post-war Bosnia and why it is inadequate to take the country into the future. :: MORE