The 2025 Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture on Democracy in the World will be delivered by Leopoldo López, a Venezuelan prodemocracy activist and cofounder of the World Liberty Congress.

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The National Endowment for Democracy hosts a discussion on how authoritarian regimes deploy censorship and “sharp power” tactics to silence free expression worldwide—and how democracies can respond.

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On Tuesday, July 22 at 5:30 pm, the NED Board posthumously awarded the Democracy Service Medal to Oswaldo Payá.

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The National Endowment for Democracy hosts a discussion on how large language models (LLMs) and other advanced AI developments fit into the PRC’s wider apparatus of digital repression and worldwide influence projection.

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The International Forum hosted a launch event for the new report, Data-Centric Authoritarianism: How China’s Development of Frontier Technologies Could Globalize Repression.

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In the UN system and beyond, authoritarian maneuvers and democratic disillusionment are fundamentally challenging the participatory, multistakeholder models that have so far prevailed in governing digital technologies....

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The 2024 Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture on Democracy in the World was delivered by Serhii Plokhii, the Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History and the Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University.

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The World Movement for Democracy, the National Endowment for Democracy, and Freedom House hosted a virtual event dedicated to recognizing those who have been unjustly imprisoned and mobilizing the collective global voice to advocate for the release of political prisoners around the world.

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Please join the International Forum for Democratic Studies for the launch of a report that outlines possible paths toward a prodemocratic vision for AI.

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Please join the International Forum for Democratic Studies for a virtual event examining tools of authoritarian influence on democratic institutions and innovative responses.

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