Azerbaijan: Being More Than a Number
Freedom of speech around the world has come under renewed assault, and in Azerbaijan the government has been particularly aggressive in policing online expression. One NED grantee’s YouTube video satire has...
Forward or Backward in the Balkans?
Fifteen years after the genocide at Srebrenica, NED grantees Nataša Kandić of the Humanitarian Law Center in Belgrade and Anisa Sućeska-Vekić of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network in Sarajevo speak...
Can Anyone Hear Us? Voices from the 2009 Unrest in Urumchi
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
In advance of the one-year anniversary of the Urumchi unrest, analysts assessed the causes of the transformation of peaceful demonstrations into deadly inter-ethnic violence, government policy responses to the unrest, the effect of those policies on Uyghur and Han populations in Xinjiang, and the likely outcomes of the May 2010 Xinjiang Work Conference hosted by Chinese President Hu Jintao.
2010 Democracy Award
05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
This half-day conference featured Senators Ted Kaufman and John McCain, as well as panel presentations on Lessons from Other Transitions to Democracy and The Road Ahead - Strategic Challenges for the Democratic Movement in Iran.
The Promise of Rural Journalism in Guatemala’s Fragile...
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Based in Guatemala as a journalism trainer for much of the past seven years, María Martin discussed challenges and opportunities facing rural media in the country.
Democracy in East Asia: An Elephant’s Graveyard?
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
In his presentation, Dr. Benjamin Reilly explained the competing trends of democratic reform and democratic pushback across Northeast and Southeast Asia, and addressed the broader implications of this distinctive process of democratization in East Asia.
Agenda: One Year Later: Prospects for a Democratic Transition in Iran
Opening Statements Senator Ted Kaufman (see video/read remarks) Senator John McCain (see video/read remarks) Panel I: Lessons from Other Transitions to Democracy Presenters Larry Diamond, Stanford...
Remembering Floribert Chebeya
By Dave Peterson Floribert’s murder is an enormous outrage. He was undoubtedly Congo’s most prominent, committed, courageous human rights activist. From his early years when he won the...
Religious Liberty and Its Role in Building Democracy: The...
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Panelists discussed the role religion played in building democracy and strengthening civil society in Ukraine’s turbulent political circumstances.
Bloggers Behind Bars
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
In honor of World Press Freedom Day 2010, the NED hosted a discussion about threats to the safety of bloggers.
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